We've seen all your ramblings in the sports betting thread, now is time to put your money where your mouth is. I am inviting nine of my cohorts here to a weekly challenge of picking ATS both college and pro games. Only nine of you, because I want to keep it localized here, without using an outside site, and because I want to screen candidates so Joe Blow Retard who just signed up last week doesn't fuck up the flow of the thread.

It will work as follows:

1. Every week you will pick 10 games of your own choosing. There will be a minimum of 4 NBA and 4 College picks each week.

2. You will get the point spread on the games from http://www.scoresandodds.com. YOU MUST TAKE THE SPREAD ON THE SITE AT THE MOMENT YOU POST THE PICK(S). We can all see the line history on there so don't try and shave a half point or post a line other than what is up there the moment you put your pick in. I will be checking randomly to make sure everyone is being honest with their lines.

3. You get two wild card games every week. These wildcards can both be NBA or College. It doesn't matter. These can be point spreads OR over/unders. No money lines. ONLY WILDCARD PICKS CAN BE TOTALS.

Please post here if you're interested...I know most of you, and there's a lot of you I don't like. That won't factor in for the challenge. I just want people who are knowledgeable, literate, and post frequently. This isn't first come first serve, its the first nine people who qualify. Don't list reasons why you should be included; your posting history speaks for itself. Simply state your interest, and I will announce the final field by Sunday.

DO NOT make your picks until I have announced the final field.

First right of refusal goes to:

TreeTwista10
Slave Famous
dweedle
rallydurham

[Edited on October 27, 2010 at 4:38 PM. Reason : .]

10/27/2010 4:37:48 PM

I'm up for it.

10/27/2010 4:50:22 PM

I'm failing all over football this year so maybe I'll do better in basketball.

10/27/2010 4:53:31 PM

In.

This is what I bet on anyway, not football.

10/27/2010 4:53:48 PM

Quote :

"I'm failing all over football this year so maybe I'll do better in basketball"

10/27/2010 4:59:22 PM

I'll do this.

10/27/2010 6:22:54 PM

I strongly considered doing this last year, but the fact that games occur on virtually every day of the week made me reconsider. If a game on your docket occurs on Thursday, but one of the teams plays on Tuesday, the line for that Thursday game often won't be released until the conclusion of the Tuesday game. It will make for confusion and frustration.

I'll play, but good look keeping everything in order.

[Edited on October 27, 2010 at 6:30 PM. Reason : I see now that people choose all their own games, so maybe this will work after all. ]

10/27/2010 6:29:12 PM

I'm up for it.

10/28/2010 12:53:36 AM

I'm in, if this mirrors real life ill go 4-0 in the nba and 0-4 in college every week

10/29/2010 4:29:29 PM

I use to run a pick the lines game. Even did parlays. Was a lot of work.

10/29/2010 4:43:47 PM

Well I'm doing so well in Football Pointsspread I guess I'll join up with this too.

10/29/2010 5:33:38 PM

im in

10/29/2010 6:05:36 PM

If this thing had started Id take Portland -4 tonight against the Knicks. The Knicks are a fucking joke on the glass, I don't see how they manage to hang with Portland firing on all cylinders right now. If Oden were playing this would be a blowout.

10/30/2010 12:00:58 PM

ill play ... when does it start

10/31/2010 10:49:09 AM

You can start picking games Monday night. I'll announce the field this afternoon.

10/31/2010 11:35:44 AM

The field is set

TreeTwista10

Slave Famous

dweedle

rallydurham

Ribs

NyM410

DalCowboys

stillrolling

rwoody

Turnip

Sorry to those that didn't get in this time. I may end up adding spots next year depending how much work this season ends up being.

You can now start making picks for tomorrow night through next Sunday. We'll do all NBA picks this week obviously.

**Make sure when you are posting your current pick during the week that you also post all your previous picks for the week with a W/L out beside the game to help record keeping.**

10/31/2010 3:01:13 PM

Portland +1.5

11/1/2010 12:32:53 AM

I know you and a couple others haven't been around the football thread and I should have included this in the original post. Here is the standard format for making a pick and please use it from now on when making a selection. Always bold the side you plan on taking.

