Each day these articles will prepare readers for the start of both the NFL and college football seasons. It is important to learn from mistakes in previous years and develop a game plan for success heading into this year. Let’s go over some strategies and/or information that will lead to a profitable football season.

This article is going to focus on how to handicap the NFL preseason. The ...  read more

Each day these articles will prepare readers for the start of both the NFL and college football seasons. It is important to learn from mistakes in previous years and develop a game plan for success heading into this year. Let’s go over some strategies and/or information that will lead to a profitable football season.

Most bettors are always looking for the latest hot tip or pick to make a ...  read more

Each day these articles will prepare readers for the start of both the NFL and college football seasons. It is important to learn from mistakes in previous years and develop a game plan for success heading into this year. Let’s go over some strategies and/or information that will lead to a profitable football season.

When most people prepare for the up-coming football season they read popu ...  read more

Each day these articles will prepare readers for the start of both the NFL and college football seasons. It is important to learn from mistakes in previous years and develop a game plan for success heading into this year. Let’s go over some strategies and/or information that will lead to a profitable football season.

Today’s article is going to be applicable to both the NFL and college foo ...  read more

Each day these articles will prepare readers for the start of both the NFL and college football seasons. It is important to learn from mistakes in previous years and develop a game plan for success heading into this year. Let’s go over some strategies and/or information that will lead to a profitable football season.

There are a few keys to success in the first week of college football. F ...  read more

30 Days of Football - Day 2 Each day these articles will prepare readers for the start of both the NFL and college football seasons. It is important to learn from mistakes in previous years and develop a game plan for success heading into this year. Let’s go over some strategies and/or information that will lead to a profitable football season.

Yesterday’s article talked about what positi ...  read more

New Orleans at Oklahoma City 8:00pm EST

Selection: OKLAHOMA CITY -3.5

New Orleans is starting to hit a wall now after their great start to the season. They have lost three out of their last four games straight up, with those losses coming against Utah, San Antonio, and the LA Clippers. The Hornets have also failed to cover in six out of their last seven games, with three point spread lo ...  read more

The most important factor in college football handicapping is motivational and situational spots. It’s not about what teams are playing but when they are playing each other. Let’s take a look at the motivational and situational spots heading into week 12 of college football. TROY / SOUTH CAROLINA - South Carolina is coming off of a program defining win last week against Florida. That win ...  read more

Knowing motivational spots here are essential to picking winning selections this time of year in college football. There are so many different factors in play with these games that just knowing the X’s and O’s of match-ups aren’t enough to building your bankroll. Here’s an overview of the best motivational spots in the games on Saturday.

OKLAHOMA STATE at TEXAS - The Longhorns were comp ...  read more

SELECTION: UNDER 188.5 POINTS Miami will take awhile to get used to playing with each other on the offensive end. Lebron, Dwayne, and Chris Bosh are used to being the main point scorers on their teams, but now they have to adjust to each other’s playing style. It will take some time for them to mesh all together and become dominant on the offensive end. Boston is not a good warm-up team for t ...  read more

Miami covered both games against New England last season with both of them going under the total. Both offenses are improved though this season. Tom Brady has a full year to recover from his knee injury, as well as a healthy Wes Welker. Miami’s Chad Henne has more experience, and now he has a premiere wide receiver in Brandon Marshall. The Dolphins also added Mike Nolan, one of the best defen ...  read more

WEEK 5 COLLEGE FOOTBALL MOTIVATIONAL SPOTS Any oddsmaker will tell you that in college football it’s not what teams are playing each other, but WHEN they are playing each other. That means that the biggest impact on the outcome of games is situational and motivational factors. Here are this week’s motivational spots in college football.

PITTSBURGH - The Panthers got emb ...  read more

Listed below are motivational spots for the fourth week of college football. An important key to handicapping college football is knowing the motivational advantages or disadvantages entering the game. Here are some spots that I identified for Week 4. TEXAS / TEXAS TECH - This game is usually a fairly big rivalry for both teams but much more so for Texas Tech. They didn’t suffer a heart b ...  read more

Ask any good oddsmaker and they will tell you that the biggest key with college football handicapping is that it’s not a matter of who is playing but when they are playing. Motivational and scheduling factors are the biggest key when it comes to handicapping college football. Here is a list of teams coming off big games as well as teams that may have look ahead spots. This is just one more goo ...  read more

The first lesson to take away is that teams have not dramatically changed from a season ago. Everyone was quick to praise some teams and bash others after just the first week of this season. Teams like Oklahoma and Florida were criticized and questioned by the supposed experts on television, as well as a wide percentage of sports bettors. However, what people seem to continually fail to realiz ...  read more

