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The long reads.
Long reads on Ball Keep, written the way a person talks after sitting with a week, so you can keep the years you paid for in a Superflex room even while Sunday is shouting. The boards stay on the boards. These pages are for the story that belongs next to the mash.
Week 7 Predictions · Sunday, Oct 25
Fourteen games. Thursday already played. No invented picks.
The official Week 7 slate is on the board. Mash picks land when the published cards are in.
Week 6 Predictions · Saturday, Oct 17
Lutz walked into overtime with the whole building already tired of turnovers, and Sunday still has thirteen games and four empty chairs.
Broncos 17-14. Wilson 52. Smith-Njigba 134. The mash took Seattle. Cincinnati, Detroit, Miami, and Minnesota sit. Sunday and Monday are still open.
Week 5 Predictions · Saturday, Oct 17
Irving ran 165 through a building that was supposed to win by nine, and the rest of the card wrote fourteen more receipts including a 27-27 and a Monday that went to overtime.
Buccaneers 24-16. Jaguars 19-17. Patriots 45-17. Packers 31-7. Bills 37-34 in overtime. Kansas City and Carolina sat. The mash closed 10-4-1.
Week 4 Predictions · Saturday, Oct 3
Szmyt found 56 yards with ten seconds left in a building that was supposed to lose, and the rest of the card wrote fifteen more receipts including a 29-26 and a Monday that hung 45.
Browns 27-24. Patriots 29-26. Cowboys 34-30. Falcons 45-24. Carolina took Sunday night. The mash closed 11-5.
Week 3 Predictions · Sunday, Sep 27
Bijan found 194 yards in a building that was supposed to own Thursday, and Sunday still has fifteen games left to argue with.
Atlanta hung 35-14 at Lambeau. The mash had Green Bay on every card. Penix came back. Robinson ran through a home opener that had lasted thirteen years. The rest of the slate is still Sunday and Monday.
Two Clocks · Thursday, Sep 24
A room has two clocks, and most sites only wind one of them.
Dynasty money and Sunday money live in the same name and almost never agree. The Keep holds the years. The Board holds Sunday. A room has to say which year it is actually trying to win.
The Second Sunday · Tuesday, Sep 22
Sixteen more scores, and a Monday that finally looked like a favorite.
Buffalo hung 41 on Thursday. Carolina hung 34 in Atlanta. San Francisco was almost perfect. Kansas City needed overtime. Los Angeles closed it 28-6. This is the full Week 2 tape, written after the last snap.
The Ledger · Tuesday, Sep 22
Write RB2 on the card and then decide if you still believe it.
Week 2 closed. The lists rebuilt. Every board on this site now prints the chair next to the name, RB2, WR3, QB1, so a rank is a sentence you can say out loud at a table.
The Long Game · Thursday, Sep 17
Hold the years in your hands when the week is shouting.
A Superflex room is a years-long argument that happens to get interrupted every Sunday, and the work after Week 1 is remembering which interruptions deserve a new chair and which ones are just weather moving across a board you already trusted in August.
The Recap · Tuesday, Sep 15
Sixteen scores, one opening week, and a league that already has a memory.
Seattle closed Wednesday 13-10. Chicago hung 59. Walker ran for 173 on Monday. The full Week 1 tape.
Week 2 Predictions · Tuesday, Sep 22
Bills over Lions. Monday paid eleven.
Rams 28-6. Carolina 34-3. San Francisco 35-13. Kansas City in overtime. Mash 11-5.
The Market · Tuesday, Sep 15
Week 1 buy-low and sell-high names.
Buy the names rooms punished after one ugly night. Sell the names rooms just watched in a carnival.
The Method · Wednesday, Sep 16
How the Super Aggregate works.
Half the vote is the long boards. Half is every other list that ranked the name. Rank 1 is 12,000.