| The fans at Quicken Loans Arena will be treated to a game between the Boston Celtics and the Cleveland Cavaliers when they take their seats on Tuesday.
Oddsmakers currently have the Cavaliers listed as 4½-point favorites versus the Celtics, while the game’s total has not yet been posted.
2008/09 team records: Boston: 62-20 SU, 43-39 ATS Cleveland: 66-16 SU, 49-33 ATS Boston most recently: When playing on Tuesday are 7-3 Before playing Charlotte are 8-2 After playing Orlando are 6-4 After a loss are 8-2 Cleveland most recently: A few trends to consider: The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Boston’s last 5 games The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Boston’s last 5 games when playing on the road against Cleveland Boston is 8-3-1 ATS in its last 12 games on the road The total has gone OVER in 14 of Boston’s last 21 games Cleveland is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games when playing at home against Boston Cleveland is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Boston Cleveland is 22-2 SU in its last 24 games at home Cleveland is 8-1 ATS in its last 9 games when playing Boston Next up:
Boston home to Charlotte, Wednesday, October 28 Cleveland at Toronto, Wednesday, October 28 |
Monthly Archives: October 2009
ESPN College Football Odds: East Carolina vs Memphis
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The East Carolina Pirates and the Memphis Tigers will both be gunning for a victory on Tuesday when they meet at Liberty Bowl.
Oddsmakers currently have the Pirates listed as 4½-point favorites versus the Tigers, while the game’s total has not yet been posted.
Dwayne Harris returned a kickoff 92 yards for a touchdown and added two touchdown catches to help
The Pirates covered the 18.5-point spread, while the final score played OVER the day’s posted total of 55.5.
Duke Calhoun had 77 yards receiving with a touchdown in the loss.
Team records:
East Carolina: 4-3 SU, 2-4 ATS Memphis: 2-5 SU, 1-5 ATS East Carolina most recently:
When playing in October are 7-3 When playing on turf are 5-5 After outgaining opponent are 7-3 When playing within the conference are 8-2 Memphis most recently: A few trends to consider:
East Carolina is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games when playing Memphis East Carolina is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games when playing on the road against Memphis The total has gone UNDER in 6 of East Carolina’s last 9 games on the road East Carolina is 10-5 SU in its last 15 games Memphis is 4-8 SU in its last 12 games when playing East Carolina Memphis is 2-6 SU in its last 8 games Memphis is 1-5 ATS in its last 6 games when playing at home against East Carolina Memphis is 0-5 ATS in its last 5 games when playing East Carolina Next up:
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Bronx Bombers will open World Series odds with a win
Philadelphia Phillies at New York Yankees
Wednesday, Oct. 28 (Time TBD)
Cliff Lee (2-1, 0.74) vs. C.C. Sabathia (3-0, 1.19)
Cliff Lee has been nothing short of sensational during the postseason. The lefty was brought in from
Sabathia, who could very well win the AL Cy Young this season, has been pretty darn good himself. He’s 3-0 during the post season while allowing just a single run in each of his starts. He’s coming off a five-hit, one-run gem against the Angels. Sabathia faced the Phillies in interleague play this season and earned a no-decision after giving up three runs in eight innings of work, and he’s going to be very tough to beat at Yankee stadium, where he had a 3.17 ERA and .223 opponents’ batting average.
While two aces go head-to-head on Wednesday, there’s still great potential for fireworks. Both teams led their respective league’s in runs and homers this season. Alex Rodriguez’s sudden emergence as a reliable postseason threat has been beyond impressive. His brutal struggles have been well documented, but this year he’s hitting. 438, five homers and 12 RBIs in the playoffs—with many of those hits coming in crucial situations.
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East Carolina vs. Memphis Spread
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NFL Odds: Eagles vs Redskins
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The division rival Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Redskins are set to renew hostilities on Monday when they meet at FedExField.
Oddsmakers currently have the Eagles listed as 8-point favorites versus the Redskins, while the game’s total is sitting at 37½.
The Eagles lost to
Donovan McNabb passed for 269 yards for
The Redskins lost to
Jason Campbell passed for 89 yards with an interception for
Current streak:
Team records:
Washington: 2-4 SU, Philadelphia most recently:
When playing in October are 5-5 When playing on grass are 6-4 After being outgained are 7-2-1 When playing within the division are 5-5 Washington most recently: A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Philadelphia’s last 8 games when playing on the road against Washington The total has gone OVER in 5 of Philadelphia’s last 6 games The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Philadelphia’s last 6 games when playing Washington Philadelphia is 7-2 SU in its last 9 games when playing on the road against Washington The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Washington’s last 5 games at home The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Washington’s last 5 games The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Washington’s last 8 games when playing at home against Philadelphia The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Washington’s last 6 games when playing Philadelphia Next up:
Philadelphia home to NY Giants, Sunday, November 1 Washington at Atlanta, Sunday, November 8 |
The Single Dumbest Stat in Sports Betting Still Getting Regurgitated
Sports gambling posting boards are generally good for a few laughs but rarely for worthwhile information. The most comical case of wasting bandwidth is the futility of the “just pick the team that wins outright” cliché.
Now a sport betting website pays tens of thousands of dollars to have FoxSports.com carry their infomercial videos and the guy starts out telling you how amazed he is that “the team that wins outright covers 85 percent of the time.”
No offense but these would be handicappers don’t know what they are talking about and we can only hope they can get enough clients to subsidize the bookmakers.
“When an underdog wins they cover 100 percent of the time,” reminds Max Hartman of Lines-Maker.com. The favorite cannot cover unless they win outright. It’s impossible. The only scenario in which a team can win and not cover against the Vegas odds is when the favorite wins but by a smaller margin than the spread.
Not shockingly the numb nuts who perpetuate unscientific preposterousness almost always quote stats relevant to the NBA or NFL betting. In college sports there are more mismatches and hence larger spreads where the margin is larger for a favorite to win and not cover.
If a team is a 3.5 point favorite the only way the team that wins will not cover is for the favorite to win by one, two or three points. Any other result will have the team that wins covering. At what percentage do these half-wits think a team should win and not cover?
Obviously the stupidity of this widely circulated inductive blather can be refuted from now until eternity. Or at least until an underdog wins but fails to cover, whichever comes last. But to those who subscribe to it as if there is any logic, thanks for keeping the books in business for the rest of us.
Since the prevailing premise behind this urban myth is “it’s so much easier to pick the SU winner than the spread winner” why don’t these fancied geniuses just pick dog winner after dog winner on the moneyline?
There are plenty of underdogs that win outright, many huge dogs in fact. If one wants to postulate how much easier it is to pick the SU winner, why waste such foreknowledge on collecting $100 for every $110 risked? Just keep picking those 250 dogs and get your money’s worth.
I don’t want to ruin this fool’s gold with such a logical question, but like I keep saying, I guess those pipe dreamers are needed to keep the sportsbooks in business for the rest of us.
No oddsmaker will go broke underestimating the intelligence of the betting public. Wow, we just discovered that the team that scores the most points wins more than 99 percent of the time. Let me purchase valuable webcasting time on Fox Sports to impress you with my discovery.
The author Joe Duffy is CEO of OffshoreInsiders.com, the single most respected sports handicapping site on the World Wide Web.