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NFL Confidence Pool Picks Week 18
by Joey House - 1/2/2025

Welcome to the final edition of Doc's 2024-25 NFL Confidence Pool! As we prepare to wrap up this thrilling season, it's hard to believe how quickly the weeks have flown by. The opening weeks of the 2024 NFL season were nothing short of remarkable, characterized by a whirlwind of upsets that defied expectations and left fans and sports analysts in disbelief. Sportsbooks reveled in their strong financial performances as underdogs frequently won the square money. However, as the season progressed, the statistical landscape began to normalize.

NFL Confidence Pool Picks Week 17
by Mike Allen - 12/24/2024

Welcome to Christmas Week in the NFL, otherwise known as Week 17. We have football games on five days this week in 10 different time slots, including an all-AFC Christmas Day doubleheader. We're looking to improve on our total of 87 points from last week. Confidence is high, with more teams showing who they are as we make our way down the home stretch of the 2024 NFL regular season.

NFL Confidence Pool Picks Week 16
by Joey House - 12/18/2024

Week 15 is officially in the books, and Doc's NFL Confidence Pool Picks went a strong 12-4 and earned 119 points out of the possible 136. We have just three weeks of the season left. And with the upcoming holiday season, there are some interesting scheduling quirks.

NFL Confidence Pool Picks Week 15
by Joey House - 12/11/2024

Welcome to Doc's Sports weekly NFL Confidence Pool, where we pick the NFL team we believe will win and assign a point value based on the confidence of that pick. We followed up our fantastic Thanksgiving week with a solid 10-3 record with 83 points out of a possible 91. All of the bye weeks have been used. Therefore, from here on out, every team plays each week.

NFL Confidence Pool Picks Week 14
by Joey House - 12/3/2024

Welcome to Doc's Sports weekly NFL Confidence Pool, where we pick the NFL team we believe will win and assign a point value based on the confidence of that pick. We almost brought out the brooms for the Thanksgiving holiday, as we were one point away from having a perfect score. New England gave up a touchdown with 12 seconds remaining and lost 25-24 to the Indianapolis Colts. That was the only blemish on a full 16-game slate.

NFL Confidence Pool Picks Week 13
by Joey House - 11/27/2024

Welcome to Week 13 of the NFL Confidence Pool, where we pick the team we believe will win and assign a point value based on our confidence in those selections. Week 12 was turbulent; we went 7-6 for 55 total points. The holiday slate brings us a loaded 16-game schedule, allowing us ample opportunity to make up for any lost points in the past few weeks.

NFL Confidence Pool Picks Week 12
by Joey House - 11/20/2024

Week 12 in the NFL Confidence is upon us, and it continues to be a wild ride. For the second week in a row, we had a blocked field goal win a high-value game. However, all good things must end, and Week 11 saw our string of dominance stop with a 6-8 record and 55 points. Like Ben Affleck told Jeremy Renner in "The Town," "I'm putting this whole town in my rearview." Let's dive into the action in Week 12.

NFL Confidence Pool Picks Week 11
by Joey House - 11/13/2024

Week 11 in the NFL is upon us, and the Doc's Sports Confidence Pool is on an epic run. After having another outstanding 10-4 record and 87 total points out of 110 possible, we've pushed our 5-week mark to 59-14 (80.4 %) and 501 out of a possible 576 (87.0%). We have another gold-star weekend mapped out, so read on as we pick more winners.

NFL Confidence Pool Picks Week 10
by Joey House - 11/6/2024

Welcome to Week 10 of Doc's NFL Confidence Pool, where we pick straight-up winners in the NFL and assign points based on our confidence in those picks. We started shaky, losing our Thursday night game (again), but after that, it was smooth sailing.

NFL Confidence Pool Picks Week 9
by Joey House - 10/30/2024

After starting Thursday with a loss and watching Baltimore forget how to play football, I thought it would be a rough week in our confidence pool. However, those were our only losses; we went 14-2 and 113 points out of 136 total. Over the past three weeks, we have gone 37-7 with an 84% winning percentage. We have earned 304 points out of a possible 346, a grade of 87.8%. We plan on another big week for NFL confidence pool picks, so here is what we like for Week 9:

NFL Confidence Pool Picks Week 8
by Joey House - 10/23/2024

After a few mind-boggling weeks, favorites have started to win the majority of games again. They are now 72-35 SU for a .673 winning percentage. This is just a few points below last year's percentage of .685 and above the 22-23 season of .659. One situation, however, continues to remain higher than expected for the underdogs. In non-divisional road games, the dog is 21-34, a .382 percentage, significantly higher than the .320 winning percentage from 2002 until now. This is something to be aware of for future games.

