Results! Super Bowl NFL Picks Against the Point Spread

What a game, huh? At our Super Bowl party, there was chatter about turning off the game during the meat of the blowout there in the third quarter. Only curiosity about the un-aired commercials kept it on. And then it happened. Wow, what a series of unfortunate events for the Falcons, and what a series of miraculous events for the Patriots. Heck of a game. The media say we’re in the Golden Age of Television; I think it’s fair to say that we’re also in the Golden Age of Super Bowls. So many lately have come right down to the finish.

For the bettors, it was a stomach churning game to watch. Both the Patriots covering of the spread and the Over for the point totals came out of nowhere.

At halftime, the Falcons were up by 18. With 2:07 left in the third quarter, they were up by 25, or 28 against the +3 point spread. So Falcons bettors were damn confident. At halftime, the point total was on pace for 48 points, 10 1/2 below the 58 1/2 projected point total. With 2:07 left in the third quarter, the projected point total fell to only 43.3 points, 15.2 points below the 58 1/2 projected point total. So Under bettors were also pretty confident, especially with the knowledge that the Falcons would be trying to drain the clock as fast as they could.

Then in the final 17 minutes, the game changed.

And only in Overtime did the Patriots cover and the game go Over the point total.

As a result, fiftytwopointfour got lucky with the Patriots and unlucky with the Under. That’s one win and one loss to end the 2016 postseason. The win on the Patriots brought the postseason picks against the point spread over .500. The loss with the Under brought down an already woeful set of post-season picks against the point total.

Best wishes for a brief offseason!

Here are the detailed results for this week’s picks against the point spread, followed by my post-season-to-date results:

Here are the detailed results for this week’s picks against the point total, followed by my post-season-to-date results: