Receipts

The write-up

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Thursday through Monday night, we posted 82 picks and went 42-40. Our one Featured pick, the wind Under in Paris, won. The NHL carried the weekend at 15-11, the NBA went 8-6, the NFL finished 8-7 after Dallas covered on Monday night, the Brewers got us even in the World Series, and college football was rough at 10-15. Here's all of it, win or lose.

Featured: 1-0 Steelers-Saints Under 44.5 in Paris. The forecast had wind around 16 mph in Saint-Denis, the total never moved, and the game finished 16-10. That's 26 points, well under. It's one bet, so it proves nothing yet, but it's the kind of pick our testing says to make.

NFL: 8-7 The wins: Pittsburgh minus three in Paris, 16-10. Green Bay plus three and a half lost by a field goal in Detroit, 20-17, so the hook did its job. Cincinnati plus one and a half rolled Baltimore 35-13. Cleveland minus one and a half won 27-24 in Tennessee. The Giants plus ten and a half won outright in Houston, 27-21. Denver minus four and a half won 30-16 in Arizona.

The losses: New England plus three on Thursday night, 30-24 in Chicago. San Francisco lost 29-20 in Atlanta. Carolina got blown out by Tampa, 43-13. Minnesota won but only by six, 16-10, against a six-and-a-half-point number. The Jets lost to winless Miami, 28-25. The Raiders lost 35-21 to the Rams. And Kansas City scored three points in Seattle, 20-3.

Monday night, Dallas minus four and a half won 38-21 in Philadelphia. That's a 17-point win and an easy cover.

NHL: 15-11 Saturday was the best night of the weekend, 9-3. The Leafs at plus 155 won 7-2 in Edmonton. The Ducks at plus money won 5-4 in Philly. The Devils and Bruins both covered the puck line, and Carolina and Minnesota both won comfortably. The misses were the Rangers in Ottawa, Vegas in Columbus and Detroit in Calgary.

Thursday's twelve games went 5-7. San Jose won 6-2 as a dog, and Boston, Pittsburgh, New Jersey on the puck line and Detroit on the puck line all came through. Friday split: Montreal won 4-1 in Chicago, and Tampa lost 6-3 in Colorado.

NBA: 8-6 The full write-ups went 4-1. Philly minus two and a half beat Cleveland. Boston minus two and a half beat the Knicks 107-103. Houston plus five and a half won outright in Austin, 114-110. The Clippers plus nine and a half lost by eight, so they covered. The miss was Denver plus eight and a half in Oklahoma City, 96-84.

The rest of Friday's board went 4-5. Minnesota, Toronto, Detroit and Sacramento with the points all covered. Milwaukee, Charlotte, Indiana, New Orleans by one point and Golden State by three all missed.

College football: 10-15 The wins: App State plus twelve won outright over unbeaten James Madison, 34-31. Liberty, Duke, Army, Stanford, Cincinnati, Northwestern, UCLA, Boise State and Kentucky all covered.

The losses hurt, and two of them are on our quarterback rule. Michigan started a true freshman, so we switched from Michigan plus seven and a half to Indiana, and Michigan won 13-6. Iowa changed quarterbacks, so we switched to Iowa, and Minnesota won 13-10. Our original picks would have won both. That rule was built for the NFL, and we're going to look hard at whether it belongs in college at all.

The rest of the misses: Alabama won by 11 against a 13-and-a-half-point number. Ole Miss lost 34-27 in Austin. Tennessee lost by three. BYU lost outright at UCF. USC, Houston, Iowa State, Pitt, Cal, Auburn, Air Force, Memphis and UMass all lost against the number.

World Series: 1-1 Tampa Bay at plus 160 lost Game 1 in Milwaukee, 3-2. We didn't post a Game 2 pick, since the line came out during Shabbat. On Monday we took the Brewers as a small underdog in Game 3, and they won 10-1 at Tropicana Field. Milwaukee leads the series 3-0, and Game 4 is tonight.

Every one of these is on the receipts page, along with how each price did against the closing line.