Posts Tagged ‘handicapping’

Making a future bet before the season starts, means that you will have your money tied up with the book for nearly 6 months. That being the case you certainly want a decent return, kind of like accruing interest on your money. Unless your putting down a sizable amount of money on a single future bet, it is not feasible to bet a future on a 2-1 or 5-2 favorite. Any way you cut it, your odds are still 31 against you…Obviously the realistic odds are probably around 20/1 as there are always at least 10 or 12 teams that you can throw out as not having any kind of a chance of making it to the playoffs much less the Superbowl.

I like to make at least 2 future bets to win the Superbowl, one in the NFC and one in the AFC..I more often than not make two plays in each conference. If your playing 3 or 4 plays, it becomes obvious that you don't want to play a 2/1 favorite, you could win the 2/1 bet and still end up losing money on your future bets. I look for odds that will give me a "hedging" opportunity. Over the years I have made more money hedging future bets than winning the future bet itself. Again to have good hedging opportunities you need

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The Game Has Changed…Some Surprising Stats…Bullpens Now Make Up 36% Of The Game…!!!!

Handicapping baseball strategies have changed drastically in the past few years..It used to be that you could just handicap the starting pitchers, go with the best and you would get a good winning percentage. Not any more. Here are some stats that might surprise you…

The average innings pitched per starter in the (Read full Article Here)

There are some special considerations this year in getting ready for college football. For example, how will the sanctions against USC effect the play of team? Will they remain competitive or will the distractions have an impact? Will the mix up of the conferences involving the Big 12, Big 10 and the Pac 10 effect the mindset of the players? What do you think? There are many suspensions that have occurred over the summer some of them to very key players…You have to do a lot of reading to get all the updates and stay atop of these situations.

As always, we have to start to adjust our power rating numbers to account for the graduates and transfers. Also as mentioned above you have to make adjustments for the first part of the season for the players who have been suspended for the first games of the season.

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Sport Bettor Swindled

Legendary Sport Bettor and handicapper Lem Banker has reportedly been swindled out of nearly 3 Million dollars..and you might be surprised at who the culprits were…. See Video Here:  

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Handicapping Pitchers…A Simple But Most Accurate Formula

Years ago you could handicap a baseball game almost solely on the proficiency of the starting pitchers. Handicapping baseball was a lot more simpler when the starting pitchers were going 8 or 9 innings and you had one or two relief appearance by pitchers. Not true any longer.

Today the bullpen makes up on average a third of the entire games. It is rare to see a complete game in the majors today. You have early relief, middle relief, set up relievers, early closers and late closers. Starting pitchers longevity in a game is now mostly determined by pitch count rather than the overall performance and game situation. A pitcher can be throwing a one hit shutout in the 7th inning, but because a couple of batters fouled off 5 or 6 pitches, his pitch count exceeded the set amount the manager established before the game started, so he is pulled. Ridiculous…!!!

There are basically two parts to handicapping any sport and (Read full Article Here)