Most bettors get excited for the start of each football season. Football is the most popular sport in the United States both to watch and bet on. At the start of the season, people think that this is the year they will finally do well, so they proceed to read every article they can and try to accumulate as much knowledge as possible. However, I am a strong believer in being efficient and worki ...  read more

One of the tools that most bettors don’t use to prepare for the NFL regular season is the season over/under win totals for each NFL team. However, these “rankings” let the betting public know what the oddsmakers think about each team in relation to the rest of the league. It’s essentially an inside glimpse into the best ranking available to the public without doing the work yourself. These “po ...  read more

Most bettors get excited for the start of each football season. Football is the most popular sport in the United States both to watch and bet on. At the start of the season, people think that this is the year they will finally do well, so they proceed to read every article they can and try to accumulate as much knowledge as possible. However, I am a strong believer in being efficient and worki ...  read more

For the last few years baseball has been a sport that has been the most difficult for me to handicap. I have been able to make a profit almost every season in both pro and college football and basketball, but baseball has caused me to toss the remote at the television more than I usually. However, there is a reason why you should read this article. I have learned from my mistakes over the last ...  read more

THE TWO MOST IMPORTANT SPORTS HANDICAPPING KEYS First and foremost before I continue with this article, note that the title says the two most important sports handicapping keys, not sports betting keys. Sports betting and sports handicapping are two different topics. A person can be a very good sports bettor without being a good sports handicapper and vice versa. With that being said, if yo ...  read more

Here are my MLB thoughts and leans for Thursday April 22nd. In the Detroit/Anaheim game, I really have no lean on the side. I think the game will be close and will come down to which starting pitcher plays better or which bullpen comes through. Verlander and Saunders are both quality pitchers who are in about the same current form. Both line-ups are hitting about the same as well. I could s ...  read more

I really wanted to find an excuse to take Texas +192 at the NY Yankees today, but I just couldn't bet against Sabathia. C.C. pitched great in his last game and almost threw a no-hitter. Texas doesn't have much experience against him, and they don't hit lefties as well. Plus they are a little banged up. However, the Yanks haven't faced young lefty C.J. Wilson, who looked great in his first star ...  read more

The average bettor looks at college football bowl games with the thoughts and images carried forward from the regular season. However this approach will not lead to a profitable bowl season most of the time. Just like handicapping other sports, there are keys to analyzing these games than just the records from the regular season and player match-ups, but the average bettor fails to realize this ...  read more

Bettors are always looking for that sure win system to pick winning selections in football. Usually they’ll find something that seems to work for a few games, then after two straight losers they’ll jump off of it like a sinking ship. Many systems usually don’t work long-term because oddsmakers will make adjustments for things and reduce the edge that sports bettors have. However, here is a the ...  read more

Lines are becoming sharper as the college football season progresses, so bettors must adapt and use a few different strategies. The books have fully adjusted from early season lines and have a much more accurate assessment of each team. However, there are some ways that I have beat the books the last few years, and the last few weeks in college football. Let’s take a look at how to do it. E ...  read more

ARE COLLEGE FOOTBALL GAMES FIXED? Evan Altemus When the average person loses a bet on a game a common response is that the game was fixed. However, the average experienced bettor knows that almost every college and professional game isn’t intentionally influenced. The Toledo football point shaving scandal of a few years ago and former NBA referee Tim Donaghy’s arrest and conviction of inten ...  read more

One of the most under used keys in college football handicapping is motivational angles. Let down, look ahead, and bounce back games are some of the most profitable situations year after year in college football, yet most people don’t look at them, especially with the less popular teams. Mediocre to below average BCS conference teams are very capable of having huge swings in performance. These ...  read more

This game has been one of the biggest rivalries in college football over the last few years. As a result, each team brings their best effort into this game and is one thing that must be considered. These emotional rivalry games have a way of leveling the playing field sometimes, even though one team may come into the game with a seemingly significant advantage. With these types of games, I li ...  read more

First thing that has to be taken into to account is the 69-17 beating that Missouri gave Nevada last year. The Tigers offense moved the ball at will against the Wolfpack in the 2nd half. I take two pieces of information from that game, Nevada is in a revenge situation but it was clear that they were severely outclassed by Missouri last year. One of the more surprising things so far this sea ...  read more

Each week the college football schedule looks overwhelming considering the amount of plays available to bet on each week. One of the best ways to breakdown the games are to organize the card into different categories. Home underdogs are usually a good place to start, so let’s take a look which teams playing at home are getting points this week. South Carolina +3 – The Gamecocks have been pla ...  read more

