Picking Your Spots When Using MLB Runline

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The MLB season is the most profitable of any big four major gambling sport, as it has the longest regular season at 162 games. Meaning to say, if you get off to a slow start at the beginning of the baseball season, you have seven months to catch up, rather then 16 games in football or 82 in the NBA and NHL. Today, we’ll be looking at the bookie software runline, and where to pick your spots when using it.

The runline similar to the puckline in the NHL provides the bettor with an incentive to wager on the underdog. Set at one and a half runs, the bettor wagers that the underdog will cover the run line by losing less than two runs. Here is an example.

Toronto Blue Jays +1.5 (-160)

New York Yankees – 1.5 (+140)

In this example, the Blue Jays need to lose the game by one run or win the game outright in order for their sports betting enthusiasts to win their wagers. However, because the Yankees have the burden of winning by two runs in order to win the wager, bettors taking the Blue Jays have to risk more to get back less. Conversely, the Yankees supporters have to risk less to get back more, because of the daunting odds.

When it comes to picking your spots on the MLB runline, you should look at several statistics before making your decision on which team to choose. Firstly, when the runline is set at minus one and a half runs, you should look at which teams are playing and who the starting pitchers are. For example, if it is the Philadelphia Phillies against the Baltimore Orioles, taking the Phillies to cover is a good idea since the Orioles are notoriously bad. Another important stat is that in the past five years 28 percent of the games have finished with the winning team only winning by a run. Meaning to say, it is difficult to take the runline for this reason.

MLB Stadiums January 3rd 2012

MLB Overnight Lines

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When it comes to successful sports betting, its amazing how many people are more wiling to search for a quick answer then do a little homework. The thing that distinguishes sharp bettors from casual bettors, is that the sharps spend their days looking at different areas of bookie software. In theory, this will allow them to receive an advantage over the sportsbook when they place their bets and find value. Today we’ll look at baseball overnight lines and why they are useful.

MLB overnight lines are established each night after the final game on the West Coast has come to an end. For all intents and purposes, these lines are posted at 11 pm Eastern Time and revised in the morning. Most sharp bettors, we included, will search a variety of sportsbooks for overnight lines, as they will start off quite low. However, when the games take place the next evening, a bettor who took the overnight line, can turn a bigger profit then a person who bet five minutes prior to a game starting.

For example, in a game featuring the Baltimore Orioles and Toronto Blue Jays, the Blue Jays were a – 105 favorite on the overnight line to beat the Orioles. By game time, the Blue Jays had their number increase to – 145. Yet, if you had took the Blue Jays at – 105 on the overnight line, you would have received triple the value by the end of the next game, if the Blue Jays had won. On the other hand, if the Blue Jays had lost, you would have only lost five bucks instead of $45 for the same game. Therefore taking the overnight lines can be more cost effective, then buying the line right at the last minute before game time.

MLB Stadiums December 20th 2011

MLB Offseason News

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MLB fans from across North America were chomping at the bit the last few weeks for some news to come out about their favorite sport. This week, they no longer had to wait, as several teams made major shake ups to their organizations. Here is the latest bookie software offseason news.

The Miami Marlins are hoping to become the biggest fish in the sea this coming season. Miami was finally able to put pen to paper on a six year $100 million deal with oft-injured former New York Mets short stop Jose Reyes. As a result, questions are now beginning to circulate as to whether or not current short stop Hanley Ramirez will be moved either to third base or traded away all together, to land a pitcher.

If the Marlins can keep both Ramirez and sign a few members to the pitching staff that will turn the team around quickly. Speaking of the pitching staff, the Miami Marlins are in the hunt for a starter, after signing former San Diego Padre closer Heath Bell to a mammoth three-year $31 million contract. Just having Reyes and Bell alone could be the veteran moves the Marlins need to turn their franchise around.

