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Which NFL Pundit Has Made The Worst Picks Through Nine Weeks?
Originally published on PunditTracker....
NFL Betting Lines, Visualized: Week 10 (Early Edition)
Here is your early betting info for Week 10 NFL; we'll update on Thursday with money lines and spread movements for the 13 games, and add info for Lions-Bears (spread opened late)....
NFL Statheads Are Losing Their War With The Spread. Here's Why.
In last week’s post, we showed that several of the larger statistically-inclined websites which offer NFL picks have had a rough go of it to start the season, at least as far as their picks against the spread. This was a surprise, because these results come on top of a string of several successful s...
NFL Betting Lines, Visualized: Week 9 (Late Edition)
Below is updated betting information lines for the Week 9 NFL games (you can see the early-week edition here). Spread movement and money lines are now included for each game, as is info for Eagles-Raiders....
NFL Betting Lines, Visualized: Week 9
Here is your early betting info for Week 9 NFL; we'll update on Thursday with money lines and spread movements for these 12 games and add Eagles-Raiders (this line opened late). Two small tweaks from last week: Each team's actual record is included, and the games are once again ordered by start time...
Which NFL Pundit Has Made The Worst Picks Through Seven Weeks?
Originally published on Pundit Tracker...
Why Are NFL Statheads Struggling So Much With Their Picks This Year?
It's still relatively early in the NFL season, but signs point to this being one of the worst seasons ever for simulation & statistics based predictors of game results. In fact, having followed several websites for the last few years, this is by far the worst I can remember each one doing as far as ...
NFL Spreads, Visualized: Week 8
We posted some initial lines on Monday, but below is updated gambling info for the 13 Week 8 NFL match-ups. Packers-Vikings and Giants-Eagles—which we held to wait for the result of the MNF game—are now included, as are money lines. Spreads, ATS performance, and bet trends are from SportsInsights.co...
NFL Spreads, Visualized: <em>Monday Night Football</em> And Week 8
Based on your feedback from last Friday, we've made a few changes to our visual guide to NFL betting lines. Here's what's new:...
Which Experts Predicted A Red Sox-Cardinals World Series?
Republished with permission from PunditTracker....
Chart: Friendly Reminder, Don't Bet On Favorites To Cover Huge Spreads
If you happened to bet on the Broncos to cover last week, David Yanofsky over at Quartz has put together a great chart to show just how much of a dumbass move that was....
NFL Betting Lines, Visualized: Week 7
So you want to gamble on football. Good—gambling is damn wonderful. Here's a resource to make looking at this week's lines a little more informative....
Reminder: Betting On Big NFL Favorites Is Always Dumb
The Broncos didn't cover their preposterous -28 (-27 at kickoff) spread. Of course they didn't. Because big NFL favorites usually don't cover....
Which <em>College GameDay</em> Host Has Made The Dumbest Picks This Year?
Originally published on PunditTracker....
What Would A Jaguars-Alabama Betting Line Look Like?
There's a dude at my gym who blasts Linkin Park through his Beats when he's in the locker room. But he doesn't WEAR his headphones. He uses them as speakers and plays the butt rock loud enough so that he can hear them without putting them on all the way. And then he sings along. That's grounds for m...
What's More Improbable: The Jaguars' +28 Line Or An 11-Inch Penis?
The murmurs began last week, before the Broncos put up 51 points against the Cowboys and the Jaguars lost second-overall pick Luke Joeckel to injury. And when the dust of Week 5 had settled, sure enough, the betting line for Jaguars at Broncos was set at 28 points, which is a lot....
Jaguars-Broncos Opens With The Largest Point Spread In NFL History
It's happening. Sunday's Jaguars-Broncos tilt in Denver has opened with the Broncos anywhere from 27- to 28-point favorites. If that holds—and one sportsbook manager told us he still expects most of the money to come in on Denver—it'd be the largest spread in NFL history....
Which NFL Pundit Has The Worst Picks Through Week 3?
Originally published on Pundit Tracker....
N.J. sports betting is dead: Thanks to a Third Circuit ruling, which was premised in part on the "reputational harm" leagues might suffer in a dystopia where Phil from Monmouth can openly put $50 on the Jets to cover. Skip Oliva wonders: What business is it of the federal government's to protect the...
Know When To Fold Them
From Letters of Note, here's a letter the novelist John D. Swain wrote to his son in 1908 as the boy began college at Yale:...