Investment plays 1-3 -$4550.00
Action plays 6-8 -$1574.00
Total 7-11 -$6124.00
Know which team figurs to bemost motivated, or least motivated , and you will
have a solid edge.
Virtually every week of the NFL season, a team on either side of a 3-or-less point-spreadwill maul their opponents by more than 20 points. Such surprising lopsided routs are not dueto a big difference in talent, but neither can such massacres be charged off topure luck either. A crazy bounce, amiracle interception, a kick-it-around fumble recovery – all can result in afield goal or a “gimme” touchdown, but hardly a massacre.
So ifneither talent nor luck is at the root of these blowouts, that leaves only one other possiblesource: A critical difference inmotivation. Momentum. We’ve all seen it: Suddenly a team comestogether and everything they try seems to work. They roll down the field at will while the other team goes flat. Nothing works for their haplessopponents. The game becomes a rout.
Sportscasterscall this magic “The Big Mo.” Successbegets success for one team, screw-up begets screw-up for the other. It’s actually a relatively common occurrencein pro football. There are even timeswhen this emotional wave moves back and forth between teams during the samegame, sometimes switching very quickly after an interception or a fumble or amissed field goal.
One ofa bettor’s most important tasks is to understand how two teams are likely to beaffected by this phenomenon. There isno mathematical formula – that can overcome a critical difference indesire.
The keyto such understanding can often be found in the respective teams’ fundamentalcharacter. Many times when a game seemsequally important to both teams, it boils down to assessing the differences inthe two teams’ fundamental levels of maturity.
It’s atest of your psychological skills, rather than a test of your ability tocompute stats. You can take thisinformation to the bank: Althoughunderstanding stats and knowing how to work with stats is certainly important,the best sports bettor in history will turn out to be a psychology major with aminor in math, not a math major with a minor in psychology. Learn to know which team figures to be mostmotivated most of the time – or least motivated most of the time – and you willhave a solid edge.
STATS VS ATS
HOME 26
AWAY 22
DOGS 29
FAV 19
OVER 24
UNDER 26
POINTS THAT MATTER 7 OUT OF 48 GAMES 15% MOST YEARS ITS 17-18%
MORE TO COME
ACE
Action plays 6-8 -$1574.00
Total 7-11 -$6124.00
Know which team figurs to bemost motivated, or least motivated , and you will
have a solid edge.
Virtually every week of the NFL season, a team on either side of a 3-or-less point-spreadwill maul their opponents by more than 20 points. Such surprising lopsided routs are not dueto a big difference in talent, but neither can such massacres be charged off topure luck either. A crazy bounce, amiracle interception, a kick-it-around fumble recovery – all can result in afield goal or a “gimme” touchdown, but hardly a massacre.
So ifneither talent nor luck is at the root of these blowouts, that leaves only one other possiblesource: A critical difference inmotivation. Momentum. We’ve all seen it: Suddenly a team comestogether and everything they try seems to work. They roll down the field at will while the other team goes flat. Nothing works for their haplessopponents. The game becomes a rout.
Sportscasterscall this magic “The Big Mo.” Successbegets success for one team, screw-up begets screw-up for the other. It’s actually a relatively common occurrencein pro football. There are even timeswhen this emotional wave moves back and forth between teams during the samegame, sometimes switching very quickly after an interception or a fumble or amissed field goal.
One ofa bettor’s most important tasks is to understand how two teams are likely to beaffected by this phenomenon. There isno mathematical formula – that can overcome a critical difference indesire.
The keyto such understanding can often be found in the respective teams’ fundamentalcharacter. Many times when a game seemsequally important to both teams, it boils down to assessing the differences inthe two teams’ fundamental levels of maturity.
It’s atest of your psychological skills, rather than a test of your ability tocompute stats. You can take thisinformation to the bank: Althoughunderstanding stats and knowing how to work with stats is certainly important,the best sports bettor in history will turn out to be a psychology major with aminor in math, not a math major with a minor in psychology. Learn to know which team figures to be mostmotivated most of the time – or least motivated most of the time – and you willhave a solid edge.
STATS VS ATS
HOME 26
AWAY 22
DOGS 29
FAV 19
OVER 24
UNDER 26
POINTS THAT MATTER 7 OUT OF 48 GAMES 15% MOST YEARS ITS 17-18%
MORE TO COME
ACE