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Date added: 09.19.08
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Using Second Half Bets for Line Value
The popularity of second half betting has grown in recent years, with so many games on so many different channels on any given Saturday or Sunday, plus those high profile MNF and now SNF games in NFL, and even weekday national TV games in CFB on ESPN. Sports fans do second half bets for various reasons – some trying to increase their viewing ... read more
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Date added: 08.28.08
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Exposing Bogus NFL-X Systems - Part 2
In an article published in the Top Ten newsletter last week, I explored a few of the more common systems used for betting NFL-X, particularly in week 3 of the pre-season, and with the use of actual game results (in most cases from the past three years), exposed those popular systems as being bogus for the most part. In this sequel to that article, ... read more
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Date added: 08.22.08
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Exposing Bogus NFL-X Systems
Anyone who has bet sports for any significant amount of time been exposed to numerous systems through the years, all claiming to be the key that unlocks the “mystery “ of being able to win consistently against the point spread and “the man.” With football being by far the most popular sport to bet, most of those systems involve ... read more
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Date added: 02.01.08
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The second most important NE - NY game ever played
With all the Super bowl “hype” and anticipation, fueled not only by the magnitude of the game itself and the high scoring thriller played by these two teams in the final weekend of the regular season, but also by the “feeding frenzy” enjoyed by both the eastern media types and the Madison Avenue advertising execs over the renewal ... read more
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Date added: 01.19.08
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The Ice Bowls Cometh
The Effect of Unusually Cold Weather on the Outcomes of NFL playoff gamesWhile there have been some classic NFL conference championship games in the storied past of professional football, and a walk down “memory lane” discussing some of those games could easily make up an entire entertaining article by itself, that would have little to ... read more
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Date added: 01.13.08
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Individual Team Totals for Best Value – Part 2
Earlier this week I wrote a newsletter article on the above subject, in which my message was that one often gets more value betting football totals using individual team totals bets for the number of points to be scored by one or both of the participants (often betting one under and the other over) than betting the full game total. I also gave some ... read more
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Date added: 01.08.08
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Individual Team Totals for Best Value – Part 1
Anyone who has made many totals bets in the past week or so has probably had his share of frustration. With all due apologies to those who may have been “bitten in the ass” by one or more of these games, let me mention a few. In college football’s final bowl game Monday night, the BCS title game between LSU and Ohio State, there was ... read more
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Date added: 12.28.07
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Navigating Dangerous Waters - Betting the NFL’s Final Week
As yet another NFL season full of surprises winds down to its final week, with all playoff spots filled except for the final wild card spot in each conference, it’s once again time to deal with that annual handicapper’s “mine field” otherwise known as the final week of the NFL regular season. Usually a knowledgeable NFL fan ... read more
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Date added: 11.26.07
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Squeezing Blood out of a Rock
Using Individual Team Totals Bets to Get Value out of Difficult to Handicap NFL GamesOccasionally there are games that come up during the NFL season which present some real dilemmas for sports handicappers, such as tonight’s nationally televised MNF game between Pittsburgh and Miami. It does not take a mental giant to realize that Pitt is a much ... read more
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