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It's an interesting scam, but we all know how quickly n grows in this scenario. You'd need 66k potentials to have one correct guess, per team, per season in the NFL. And the "winner" of you lottery needs to have enough scratch to make your scam worthwhile, and be dumb enough to part with it for a peak of your post-season picks.

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Why would you send more than 3 or 4 free "predictions"?

Yeah, not only you get a bigger pool of victims with a few predictions, and the idea is that you want there to be games left in the season, so they pay you money for the predictions of the rest of the season so they can gamble.

I think with some common sense and understanding of the sport you can probably narrow down things quite a bit.

Turning to baseball there are teams like the '62 Mets that really help a fella out when "narrowing." The 2003 Tigers were not far ahead.

Point spreads negate common sense and understanding. Remember touts sell you who to bet on, not who is going to win.

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