The NBA season is one of the most mentally and physically grueling there is in professional sports. No matter how good or a bad a team is, eventually the 82- game grind catches up with you. This can be especially troubling for NBA bettors, since it is widely considered the most difficult sport to bet sides on, since you are not only going against sharp numbers on a daily basis, but having to specu ... read more
Go ahead, I dare you to guess what the Denver Broncos season ending record will be, let alone how they will perform over the next four weeks against the spread. The 2008 Broncos seem to be a mix of Britney, Lindsey, and Paris all wrapped into one. A closer look at the team is more confounding than Mike Shanahan having a darkly tanned face in December living in Rocky Mountain country.
One of the great things about being a college football sports bettor, you can live in the present and look towards the future. This week the BCS talk is running rampant, borderline Michael Douglas in “Falling Down”, with too many angry types speculating about everything that is wrong with the BCS system. It is far from a perfect system, but the drama is incredible.
With just four weeks left in the college football regular season, it’s time to sit down and conclude who has the best chance to win the BCS trophy and more importantly for college football bettors, who is the best team to wager on. The question has come my way, why make a wager now on who could be national champions. Let me think, how many of you threw away futures tickets on say Georgia, Ohio Sta ... read more
The Buffalo Bills have lost three of their last four games and only covered two of last six contests. Opening the season 4-0 is looking a lot less impressive, considering the four victims were Seattle, Jacksonville, Oakland and St. Louis. The NFL has few secrets and teams have to adjust quickly once figured out. Opponents have determined the best way to stifle Bills offense. The Bills had a number ... read more
The other day had a conversation with a close friend and we were talking about the good old days. Among the topics of discussion were our gambling exploits from years ago. We laughed talking about all the cash we made just following certain teams late in the year. It seemed (the years make the memories fuzzy) no matter if we having a bad year, a great year or just ordinary in progress, we always c ... read more
The month of November for much of the country sees thick dark low clouds become a more regular occurrence; a foreshadowing what lies ahead in the coming months. In the South and West, the days are often still sunny, but the thermometer takes a much slower climb to reach the daytime highs as the cooler nights linger much longer. Betting college football is also in transition in November. All the ... read more
Seeing the latest craze in college football by some teams is to change the tempo of the offense and run more plays to keep the defense from changing players to fit situations, I’ll do the same thing this week.
Oklahoma State was expected to be better in 2008, but Oklahoma, Texas and Texas Tech were all presumed to finish ahead of them in the Big 12 South back in August. Thus far the Cowbo ... read more
For college football bettors who prefer to play favorites, this past week should have been a very good week for you, as the chalk had its best week since the opening of the season with 32-20 ATS mark. This led to another dismal week for home underdogs who were 8-12 ATS, making the three week total a stock market-like 19-37-3 against the spread. If you’re looking for value, some of the very best is ... read more
The SEC is the acknowledged best conference in college football this decade. In fact the discussion has changed from the first part of the millennium from what is the best league, to who is second behind the Southeastern Conference? The Big Ten resembles some of its states, Ohio and Michigan are losing population base, and college players are not as interested in attending most of these schools as ... read more
With most teams at the mid-point of the college football campaign, conference
races are taking shape and meaningful data is being accumulated. Those wagering
on college football should be gearing up for a successful second half of the
season, no matter what the earlier results were.
In order to be successful you have to be extremely savvy. Too many bettors in
any sport focus ... read more
It was probably the middle 1990’s when I first ran across this system for betting college football. For some reason it stuck in my mind, probably because it always made sense, though for some reason never committed it the plethora of material I keep track of in all the various sports. In fact, one part of the original system I found is not an aspect of this equation, strictly because it’s been for ... read more
When university presidents and the leaders of college football decided to add a 12th game to the regular season it was done so for one reason, put more money on the ledger for everyone’s balance sheet. Football fans were excited about the premise of an additional football game for the teams they followed and those who love and care about the sport were thrilled with the potential of more quality m ... read more
College football on Thursday night’s has become institution for fans and bettors alike. It’s a great way to start off a busy sports wagering weekend, with mostly just a single game to focus on. Over the years the lineup has changed, starting with Western Athletic Conference, Mountain West and Conference USA teams, to now SEC, ACC and even Pac-10 squads are now viewed regularly.
When the ACC raided the Big East, many thought this would signal the end of this league as a power and talk circulated that potentially this conference should be decertified as a BCS league. Naturally the conference members howled their disapproval and went out and did a little pilfering of their own in grabbing Cincinnati, Louisville and South Florida from Conference-USA.
Did you hear about this little college football game that is being played Saturday, involving two of the most recognized universities on the college football planet? Each of these fine schools has set a new standard in this millennium with superior coaching and athleticism that only a few other programs can possibly keep up with. This magnificent match-up could be the first of two games between ... read more
Most everybody wagering on college football has done a fair amount of studying college football in preparation for the beginning of the season. Yet until any of us can see teams play or study boxscores, a certain amount of uncertainty still is in the air. College coaches believe they have prepared their teams well, yet unlike the NFL, you don’t get to hit against another team in a relatively co ... read more
Just like the woman in the infomercial putting her hands together for “The Clapper”, oddsmakers have turned the switch in making dramatic changes in the baseball money lines they are now distributing. These are deep sweeping changes compared to last season, which can have a dramatic impact on how one wagers on baseball. What has happened and why?
Many bettors prefer to stay away from favor ... read more
Slowly but surely college football is creeping up, with the games about to
start in less than two weeks. All are armed with hopes of a successful football
campaign, based on whatever standards have been set at each university. Coaches
after a long off season, are fired up to put together teams, access talent and
see what players worked hard to improve for upcoming season.
Even off of last year’s stunning playoff loss to San Diego, plenty of excitement abounds the Colts facilities this season. The opening of Lucas Oil Stadium has the town buzzing and Indianapolis did not suffer many casualties to free agency. The Colts ended up allowing the fewest points in the league (16.4 PPG), but the omnipresent pass rush was curtailed when Dwight Freeney went down. The retur ... read more
With the first exhibition game less than two weeks away, NFL talk is coming fast and furious. Washington and Indianapolis will play in the Hall-of-Fame game on Sunday, August 3. This week we’ll take a look at the Redskins chances for the upcoming season and see what the best bet for season total wins is.
Joe Gibbs was never able to re-create his success in return visit to Washington, oth ... read more
The major league baseball All-Star break was a welcome relief for many, a time to take a few days off to stretch the mind, offer a few more simple pleasures and generally take it easy. For others, the void is an unwelcome interruption from the daily grind of churning out numbers. Having studying numbers with regularity at least since April, if not dating back to November when the NBA season sta ... read more
Earlier this season while doing research, came across a rather curious trend in major league baseball. At that point, it had been winning at a high rate of return and though it has slowed down to a point, still delivering far better than average results. Having never seen it mentioned anywhere else, decided to see if it had any legs beyond this season.
When Baltimore became the last team to complete 81 games or half the season,
we have information to take into account how all 30 major league teams have
played and try to surmise how they might play in the future based on these
results. Noted baseball guru Bill James and Baseball Prospectus are considered
two of the most respected names that helped usher baseball into this modern era
... read more
For most casual baseball fans, the game is too slow, not enough action and
more runs needed to be scored, similar to a slow-pitch softball game. While
major league baseball has added the thrilling aspect of players and fans to be
impaled by exploding maple bats, most prefer to see runs being scored either
going to the ballpark or on television. Many lukewarm bettors of baseball tend
t ... read more
