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Lantern Week 12 News

That is a shockingly red board! My household seems to be filled with ribbons this week... Erik felt the need to point out he is the first in Lantern history to get 3 blue ribbons in a row. Jpace7, he's trying to catch you, can't you shake him?! Kambino, come on, you can pass him! Why do you guys make me suffer thusly?

Let's talk stats. The Jaguars dominated in a surprise upset, the surprise being they were terrible for weeks and the Chargers just let them take it away? The first half of the grid, the games are pretty tight, then a couple of wild blowouts, then back to it. Vegas is getting pretty good, but surely we can do better? The Dolphins barely managing to cover their spread, cost me a point, same for the Packers. I did not expect to do well for the Rams v Seahawks given that trend, but then the Ravens let me down on a 4 pointer!!

Week 12 is Thanksgiving! Don't be surprised if I miss a week, again. These programmers seem to think it is now my exclusive job to write the news, but I don't get paid for this! "Marry a nerd," they said, "It'll be fun," they said. Oh yeah, then why do I know more about football now??

-Eep

Lantern Week 10 News

Ok, ok, he's still in 4th place, but y'all letting him get a blue ribbon isn't great for us. I'm catching back up to johnnyg08 because OH how the mighty have fallen! A pink ribbon, somehow labeled as "weekly wins" in the hover over text, awarded to 14 points, at least it was still double digits!

Sports! So, unfortunately, if you chose favorites this week, they didn't do amazingly well. Five favorites lost, while an additional 3 favorites won their game, but lost the spread. The games and differentials seem to be getting tighter, with our biggest swing being 21.5 this week: Seahawks v Washington. If only they could have shared their vigor with a few extra teams! The Jaguars and Chargers eking out a win just hurts (my ego), with several big bets on the Chargers.

This week's theme is: don't listen to me... Picking straight favorites would have lost you 8 games, of only 14!

-Eep

Lantern Week 9 News

Yes yes yes! You guys have done it! Erik is all the way down to 4th place with a pink ribbon! Kambino jumping into 1st place, with their fancy blue ribbon, I thank you. I've done shockingly well these last 2 weeks, and yet johnnyg08, is still ahead of me! Impressive guessing as always.

Now, let's take a look at how exactly, the mighty hath fallen. It appears, Erik started the week picking favorites, as per my advice, then decided to switch things up and pick the underdogs. Thought he'd go for easy points going against the flow I suppose.

Yuck, analytics time... or yum... sheesh, nerds. Everyone picked the Bengals, which I clearly wagered to be a safe bet, winning by a TD shouldn't seem hard, but they somehow lost by 1 point! After that, the favorites won, and covered their spreads! So, in only 2 games, did I steer you wrong, that's pretty neat. Now to consistently follow through on my own advice; does it at least make up for it since they were small bets?

Going into week 9 we have a few more wild spreads, and it's going to hurt my ego if these teams can't cover them this week!

-Eep