If I had to pick right now I’d take
Steelers +6
Panthers -4
Bengals -3
Broncos -4
Colts -3
I’m with you. I’m still leaning (slightly at the moment) on wanting to enter but I do not like not knowing what the others have selected as we head into game time.
It would be great if another firm copied this idea and did offer the leader board.
Steelers (+6)
Bears (+4)
Giants (+5.5)
Raiders (+3)
Jets (-1)
but what do I know …
Here’s my
Steelers +6
Jets -1
Panthers -4
Falcons +1.5
Vikings +3.5
Send them feedback it’s not to late I would say for them to decide to offer this in the interests of fairness and openness - or as you say float the idea to Sporting Index and others to see if they fancy going head-to-head with a similar product and let the punters decide where they wish to punt.
Dean, I was tempted to pick the Vikings and Falcons too … I really think they will be strong this year.
Steelers and patriots agreed
Seahawks easy win
Love the Vikings with those odds
Colts agreed
Agreed Giants
if their is any space I would like to join, but no problem if not
cheers
I tried Bet365. Their response:
We won’t be offering the NFL competition that you mention I’m afraid – we steer away from Fantasy-type things as a rule, and the development time required to build such a contest far outweighs the likely return (especially when compared to all the other things we are constantly working on).
Don’t think he understood what this contest is all about, to be fair.
Bet £3.65 are not the most innovative company and their NFL betting isn’t very good. I would suspect only Sky Bet or Paddy Power would run such a comp.
I’m happy to support Spreadex as they launched first and are not taking anything from the pot. they do need to revise the rules on declaring others picks at kick off though.
Haven’t tried Sky Bet, but Paddy Power didn’t reply when I asked years ago.
Disagree with you about Bet365’s NFL markets. They’re top notch, in my opinion.
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Hi Equinoxx,
If I understand you correctly your suggesting that rather than purely backing the selections you believe in you should back selections that differ from others. I’m not sure I get that approach, is this in order to ensure difference, to claw back an opponents lead or is it because you believe the tournament is based on parimutuel betting?
From the rules I have read I understand the tournament is more straight forward, he/she who has accumulated the most amount of points against the spread over the course of a season is a prize winner.
… Is this not the case?
Cheers
Hi CP,
No, that’s not what I’m suggesting but I know of players who have played like that as they try to work out what the consensus will pick and try to gain an advantage that way.
My suggestion is that it should be above board like the LVH and the rest of the Vegas sportsbooks that run these contests so you know the selections that every player has entered as soon as the deadline has closed. It’s more transparent that way. As noted previously, it might not matter in the early stages but in the latter rounds it certainly will.
It’s like playing fantasy football and not knowing the players your opponent has picked until Tuesday morning once all the games have been completed.
By the way, CP,
It is impossible to back selections that differ from the others as you will not know who everyone has selected until the close of that week’s deadline.
Handicapping who your opponents will pick is just almost as important as picking your own selections.
I don’t wanna give too much away, but there is a method behind my madness on this!
In the interests of fairness I’m sure Spreadex would revise their rules, especially at the latter stages.
Adam - have you contacted Spreadex about sponsoring the ‘FanPub’ website, I think this would be a useful advertising medium for their NFL betting.
Thanks for the clarification EQ.I get your point now.
Recently I have been considering entering on me lonesome so I called em…
I spoke to Paul at Spreadex and advised that I was planning opening an account to take part, he initially was not sure and suggested that I email in my questions at info@spreadex.com however then a manager became available at his end, apparently somebody involved in the running of the tournament. Like you guys have said the manager advised that the picks would NOT be published at all, only the scores would be. I explained the concern & Paul advised to log the concern via email.
Perhaps if we all email in with apparent individual entries with the same concern they might see reason?
Regards
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Will send them an email tomorrow!
rock on, let us know what you get in return
I’ve tweeted them 
Haven’t contacted anyone yet - doesn’t seem worthwhile at our current scale - but it’s good to have in mind. Would have to figure out what we actually wanted from sponsorship in such a situation too. I feel like we’re still kind of “pre-launch” anyway as the site hasn’t gone through an NFL season yet.