Look for the Panthers line to go up according to Mike Godsey of GodsTips, anchor of OffshoreInsiders.com

Coach Ron Rivera said the starters will play more in the preseason than they have in years past under former coach John Fox. More news and notes for NFL preseason odds, week 1 are up at ScoresOddsPicks.com

Quite a few people have asked me if my systems and angles used at GodsTips, anchor of OffshoreInsiders.com comes from the SportsData.  Apparently the two-page ad in Mark Lawrence’s Playbook football annual has sparked some interest. Regular clients have successfully bet my angles going back to the scorephone days.

Yes, we did very much see the article—which came across as an advertorial in ESPN the Magazine via ESPN Insider.

A few of the reasons my interest was piqued, then once I scratched the surface became disinterested:

So how do the “owners” of this alleged powerful database perform?

According to Power of 620 sports services behind every selection, the MasterLockLine, Tom Stryker, Right Angle Sports, and Al McMordie each have one Top 25 finish in any sport for a full season since 2006. Only RAS has a Top 10: 2008 in college football and 2009 in college basketball.

Dr. Bob Stohl was a major force in the early part of the century and in the 1990s, but his following among sportsbook whales has all but disappeared. A consistent top performer for a decade, his star is no longer shining.

In addition, most of that statistics quoted fall well short of uniformly most powerful unbiased (UMPU), statistical significance: tools used by statisticians to measure the reliability of data. They also fall short of the simple test we apply: return on investment (ROI).

If at one unit per bet, minus 10 percent juice, the angle falls below 80 units, it must have a z-score of 4.5 or above for us to consider worthwhile.  Those who utilize the so-called Buckeye Database rarely, if ever, quote angles of that magnitude.

Conversely public databases such as SportsDataBases (not to be confused with the aforesaid SportsData), do have systems that meet the criterion of effect-size statistics.

They don’t cost $15,000 to get in and certainly don’t take days to learn. They are quite user friendly and we’ve unearthed angles much better than any I’ve seen quoted. Still if and when it goes public, we will make final judgment.

So far, it sounds like anyone who would pay 15 dimes for such a database may also believe they have a Nigerian aunt who just left them $1 million USD.

For sports picks that utilize statistically significant angles coupled with other factors including the revolutionary Performance Gap Analysis, check out the world class handicappers at OffshoreInsiders.com

The 2011 NFL preseason odds (NFLX) kick off Thursday, August 11 with opening games through Monday, August 15.

The OffshoreInsiders.com Network has announced that the popular NFL “preseason primer” will be available exclusively on the recently added portion of ScoresOddsPicks.com: their sports handicapping news section.

The primer consists of key player and quarterback rotations, injuries, football weather reports, and various motivation and intangible news and notes. In addition, any Vegas line moves of significance are cited.

An example of the quality information from previous years can be found at JoeDuffy.net among many other sites.

The primer has been syndicated on many websites throughout the decade including SportsNetwork.com, Examiner.com, BleacherReport.com, among many other high traffic websites.

However, the roots trace back to the pre-Internet days of the telephone scorephones. “Based on client feedback and monitoring traffic statistics, I can definitively say that going back to our scorephone days, the NFL preseason primer is one of the most important features that is loyally followed by professional gamblers,” boasts Joe Duffy, CEO of the OffshoreInsiders.com Network.

ScoresOddsPicks.com is a sports handicapping website with free Vegas sports odds, betting databases, Las Vegas trend reports among the features. This summer, the news section was added with free picks from OffshoreInsiders.com handicappers, game previews, and sports wagering news.

Sportsbooks have posted the over/under for NFL regular season wins odds. According to the The Canadian Crew betting syndicate, “Arizona over 6.5 wins is the best future’s bet,” having improved themselves dramatically including at the most important position QB. The Cardinals added Kevin Kolb from the Philadelphia Eagles.

The top NFL betting services have the Week 1 NFL line for 2011. The lockout is over and the top sports handicappers have commenced the research. Here are the sportsbooks betting odds for regular season Week 1 NFL spreads. The New Orleans Saints and Green Bay Packers open it up.

The 2011-12 NFL betting season, starting with the preseason, will have the largest gap ever between sharp and square player. The NFL lockout provides once-in-a-lifetime opportunities for the pro bettor.

In our videos, podcasts, articles, and most importantly premium sports picks analysis, we’ve quoted several Golden Rules of gambling.  If the day ever comes to ranking them, probably at the top of the list is that oddsmakers and square players despise uncertainty.

Pro bettors and handicappers monetize capriciousness. Simply put, whatever is bad for the oddsmaker is good for the erudite investor.

The equivocation that will be caused by as the media has said, “five months of offseason condensed into a few weeks” is tormenting the oddsmaker.

In the interval between when sportsbooks first post odds and the time wagers must be placed, the intel will be more fluid than ever. This will be infinitely truer in the preseason, but will certainly continue well into the regular season.

For the most part the same angles whales search for in a normal preseason will still apply: quarterback and key player rotations, motivational variances such as which coaches will work on more creative schemes and which will be more vanilla—just to name the most common key indicators.

But the lockout means 2011 will be those intangibles on steroids.  Rosters will fluctuate more than in any other preseason. Some teams will play their frontline players much longer than traditional exhibition games past.

There will certainly be squads that have play calling in regular season mode, while others will stick to the mundane schemes.

For sure, there will be a lot more “box of chocolate” type performances: teams looking spectacular one week, then horrific the next and visa versa.

It would be very surprising if teams off preseason lackluster performances don’t have a larger sense of urgency in their next game than in a “normal” season.

Though it’s an educated belief the teams with the largest turnover in key personnel and coaching staffs are most likely to be pressing into the regular season mode, such instincts must be substantiated by factual evidence in our scouring of teams own press notes, hometown newspaper citations, or other esteemed sources.

There are few urban legends as outlandish as the dunderheads who spew the folklore that preseason football is a guessing game. The NFL lockout dynamics create ancillary prospects.

As American sports bettors hope for an end to the NFL lockout and the posting of NFL preseason point spreads, many of the top sportsbooks around the world have posted Week 1 Premier League odds:

Here is the completed list: