In Football Pickoff, I track eight different passive slates during the season, just for kicks: home teams, away teams, consensus favorites & underdogs, Vegas favorites & underdogs, and two dartboards. Interestingly enough, while none of those approaches ranks in the top quartile, all eight of them have posted positive scores for the full season, with the top score of +351 by the Random Dart. The worst of the bunch is Vegas Underdogs, posting a season total score of +33. The fact that each of these eight passive “brainless” strategies has amassed a positive score gives me pause when I see that my own tally is -924. I don’t know whether to be depressed or impressed!