Welcome to the favorites presented by Draft Kings. The Crown is yours. The divisional round gets kicked off on Saturday. We have all the info that you need to get set for all of it. We'll get you some bets in pocket by the end of this show as well. I am Brandon Cravitz joined by the favorites crew, the prime minister of degenerate nation, Stucky and the queen of the pod, Ms. Kendra Middleton, as I get so choked up because the season is coming to an end. On today's episode,

we've got action or distraction. Stuckies, random question of the week. Don't forget to pull

one of those out. Two kings and a queen parlay courtesy of draft kings and a sling TV look ahead

to Texans Patriots, but first our stat of the day straight from the primer.

Since 2003, home teams in the divisional round coming off of a buy are 33, 44, and 1 against

the spread. That's 43% including 3 and 7 ATS since 2020. That would of course be Seattle and Denver. If you were

following this trend, those were teams, those are teams that you would want to fade. As a favorite

of seven or more points off of a buy, those teams are 1726 and one. That's 40% ATS. That's

just the Seattle Seahawks. If you wanted to lean into that

trend, clearly you'd be on the 49ers and the bills, but Kendra, why do you think the buy

has been so disruptive? I want to answers from both of you on this. Any theories as to why,

and this works by the way in college football as well. These teams outside

of Indiana that have been getting the buy the last two years have been disrupted by it.

Yeah. Sitting on your couch, I think does a lot for people. But I think it's more so when you think

about something for so long, you almost over analyze it and you almost over game plan. So I think it's the combination, which is the easy answer to say, of just sitting on your couch, getting too comfy, not being out there in your routine, in the season, grind, and just starting to overplan instead of going out there and playing the game that you've played all season. I think people have way too much time to overthink it. Stucky, where are you out of this?

I mean,

we might be over,

like speaking over thinking,

we might just be overthinking this. It might just be random. I think that it's perhaps overpriced into. Yeah, that's the other thing is that people might, you might overvalue the buy. Bys aren't as valuable anyway. I mean, you go back home teams coming off of a buy

over the last like eight years in the regular season.

Um, a buy. Bys aren't as valuable anyway. I mean, you go back home teams coming off of a buy

over the last like eight years in the regular season have not performed well either.

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