Sunday, 6/9/19 – 2-1 Freebies yesterday…Game of the Week goes off today as part of our 3-pack. Get the entire card for just $25 HERE. We are lights out this season in Games of the Week!
MLB:
SD -105
Hou -1.5 -100
LAD/SF Under 7.5
Saturday, 6/8/19 – Sorry for the absence of freebies of late, folks…been a ton going on over here! Best of luck!
MLB:
NYY/Cle Over 10
LAD -1.5 -125
Sea/LAA Under 9.5
Why bet soccer?
One big reason to be interested in soccer as a wagering option is the fact that the entire world has professional leagues for the sport, meaning that almost any time of day, any day of the year, you can find a soccer game on which to place a bet. If you focus the majority of your betting on American sports, your window of betting options is limited to a relatively finite number of hours each day and week. World football allows you to fill in many of those dead betting hours with wonderful wager options. Continue reading A Soccer (Football/Futbol) Betting Basics Walkthrough
For those unfamiliar, this will serve as a quick breakdown of the layout and structure of club football (soccer) in Italy.
The top tier of Italian football is called Serie A (20 teams). The divisions below Serie A begin Serie B (22 teams), Serie C (57 teams in 3 groups), and Serie D (162 teams in 9 groups). Serie A features two of the world’s biggest and most supported clubs in AC Milan and Juventus, who just recently snatched Cristiano Ronaldo away from Spain’s Real Madrid. The league just recently signed a huge contract with ESPN for viewers in the United States! ESPN+ will be showing on average 9 matches per week, while a match of the week will be featured on ESPN, ESPN 2, and/or ESPN Deportes. Seasons typically begin in August and end in May with each team playing each other twice (once each on each other’s home pitch) for a total of 38 games for each team. At the end of each season, the bottom three teams are relegated down to Serie B, while three other teams are promoted up from Serie B for the following season. Continue reading A Quick Overview of Soccer in Italy
Week of 9/24/18 – 9/30/18:
To tease or not to tease in the NFL?
The betting public loves their teasers. Bringing two 7 point NFL favorites down to -1 each is just something many of us cannot resist. Sure, there are instances when a teaser makes some good sense. But, like the Hard Ways on a craps table, there is a reason why they are available to the betting public. People love them but the odds still favor the house. There is an old generality that winners cover in the NFL. Roughly 80% of winners cover their number long term in the NFL, so, let’s think about this. What do you tease most often? Most likely, you improve the chances a heavy favorite covers by lowering their spread to something under a field goal with the mentality that they just need to win by a typical increment like 3 or better. However, if you consider that around 4 out of every 5 winners in the NFL cover their spread anyway, is it really worth adding another team to the equation in a two-team teaser? If you like a team enough to win, chances are they will cover the spread. Essentially, you are betting that one of your two teased teams will be part of the 20% that does NOT cover in the NFL but still wins the game. Odd approach when you get right down to it. If both teams cover as the odds say they should, you would’ve gone 2-0 on individual bets on the two teams with their unaltered lines and made more than your 1 teaser win produced if you wagered the same amount. If you have good rationale why your specific teaser combo is worthwhile, by all means, but, in my experience, most teasers are slapped together so that you don’t have to lay 8 points with a defensive minded team that has trouble scoring or something of the sort. As always, plan ahead and think through your wagers. Good luck!
I want to discuss some things to look for when betting the 2nd leg of two-legged matches in soccer/world football. In many tournaments such as UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League, as well as the later rounds and/or finals of many countries’ domestic cup tournaments, teams often play a home and away set of matches with the aggregate result deciding which team advances (or lifts the trophy in a final). Continue reading 2nd Leg Pointers and Pitfalls
This Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, August 10-12 marks the opening weekend for the 2018-19 English Premier League season. Manchester City will look to defend its title and build on its 100 point team point tally from 2017-18 (if that’s even possible). The chase pack will likely include recent oddsmaker sweethearts, Liverpool, who did much this offseason to address their issues in net and lack of team depth, as well as Manchester United, Chelsea, Tottenham, and Arsenal. Continue reading What to Consider when Betting Matchday 1 in the English Premier League
For those unfamiliar, this will serve as a quick breakdown of the layout and structure of club football (soccer) in England (and Wales).
The top tier of English football is called the Premier League (20 teams from England and Wales). Below the EPL are the Championship (24 teams), League One (24 teams), League Two (24 teams), and many more. The Premier League is the most lucrative soccer league in the world. They currently have a TV contract with NBC in the U.S. Seasons typically begin in August and end in May with each team playing each other twice (once each on each other’s home pitch) for a total of 38 games for each team. At the end of each season, the bottom three teams are relegated down to the Championship, while three other teams are promoted up from the Championship for the following season. Continue reading A Quick Overview of Soccer in England
For those unfamiliar, this will serve as a quick breakdown of the layout and structure of club football (soccer) in Spain.
The top tier of Spanish football is called La Liga (20 teams). Below La Liga are La Liga 2 (22 teams), Segunda Division B (80 teams split into four groups), and Tercera Division (360 teams split into 18 groups). La Liga features two of the world’s biggest and most supported clubs in Real Madrid C.F. and FC Barcelona. The league currently has a television contract with BEIN Sports for viewers in the United States. Seasons typically begin in August and end in May with each team playing each other twice (once each on each other’s home pitch) for a total of 38 games for each team. At the end of each season, the bottom three teams are relegated down to La Liga 2, while three other teams are promoted up from La Liga 2 for the following season. Continue reading A Quick Overview of Soccer in Spain
For those unfamiliar, this will serve as a quick breakdown of the layout and structure of club football (soccer) in Germany.
The top tier of German football is called the Bundesliga (18 teams). The next divisions below the Bundesliga are 2. Bundesliga (18 teams), and 3. Liga (20 teams). The Bundesliga features FC Bayern Munich, one of the world’s most popular club teams. The league currently has a television contract with FOX for viewers in the United States. Seasons typically begin in August and end in May with each team playing each other twice (once each on each other’s home pitch) for a total of 34 games for each team. At the end of each season, the bottom two or three teams are relegated down to 2. Bundesliga, while two or three other teams are promoted up from 2. Bundesliga for the following season. Continue reading A Quick Overview of Soccer in Germany
For those unfamiliar, this will serve as a quick breakdown of the layout and structure of club soccer in the United States of America and Canada.
In the United States and Canada, the top professional soccer league is Major League Soccer (MLS), which just expanded to 23 teams. The divisions below consist of a second level of the North American Soccer League (NASL) with 4 teams and United Soccer League (USL) with 33 teams. The third tier is the Premier Development League (74 teams), but that there are plans that a new league, the USL Division III will supplant the PDL in that spot. There is also a semi-pro league, the National Premier Soccer League (98 teams) beneath all of these. The MLS is shown on a combination of regional channels, FOX channels, ESPN channels, and Univision. Different from Europe, the MLS season begins in March and ends in December. Also, divergent from much of Europe, there are two divisions in the MLS. Each team plays 34 games with 12 teams making the MLS Cup Playoffs. There is currently no promotion to nor relegation from the MLS. Continue reading A Brief Overview of Soccer in the United States (and Canada)
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