NFL & College Football Premium Products For 2017

NFL & College Football Premium Products For 2017

August 17, 2017 – by Seth Trachtman

After a busy summer of development work, we’re excited to announce our premium products and subscription packages for the 2017-18 football season.

What Are Premium Products?

The vast majority of information on TeamRankings, including tens of thousands of pages of football stats and rankings, is free to use.

However, we make money by selling a suite of premium products to customers who bet on NFL or college football games, and/or play in football pools.

As a customer, buying these products also directly supports the continued existence of our free content.

2017 Premium Football Products Overview

This season, we’re offering four premium products for the NFL and college football regular season:

NFL Betting PicksCollege Football Betting PicksFootball Pool PicksNFL Survivor Picks

(We also have a premium product, Bowl Pick’em Picks, that provides picks for college bowl pools, but it doesn’t launch until December.)

You can click on the links above for fuller descriptions of each product. Otherwise, keep reading for a summary, including information on our discounted subscription packages.

NFL Betting Picks 2017

Our NFL Betting Picks product leverages multiple algorithmic models we’ve developed.

These models incorporate 10+ years of historical data (and millions of individual data points) to predict the outcomes of NFL games.

We publish the outputs of these models on the site, and also distill their results into the following types of picks for every NFL regular season and postseason game:

Game winner picksPoint spread picks (ATS)Over/under picks (totals)Money line value picks

Each of our models for NFL Betting Picks applies a different mathematical approach, enabling you to compare multiple algorithmic perspectives on a game. Some examples:

Decision Tree Model. Creates predictions using a sophisticated modeling technique, random forests, that can identify complex and/or subtle predictive factors that are often impossible to identify via manual analysis.Similar Games Model. Analyzes the results of historical games between statistically similar opponents, and creates predictions by weighting past game results using an overall matchup similarity score.Power Ratings Model. Derives a predictive rating for each team based on past game results and opponent strength, then creates predictions by comparing team ratings and adjusting for game location.

Our customers use our NFL Betting Picks product in myriad ways. Some play our picks as-is, while others use our prediction data as an input into their own customized handicapping process.

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College Football Betting Picks 2017

Our College Football Betting Picks product employs a similar approach as our NFL Betting Picks.

Multiple math models make predictions for each game. We publish those underlying predictions, and also distill them into an overall game winner pick, point spread pick, over/under pick, and money line value pick.

On the college football side, our game winner and betting picks cover all games between two FBS opponents, plus all postseason bowl games and College Football Playoff games.

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Football Pool Picks 2017

Our Football Pool Picks product provides picks, tools, and data for football “pick’em” style contests. In these contests, you have to pick the winners of a slate of games each week.

The product covers a broad range of pick’em pool formats and scoring options, including:

Picking game winners or point spread winnersThe ability to customize point spreads to match your poolAssigning confidence points to each pick (i.e. confidence pools)Picking NFL games, regular season college football games, or bothPicking all games, some games, or choosing which games to pick each weekOptimizing picks to win season-long prizes vs. individual week prizes

To start with, the Football Pool Picks product uses the most accurate and objective methods (e.g. Vegas odds and algorithmic models) to predict individual games.

Then, it uses proprietary algorithms to customize weekly pick recommendations based on your pick’em pool’s size, scoring system, payout structure, and your current position in the standings. No other approach does a better job of maximizing your odds to win a prize.

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NFL Survivor Picks 2017

Our NFL Survivor Picks product provides picks, tools, and data for NFL “survivor” style pools. These pools are also known as knockout pools, eliminator pools, suicide pools, or last man standing pools. (Can we settle on a name?!)

The basic concept is that you need to pick one NFL game winner per week, but each NFL team can only be used as your pick once per season. If your pick loses, your entry is eliminated from the pool.

The complexity involved in maximizing your odds to win an NFL survivor pool can be staggering. Making the best possible pick each week involves doing a lot of math — to evaluate each team’s odds to win, to project its expected popularity as a pick in your pool, and to estimate the relative value of picking that team vs. saving it to pick later.

Our NFL Survivor Picks product does all that math for you, providing a ranked list of top picks for your pool every week. It’s also the only system that:

Uses historical data to project a team’s expected future pick popularityAdjusts pick advice based on a wide range of common survivor pool rule variationsOptimizes weekly pick “portfolios” that span multiple entries and pools

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Subscription Packages For Football 2017

To get access to our premium football products, we offer several different subscription packages. The more products you sign up for, and the longer you sign up for, the more you save.

Here are the 3 packages that offer the biggest savings:

1) Yearly All-Access SubscriptionOur best deal by far, this annual package includes access to all betting picks for NFL, NBA, MLB, NCAAF, and NCAAB (over 10,000 games per year in total). It also includes all four of our pool picks products: Football Pool Picks, NFL Survivor Picks, Bowl Pick’em Picks, and NCAA Bracket Picks.Sign Up Now

2) Football Season PassThis package offers a discounted price on all NFL and college football betting picks through the 2018 Super Bowl, plus our three products for football pools: Football Pool Picks, NFL Survivor Picks, and Bowl Pick’em Picks.Sign Up Now

3) Yearly Pool Picks SubscriptionOur most popular annual package provides a major price cut on access to all four of our pool picks products: Football Pool Picks, NFL Survivor Picks, Bowl Pick’em Picks, and NCAA Bracket Picks.Sign Up Now

If you’re looking for something more a la carte, you can also buy:

A shorter subscription to betting picks (see pricing)A season subscription to Football Pool Picks (see pricing)A season subscription to NFL Survivor Picks (see pricing)

A Note On Betting Picks Packages

We currently offer betting picks for NFL, NBA, MLB, NCAAF, and NCAAB. Any subscription package that includes betting picks will include all of those sports; we do not sell betting picks packages for individual sports.

We made that decision to keep our subscription options simple, and we charge what we believe is a very fair price.

Several popular handicappers charge $1,000+ for a season’s worth of picks for a single sport. On TeamRankings, a small fraction of that amount will get you access to all premium picks and tools for all five sports we cover.

Have Questions?

If you have questions about any of our football premium products or subscription packages, don’t hesitate to send us an email at [email protected]. One of us (likely Seth) will get back to you as soon as we can.

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