A Numbers Game | August 12, 2026 | Hour 1

**Gill Alexander** (0:00)
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**Will Hill** (0:30)
The numbers told the story, they always do.

**Kelley Bydlon** (0:32)
It's one of those idiots who believe in analytics.

**Will Hill** (0:35)
This is A Numbers Game with Gill Alexander on VSiN.

**Gill Alexander** (0:38)
Good Wednesday morning to you. It is a numbers game at VSiN, the Sports Spending Network, vsin.com, Game Plus, iHeart Radio, YouTube TV, and of course, Series XM Channel 158 I am Radio's Gill Alexander. That right there is television's Kelley Bydlon.

**Kelley Bydlon** (0:52)
Hey man, we haven't done that one in a while.

**Gill Alexander** (0:54)
No, not for a while.

**Kelley Bydlon** (0:55)
I like that.

**Gill Alexander** (0:55)
Not for a while.
Wednesday, midweek, still the off season of the NFL season, but NFL preseason week one begins in earnest tomorrow. Today on the show, Will Hill will join us. MLB, NFL, anything on his mind as we head into the preseason and the homestretch. Can we call the homestretch with seven weeks left of the Major League Baseball season?

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:16)
Sure.

**Gill Alexander** (1:17)
OK.
Homestretch, at least the final quarter of the year. With the quarter poll.

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:21)
Talk about one of the bet bash stories of the week that you missed, man.

**Gill Alexander** (1:23)
Oh, what's that?

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:24)
Will Will's just gun show. Constant gun show anywhere is I am.

**Gill Alexander** (1:27)
I am aware of Will Hill Gun Show.

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:29)
Yeah, he shocked shocked a lot of people around here. Yeah, a lot of people were taking a back, taking a back surprised.

**Gill Alexander** (1:36)
I understand a back to actually physically move a back. They're like, whoa, whoa.

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:42)
Watch it with those things.

**Gill Alexander** (1:43)
Paul Spore, Major League Baseball, Nick Whalen, our own from PropPoints talking NFL with us. And Toddy wished to have a little later on the show. How about that? After I went off on people yesterday.

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:53)
Let's go.

**Gill Alexander** (1:54)
I don't even know if Todd heard it. No idea. No idea. And we'll also do this thing, which I actually think we should start this segment.
Was it you or was it Danny who was scouring? You know what?

**Kelley Bydlon** (2:05)
Usually I like to relent and give a lot of the credit to Danny. Yeah, this was all me. All you? All me. And this is maybe my favorite market in years.

**Gill Alexander** (2:12)
Danny, you know why you're here, Danny?
Danny says, Danny says in my ear, and you got a little lego on the TV. Just for that, just for that comment. We'll go through NFL's NFL season win totals, but not in the way that we are used to. How about a team versus team situation where you can get nice plus prices on teams? We will do that here momentarily, because this is one of these things. So it's basically match bets.

**Kelley Bydlon** (2:44)
Right.

**Gill Alexander** (2:44)
And at first, I will tell you, like for the first 60 seconds, I was like, well, this is kind of, it's kind of stupid, because, you know, everybody knows what these teams season win totals are. So it's not like you're going to get a magical change. Like a team with a six and a half is going to be favored over a team that's nine and a half.
Right. So the nine and a half is going to be doggy. That's not going to happen. And then, oh, then then you sort of it clicks and you're like, oh, this is great. There's a few ways to attack this. So we'll do that here momentarily real quick. Tennis play for today, because yesterday's didn't happen. Belinda Benchich was like, oh, my hip.

**Kelley Bydlon** (3:22)
Oh, she pulled out literally what she said.

**Gill Alexander** (3:24)
I believe that my hip, oh, my hip. I can't play it, Coco. If you are the director, if you're the tournament director in Montreal, Toronto, you. This is the nightmare tournament of all time.

**Kelley Bydlon** (3:33)
Oh, really?