Posted Monday, July 30, 2012 02:12 PM
Buffalo Bills:
Last year,
Buffalo went 6-10 SU, 6-9-1 ATS and 11-4-1 to the Over. They had a net of -0.2
yards per play (ypp) and +1 TO margin vs. a tougher than average schedule. The Bills started 5-2 but were decimated with
injuries and closed out the season on a dismal 1-8 SU, 2-7 ATS slide.
2012 Issues:
This year,
the Bills schedule is significantly easier based on the current 2012 Season Win
Total numbers. Buffalo will go from
having a tougher than average schedule to having an easier than average slate;
one of the biggest differentials from last year to this year in the entire
league.
The Bills
have a 12 year playoff drought – their last postseason appearance came back in
January, 2000 in the Music City Miracle game at Tennessee. They signed Ryan
Fitzpatrick to a six year $59 million contract last year, then proceeded to
watch Fitzpatrick lead the NFL with 23 interceptions. WR Stevie Johnson is their lone proven
playmaker, and former #1 pick, CJ
Spiller, has not yet lived up to expectations with only seven TD’s in his first
two years in the league.
Buffalo spent
money on their defensive line this past offseason, bringing in a pass rush with
DE’s Mario Williams and Mark Anderson for new coordinator Dave Wannstedt. But they’ve got question marks on the
offensive lin... [More]
Posted Monday, July 23, 2012 12:26 PM
NFL training
camps open up around the country this coming weekend. The start of fall practice for college
football isn’t far behind. Wiseguy
bettors are spending a good portion of their time focusing on football right
now. We’ve got a rapidly maturing NFL
Season win total marketplace, both here in Vegas and offshore. Odds to win the NFL Divisions are up. Week 1 numbers are available at multiple
sportsbooks.
The first preseason
Week 1 pointspreads are now on the radar screen, as are the Week 1 college
football pointspreads – the games are already loaded into the system on my
SportsOptions Live Odds screen. College
football season win totals are up as are odds to win the various
conferences. Best of all, just about
every day from here through the ‘real’ start of football season at the end of
August, we’ll see fresh numbers on a daily basis at one sportsbook or another.
So what
happens when the betting markets shift their focus towards football? After all, we’re only ten days out from the
All Star break – there’s more than two full months of regular season baseball
still to play. There isn’t a team in
either league that has completed more than 96 games of their 162 game schedule
as I write this on Sunday Night – every team in both leagues still has at least
3/8 of their schedule to complete.
Yet a... [More]
Posted Monday, July 09, 2012 02:21 PM
Australian Sportsbetting Blowing Up!
Australian sports betting is on the rise, as reported by
articles today from the Herald Sun (link http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/fears-webs-fuelling-betting-epidemic/story-fndo45r1-1226422045117)
and the Telegraph (link http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/rising-online-betting-fears-grip-the-nation/story-fndo2dsc-1226422057669). Of course the lamestream media couldn’t help
themselves with their sensationalist headlines – does anyone really believe that
“rising online betting fears” really are “gripping the nation” or that sports
betting has become an “epidemic” down under?
There’s been a nearly 23% rise on visits to Australian
sports betting and lottery sites (how they lump these two together is beyond
me) over a six month span between last December and this May; truly an
impressive increase in a relatively short amount of time. What does this mean? Australian’s like to bet, just like citizens
from every other country in the world!
The biggest concern for the Aussie’s appears to be the
rising offshore competition against their l... [More]