Week 2 NFL Betting Picks: Team and Game Totals

Sep 19, 2020

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Handicapping Week 2 of the NFL season is always challenging. We've been eagerly anticipating meaningful football games for nearly eight months. This season was especially unique because we had no preseason games to watch. After spending the past eight months forecasting and projecting team and player performances across the league, we've finally seen each team play, and it's difficult to put it into proper context.

What Week 1 data is actionable, and what's noise?

What is small-sample-variance, and what is a usage or situational trend that we need to get ahead of before the public does?

At it's best, the transition between Weeks 1 and 2 of the NFL season is either a breeding zone for confirmation bias or a chance to throw away all that you thought you knew heading into kickoff last Sunday afternoon.

Let's move forward and take a look at Week 2's plays.