Posted Saturday, September 20, 2008 01:16 AM
Dont misunderstand my intentions here by the title of this post. Covers Community is virtually invaluable and prally the best tool handicappers have had since the dawn of this numbers scheme called betting.
My point is that these posts on this larger generic forums are completely useless. Just a bunch of knuckle heads touting their cards for the weekend and people saying good luck, or no i disagree or yes i agree. It just seems like a waste of time.
You'll notice that none of the same people post in the actual game threads that post in this forum, take a look, its true. The game threads are often insightful and add perspective as long as you know which offerings of information to take with a grain of salt . Generally they are somewhat reliable for releiving some of the intricasies of these specific games. Often locals chime in this insider information that is valuable. People discuss the weather and coaching choices. Not, "lets bet against (a inaccurate) public heavy lean" talk all over the place without a shread of backing it up. Both sides of the "ball" are discussed, and the #1 rule of gambling is "if you cant acknowledge reasons for each team covering the spread (dog or fav, home or away, conference or out) then you are not able to accurately handicap a game, and shouldnt be betting."
These are the reasons that Covers is a valuable asset to us GridIron Warriors. There is no value added ...
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