Season recaps

Charlie stood alone in the pool taking the Seahawks and the points, and the dog lost the game by 2 yet still cashed the only ticket that mattered. That lone stand faded four other people and carried the title. Beth shoved the house on the Eagles to lay 3, watched them win the game by 2, and still came up 1 short of the number. Doug went All-In the other way and also missed by a single point, because there's more than one way to lose by nothing. The chalk trap did the damage: 4 of 5 took the Eagles and got buried by a 2-point win that didn't cover. Everywhere else the pool held together and closed the season at 13-9, a winning slate that hid a nasty little wall in the middle. Mike leaned heavy into that same grave alongside Beth and missed by one too. Hank faded the crowd and ate 3 points of nothing.

Mike shoved the house on the Rams to lay a field goal and watched them lose the game by a point, dropping his season shove record to a grim 0-6. Doug leaned the other way on that same slate, going All-In on a double-digit favorite that not only won but cleared the number. And Beth quietly took the Seahawks and the points with only one other backer, cashing the exact game that buried the pool's heavy bets. That's the pick that split a locked win from a shove-house loss. No chalk trap this week, so it came down to the everyday calls, and the pool split them right down the middle at 11-11. One game did the real damage: the Rams game sank Mike on a shove and Doug on a heavy lean at once. Charlie and Hank both faded the crowd and ate five points of nothing for the trouble.

Hank was the only one in the pool brave enough to take the Bengals plus the points, and the underdog lost the game outright yet still cashed the ticket. Same man went All-In on the Seahawks laying double digits and buried the Vikings. Doug shoved the house the other way on the Dolphins, watched them win the game by 4, and still came up 3 short of the number. Believing a 7-point favorite would run away is how you go 2-4 on your season shoves. Five of six piled on the Dolphins and got trapped when the win didn't cover. That set the tone for a brutal 6-16 slate, the kind of losing week where the crowd found one wall and ran into it together. Beth leaned heavy on the Eagles, who won by 3 and missed by three and a half, then took an All-In loss on a separate game just to be thorough.

Mike shoved the house on the Chiefs to lay the points and watched them lose outright, dropping his All-In year to a spotless 0-4. Beth took the other side of that same game, riding the Cowboys and the points, and cleared the number by a comfortable margin. Beth's not clean, though; she also faded the crowd elsewhere and ate it. And Mike leaned heavy on a team that won the game by 2 and still missed by four and a half, because one loss was never enough. No chalk trap this week, so the everyday calls did the heavy lifting and the pool came in winning at 13-9. Doug and Marcus both leaned heavy and missed by a field goal, but the slate held up around them.

Beth shoved the house on the Bills getting the points against the Chiefs, and they won it outright and cleared the number too. Gutsy call, cashed. But she wasn't done losing money elsewhere, leaning heavy on the Cowboys game and eating that one by four and a half. Then the trap: all five who touched the Eagles over the Cowboys took the same side and got buried. Add it up and the pool limped in at 6-11-5, a genuinely losing slate where the crowd's heavy calls kept walking into the same wall. Doug and Mike each leaned heavy and missed, and Hank did the same on the game that also swallowed Beth.