NFL Game Picks:
2020 Season Recap

After a fun second season picking games with confidence points, our hosts ran things back for Season 3 of The Sportsballers Podcast. As a reminder of the process, in a normal week with no byes, confidence points were to be assigned from 1 point (least confident pick) to 16 points (most confident point). A perfect score in such a week is 136 points.

After a rough 2019 season, Cory jumped out to an early lead to open the new year. That lead was short-lived, though, as Eric quickly stole the lead from him in Week 2 and by Week 6 held a 22-point advantage in the contest with Evan stuck in third place.

Evan won the weekly contest in Weeks 4 and 7 while Cory won in Weeks 1 and 8, with Eric taking the other half of the contests in the first half of the season. A strong push over the next four weeks allowed Cory to cut Eric's advantage in the season-long contest to just 8 points, but Eric caught a second wind and finished ahead of Cory in each of the final five weeks of the regular season.

Cory and Evan both performed much better than Eric in the postseason, and Evan did well enough to pull into a tie with Cory for second place after Super Bowl LV, but Eric's regular season performance gave him such a big cushion that he still won the 2020 contest by nearly 30 points.

Final Standings

Super Bowl LV Picks

Cory Puffett

KC Chiefs - 14
TB Buccaneers - 28

MVP - Tom Brady

Eric Meyer

KC Chiefs - 38
TB Buccaneers - 21

MVP - Patrick Mahomes

Evan Ash

KC Chiefs - 34
TB Buccaneers - 31

MVP - Patrick Mahomes

Actual Result

KC Chiefs - 9
TB Buccaneers - 31

MVP - Tom Brady

Fan Contest

For the first time, The Sportsballers Podcast hosted a fan contest so that friends and listeners of the show could submit their confidence picks and compete against each other and our hosts through the season.

Though Sean Kennedy held a 12-point advantage at the end of the regular season, he lost his lead in the postseason and the final Top 3 standings looked like this:

1. James Dailey - 1572 points (175-94)

2. Sean Kennedy - 1562 points (179-90)

3. Andrew Perez - 1547 points (184-85)