September Football: Upset City!

There’s a reason they play the games. Teams don’t always play the way stats and power rankings suggest they are supposed to. That’s often evident early in the pro and college football seasons because some teams are very different from year to year. In Week 1 of the NFL season, the Bears, Bengals, Bills, Lions and Redskins all won straight up as dog, while the Cowboys and Vikings covered. One thing that has stood out is that the offenses are much improved across the NFL. Part of... 

Football Handicapping: Ugly Dogs Have Plenty of Bite

Some folks don’t even like LOOKING at ugly underdogs, never mind finding the courage to take the points. But don’t hold your nose and pass on every ugly looking team on the board, because that’s why the point spread was invented. Too many bettors play favorites. I recall one bettor telling me his rule was to NEVER play a bad team. With all due respect, this is the wrong way to look at handicapping. Dogs offer just as much value as favorites. A successful handicapper knows how to... 

2011 NFL Power Rankings – Week 3

Who needs the preseason? Scoring is through the roof in the National Football League and through two weeks of the year seasoned quarterback play and horrendous defense have been front-and-center. With the lack of a traditional offseason and with a truncated training camp the thought was that teams would be a little sluggish out of the gate and that we may see some ugly, low-scoring games through the first month until everyone got into a rhythm. Not so much. While turnovers and penalties have still... 

NFL Futures Betting: Value in 2-0 and 0-2 Teams

This NFL season may be headed into Week 3, but that doesn’t mean we can’t continue to search out value in the NFL futures betting market. There have been a few early surprises this season, such as the Buffalo Bills and Washington Redskins, and some early disappointments, like the Kansas City Chiefs. The trick now is to figure out if there’s any long-term value in any of these surprise 2-0 outfits, or if they’re just fly-by-night pretenders, or if there’s an 0-2 team... 

Week 4 College Football Predictions

Every week world champion handicapper Michael Blake will offer his college football analysis on 10-20 games.  This is a great opportunity for everyone to look at specific games that he has targeted for you.  These games can be considered ‘free picks’ if you like.  All you have to do is look at spread at the time analysis is released and projected score of the game to draw your conclusion of the game.  Sometimes, these plays eventually make the grade as star-rated plays that go to his... 

College Football Handicapping: Sandwiches and Scheduling

College and pro football offer a variety of great match-ups every weekend. A good handicapper, though, doesn’t just look at individual and team match-ups. There are other factors surrounding a game that can be equally important to identifying a winning spread cover, such as scheduling and road travel. For instance, both Iowa and Iowa State opened the season against smaller schools and both failed to cover. Iowa State barely beat Northern Iowa as 10-point chalk while Iowa rested the starters... 

Oklahoma at Florida. St Preview: A Tussle in Tallahassee

On Saturday September 17th in week 3 of the College football we have our second biggest game of the season going as Florida St. From the ACC is taking on the Big 12 Oklahoma Sooners . These two prolific teams met last year in Oklahoma and the result was a humiliating one for the Seminoles. They were pasted pretty good by the Sooners 47-17. The Sooners won the stats battle with 487 yards to 345 for the Seminoles. Oklahoma did most of their damage through the air in that one. The Seminoles get Oklahoma... 

2011-12 NHL Western Conference Spotlight

Jeff has enjoyed six straight winning NHL seasons and going for lucky 7!  This article has been a huge money maker since 1998. Check it out! ———————————————————————————————————————————- Jeff’s 2011-12 NHL Western Conference Spotlight team:... 

College Football Handicapping Exploiting Weaknesses

Strategically, football has similarities to war. Commanding officers use photographs of rival positions in an attempt to identify weaknesses in the enemy lines, then plot their offensive strategies accordingly. A smart commander doesn’t have his men go head on at the enemies’ strongest defensive positions – you exploit the weak spots. Football coaches devise Xs and Os in their game plans and watch endless hours of film. Any soft spots will help them exploit weaknesses in an attempt to find... 

Pro Football Stats: Read Between the Lines

The best time of the sports calendar is here, the opening week of the pro football campaign! There are mountains of stats and angles available for sports bettors to digest from this season and years past. Information certainly is a huge key when analyzing games and point spreads. Sometimes it can seem that there is too much info, but it’s essential to understand that stats are only a starting point. They don’t always tell the whole story. In fact, stats can sometimes lie, something to... 

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