Away Team at Home Team (-3.5)

11/1/2010 9:16:56 AM

For Ribs sake, everyone should make each pick with a summation of their previous picks for this scoring period, so he doesn't have to go and find 10 individual posts to tally your score.

So if its Thursday and you've picked 6 games already this week, your post should read like

Miami (-4) at Chicago WIN
Charlotte at Boston (-8) WIN
Duke (-6) at NC STATE LOSS
Kansas at Texas (-1.5) LOSS
BYU (-3) at Utah PUSH
Houston at Philadelphia (-2) WIN

then whatever games you pick for Thursday

11/1/2010 10:11:55 AM

I'll use my wild cards tonight and save the rest for the weekend

Portland at Chicago Under 187.5
Toronto at Sacramento Under 206.5

11/1/2010 4:02:38 PM

NyM410
Season: 0-0
Week: 0-0

Portland at Chicago (-1)

11/1/2010 4:43:55 PM

TreeTwista10
Season: 0-0
Week: 0-0

Portland at Chicago (-1)
San Antonio (-7.5) at LA Clippers

11/1/2010 5:43:34 PM

Ribs

Season: 0-0
Week: 0-0

San Antonio (-8) at LA Clippers

It will be interesting to see how this basketball season plays out for me. I've never really taken basketball betting seriously and don't have a winning strategy in place. Maybe I can use this to develop one though

11/1/2010 7:45:54 PM

jesus portland tough to play any worse than that, some guy named Luol Deng has 32 points in the 3rd quarter.

I came in here to take Sacramento but i see its up all the way to 5.5 which seems pretty heavy so i cant even do that now.

11/1/2010 9:56:27 PM

TreeTwista10
Season: 2-0
Week: 2-0

Portland at Chicago (-1) WIN
San Antonio (-7.5) at LA Clippers WIN
Orlando (-6.5) at NY Knicks

11/2/2010 1:04:00 AM

im typically posting from a phone so not going to be able to always do that whole formatting thing. I'll tally mine up at the end of the week to make it easy.

I'm 0-1,


PORTLAND TRAILBLAZERS @ milwaukee +2.5


miami seems tempting at only -16 but not sure they can rebound well enough against Minnesota to cover that. Then again I'm not sure Minnesota can commit less than 25 turnovers against Miami. Not sure Ive ever seen an NBA spread this big...

[Edited on November 2, 2010 at 1:53 AM. Reason : crazy]

11/2/2010 1:52:27 AM

NyM410
Season: 0-1
Week: 0-1

Portland at Chicago (-1) LOSS
Atlanta (-3) at Cleveland

11/2/2010 10:59:28 AM

Atlanta (-3.5) @ Cleveland

11/2/2010 2:02:08 PM

PORTLAND TRAILBLAZERS @ milwaukee +2.5

and

Lakers/Grizzlies OVER 202

11/2/2010 7:33:24 PM

Ribs
Season: 0-1
Week: 0-1

San Antonio (-8) at LA Clippers LOSS
Memphis Grizzlies at LA Lakers (-9)

[Edited on November 2, 2010 at 7:45 PM. Reason : .]

11/2/2010 7:44:44 PM

Forgot we were going off that one site

So change mine to -3 and 203

11/2/2010 8:36:20 PM

so I picked the Orlando v Knicks game which was postponed due to agesbestos

is that a draw or do I just pick something else?

TreeTwista10
Season: 2-0
Week: 2-0

Portland at Chicago (-1) WIN
San Antonio (-7.5) at LA Clippers WIN
Orlando (-6.5) at NY Knicks CANCELLED
Memphis at LA Lakers (-9)

11/2/2010 10:30:32 PM

The game didn't get played so you can discard that pick and go with another game.

