Re: Fezzik Total Play Of The Year
LOL. The vast majority of that "125 units" comes from the fictional BLAP service, where "5 or 10 subscribers" happily bet 5 figures on CFB quarters, props etc without touching the screen, yet never once post to Pregame. Many people have asked "How do I subscribe to BLAP, are there any testimonials from BLAP subscribers" and gotten crickets, in addition to Johnny Detroit's late night post here about how "Fezzik doesn't sell subscriptions."
Pretty funny how, in months when Fezzik gets crushed on the individual picks he sells, all sorts of mystery BLAP plays (props, quarters, halftimes etc) show up in the record, but when he does ok on those picks, BLAP basically gets the same plays everybody else gets. This weekend he's selling every play BLAP gets, 4 days worth for $59. You'd think these $1000 BLAP subscribers would be livid that not only are others getting their BLAP-specific plays for more than half off, but now they have to compete with a bunch of other people for the lines, but no, not a peep out of any of these BLAP subscribers.
Steam chasing 101 from Fezzik today. 803/804 gets hit from un128.5 flat to un128.5 un -118, so after seeing the line move, posts the play labeled as "un128.5 -110 Bookmaker, bet ASAP!" Pinnacle closed no-vig un127.5 +109. Nice job. As Fezzik reminds us "only results matter," beating the line move doesn't, except when you're going to brag about being "16-1 predicting line moves" where you use the best possible line for "current line" and worst possible line for "closer," i.e. boldly predicting "JAX +11 will close worse" when Pinny was dealing +10.5 -116 when you made that prediction and closed right around there.
As far as why does Fezzik sell picks when he's supposedly up 125 units on the year, his pal Bryan Leonard probably said in best when, in response to criticism about some tout issue, Bryan said he is always motivated because "Selling picks pays the bills." It's not betting that pays the bills with these guys, it's selling picks.