We come to the last football picks post of the season. The PiRates stayed away from the college bowl season and the NFL playoffs to this point, but we are staring at a little deficit for the season.
For three consecutive years, the PiRate Ratings earned a “profit” with our “imaginary” bank roll. Wagering an equal fake $100 on every selection, we have enjoyed two marvelous seasons and one minor success in the last three years.
The 2017-18 season brought us back down to Earth, but a late surge brought the losses to the point where one final win would give us a winning season even more miraculous than the Jets beating the Colts in SB III.
So, with that in mind, we issue our final selection for the football season. And, it is not even a money line selection like almost all of our picks. We go back to a 10-point teaser parlay, something that used to give us some success, but something we got away from when we became rather lucky with money line parlays.
Because our computer ratings and simulations show this game to be as tight as it can be, and the standard deviation of our simulations comes in rather lean, we believe it is possible to make four picks in this game and combine them into a 4-event parlay at +136 odds. The deficit sits at $-146, so a win would make a 3% loss become a 2% profit for the year.
So, without further adieu, here is our pretend final play of the season.
The wager for this game is doubled to $200.
SUPER BOWL 52 Pick
| Super Bowl 52 | Sunday, February 4, 2018 | 6:30 PM EST |
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10-point teaser
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$200 on 4-team parlay @ +136 | $200 wins $472 |
| Team 1 | Team 2 | Number |
| New England | Philadelphia | +4.5 |
| Philadelphia | New England | +15.5 |
| New England | Philadelphia | Under 57.5 |
| New England | Philadelphia | Over 37.5 |
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