{"id":2815,"date":"2024-03-20T03:00:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T03:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=2815"},"modified":"2024-03-20T03:00:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T03:00:26","slug":"wednesday-handicapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=2815","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Handicapping"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well &#8211; I have done horrible on the first two games, so lets keep this up while I work on the code that will track my imaginary losses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6:40 pm &#8211; Montana St (-3.5) vs Grambling O\/U: 134.5<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2018t know much about either team but Montana St has a NET of 208 while Grambling is 279 &#8211; so the statistics say Montana St is the better team.  If I figure they will control the game, have to figure they will also control the pace and the score will go over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Picks &#8211; Montana St (30), Over (20)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9:10 pm &#8211; Colorado (-2.5) vs Boise State  O\/U: 140.5<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So if I exclude San Diego State\u2019s magical run last year (and Tuesday night\u2019s debacle by Virginia), the Mountain West is 0-11 since 2019.  Colorado had won their last 8 before losing in the Pac 12 final, and I think the Pac 12 is better than what the stats made them.  I am going to go aggressive and pick the Buffalos and pick the over in a fast paced high scoring game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Picks &#8211; Colorado (30), Over (30)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hopefully, I will get my code done &#8211; I don\u2019t think I have the patience to put 16 games into the blog (and while I know people love reading the blog, that might be too much for all of us).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well &#8211; I have done horrible on the first two games, so lets keep this up while I work on the code that will track my imaginary losses. 6:40 pm &#8211; Montana St (-3.5) vs Grambling O\/U: 134.5 Don\u2018t know much about either team but Montana St has a NET of 208 while Grambling is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2024-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2816,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions\/2816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}