Another team making major moves this week, in fact today, was sports betting juggernaut the Toronto Blue jays. The lone Canadian franchise in the MLB, shocked everyone, when they traded star pitching prospect Nestor Molina to the Chicago White Sox, for former Blue Jays short stop turned closer Sergio Santos. This trade came as a huge surprise, as for weeks, its been speculated that Toronto would either sign a free agent closer such as the aforementioned Heath Bell, or trade with the Oakland Athletics for their closer Andrew Bailey. Santos is an interesting commodity, as he’s only really had one full season in the MLB, which was this past one, where he had 30 saves in 36 opportunities.

MLB Stadiums, Sports December 6th 2011

MLB Offseason And Free Agency News

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MLB enthusiasts were thrilled to learn two things earlier today, as the new CBA was signed and the NL MVP award winner was revealed. The two important features headline this week’s offseason bookie software news. Today we will be looking at the offseason and free agency.

Thanks to the new CBA, the offseason can go from being almost dead in the water to picking up steam again. Essentially, as the MLB and its players union worked tirelessly to establish a new CBA agreement, players and ownership alike waited before negotiating their own contracts. After Commissioner Bud Selig and the PA formally announced the new five-year CBA, many media outlets turned their attention back to the free agency pool.

Colleague John Heyman revealed his top 65 must have free agents this year and their projected salary. To say we are in the wrong profession would be an understatement, as sports betting MLB free agents are being paid a ridiculous amount of money. For example, Heyman expects both first base stars Albert Pujols and Prince Fielder to receive up to $220 million each in salary with their new teams.

Pujols, the long time first baseman of the St. Louis Cardinals is looking for an average salary of $30 million a year, as he has basically carried St. Louis since he entered the league. With ownership not willing to budge, there is speculation that Pujols along with speedy New York Mets shortstop Jose Reyes, will each bolt to Miami to play with the Marlins. The new ownership in Miami apparently wants to spend a lot of money and bring the best players to the team, to pack the new stadium.

On the pitching side of free agency, Heyman reported that salaries should be a little bit more reasonable. Neither top prize pitchers, CJ Wilson or Mark Beurhle will cost their new or old team more then $100 million.

MLB Stadiums November 22nd 2011

MLB Betting – Yankees Look To Complete Rally Of Their Own Thursday

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After watching the Tampa Bay Rays have all the sports betting fun during the regular season, the New York Yankees decided that they wanted to make their postseason a little more interesting, and after beating the Detroit Tigers on the road Tuesday night, they have the chance to complete a comeback of their own to advance to the ALCS. Manager Joe Girardi gambled on AJ Burnett, and he delivered in a big way allowing just one run over 5.2 innings to get the decision in a 10-1 blowout to force a game five back at Yankees Stadium.

Detroit Tigers @ New York Yankees

Thursday, 8:00 PM ET

Both teams will have that extra day of rest on Wednesday before the series resumes on Thursday, but after rain in game one affected the starting rotations, neither team will be able to turn to their ace for the pay per head finale. It will be interesting to see if either manager decides to go to their big arms in a close contest, with New York sending Ivan Nova to the mound against Doug Fister for the Tigers. After struggling through the first three games of the series, Alex Rodriguez finally broke through with a couple of hits and an RBI, but the real offensive production came from the back of the Yankees’ order, as Jesus Montero, Brett Gardner, and Russell Martin each had two hits and combined for five MLB runs. If New York is going to be able to pull out the finale at home, they will need more from their big guns at the top including Rodriguez and Mark Teixeira. Detroit managed just one run on four hits Tuesday, and could be in trouble early if the offense stalls again.

MLB Betting Pick: New York Yankees

MLB Stadiums October 5th 2011

MLB Betting – Yankees, Red Sox Make Eachother Better In Battle For AL East Crown

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Over the past decade, the American League East has been all about the battle between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees, with the exception of the Tampa Bay Rays making a push in that MLB betting division for a couple of seasons. With the Rays unable to deal with the turnover from a year ago, the Yankees and Red Sox are once again out front battling for the division title, pushing one another to be better at the top. The two teams were tied heading into action Wednesday night, and there was no reason to think that either one will let up anytime soon.

