nba games played after OT stats

After watching two games go into OT last night I looked into how teams performed in their next game following an overtime game this season.  I came up with the following:

1) Teams in the East are 11-16 Straight up following an OT game.
2) Teams in the East are 13-14 ats (7-10 ats as dogs, 6-4 as favorites).
3) Teams in the West are 16-15 Straight up following an OT game.
4) Teams in the West are 11-19-1 ats (4-8ats as dogs, 7-11-1 as favorites).
5) The teams with the best records after an OT game are the Mavs and Lakers at 5-0 and 3-1 respectively.
6) If you take out the three teams with the best records from each conference, the remaining teams are 15-27 straight up after an overtime game and 16-25ats (9-17 as dogs and 7-8-1 as favorites).

nfl playoff-Jets at Bengals (write-up)

What goes up must come down...eventually.  The Jets dominated the Bengals on all fronts in Week 17 playing with the utmost passion, desire, and urgency.  On the other side, the Bengals team was able to muster only one first down in the first half due to penalty and its defense got totally gashed by the Jets running game.  At this point, the Jets could not look any better to the betting world and the Bengals could not look any worse.

In looking at the result of this game ultimately you have to ask who wanted it more.  That answer is obviously the Jets.  The Bengals simply did not need this game.  Yes, they were playing for the 3rd seed in the playoffs but they already had a home game next week locked up.  In my opinion, Marvin Lewis was taking a let’s see what happens approach.  The following excerpt was taken from an article written by Geoff Hobson:

    “Even as the players headed to the bus to take them to The Meadowlands for Sunday night’s game, they weren’t sure how Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis was going to play the regular-season finale against the Jets.

    “What’s going on?” asked one starter and when the answer was a shrug, he shrugged back.

    Head coach Marvin Lewis tipped his hand with the inactive list when he sat starting running back Cedric Benson and started rookie Bernard Scott. Also out are three defensive starters, tackle Domata Peko, left ... [More]