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Welcome to the PlayATS home page, the best "Against The Spread" football pick game on the 'net!  The ATS pool is one of the most exciting football pools, it's been in action for more than 25 years, providing fame, fortune and some amazing prizes to our ever growing legion of ATS members!!  Ok, the big cash payouts are the major draw, but you get the idea.

The rules of ATS are simple. There are 17 18 weeks in the NFL season. You try to pick the winners of the pro football games each week, as well as the best college games on the board (against the spread, of course!). Veteran ATS members know the rules of the game, however, to those of you not familiar with the ATS rules, take a peek at the rules summary page. 

We're working on some big updates for the ATS web site, with new features and functionality.  Yes, we know we've been saying that for 10 15 16 17 18 25+ years, it's just that we work at a government pace. This will be the last year for this ancient site, the ducktape and chicken wire just aren't holding anymore.  By next year we should be on a more modern platform.

Check out the Suckerbet page each week after the deadline to see if you got nabbed by the Vegas wonks! Check out individual scores and standings, and statistics for each player.  Don't forget to change your password.

Here we go again, another year of PlayATS! . What will the 2024 season bring us in football?   Well, this is the first year of a 12 team playoff, so more teams have a chance to get to the big dance. Could this be the year the Brownies pull it together?? (spoiler: "no"), or like the sun rising in the East, death and taxes can we count on the Browns to mess it up in some way? Can the Bengals get back to the Super Bowl? Will the Wilson-led Steelers make some noise? With helmet comms now preventing most of their cheating, will Michigan retain their *title? (again, spoiler: "no"). I'll miss seeing guys standing with weird boards with pictures flailing their arms on the sideline in between plays. Looks like college football is heading towards a two division setup just like the NFL, B1G vs SEC. The others will get folded in at some point, just a matter of time.

The Chefs look like they are ready to make another run for the title, but there's going to be some stiff competition this year. And, in college, it looks like there are a handful of teams that have legit title aspirations (no, Michigan, I said "legit"), but with the expanded playoff it's going to be a long haul for sure. UGA looks like they have it all lined up to get back to the title, but the Buckeyes are all-in this year as well. Will Quinn Ewers finally make all the "Texas is Back!" exclamations accurate? 

Some of you may know, there are currently 2 'bot' accounts that make ATS picks each week.  One (dogman) just picks all the underdogs each week.  The next one (random) picks each game and selects best bets randomly.  As in 2023, there's going to be a new bot that's going to be the picks as selected by a large AI system, the playats AI bot.   We'll see how we all fare against the AI bot! Wayne will probably auction off the AI bot at some point during the season if it's doing well!

It's all about to unfold, here we go for '24!

                                                              - Tage & Wayne