NFL Confidence Pool Picks Week 7
by Joey House - 10/16/2024

Welcome to Week 7 of Doc's Sports NFL Confidence Pool. We kicked some serious butt in Week 6, going 11-2 and scoring 99 out of a total of 105 possible points. We incorrectly picked Carolina to defeat Atlanta and Jacksonville to win against Chicago in England. But we were on point last week, and we expect to so it again this week. So without further ado, here and Doc’s Sports NFL Week 7 confidence pool picks.

NFL Confidence Pool Picks Week 6
by Joey House - 10/9/2024

It may be the "Year of the Dragon" in the Chinese Zodiac, but it is clearly the year of the dog in the NFL calendar. Two more touchdown home favorites fell last week. The San Francisco 49ers blew their sixth 4th-quarter lead since Kyle Shanahan became their head coach. In the decade that legendary Bill Walsh roamed the sidelines as the Niners boss, San Francisco coughed up double-digit 4th-quarter leads just three times. We went 7-7 last week in our picks for 53 points.

NFL Confidence Pool Picks Week 5
by Joey House - 10/2/2024

The first week of October football brings us Week 5 in the NFL Confidence Pool. We bounced back with a 10-6 record and 81 points. We were five points away from having a monster week, as the Packers and Saints both lost by two points, and the New York Jets missed a last-second field goal and fell to the Broncos, 10-9. The Jets' loss was especially excruciating for me because that was my final Survivor Pool pick.

NFL Confidence Pool Picks Week 4
by Joey House - 9/25/2024

Welcome back to Week 4 of Doc Sports NFL Confidence Pool Series, where we aim to guide you around—and sometimes into—the many potholes on the road to winning your pool. Week 3 saw another remarkable run of underdogs between 6.5 and 7.5 points, going 5-1 straight up. I saw a tweet that mentioned, for the first time in over 70 years, the biggest underdog on the board won outright in each of the first three weeks of the season. This NFL season isn't being called the "Year of the Dog" for nothing.

NFL Confidence Pool Picks Week 3
by Joey House - 9/17/2024

Nick Bogdanovich, an oddsmaker for Circa Sportsbook and handicapper for over 40 years, said Sunday was one of the best days for the sportsbooks that he can remember. When the sportsbooks are having great days, we will have horrible ones. Philadelphia losing on Monday night was the cherry on a complete turd sundae. Our final record for the weekend was 6-10 and 49 points.

NFL Confidence Pool Picks Week 2
by Joey House - 9/11/2024

Week 1 is officially in the books, and what a week it was. We went 10-6 in our picks and brought back 96 points out of a possible 136 (70.6%). We would have had a monster first week, but Cincinnati came out flatter than 3-day opened cola against New England and lost outright as a 7.5-point favorite at home. Take solace, though; over 30% of the survivor pool I'm in was knocked out with that pick, so their contest is over while we just took a hit on our first week.

NFL Confidence Pool Picks Week 1
by Joey House - 9/3/2024

Welcome back to another season of Doc's Sports NFL Confidence Pool series, where we break down each game, select a winner for every contest, and assign a point value to each game based on our "confidence" levels (hence the name of the pool). These contests differ from other pools as we are only concerned about the straight-up (SU) winners, not the against-the-spread (ATS) winners.

NFL Confidence Pool Picks Week 18
by Joey House - 1/3/2024

Welcome to Doc's Sports NFL Confidence Pool Picks, where we analyze the slate of NFL games each week and give you both the selections to make and the corresponding "confidence value" to go along with the pick. The old saying goes, "Time flies by when you're having fun." Truer words were never spoken, because even though my beloved Iggles are collapsing before my very eyes, I've never had such an enjoyable or fast season as this one.

NFL Confidence Pool Picks Week 17
by Joey House - 12/27/2023

After a rock-solid 13-3 week, Santa put coal in our stocking and a 6-10 record. Because I always strive to improve, I evaluate my picks and try to "reverse engineer" to see where I went wrong. For the most part, I favor home teams and usually don't pick many big upsets. It may make for a dull slate, but I aim for consistency over style. Home favorites went 6-3 SU, and favorites overall went 11-5 SU.