PYU Week 10: No Gnus Is Good Gnus

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Okay, I’ll find a different way to describe it. “BullsOnParade96 did not retake the lead Tuesday night when he did not hit a massive parlay that did not involve MACtion.”

“This did not turn a close, multiway race into a 750-unit lead. There was not a second weeknight MACtion parlay.”

“ElliotMoore did not become the 7th player in the black for the season (8th if you count AndrewPina’s “excluding futures” total), and does not continue to move up in the standings.”

Is that how that shtick went? The Great Space Coaster was a long time ago. Being a child named Gary at the time it was on the air, I was frequently reminded of its existence.

Here is the list of picks at 6:30 a.m. I had to run the report early today. A complete and updated list is posted, as always, at https://protectyouru.net/pyu/weekly_picks.php

The Week 10 complete results will be posted on this thread when they are available.

RESULTS

It turns out there were a lot of big parlay wins this week:

jrjs had four, count ‘em, four parlay hits in a week! And only one of them shared any components with the others. He went 11-3 on individual bets. Well played.

The Michigan-Rutgers parlay win was part of this interesting play:

jrjs parlayed Michigan cover and the over against Rutgers cover and the under. I guess the theory is that if Michigan covers, the point total will be high, whereas if Rutgers covers the point total will be low. It’s a great play if you can spot games like this, because a 2-way parlay pays 2.6 to 1. At that rate you only need to be right 38.4% of the time to break even.

If you consider that this parlay was part of a calculated play where one parlay was expected to lose, he went 9-1 on individual bets. His only loss was on Arkansas against Liberty. As for me, I only parlayed Michigan to cover and go over for 78 units because LOL Rutgers. The best spite bets are the ones that win.

So was this enough to make jrjs the biggest winner of the week?

No! Bullsonparade96 gets the 15 points for the points race! Tough break for jrjs there, as a gain of 704 units is enough for first place in a week.

The points standings:

It’s a logjam at the top, with four players now within striking distance of the lead! How does the money race look?

It’s a new race now, as BullsOnParade96 and jrjs have separated themselves from the rest of the field.

Other items of note:

• ULhothot’s hit on Michigan State beating Illinois at +646 was only the fourth-biggest money line longshot of the season. The others were UConn over Fresno State (+1400, ULhothot), Georgia Tech over Pittsburgh (+1240, BullsOnParade96), Eastern Michigan over Arizona State (+817, ElliotMoore). ElliotMoore also picked MSU at +575, which is was only good enough for eighth-best.
• No one played the Auburn-Mississippi State game. It’s unusual for a Saturday night SEC game not to get action.
• The Futures page has been updated. You can see which bets are in line to win or lose when the regular season ends. briank, defdans, LrdNorman, McIntyre2K7, and ULhothot are all in line for a windfall. Of particular is ULhothot, who placed two longshot conference championship bets that now have a good chance of coming in.
• If ULhothot’s total gets over 1000, he will have to “repay” the 500-unit loan he got from the sudden death bet. This is per rule 11.2.
• USF hosts SMU, who just beat Houston 77-63 in a regulation game. I may have some special bets on offer for this one.

Lots of matchups between Top 25 (or near-Top 25) teams in Week 11. Mississippi-Alabama, TCU-Texas, UCF-Tulane. Kansas State-Baylor, North Carolina-Wake Forest, Florida State-Syracuse. There’s a full week of MACtion and Fun Belt games. AAC games are the aforementioned SMU-USF, UCF-Tulane, Tulsa-Memphis, East Carolina-Cincinnati, Notre Dame-Navy, Temple-Houston, Rice-Western Kentucky, Louisiana Tech-UTSA, Charlotte-Middle Tennessee, North Texas-UAB, and FAU-FIU.