Betting Baseball Underdogs
Baseball season is here and in early season baseball there are many valuable underdogs. Baseball is different from most other popular sports because the vast majority of wagering is based on money lines. "moneyline" wagering means the odds are fixed on a $100 betting unit. For example, if a team is listed as a -$180 favorite, that means you must lay $180 to win back $100 in profit.... |
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Betting Baseball Totals
Baseball is a completely different type of sport to handicap from the two most popular betting sports, football and basketball. On the gridiron and the hardwood, teams are separated by pointspreads, and wagers are placed either laying the points with the favorite or taking the points with the underdog.... |
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How Weather Affects Baseball
As a baseball flies through the air, the air pushes back against it, resisting its motion and decreasing the distance the ball travels. If you don't believe air can provide much resistance, stick your arm out of a car window at 60 mph and feel the push. The density of air is different from place-to-place and from day-to-day depending on temperature, humidity and air pressure.. In thin (or low density) air a ball can travel faster and farther because there's less air resistance. Let's breakdown the baseball importance of these atmospheric variables: |
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Baseball - Pure Profits to those Who Play
Oh how I long for the lazy days of Summer, boating in South Missouri in the Ozarks, slurping on some cooled down Kentucky Whiskey, and getting back to my lake home in time to watch the scores come in and count my money on a daily basis. It is just like the stock market back in the mid 1990?s, a license to print money! To this day it amazes me just how many.... |
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Professional Handicappers 5 Secrets
Five secrets that professional handicappers know...
...and that every recreational bettor should learn
Most casual bettors don?t make a profit from their sportsbetting hobby. This includes bettors who are relatively sharp as well as those who couldn?t pick a winner if their lives depended on it. That?s not a horrible thing either ? if every bettor won, sportsbooks would be going belly up far more often than they do, and bettors would run out of places to play. And many bettors really don?t care very much about earning a long term profit. They like to have some action on games as a form of recreation or excitement, not as an investment decision. Many of these type of bettors are far more interested in TV games than anything else, and they tend to bet more on bigger games, like the Super Bowl or NCAA Tournament. |
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The Power of Home Dogs
An article was written on home dogs in the NFL just before Christmas last year (after week 16 of the NFL season). In that column I had discussed how good a play home dogs had been for the 2002 season and then home dogs went 4-2 against-the-spread (ATS) in week 17.... |
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10 Commandments of Sports Wagering
The difference between wagering on, say, baseball, which utilizes a run line, and football, which employs a pointspread, is as different as the shapes and sizes of the balls used in those two games. That being said, there are a number of handicapping and betting principles that apply to all sports wagering. At the risk of being irreverent, let's call them the 10 Commandments of Wagering.... |
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NFL playoff observations
NFL Playoff Observations
Our approach to regular season NFL handicapping is of the contrarian or value seeking variety. After all, our opinion has long been that most information is priced into NFL lines already. As such, we place a much higher premium on public sentiment than on the fundamentals. This strategy dictates us playing mostly dogs and/or the lesser competent teams.... |
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It's Friday evening, and you've resigned yourself to some "serious handicapping" before your big football weekend. Said handicapping consists of an hour or two of studying the past week's injuries and line moves, and the past month's trends. You allow time for intermittent snack breaks and other unexpected disturbances, but when you sit back down in front of your newspaper/computer/sports weekly, you're all business. |
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Pre-season football
Tips for Betting Preseason Football
There are a number of strategies for betting preseason football that have proven to be profitable over the course of the last decade or so, since the league switched to their current four game exhibition schedule. Betting on the NFL in August is a completely different exercise than betting on the same sport a month later. Outlined below are many of the differences, and some ways the bettor can take advantage of them. |
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I've read at least a dozen essays about the importance of money management over the years, but have gained very little from my time spent reading. Why? Because most of what I've read is an amalgamation of nonsensical tidbits that are difficult to make sense of, difficult to use and ill conceived to begin with. This essay is not about criticizing other systems, however. Rather, the goal here is to formulate and explain a money management system that is user-friendly, works in the long term, and can have a real impact on creating and retaining profit from your sportsbetting investment. So without further ado, here's the Whocovers.com money management system that's been proven to work over the long term. |
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Offshore advantages
Why Betting with the Offshore Sportsbooks Has Its Advantages
There was a time when the only way for a gambler in the United States to make a bet was through his local bookie or by flying to Las Vegas. This was true for both the seasoned sports bettor?one who wages on all types of games and events?or the Super Bowl Sunday amateur?the person who only bets on the big game.
But those days are over. Thanks to computers and modern phone technology, gamblers from all walks of life now have the ability to wager in the comfort and privacy of their homes with legitimate, reputable offshore sportsbooks. |
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