The Sportsballers

We recorded this week’s episode of our podcast on Wednesday. You can find that episode and the rest of our show’s library on  Apple Podcasts ,  Amazon Podcasts ,  Spotify , and  Google Podcasts . For the  third  week in a row, Cory won our ESPN Pick ‘em points contest. He scored 109 points in Week 3. Once again, the difference came down to Sunday Night Football where he went lone wolf with the Packers and it paid off with Aaron Rodgers’s game-winning drive. It was just enough to hold off Evan.   Congratulations to our Week 3 fan winner, James Dailey. He’s won the fan contest and, in fact, beat Cory with 111 points last week! He still trails Cory by two games and nine points on the season but he’s got a 21-point lead on Evan who is in second place in our host contest.   On to our Week 4 picks! Date Network Matchup Evan Eric Cory Th 8:20p NFLN JAC at CIN Bengals (9) Bengals (10) Bengals (11) Su 1:00p CBS TEN at NYJ Titans (11) Titans (15) Titans (15...

Another week, another drop in our league’s point total. Our 12 teams scored just 1,312.30 points this week, which does not place among the Top 50 weeks in our league’s history. Of course, now that we’re well into the 100s, we’re bound to see some weeks like this, but if everyone had simply followed Fleaflicker’s projections this week, Week 3 would have been the #28 highest-scoring week in league history.   While many of our managers dislike the concept of “coaching” even being tracked in our league, it’s worth noting that, so far in 2021, only three managers have scored more points than Fleaflicker would have managing their rosters. As a whole, we’ve already cost ourselves a combined 106.86 points while having a success rate of just .357 against Fleaflicker’s projections.   Just this week, our managers combined to take 11 coaching risks and only two of them were successful resulting in a loss of 66.12 points.   With the first week of divisional play in the books and 20% o...

We recorded this week’s episode of our podcast on Tuesday. You can find that episode and the rest of our show’s library on  Apple Podcasts ,  Amazon Podcasts ,  Spotify , and  Google Podcasts . For the second week in a row, Cory won our ESPN Pick ‘em points contest. He scored 102 points in Week 2. He would have lost the contest between our hosts, but he wisely went low-confidence on the Chiefs for Sunday Night football.   Congratulations to our Week 2 fan winner, James Dailey. He’s won the fan contest twice in a row and scored 100 points, even this week.    On to our Week 3 picks! Date Network Matchup Evan Eric Cory Th 8:20p NFLN CAR at HOU Panthers (10) Panthers (11) Panthers (16) Su 1:00p CBS IND at TEN Titans (4) Titans (8) Titans (7)   FOX ATL at NYG* Falcons (1) Giants (2) Giants (8)   CBS LAC at KC Chiefs (9) Chiefs (9) Chiefs (9)   CBS CIN at PIT Steelers (8) Steelers (4) Steelers (4)   FOX CHI at CLE Browns (15) Browns (16) ...