Always bet with Black

Hopefully the last shortened one. Picks after the break

Short, late post mostly because this week and next week pretty have/will blow for me.

First Rabbit Day coming week 3.

Welcome once again to my favorite weekly post, Always Bet with Black. And, as per usually, we kick things off with a picture from Britty.

"happy will kill you", by Britty

Ah. She's her brother's sister ain't she?

Anyhoo, for reasons known only to him, instead of the old format, young dits has decided to pick all of the bodog.com games. He insists that this will make it easier for you, the reader and consumer.

What he's doing is that he's showing you the spreads they have (pretty much the initial ones) and what he's betting on, using a gambling term known as "units". The units, typically, will vary week to week. But it's basically a confidence rating. That's really all you need to know.

We'll keep track of both his actual money picks and his total picks. Possibly even picks by conference.

Also: we have no idea if Random Numbers is coming back this year, because of the Dutchman being busy with actual things. But we do know that Rabbit Day will be back.

Because it is awesome.

Picks below the jump?

Dearest cofabgians.

I know what you're thinking. That we've been slacking off with the posts. I mean, its our time over here at cofabg. We got college football. We got hockey. We got NASA blowing up the Moon. We got Pres. Rocks winning the Nobel. We got Limbaugh pledging allegiance to the Taliban^sd. This is when we should be writing the most. But, as per usually, we haven't and I blame me.

That changes now. We think.

Anyhoo, onto this weeks picks. Presented without comment

This Week: 13-12-1 (.500)
Last Week: 23-5-1 (.793)
Rolling 3 Week: 53-30-2 (.623)
YTD: 57-28-2 (.655)

Regressing to the mean^sd. I sorta knew that after last week's absolutely wonderful week last week that I would suck this week. Though it is kind of weird that the week RN takes off, I have a week where I go .500. So, I'll take whatever rabbits I'm supposed to get.

Seriously? Sado Bunny? Was it that bad?

It was? Ok. Fine.

Last Week: 23-5-1 (.793)
Previous Week: 17-13 (.567)
Rolling 3 Week: 57-28-1 (.663)
YTD: 57-28-1 (.663)

Picks below the fold. I mean, I know I'm normally more verbose, but I have nothing really to say.

Past Week: 17-13 (.567)
Previous Week: 17-10 (.629)
Rolling 3 Week: 45-28-1 (.608)
YTD: 34-23 (.596)

I always did love to dance.

Wait. Sorry. Watching Serenity. Good movie.

Anyhoo, I know I didn't do rabbit week. Semi-Long story. I'll be sure to tell you about it. Sometime. Hell, the way I started the week, I'm happy I was over .500. But that's in the past. Let's talk about about the Tams this week's picks.

Previous Week: 17-10 (.629)
The Week before that: 11-5-1 (.647)
Rolling 3 Week: 40-22-1 (.634)
YTD: 17-10

Last week was a decent week for me if I do say so myself. I went 17-10, didn't get too many rabbits. Drank a lot at the Rhino and at the Dutchman's. Life is good. I mean, I was upset about the way the game ended an all. But a win's a win. Or something. Picks after the fold.

ditriech:
This Week: 17-10 (.629)
Last Week: 11-5-1 (.647)
Rolling 3 Week: 40-22-1 (.634)

Random Numbers:
This Week: 11-16 (.407)
Last Week: (Who knows)
Rolling Three Week: (Who knows)

H2H (ditriech-RN-push)
This Week: 7-3
Last Week: (Who knows)
Rolling Three Week: (Who knows)

Ok, Right now I have no idea what the rolling 3 week for RN is. I mean, I could theoretically go back and find it. And I probably will. But the problem is that for two weeks I didn't do dvn. And for one of those I don't even have spreads for. So it's a lot more work than it should be.

But that's not what you're here for. You, Dutch (I say Dutch because he is the only one reading this), are here for who got the rabbit. And, the short answer is pretty much the entire Big Ten. And ditriech for that matter. I mean, I took Nevada out of pure spite for frack's sake. So for that I'll make amends next week. Hopefully. We'll see.

Anyhoo, full rabbit day below the fold.

Welcome folks to the most wonderful time of the year. College football starts today, and (you lucky dogs you) so does perinnial cofabg favorite "Always Bet with Black." I'm ditriech, the 'Black' in this scenario, and I give you witty banter along with my collegiate football picks. Also, hopefully, the Dutchman will restart Always Bet with #000000, which was probably my favorite part of cofabg last year that I didn't do.

Anyway, I know I only did 10 weeks last year, and I apologize to the one of you out there that noticed. It probably wont happen again. I'll probably quit way earlier than that. But, my numbers from last year? Pretty pimp.

Last Year: 123-72-6 (.612)
Last Week: 11-5-1 (.647)
Rolling 3 Week: 36-16-1 (.679)

For this week, as per usually, I'm just going to do the top 25 and the Big Ten. <stephenasmith>HOWEVER!</stephenasmith>, that might change as the weeks progress. Just as a heads up. Also, for the majority of the top 25 picks I'll be using the Yahoo! spreads. For all other games I'll be usings the spreads at College Football Poll.Com. And away we are going.