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    Yahoo pick'em against the spread.
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    So as someone who never does sports betting and a complete newbie to pick em, care to give me a quick rundown on the gist of it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by 4T2 View Post
    So as someone who never does sports betting and a complete newbie to pick em, care to give me a quick rundown on the gist of it?
    You pick every game every week using the spread. Say Buffalo is favoured by 7.5 points. You choose them, and the Bills win by six points. You lose the game because the Bills didn't win by at least eight.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 4T2 View Post
    So as someone who never does sports betting and a complete newbie to pick em, care to give me a quick rundown on the gist of it?
    Pick'em are usually just pick the winner of the game, but Yahoo can add a little twist where you have to pick against the spread.

    The 'spread' is the vegas odds of what a team is favoured to win by.

    Lets take an example. Tonight's Game

    Favorite Underdog Spread

    New England Kansas City 8.5


    This is basically saying New England is favoured to win by 8.5 points.

    a) if you think New England will win by 8.5 points or more then you would pick New England.
    b) if you think Kansas City will win OR will lose by less than 8.5 points you would pick Kansas.

    The benefit of this kind of system is that it makes every game closer to equal in difficulty level to pick.

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    Top team vs bottom team Pittsburgh is favoured by 10 points over Cleveland. In a regular pick em it is easy to pick Pittsburgh to win but not as easy to pick them to win by 10 points.

    Or two evenly matched teams like Washington and Philly where the spread is 0 and it is considered a true pick'em... pick the winner because there is no spread.

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    Awesome, sound like fun. Count me in

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    Quote Originally Posted by PenguinHunter View Post
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    Yahoo pick'em against the spread.
    Can you confirm if the spread is factored into the result or not? I've played many Pick 'Em Pools on Yahoo and it never was before. Just want to make sure as just because the spread is listed does not necessarily mean it factors into the result (and there is no specification on this in the settings listed that the public can view).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Goldendelicious View Post
    Can you confirm if the spread is factored into the result or not? I've played many Pick 'Em Pools on Yahoo and it never was before. Just want to make sure as just because the spread is listed does not necessarily mean it factors into the result (and there is no specification on this in the settings listed that the public can view).

    There was an option to select against the spread or normal. In the settings it says spread 'Yes'

    Last nights game was too much of a blowout by Kansas to confirm this. I know it is different then the other pick em pool I am in in Yahoo. The set up is different. The regular pick em does not have the spread on it.

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    Just wanting to make sure.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Goldendelicious View Post
    Just wanting to make sure.
    Yup totally makes sense. I wanted to make sure... would suck to tell everyone it is... then it end up not being.

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    Yup so it's straight pick winner after looking at the results from yesterday. Spread gas no impact.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Goldendelicious View Post
    Yup so it's straight pick winner after looking at the results from yesterday. Spread gas no impact.
    Can't be. IF you look at my picks... I picked Pittsburgh to clear the spread... and I got a great big red X beside it. if it was straight pick em, I would have picked Pitts and got a green check.

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    I missed most of this week...but Im iN!

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    Quote Originally Posted by hockeyrobot View Post
    I missed most of this week...but Im iN!
    Awesome... you won't be that far behind... the leaderboard right now is 5-4-4... this is a lot tougher than i thought.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PenguinHunter View Post
    Awesome... you won't be that far behind... the leaderboard right now is 5-4-4... this is a lot tougher than i thought.
    LOL yuuup. I only got 5 in my own pool on CBS.

    Had KC, Clev, LAR, Car and Dallas. Thankfully I got 3 on the late games holy crap.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PenguinHunter View Post
    Can't be. IF you look at my picks... I picked Pittsburgh to clear the spread... and I got a great big red X beside it. if it was straight pick em, I would have picked Pitts and got a green check.
    When I look at your pick it has a big green check lol. From what I am seeing, nobody has an incorrect pick lol. This is strange.

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