I am not too far removed from the college days, so I know some of the emotions that many of these young athletes are going through. Playing in Division I athletics myself gave me even more insight into the ups and downs that these football players go through. Consequently, I feel that looking for these spots where one team is going to be significantly up or down is critical to having success in ...  read more

Knowing several of the small stories is critical to having success in the first week of college football. Also, these keys may prevent potential pitfalls that a bettor otherwise may not know about. Let’s take a look at some of the recent news stories that may have an impact on a team you are looking to back/fade in the next few weeks. DUKE BLUE DEVILS – The Blue Devils have had to deal with ...  read more

A few weeks ago I had a chance to sit in on a meeting of some of the sharpest sports bettors/handicappers in the world. I’m not afraid to admit when someone is a better bettor than me, so I’ll admit that these guys knew more than I did when it comes to actually betting on sports. However, there is a difference between betting and handicapping, and I felt like I wasn’t too far behind these guys ...  read more

The average football fan and bettor doesn’t pay attention to the preseason, as they feel that these so-called meaningless games have no bearing on the outcome of regular season games. However, they are dead wrong, as there are things to be taken from most preseason games. Here are some quick pieces of information that I have noticed up through Saturday August 22nd. DALLAS COWBOYS – Their f ...  read more

The internet is flooded with articles about why you should bet on the NFL preseason and how to do it successfully. Most of them state the same generic stuff like look at the quarterback rotations of each team, bet on first year head coaches, and take the under in the first week of the preseason. However, blindly following all of those ideas last year would have left you with a winning percentag ...  read more

This series is a very interesting match-up between two teams that have brought questionable efforts at times in the playoffs. They played each other twice this season, once in December and once in January. Orlando won both games, one at Los Angeles, and one at home. However, Jameer Nelson was a very key contributor in both games, so his absence could hurt the Magic’s chances. There are rumors ...  read more

HOW THE NBA PLAYOFFS REPRESENT THE REST OF SOCIETY Evan Altemus First and foremost, this article should be read for entertainment purposes and shouldn’t be used to determine which teams to make for your 10 billion star, game of the year bets. As I pondered which teams will cover the spread, I started to notice that several of these teams resemble people in society. Let’s take a look at whic ...  read more

Handicapping early season baseball requires a slightly different approach from the rest of the season, as well as a unique approach from any other sport. Baseball also has a vast amount of information available, much more than any of the other three major sports. In fact, successful baseball wagering requires bettors to know pitching match-ups, streaks/trends, line-up changes, travel situations ...  read more

Thursday was the first day for conference tournament action from the biggest conferences in the NCAA. There were some interesting results from those games, but they were not as surprising as you might think. Let’s take a look at how we can use these outcomes to help predict what will happen in the NCAA tournament, when it matters the most. First and foremost, several bubble teams struggled ov ...  read more

First and foremost, oddsmakers lines are very accurate, so bettors start out at a disadvantage right from the start because of the juice. So how is it possible to make consistent profits from wagering on sports? Let’s take a look at some of the ways to consistently beat point spreads.

For the sake of argument, this article will discuss point spread handicapping and not totals. I tend to ...  read more

If you haven’t noticed yet, college basketball lines have become very sharp, as oddsmakers have almost a full season of statistics and information to use. This past Saturday there were 50 games that ended within 6 points or less of the given spread on the side. That means these 50 games had point spread outcomes that were decided by just 2 possessions! However, Saturday January 24th had just 3 ...  read more

Every season so-called college basketball experts make their predictions of which lesser known teams will shock the public and make a deep tournament run. However, there are some key components that these teams must have. Let’s take a look at which smaller schools have the potential to wreck tournament brackets. First and foremost, Cinderella teams must have excellent guard play, specifical ...  read more

With the year round college basketball analysis on television, the speculation about which teams are on the bubble starts even before conference play kicks off. Numerous experts have lists of teams which need to finish strong in order to get into the big dance. Let’s take a look at the real bubble teams. The following teams will arguably be battling for about 15 at-large spots after the stron ...  read more

When analyzing college basketball games, people look at common statistics such as shooting percentages, rebounding, turnovers, etc, but there is much more to handicapping basketball than stats. One of the common mistakes that the average bettor makes is to just think in terms of who is going to win or lose a given game, yet their wager is almost always on the point spread. Let’s take a look at ...  read more

There are several teams poised to make strong second half runs, while other teams are destined for continued problems for the rest of the year. It is critical to know the situations of teams after the all-star break. Let’s take a look at some teams to back or fade in the second half of the NBA season. CHARLOTTE – Larry Brown has done a tremendous job of turning around the Bobcats. Charlotte ...  read more