Wildcard Weekend Picks
Happy *almost* one year anniversary to the Orb! For those of you who have been with us since our first picks at this time last year we cannot thank you enough for all your support. For those of you who have joined us somewhere along the way, we are equally thankful that you are consuming our content and are part of the community. We started this whole thing one day when the Orb Wizard was bored and wanted to see if he could gain a statistical edge on Vegas using predictive modeling. Going into our initial picks last playoffs we had the luxury of an entire season of data to train the model on. This season has been a great learning experience as we have flown by the seat of our pants making predictions every week, starting with very little season data to go off of. This has been an incredible journey so far and we really can’t overstate how happy we are to share our ups and downs with all of you. We technically started in the second round of last year’s playoffs so it won’t be a one-to-one comparison but here is how the Orb performed in the 2022 playoffs: 15/21, 71.4%, +7.36 units. Although this was very successful we of course are aiming to beat that this go around so the official playoff tracking starts now.
Matchups will get better as the playoffs go along so this should be the only week we see such large spreads, which of course are tougher to predict. My own personal prediction is that we will get a rematch of the Chiefs-49ers Superbowl from a few seasons ago but this time with San Francisco getting revenge, but its football so who knows. Here are our featured games and parlay of the week:
And here are all of the Orb’s picks for round 1:
Something to take note of here is that we have our first case where the Orb is ‘high’ on the favorite (Cowboys) winning and also ‘high’ on the underdog (Buccaneers) covering. Proceed with caution on this one.
Let's have a great round 1 everyone!
- Team Orb Analytics
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