January 2022 – Cole's Gameday Blog

2021-22 Season: Sunday morning NFL picks! Conference championship edition!

Posted on January 30, 2022January 29, 2022 by gamedaycole

Colin Cowherd: these didn’t appear to be explicit bets, but I’ve attached lines for you
Chiefs over Bengals 33-27 (Bengals+7.5 vs Chiefs)
Rams over 49ers 28-27 (49ers+3.5 vs Rams)

Scott Van Pelt’s WINNERS:
Bengals+7 vs Chiefs
49ers+3.5 vs Rams

Stanford Steve:
Chiefs-7 vs Bengals

Doug Kezirian:
49ers+3.5 vs Rams

Joe Fortenbaugh:
Bengals at +7.5 or better vs Chiefs
49ers+3.5 vs Rams

Tyler Fulghum:
Chiefs vs Bengals over 54.5
49ers+3.5 vs Rams

Anita Marks:
49ers+3.5 vs Rams

Brady Quinn:
Chiefs-7, over 54.5
Rams-3.5, under 46.5

Pete Prisco:
Bengals+7, over 54.5
49ers+3.5

Kenny White:
49ers vs Rams under 45.5
Chiefs-7 vs Bengals

Todd Fuhrman:
49ers+3.5 vs Rams
Chiefs TT over 31.5 vs Bengals (+100)

2021-22 Season: Sunday morning NFL wild card picks!

Posted on January 16, 2022January 16, 2022 by gamedaycole

Here’s some random NFL picks I collected this week while working on college football stuff. Sorry I didn’t get anything posted for Saturday, but hopefully this can provide some use for your Sunday entertainment.

Colin Cowherd’s Blazin’ Five:
Bengals-5.5 vs Raiders
Patriots+4 vs Bills
Eagles+8.5 vs Bucs
49ers+3 vs Cowboys
Rams-4 vs Cardinals

Scott Van Pelt’s WINNERS:
Raiders+5.5
Patriots+4
Eagles+8.5
Cowboys-3
Steelers+12.5

Stanford Steve:
Rams-4 vs Cardinals

Doug Kezirian:
Cowboys-3 vs 49ers
Steelers+12.5 vs Chiefs
Cardinals+3.5 vs Rams

Joe Fortenbaugh:
49ers at 3.5 vs Cowboys if it gets there
Steelers vs Chiefs under 46
Rams-3.5 vs Cardinals

Anita Marks:
Eagles+7.5 vs Buccaneers
49ers+3 vs Cowboys
Rams-3.5 vs Cardinals

Tyler Fulghum:
Eagles TT under 19.5
49ers+3 vs Cowboys
Steelers TT under 16.5
Cardinals+3.5 vs Rams

Erin Kate Dolan:
Eagles TT under 19.5
Rob Gronkowski anytime TD +112
49ers TT under 24.5 (-125)
Dak Prescott under 281.5 pass yards (-130)
Chiefs-7.5 1H vs vs Steelers (+100)
Stafford over 0.5 INT (-125)

2021-22 Season: Full season grades are finalized! Results are in!

Posted on January 15, 2022January 17, 2022 by gamedaycole

The 2021-22 season is in the books and the picks have been graded. It is now time to crown our yearly champions. We will be crowning two champions again this year; one champion being analysts picking games straight up and the other champion being our gambling champion. Our analyst champion will be graded on our experimental GDC grading system for the first time ever.

Without further adieu, I present to you our analyst champion for the 2021-22 season: Dennis Dodd from CBS Sports went 226-81 straight up for a percentage of 73.62% with a GDC value of 127.083! Runners up were Tom Fornelli (111.37 GDC) and Chip Patterson (100.883 GDC). That’s an all CBS Sports podium for the first time ever.

Our gambling champion for the 2021-22 season is Bud Elliott of 247 and Cover 3 podcast fame. He went 272-198-9 on the season for a win percentage of 57.87%! Several others had a higher win rate, but assuming -110 lines on average Bud Elliott absolutely crushed the competition for 49.28 units of profit this season.

Honorable mention goes to Kelly Stewart for winning our money line picks this year. She was up 25.14 units over 41 picks on the year.

