Sports Marketwatch
March Madness Edition – Sweet
Sixteen
3/30/2008 11AM EST
By The Team at SportsInsights.com
Due to popular demand, SportsInsights
is pleased to bring our Members a March
Madness Edition of our popular Sports
Marketwatch publication. Note that we’ll be publishing editions of
the March Madness MarketWatch through
the end of the Tournament.
Welcome to the Sports Marketwatch – March Madness Edition, where
SportsInsights gives sports fans unprecedented insight into the sports marketplace.
If you want to know what is really happening on the sportsbook side, you now
have an all-access pass with Sports
Marketwatch!
The staff at SportsInsights.com speaks directly with the
line managers at some of the sports betting industry’s largest sportsbooks
about which games the public is chasing and the Sharps are pounding. We’ll look at what’s in store for the upcoming
NCAAB games.
Sports Marketplace – March Madness – Elite 8 (Saturday and
Sunday)
Recapping NCAA Tournament Action
Davidson won their game outright,
to bring the MarketWatch record to
7-6 during the NCAA Tournament. Davidson
is the poster child for this year’s upset-filled March Madness tourney. North
Carolina, on the other hand, continued its dominance,
trouncing an overmatched Washington
State team.
2008 March Madness Games to Watch: 7-6 = 53.8%
*Source: SportsInsights.com
Sports MarketWatch – Elite Eight – Sports Marketplace
In today’s Elite Eight match-ups,
the sports marketplace statistics do not currently reflect some of the
indicators that we look for. The betting
public likes North Carolina
to beat Louisville
versus the spread – but is fairly evenly split at 60% on North Carolina and 40% on Louisville.
UCLA still hasn’t impressed people
and is only capturing 45% of the bets as a favorite versus Xavier. We don’t see strong evidence of “smart money”
on either match-up on Saturday. If you
wanted to use similar approaches to “get a lean” on Saturday’s games, we would
lean to Louisville.
It’s too early to get an
indication on Sunday’s match-ups. Once
the lines come out and SportsInsights starts collecting marketplace stats,
we’ll be back with another MarketWatch
– especially if the indicators highlight a game.
Games to Watch (7-6)
We’ll be back tomorrow if any games appear interesting in
the NCAA Elite Eight Sports Marketplace.
Read above to get an overview of today’s sports market action.
It should be another exciting NCAA
Tournament for the sports marketplace. Keep
Sports Marketwatch picks handy and your browser pointed to SportsInsights.com for the latest
real-time updates, using our exclusive Sports Investing tools.
We’ll be back soon with a new
edition of the Sports Marketwatch – March
Madness Edition.
Enjoy the games!
The Team at SportsInsights.com