Originally Posted by redietz View Post
Week Eight looks impossible. After Week Seven:

1) Dropped to 72nd in Heritage. Getting murdered in primetime totals.
2) Moved up to tie for ninth in NorthBet.
3) Tied for first in TopBet.

There is no way to do well Week Eight, so I have to accept that holding first is highly unlikely. The important thing is to stay patient if I take a beating this week. Usually you have to outperform the linesmakers by at least seven or eight games to contend in these things. I'm three or four games ahead of the linesmakers at this juncture, depending on opening versus closing lines. Odds are always against actually winning any of these, but usually when I'm in the hunt, I manage to stay in the hunt.

The bad news is that I got killed this past week. The good news is I hardly budged in standings.

1) Tied for 74th in Heritage out of a couple thousand. I couldn't pick a primetime total if I knew the halftime score.
2) Tied for 10th in Northbet out of 500+. Got clobbered but dropped one spot.
3) Tied for first in TopBet out of 1300+. Don't know how I didn't drop a ton, but I didn't.