Official Week #3 lines for the "3+1 Challenge-2005" contest

[charmy]

Eagles 400
Bengals 300
Rams 200
Steelers 100

[Moozh]

400 Eagles
300 Jaguars
200 Bengals
100 Saints/Vikings u44

[Taciturn]

$400 Bengals
$300 Jaguars
$200 Steelers
$100 Dolphins

[Rutis]

$400 Bears
$300 Rams over 46
$200 Colts
$100 Packers

[primetimenole]

Turned around an 0-4 start with 3-1 last week, let's see if I can keep it rolling...

400 Panthers
300 Jags
200 Colts
100 Rams

[splittter]

$400 Colts
$300 Bengals
$200 Chargers
$100 Jets

Explanation: Never thought about handicapping till last week, although have followed the NFL my whole life. Reasoned that my projected lines would therefore be fairly useless, so my tactics:

- First have a go at setting a line
- Compare with the actual lines
- Bet on the biggest differences with the line. E.g. On the Jets game i guessed +1, actual line is -3, I bet the Jets.

God knows if it's a sound tactic, am mostly doing this to see if I can get better at handicapping as the season goes on. So far I'm clearly rubbish at working out how to price a stong favourite, my biggest diffs both weeks I've played have been under-estimating the point starts the Eagles and Colts get over the 49ers and Browns.

[Easy E]

Good plan so far- that's how to learn it!

[RunDownHouse]

Pretty low turnout this week, Easy.

[lorinda]

I did this last year, and by the end of the season there were only 2 or 3 games each week where I was more than 4 or 5 points out.

Still not exactly great, but I did see myself get better and I enjoyed it too.

Lori

[TheRover]

$400 Broncos
$300 Cardinals
$200 Browns
$100 Dolphins