Took me a moment to figure out your Pointwise comment. They always do things backwards, well not backwards, but ........ They always give "Ratings" with their feature picks. Rating of 1 being the highest, 5 the lowest. In actuality, a Rating of 1 is a 5* pick and a Rating of 5 is a 1* pick. In all my years, I don't believe I've ever seen an NFL Rating 1 from Pointwise. Even a 4 is rare. Anyways, I was looking back through my spreadsheets for several weeks and yes, their Rating 5's, (1*) have been doing reasonably well.
On another note, I was surprised when I was checking Week 10's results to see that Power Sweep went 3-0 with their weekly NFL O/U's. This week's are 3* KC/LAC OVER, 2* CLEV/BUFF OVER (we'll see how far it drops with the weather, down to 43 from 47'), 1* WASH/HOU UNDER.
On a final note, I think I'm the only one in the world to have taken the Titans at +3 and the Vikes at +1. I think they are superior teams and superior coached teams this week. I don't often bet with the Vikes, as I've always hated them with Cousins, but he's decent at home. I absolutely hate McCarthy and the 'boys. I think GB is still just a middle level team. I'm semi sorry I picked them, but according to SAO, GB has 81% of the money, and Dallas with 72%. It's very early though.
Oh yeah, thanks for the post.