Since 2005, NFL home teams playing on Thursday night have won 68.2% Against the Spread (ATS) for a profit of +14.95 units. In fact, home teams have covered the spread in 12 of the last 14 Thursday Night Football games. After identifying this trend with our Bet Labs software, we filtered it down even further and…
Although the NFL season officially started on Wednesday, yesterday marked the first full slate of games around the league. It was a good day for favorites (who went 9-5 ATS) and home teams (8-6 ATS), but this early season trend directly contradicts years worth of records and information. Since 2004, betting all road teams would…
With the release of our Bet Labs software, we decided to analyze eight years worth of archived NFL data in order to find profitable betting systems and optimum betting percentage levels for Betting Against the Public. Using Bet Labs, we first looked at how well NFL underdogs have done in regular season games since the beginning of…
New England opened as a 3.5-point favorite at the market-setting sportsbooks for Super Bowl XLVI against New York. Shortly after opening, Giants money flooded the market, pushing the line from 3.5 (and even 4 at some Vegas casinos) down to 3 at most sportsbooks. Surprisingly, while CRIS, Pinnacle and Olympic have all hung onto 3…
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