You’re welcome, folks. Y’all know full well what I mean. We’ve almost certainly been making you a handsome profit this season, because you’re all intelligent enough to know that our picks are such lead pipe losers that you can make gobs of cash by betting the other side. It’s the surest thing in sports! Then again, you’re clicking on this article presumably without a gun to your head, so how smart can you really be?
Last year was the exact opposite. We picked winners at a 56% clip, which is pretty darn good. So of course this year, regression to the mean is hitting like one of those bomb cyclone things I see on the news but only when it threatens an East Coast city.