Congratulations to all competitors. I hope you’ll all be back next season

Analyst grades:

Name	Pct	Win	Loss	GDC.Value
Average	64.49	3373	1857	NA
Dennis.Dodd	73.62	226	81	127.083
Tom.Fornelli	70.19	226	96	111.37
Chip.Patterson	68.55	218	100	100.883
Brady.Quinn	75.57	133	43	79.736
Jennifer	63.96	142	80	54.307
David.Hale	66.49	125	63	54.097
Lee.Corso	64.52	120	66	48.671
Danny.Kanell	69.34	95	42	45.857
Andrea.Adelson	70.43	81	34	41.533
Pat.Forde	59.3	153	105	41.386
Pete.Thamel	74.44	67	23	40.607
Desmond.Howard	60.78	124	80	37.962
Mark.May	66.67	74	37	33.202
Celebrity.Guest	59.77	104	70	30.655
Jon.Berger	75	48	16	28.377
Stewart.Mandel	59.17	100	69	27.603
Joey.Galloway	67.42	60	29	26.949
Aaron.Taylor	62.96	68	40	25.757
Brian.Jones	60.94	78	50	25.614
Steve.Coughlin	68.92	51	23	25.035
Dan.Wetzel	64.44	58	32	22.24
Lou.Holtz	61.26	68	43	21.588
Bruce.Feldman	58.99	82	57	20.846
Phil.Steele	68.97	40	18	18.956
Chris.Fallica	64.18	43	24	16.121
Colin.Cowherd	77.42	24	7	16.058
Mark.Richt	62.03	49	30	15.921
Paul.Finebaum	70.73	29	12	15.062
Eric.Mac.Lain	59.14	55	38	13.853
Rick.Neuheisel	55.64	74	59	12.508
Scott.Van.Pelt	84.21	16	3	12.282
Chris.Doering	76.92	20	6	12.103
Kevin.Carter	65.85	27	14	11.43
Roman.Harper	64.29	27	15	10.587
Jordan.Rodgers	66.67	22	11	10.094
Kirk.Herbstreit	53.8	99	85	9.325
Reggie.Bush	77.78	14	4	9.251
Tim.Tebow	63.41	26	15	9.212
Corso.Headgear	73.68	14	5	8.49
Bob.Stoops	75	12	4	7.59
Randy.Cross	53.54	68	59	7.326
Houston.Nutt	63.33	19	11	7.115
Brett.McMurphy	59.09	26	18	6.33
Dusty.Dvoracek	66.67	14	7	5.894
David.Pollack	57.58	19	14	4.442
EJ.Manuel	52.44	43	39	1.845
Adam.Rittenberg	48.65	18	19	-1.486
Matt.Leinart	47.62	10	11	-1.493
Greg.McElroy	49.09	27	28	-2.834

Grambling grades:

