With Week 1 of the 2023 NFL season kicking off tonight with the Detroit Lions facing the Kansas City Chiefs on Thursday Night Football, it is time to finalize your entries for whatever betting pools you may have entered. It’s not just about fantasy football and betting NFL games. Many people prefer to join Pick ‘Em Pools or Confidence Pools where, each week they make predictions and pick the winner of every NFL game without the spread. They then rank their picks 1 through 16 in order of most confident (16 points) to least confident (1 point). Your scores are then added up and usually the most points each week wins a prize while there is also a full-season, overall champion as well. Seems easy enough, right?

 

 

In an effort to help you with your pools, I will provide you with my picks each week. In addition to full game breakdowns I do for my own research, I will also use money lines which at least show you how Vegas and the books are leaning. Sometimes the lines offer you a clear-cut decision, but you also need to explore some of the intangibles of each match-up and maybe have more of a gut-feel as to what may happen in a particular game. That’s where ranking your predictions becomes so important. 

With it just being Week 1, we are not going to worry about being contrarian with any of our picks. That comes much later in the season when you see what everyone’s scores are and what you may need to do differently in order to move up in the standings. Here is how I am playing Week 1 of my NFL Pick ‘Em Confidence Pool:

Game

Pick

Confidence #

Money Line

Houston Texans at Baltimore Ravens

Ravens

16

-500

Arizona Cardinals at Washington Commanders

Commanders

15

-325

Los Angeles Rams at Seattle Seahawks

Seahawks

14

-230

Jacksonville Jaguars at Indianapolis Colts

Jaguars

13

-238

Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Minnesota Vikings

Vikings

12

-250

Detroit Lions at Kansas City Chiefs

Chiefs

11

-218

Las Vegas Raiders at Denver Broncos

Broncos

10

-185

Philadelphia Eagles at New England Patriots

Eagles

9

-198

Carolina Panthers at Atlanta Falcons

Falcons

8

-192

Dallas Cowboys at New Yok Giants

Cowboys

7

-175

Miami Dolphins at Los Angeles Chargers

Chargers

6

-166

San Francisco 49ers at Pittsburgh Steelers

49ers

5

-130

Green Bay Packers at Chicago Bears

Packers

4

-105

Cincinnati Bengals at Cleveland Browns

Browns

3

114

Buffalo Bills at New York Jets

Jets

2

120

Tennessee Titans at New Orleans Saints

Titans

1

136

 

 

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