Month: March 2010

Midnight Zen

Full day today at the Sloan Conference. I’ll have lots coming in the next week or two. For now you can catch twitter links here. Truehoop has a writeup on all panels basketball here.

Completely unrelated, it seems as though the European Poker Tour was recently robbed of over a million euros during a live taping. Video Below. Maybe they got their idea from the World Series of Dice?

Chappelle’s Show
The World Series of Dice
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NBA Picks – Mar 06

Went 6-4-1 yesterday.  That’s brings us to 24-14-1 on the week, or right around 63%.  Let’s go

Golden State (+10.5) @ Charlotte

Atlanta (+1.5) @ Miami

New Jersey (+8) @ New York

Houston (-3.5) @ Minnesota

Dallas (-1) @ Chicago

San Antonio (-1.5) @ Memphis

Cleveland (-3.5) @ Miliwaukee

Los Angeles Clippers (+13.5) @ Utah

Indiana (+12.5) @ Phoenix

NBA Picks – Mar 05

Went 1-2 yesterday.  That’s brings us to 18-10 on the week, or 64%.  Looks like eleven games on tap tonight.  Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeere we go

Milwaukee (-4) @ Washington

Los Angeles Lakers (-3.5) @ Charlotte

Detroit (+12) @ Cleveland

New York (+8) @ Toronto

Boston (-6) @ Philadelphia

Golden State (+13) @ Atlanta

Orlando (-10) @ New Jersey

Sacramento (+8.5) @ Dallas

Indiana (+10) @ Denver

New Orleans (+8) @ San Antonio

Oklahoma City (-4.5) @ Los Angeles Clippers

NBA Picks – Mar 04

I went 8-4 yesterday.  My mark for the week is now 17-8, I am at exactly 68% for the week.  On to the picks.

Memphis (+5.5) @ Chicago

Los Angeles Lakers (-5.5) @ Miami

Utah (+1.5) @ Phoenix

Dorkapalooza 2010

I’ll be there on Saturday at the event also known as the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. I’m unlikely to liveblog as that will be too distracting but we may have to bust out the old Twitter feed. Any requests?

NBA Picks – Mar 03

Went 3-1 yesterday.  I am currently at 69% for the week.  Lots of games tonight.  Let’s see what happens.  Side note, Van Tran as of 11pm last night was up a grand on the week so far.

Golden State (+15) @ Orlando

Philapdelphia (+8.5) @ Atlanta

Cleveland (-9.5) @ New Jersey

Charlotte (+4.5) @ Boston

Detroit (+3.5) @ New York

Washington (+10) @ Milwaukee

Memphis (+2) @ New Orleans

Minnesota (+14) @ Dallas

Sacramento (+7.5) @ Houston

Oklahoma City (+7.5) @ Denver

Indiana (+8.5) @ Portland

Phoenix (-3.5) @ Los Angeles Clippers

NBA Picks – Mar 02

Went 6-3 yesterday.  I currently sit at 66% for the week.  Let’s keep this train rolling, may have time to add some college games…and apparently i will ’cause I just looked and there’s only two pro games.  Here we go

Sacramento (+10.5) @ Oklahoma City

Indiana (+12) @ Los Angeles Lakers

EDIT : TWO ADDITIONAL GAMES, WERE NOT ON PINNACLESPORTS THIS MORNING

Boston (-4.5) @ Detroit

Golden State (+10.5) @ Miami

I just looked at college lines and I am clueless.  I’ll try to do some work on this as conference champ week gets going soon.

NBA Picks – Mar 01

A few days, weeks, whatever ago I made a post saying I was going to start picking games and keeping track of them.  But a few roadblocks have managed to stop this from happening.  So I am going to do something different and for the next week I am simply going to force myself to make picks against the spread in the NBA.  These should not be considered knowledge based picks, I am simply forcing myself to pick every game to see if I have a clue as to what’s going on.  Here we go

Dallas (+3) @ Charlotte

Orlando (-4) @ Philadelphia

New York (+11) @ Cleveland

San Antonio (-2.5) @ New Orleans

Atlanta (+1) @ Chicago

Portland (-1) @ Memphis

Toronto (+6) @ Houston

Denver (+2.5) @ Phoenix

Utah (-6.5) @ Los Angeles Clippers

This is me simply dragging myself towards taking the first step on making daily picks.  We’ll see how things went with these tomorrow when I post tomorrow’s picks.