Name	Pct	Win	Loss	Tie	Profit
Bud.Elliott.ATS	57.87	272	198	9	49.28
Kelly.Stewart.ATS	64.29	63	35	1	22.27
Scott.Van.Pelt.ATS	62.26	66	40	1	20
Colin.Cowherd.ATS	69.77	30	13	1	14.27
Pete.Thamel.ATS	58.27	74	53	4	14.27
Tom.Fornelli.ATS	57.34	82	61	5	13.55
Norm.Hitzges.ATS	56.17	91	71	1	11.73
David.Hale.ATS	55.26	105	85	2	10.46
Brandon.Walker.ATS	55.29	94	76	1	9.46
Brady.Quinn.ATS	53.26	245	215	4	7.73
Pamela.Maldonado.ATS	54.6	95	79	3	7.36
Steve.Coughlin.ATS	56.41	44	34	1	6
Danny.Kanell.ATS	53.06	217	192	5	5.27
Jon.Berger.ATS	54.01	74	63	3	4.27
Desmond.Howard.ATS	69.23	9	4	0	4.18
Matt.Youmans.ATS	55.26	42	34	4	4.18
Lee.Corso.ATS	66.67	8	4	1	3.27
Kirk.Herbstreit.ATS	66.67	8	4	1	3.27
Greg.McElroy.ATS	56.41	22	17	0	3
Bill.Connelly.ATS	54.17	39	33	1	2.45
Rece.Davis.ATS	61.54	8	5	0	2.27
Wes.Reynolds.ATS	53.95	41	35	0	2.27
Tony.Barnhart.ATS	53.57	45	39	0	1.91
Bryant.McFadden.ATS	53.73	36	31	2	1.73
Erin.Kate.Dolan.ATS	66.67	4	2	0	1.64
Tyler.Fulghum.ATS	54.29	19	16	0	1.27
Tim.Doyle.ATS	55	11	9	0	1
Jeff.Ma.ATS	66.67	2	1	0	0.82
David.Pollack.ATS	53.85	7	6	0	0.36
Pat.Forde.ATS	52.34	67	61	4	-0.09
Trevor.Matich.ATS	50	2	2	0	-0.18
Mark.May.ATS	52.29	57	52	2	-0.18
Anita.Marks.ATS	50	3	3	0	-0.27
Scott.Spreitzer.ATS	52.08	25	23	0	-0.27
Bruce.Feldman.ATS	52.24	70	64	4	-0.36
Minty.Bets.ATS	50	8	8	0	-0.73
Emory.Hunt.ATS	52.12	86	79	1	-0.82
Dan.Wetzel.ATS	51.97	66	61	5	-1
Rufus.Peabody.ATS	50	19	19	1	-1.73
Phil.Steele.ATS	51.35	57	54	0	-2.18
Kenny.White.ATS	50	24	24	0	-2.18
Megan.Makin.Money.ATS	51	51	49	3	-2.64
Chris.Doering.ATS	48.72	19	20	0	-2.73
Clay.Travis.ATS	51.52	85	80	1	-2.73
Dusty.Dvoracek.ATS	45.95	17	20	1	-4.55
Blaine.Brown.ATS	47.54	29	32	3	-5.64
Chris.Fallica.ATS	50	64	64	2	-5.82
Kayce.Smith.ATS	46.67	28	32	0	-6.55
Matt.Barrie.ATS	37.5	9	15	0	-6.82
Stewart.Mandel.ATS	49.69	80	81	6	-8.27
Dave.Portnoy.ATS	50.75	135	131	9	-8.27
Joey.Galloway.ATS	48.78	60	63	3	-8.45
Todd.Fuhrman.ATS	49.33	74	76	3	-8.73
Joe.Fortenbaugh.ATS	47.57	49	54	2	-9.45
Doug.Kezirian.ATS	45.33	34	41	2	-10.09
Chip.Patterson.ATS	47.33	62	69	7	-12.64
Brett.McMurphy.ATS	44.21	42	53	4	-14.82
Rico.Bosco.ATS	48.61	105	111	5	-15.54
Adam.Kramer.ATS	47.06	72	81	3	-15.54
Katie.Pondiscio.ATS	45.7	69	82	4	-19.27
Barrett.Sallee.ATS	47.39	145	161	3	-29.18
Dennis.Dodd.ATS	47.02	142	160	3	-30.91
Dan.Katz.ATS	48.58	256	271	9	-38.27

Money line results:

Name	ROI.Pct	Units.Up.Down	N.Picks
Kelly.Stewart.ML	61.32	25.14	41
Pamela.Maldonado.ML	20.16	10.68	53
Chip.Patterson.ML	20.25	8.91	44
Tom.Fornelli.ML	7.98	3.99	50
Bud.Elliott.ML	7.21	3.03	42
Tyler.Fulghum.ML	62.5	2.5	4
Rico.Bosco.ML	195	1.95	1
Megan.ML	23.29	1.63	7
Anita.Marks.ML	145	1.45	1
Dave.Portnoy.ML	120	1.2	1
Chris.Fallica.ML	0.96	0.7	73
Kayce.Smith.ML	10	0.2	2
Emory.Hunt.ML	-18.33	-0.55	3
Doug.Kezirian.ML	-23.75	-0.95	4
Phil.Steele.ML	-100	-1	1
Bryant.McFadden.ML	-31.25	-1.25	4
Tim.Doyle.ML	-32.5	-1.3	4
Bruce.Feldman.ML	-100	-2	2
Katie.Pondiscio.ML	-100	-2	2
Joe.Fortenbaugh.ML	-43.75	-3.5	8
Todd.Fuhrman.ML	-37.81	-4.16	11
Jon.Berger.ML	-40.75	-6.93	17
Brandon.Walker.ML	-50.57	-7.08	14
Danny.Kanell.ML	-14.22	-7.11	50