This week we will focus on some points relating to NCAAB. Early in the season you want to look for teams that have had low turnover of key personnel.Also look for teams that have participated in a summer tournament. These teams will be well ahead of the curve in terms of chemistry,experience and having played together. Look for teams that have a strong experienced point guard.This is the equivalent to a quarterback in football.
A 4-2 Saturday moves our current run to 15-9 ( 62.5%) It has been a rough NCAAF season to date which historically is our second highest sport for R.O.I. however we have also started to turn those results around in a big way.Plenty of season still to go.
We were able to follow up our 2-0 Friday with a 4-2 Saturday and now try and move this little run forward.
Continuing with NBA handicapping.The long NBA season is filled with injuries.Pay attention to the injuries that matter ignore the injuries that are irrelevant.The public generally over reacts when a high profile player goes down.However when key role players go down or their are cluster injuries at one particular position you generally do not see the necessary impact on the line.
You will now be able to find game write-ups/analysis of each bet that we make. Simply go to the Today's Picks page and find the new picks. the write up of the logic for that play will be found on the corresponding sports page. For example if the pick was NFL play simply go to the NFL page to find the details. We will soon be implementing a direct link form the Today's Picks grid that will take you to the individual sports pages.
With the start of the basketball season the next few weeks I will focus on tips to increase your tools available to handicap a game both from a side and total perspective.
Like with all sports your work begins on draft day to prepare for the upcoming season. Go through each teams off-season roster moves. Read everything you can from each teams local papers throughout the training camp and preseason period.
We have added another new feature to the website. Every Sunday morning email betting tip will now be posted and found on the home page in the right hand margin called Rick Steel's grapevine.If you click on the title or the individual betting tip it will open up a separate window of the R.S.S. feed documenting all the prior e-mails.
We are about to overlap with the stretch run of the MLB season with the beginning of the football season. The major difference in handicapping the different sports is baseball for the most part is based on money lines; you simply just have to win the game to cash your ticket. In football and basketball for that matter it is based on point spreads which means you have to win or lose by a certain amount in order to cash your ticket. With point spreads your juice factor is on average 10%.That is why you often hear the significance of 52.4%.That is the percentage you need to break even.
This week I invite you to go to the Betting Tips page of the website a new article has just been postedcalled " Don't be a Victim ! Sportsbook account security ".
Time for a Sunday morning funny perhaps you know someone like this.A bettor loses 7 out of 7 in the NFL for a given Sunday.He calls his bookie early Sunday evening and asks what is left on the menu for tonight. The bookie says only hockey.The bettor says hockey that is too bad I do not know a F'in thing about hockey.
A 4-0-1 Saturday should have all of us with a few more dollars in our accounts this morning.Our current run sits at 34-25 ( 57.6% ) Grind Grind Grind those profits although yesterday was better than grinding.
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