11/2/2010 10:47:10 PM

Atlanta (-3.5) @ Cleveland WIN
Charlotte @ New Jersey (-2)

[Edited on November 3, 2010 at 9:33 AM. Reason : ]

11/3/2010 9:33:29 AM

wildcard
San Antonio @ Phoenix OVER 207.5

regular
LA Lakers (-5.5) @ Sacramento

11/3/2010 9:50:12 AM

DalCowboys
Season: 0-0
Week: 0-0

NO @ Houston (-5)
LAL(-5.5) @ Sac



[Edited on November 3, 2010 at 11:37 AM. Reason : .]

11/3/2010 11:33:15 AM

TreeTwista10
Season: 3-0
Week: 3-0

Portland at Chicago (-1) WIN
San Antonio (-7.5) at LA Clippers WIN
Memphis at LA Lakers (-9) WIN
Charlotte at New Jersey (-1.5)

11/3/2010 12:50:44 PM

Ill try to remember to format these tonight but I'm taking

Nets -1.5
Milwaukee +8
Warriors -3.5
Clippers +8.5

11/3/2010 1:21:35 PM

Atlanta (-3.5) @ Cleveland WIN
Charlotte @ New Jersey (-2)
LA Lakers (-5) @ Sacramento

11/3/2010 1:30:43 PM

NyM410
Week: 1-1
Season: 1-1

San Antonio (PK) at Phoenix
Lakers (-5) at Kings

** I hate going all road favorites, but these look good to me.

11/3/2010 5:57:50 PM

Week and Season: 2-0


PORTLAND (-3) @ milwaukee WIN
Lakers/Grizzlies OVER 203 WIN


I'll ride NYM's thick white cock with

San Antonio (PK) at Phoenix

and I think even without Curry, Oakland still takes care of Memphis with relative ease

Memphis at Golden State (-4)

11/3/2010 6:26:08 PM

Ribs
Season: 0-2
Week: 0-2

San Antonio (-8) at LA Clippers LOSS
Memphis Grizzlies at LA Lakers (-9) LOSS
Milwaukee Bucks at Boston Celtics (-8)

11/3/2010 7:49:52 PM

i thought the Nets were gonna get a 3 and win by 1 to fuck some of yall over lol

11/3/2010 9:35:55 PM

TreeTwista10
Season: 3-1
Week: 3-1

Portland at Chicago (-1) WIN
San Antonio (-7.5) at LA Clippers WIN
Memphis at LA Lakers (-9) WIN
Charlotte at New Jersey (-1.5) LOSS
LA Lakers (-6) at Sacramento

11/3/2010 10:34:12 PM

Record 4-2 overall.

Portland +1.5 vs Chicago LOSS
Portland +2.5 vs Milwaukee WIN
Charlotte vs NJ Nets -1.5 LOSS (blew 10 pt lead with 4 mins left)
Milwaukee vs Boston +8 WIN
Memphis vs Golden State -3.5 WIN
Oklahoma City vs LA Clippers +8.5 WIN


Shoulda been 4-0 tonight, NJ blew that one but them's the breaks.

11/4/2010 1:14:32 AM

Portland -5.5

11/4/2010 9:11:44 AM

only 2 games to choose from tonight?
im not touchin either one of them

11/4/2010 9:15:59 AM

Only 2-3 games every Thursday, has been that way forever

and I'm 4-0 btw, business as usual

11/4/2010 10:12:13 AM

TreeTwista10
Season: 4-1
Week: 4-1

Portland at Chicago (-1) WIN
San Antonio (-7.5) at LA Clippers WIN
Memphis at LA Lakers (-9) WIN
Charlotte at New Jersey (-1.5) LOSS
LA Lakers (-6) at Sacramento WIN
OK City at Portland (-5.5)

11/4/2010 2:29:29 PM

2-1

Atlanta (-3.5) @ Cleveland WIN
Charlotte @ New Jersey (-2) LOSS
LA Lakers (-5) @ Sacramento WIN
New York @ Chicago (-7)

11/4/2010 2:41:17 PM