NFL Picks Week 13: Reader's Choice Awards

Greetings TSZers,

Below are this week's picks from our TSZ Insiders who are working fervently to recoup their ill-invested $17 for The Spread Zone's Premium Membership package. In our defense, however, our current streak of 28-14-3 ATS (choosing all the games mind you), has Marco and I feeling as though we've earned our $1/week since about Week 10. Nonetheless, we are running a contest in which our Insiders who helped pay the web hosting costs for the site we no longer use submit their top five confidence picks for an on-going contest through Week 17. Picks are graded 5 through 1 (most to least confident) and total scores are update weekly.

What we've learned thus far is:

1. We have some solid, consistent cappers out there as evidenced by Maneesh's 44 out of a total of 60 possible points.

2. It is possible to go 5-0 when picking NFL games, as evidenced by Stan's perfection last week.

3. It doesn't even take skill to do #2 (no offense Stan), as evidenced by my friend Paul's perfection using a random team generator. This week I had to substitute one of his picks because the generator picked the Patriots and the Texans. If they tie, I will never, ever bet again...

...without my own random team generator.

Without further adieu, here are Week 13's updated totals and our reader's Friday Five confidence picks. The standings are out of order, but I'm sure you can all figure it out. Missing entries may be added in the comments section prior to kick-off tomorrow morning.

FRIDAY FIVE CONTEST WEEK 13 PICKS AND UPDATED TOTALS

Name		Most Confident				Least Confident		Total to Date
Maneesh		BUF	NYJ	CIN	SEA	MIN		44
Archie		NE	MIA	SEA	BUF	DEN		27
Miles								22
Dan P.		CLE	SEA	SF	IND	BUF		26
Michael		SEA	DEN	NYJ	NE	IND		22
Jay		HOU	NYJ	PHI	CHI	CAR		22
Cheddar Packs		BUF	NE	CAR	MIN	DEN		24
Vinny & Marco		SEA	NE	JAC	STL	TEN		22
Cellar Dwellar		DEN	NO	ARI	SD	MIN		20
Daniel Y.								14
Stan		NE	JAC	MIN	PHI	NYJ		26
Nav		NE	DEN	SEA	ARI	IND		17
Paul		CAR	NE	CHI	CLE	ARI		24
Josh W.								9
Airin Rodgers		TB	MIA	JAC	NYG	STL		13
T-Dog								9

Good luck to you all,

Vinny and Marco

NFL Picks Week 13: Friday Five Contest Update

Here's a quick update on our TSZ Insider Friday Five Contest. Casual readers, please feel free to put your two cents in the comments section.

We had some stellar Friday Fives last week including two perfect scores and another near-perfect line-up from our fearless leader and great sport, Maneesh. Here are the updated standings. I'll get our Five to you later today, please do the same by tomorrow and I'll post the current standings along with your picks at the New/Old TSZ.

*I should note that one perfect score came from my BFF Paul's Excel Random Picks Spread Sheet. He knows very little about football but a lot about organic chemistry and randomizing shit. The rankings aren't in order, but your total score is on the right. Please check my math and get back to me with corrections. 

Good luck as always.

Name		Week 11	Week 12	Week 13	Week 14	Week 15	Week 16	Week 17		TOTAL TO DATE
Maneesh		30	14							44
Archie		24	3							27
Miles		21	1							22
Dan P.		20	6							26
Michael		17	5							22
Jay		16	6							22
Cheddar Packs		16	8							24
Vinny & Marco		16	6							22
Cellar Dwellar		13	7							20
Daniel Y.		12	2							14
Stan		11	15							26
Nav		10	7							17
Paul		9	15							24
Josh W.		9	0							9
Airin Rodgers		6	7							13
T-Dog		2	7							9