That gasp you heard in NFL Week 1 was from the 4,895 entries and people who picked the Cincinnati Bengals in the Week 1 Circa Survivor pro football contest in Las Vegas. The New England Patriots pulled off the biggest upset of Week 1 with a 16-10 road win. The Patriots were a +9.5 point underdog and bet down to +7.5 on game day as sharp and professional bettors bet more money on the Patriots.
Types Of Bets And How To Read The Odds
Circa Survivor has become a most popular winner-take-all football contest that draws more interest with it’s massive, record-breaking $14.2 million prize pool this year providing gamblers a lottery shot. But as Week 1 Survivor contestants found out, there is no sure thing in the NFL and any given Sunday struck first opening week.
Along with the Bengals eliminating more than 1/3 of entrants, the Falcons took out another 431 entries in their 18-10 home loss to the Steelers. A total of 192 additional entries were eliminated in Week 1 with straight-up losses on 12 other NFL teams, bringing the total to 5,518 entries eliminated in Week 1 – or 39% of the 14,206 Survivor contest entries. Actually, there was 45 entries who failed to submit a selection in Week 1, thus donating $1,000 to the prize pool without even getting off the bench and into the contest.
Circa Pro Football Contest Details
Suckers and squares are sports betting terms associated with novice and recreational bettors often representing a majority of public bettors. They often prefer to bet on favorites, and the bigger the better. However, betting NFL games against the spread (ATS) or betting and picking the straight up (SU) winner is different. A moneyline is a bet on which team will win a game outright. In a contest like Circa Survivor, entrants try to pick the outright winner each week, and cannot use the same team twice during the course of the contest season. Most weeks the NFL teams that are the biggest betting favorite receive the most picks. But that’s not the optimal strategy to adhere to through the course of the contest.
