College Bowl Picks 2013: The Best Chance To Win Your Bowl Pickem Office Pool

December 18, 2013 - by Tom Federico

With the 2013 college football bowl season just days away, college bowl picks are on a lot of people’s minds right now.

This year’s bowl slate features no less than 70 teams, so if you’re planning on knowing your stuff — and perhaps trying to dominate some coworkers in a bowl office pool, or outsmart a Vegas sports book or two — you’ve got your work cut out for you.

We’re here to help. In this first post, we’ll start out with one of our two premium offerings for bowl season: bowl picks for office pools.

College Bowl Picks For Pools & Pickems

In recent years, college bowl office pools (also called college bowl pick’ems on some sites) have skyrocketed in popularity. In fact, bowl season is like a mini-March Madness now.

When lots of people get together to do sports pools, we start drooling, because we know we can number crunch our way to a big edge. We’ve built sophisticated technology and analytics that give our customers the best picks to win bowl pools, and it shows in our long term performance.

Past Performance

Here’s how we done in bowl pools since we started releasing picks for them:

  • In 2012-13, our non-confidence bowl pool picks beat 99.6% of players in ESPN’s national bowl pick’em game, good enough to expect to win a 250-person pool
  • In 2011-12, three of our bowl pick sets finished in the top 2% of ESPN, good enough to expect to win a 50-person pool
  • In 2010-11, our top confidence point based strategy outperformed 99.2% of players on ESPN, good enough to expect to win a 100-person pool

Anyone can get lucky once. Doing what we did for the last three years running is not luck. It’s the result of a data-driven system we’ve spent years developing and refining.

Hopefully you’ve gotten a taste of this already by using our picks and analysis for a regular season football pick’em this year. Our customers are reporting some great results. Here’s one that user “Vincent” recently posted on our Q&A forum:

“Thanks for all of the help so far. Relying on much of your advice, I am well-positioned with 2 entries in a 30-person confidence pool. My first entry (which has largely followed your “win the season” picks) is in 1st place with 1112 points. My other entry is in 2nd place with 1083 points (29 behind).”

New & Unique Features In 2013

College bowl picking pools are not just fun, they’re also typically great opportunities to profit, if you play in lots of them over the years. So whether you like college football or not, you should look at bowl pools as very risky, but absolutely smart investments. That’s also why we’ve invested so much time into researching strategies and building tools to win them.

This year, we’re going even further by applying all our new Custom Picks functionality to bowl pools, and adding some other great new features. We’ll be covering point spread based bowl pools for the first time, as well as game winner based pools, and both confidence point and non-confidence pools. We’re also introducing what we call “portfolio picks” for users who can play more than one entry in a pool.

What makes our bowl pick’em package unique is the level of objectivity, precision, and customization that we are able to apply to optimize your personal picks. If all you want is to basic advice on how to the pick the bowl games, we’ve published a variety of “quick picks” for small, midsize, and large bowl pools that are ready for immediate use.

If you want to get the maximum edge, though, our custom picks process lets you enter key details about your bowl pick’em pool, such as your exact pool size, number of payouts, and payout sizes. You can customize exactly which games are in your pool and what you point spreads are (if it’s a spread pool). You can even adjust our projections of how your opponents will pick each game, to reflect a specific school or conference bias you expect your opponents to share.

All of these details are factored into the customized pick recommendations we give you. Nobody else does comes close to this level of sophistication when it comes to bowl pool picks.

In conclusion, using our bowl pool picks means that you’re going to have the smartest picks in your pool. Can we guarantee you’ll win a prize? Heck no. Even with our help, you’ll never be expected to beat 20, 50, 100 or more opponents in any one bowl picking contest. However, you will have the best chance to win based on what the world knows when your picks are due to be submitted, and in the long run, you will win much more often than your average opponent does.

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