A Numbers Game | August 26, 2026 | Hour 1

**Will Hill** (0:00)
The Numbers told the story, they always do.

**Kelley Bydlon** (0:02)
It's one of those idiots who believe in analytics.

**Will Hill** (0:05)
This is a Numbers Game with Gill Alexander on VSiN.

**Gill Alexander** (0:08)
Good Wednesday. Morning to you. This is the Numbers Game at VSiN, the sports betting network, vsin.com. Game Plus, iHeartRadio, YouTube TV, SiriusX, SubChannel 158 Anyway, you take us in, we appreciate it. Gill Alexander, Kelley Bydlon in the house, Circle Resort Casino, downtown Las Vegas. How you doing, man?

**Kelley Bydlon** (0:26)
Doing great. How about you?

**Gill Alexander** (0:27)
I'm well.

**Kelley Bydlon** (0:28)
Good, good, good.

**Gill Alexander** (0:30)
I'm well. I'm well, yeah.

**Kelley Bydlon** (0:31)
Doing well.

**Gill Alexander** (0:32)
The answer is it's silly, man. Give it a pause of real thought. They're like, huh, you know, I'm well. I just leave that in just a quick answer. I have an idea.

**Kelley Bydlon** (0:39)
You know what my go-to is in emails and text messages and any of our guests out there that are listening right now know exactly what I'm talking about? Hey, Pete. Pete Feutek. Hey, Pete, it's been a while. Hope all is well.

**Gill Alexander** (0:51)
Yeah.

**Kelley Bydlon** (0:51)
Hope all is well. A line that I always include.

**Gill Alexander** (0:54)
Hope all is well. Don't really want you to answer it.

**Kelley Bydlon** (0:57)
Never say it in real life, an actual conversation. But I put it in text and e-mails.

**Gill Alexander** (1:01)
Will Hill on the show this hour. A couple of segments of Will, all his bets. Football, college, pro, baseball, anything he's got going. Paul Spore speaking of baseball. Sorry about your Tigers, Pauli.
Sorry for August. Sorry for the rest of the year. Feels that way. Tigers get off the Schneid yesterday, though. Nick Whalen, NFL and fantasy football.
Danny Higgins in his final week getting to submit some fantasy football questions in his in his final days here on the show. We got to give him that.

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:31)
Maybe just copy and paste it over from yesterday, the ones we didn't get to.

**Gill Alexander** (1:34)
Still from Danny Higgins, though. So what you're saying is I shunned the Danny Higgins questions yesterday, but I am getting to them today.

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:42)
I feel like we're giving him too much credit today.

**Gill Alexander** (1:44)
Right now, Toddy Wishdevil will join us. Talk, I don't know, maybe it says NFL and MLB, but I don't know what he wants to talk about. Maybe WNBA.

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:50)
I'm going to go with a little W.

**Gill Alexander** (1:51)
Yeah, a little W, a little MLB for sure. Maybe he's got some football. The star of the Megapod, star of the Showtime docuseries action. And how about some Ryan Noonan on the show today?

**Kelley Bydlon** (2:00)
Oh, here's a hope you'll hope all is well. Hey Ryan, hope all is well. Just check it in. Let's see if you come on the show.

**Gill Alexander** (2:07)
Noonan.

**Kelley Bydlon** (2:08)
Noonan does some very interesting defensive prop betting stuff throughout the season.

**Gill Alexander** (2:13)
We'll look at most sacks with him.

**Kelley Bydlon** (2:14)
We'll do a little bit of that. I know he's got a lot of defensive rookie of the year, like kind of long shots that he's looking at. But I kind of want to get into him with just what he does with tackle, like handicapping tackles and sack props on a weekly basis because he does very well with it. I don't know many people that bet those markets.

**Gill Alexander** (2:31)
Oh, we may not get to golf with him then. We got to get into that.

**Kelley Bydlon** (2:34)
And golf.

**Gill Alexander** (2:35)
Yeah, well, let's put golf on the back burner with him. But Kelley does have some golf to talk about today. We'll do some country clubbing. Let's start with the two little benchmarks we do here in the dead of summer, which is our monthly most wins. This got tight all of a sudden.
Gold member, you're looking tight. This this looked like it was a Phillies versus Padres mano a mano down the stretch. No more, because look who the sneaky, freaky brother sneaking in from the rear. Incredible. The Boston Red Sox one win back. Philly still in the lead at 16 and seven. Remember, this is most wins.
Red Sox, 15 and eight Padres, 15 and eight Padres is the second consecutive extra inning game, right? Last night? They lose that one in extras last night again? Yeah. Not the team you would expect that to happen to. Cubs and Rays, couple wins back. Your Cubs, Kelley. That's right. The reason that we put the run differential up there is because if you bet these at Circa, there are tiebreakers, right? William Hill Caesars remembers dead heat. If teams tie at the end with the most wins, Circa, the two tiebreakers are fewest losses if you end up with the same amount of wins, followed by best run differential. Right now, the Red Sox in the driver's seat on run differential at plus 50 Now, I went back, because the Red Sox here are knocking at the dough.