The Yankees will play out the remainder of their sports betting schedule against the Oakland Athletics before making the trip to Baltimore to face the Orioles, who have been stuck in the AL East basement all season. The Red Sox meanwhile will run their No. 1 ranked offense against the defending AL champion Texas Rangers before taking on those same Athletics at home, in the final series before they welcome New York to Fenway Park for a three-game set. The idea is that when that series rolls around the two teams will be tied for top spot, and it is not an unlikely scenario. The regular season continues to wind down, but don’t expect the AL East picture to get any clearer until the top two teams clash.

MLB Stadiums August 24th 2011

Looking At The Second Round Of MLB Playoffs

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mlb_baseball_2009Last night MLB betting enthusiasts were able to see a Bob Gibson like performance, in Cliff Lee’s dominating win over the Tampa Bay Rays. Lee made many fans betting on the Texas Rangers to win the World Series, confident, as the Rangers finished off their first round series with the Tampa Bay Rays. Lee along with several key errors by the Rays sealed the five to one victory. However, before Cliff Lee and the Texas Rangers can make it to the third round World Series against someone from the National League they will have to knock off the New York Yankees.

Going into the playoffs, we suggested, that the Philadelphia Phillies would win the World Series for several reasons, but one in particular. That reason was that the team which came out of the American League would be exhausted from the first two series they would have to play against their fellow American League rivals.

As it stands, the Texas Rangers took the longest to complete a series in the first round, needing all five games. For the reason that the Yankees only took three games and they are the defending World Series Champions, not many are giving the Rangers a chance to win the second round series.

However, for the breeders cup betting fans that take the regular season into account, writing off the Rangers is not an option. There is no such thing as betonline.com scam - the Rangers were one of the most successful teams against the Yankees, sweeping them at two separate occasions. What’s more, the Rangers pitching has been brilliant thus far in October, leading the majors with 54 strikeouts in five games. Look for the Rangers to make it an interesting series and possibly win it outright in seven games.

Conversely, in the National League, many fans believe the second round conference championship, is just a formality as the Philadelphia Phillies cruise to another World Series in the last three years. But if anyone truly watched the San Francisco Giants Atlanta Braves series, you would have discovered that the Giants are a much tougher team to deal with. Look for the series to be low scoring and for the Giants to push the Phillies much more than the Reds did.

MLB Stadiums October 14th 2010

Baseball Betting Favorites

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nfl_zoom_faulkOf all the sports to bet on, baseball is the trickiest to show a profit in. Whether you are a new or regular MLB betting fanatic, you will find that there are more peaks and valleys in the 162 regular season than in any other sport. The difference between the good teams and the bad ones is that the good teams go through more peaks than valleys. Here is a look at the baseball betting favorite system which takes teams with a 470 win percentage or greater into consideration.

The main premise of the system, requires handicappers to consider teams with a 470 or greater winning percentage and a – 110 money line favorite odds at home after losing its last three games as a home favorite. In this situation, we have found that the home team accumulates a record of 24 – 13 in games following the three home losses. Of the 13 losers, we found nine of the teams rebounded in the game after the system failed.

If you continued to back the home team after a system loss, your record would be 33 – 17 overall. This would be as a result of the nine teams coming up with a win in the game after the system loss.

What’s more, some bettors attempted an alternative approach to the baseball betting favorites system. These bettors used a doubling up mentality in which they treated each game as a win or a loss individually. No betonline com scam here, these handicappers were able to go an astounding 37 wins and zero losses under the system guidelines.

Looking further into this alternative method, you would discover that of the teams that formed the 37 win record, one team only needed four tries before finding the victory. However, chasing losses is not something we promote, as you will rarely show a profit in the long run.

MLB Stadiums September 30th 2010

Yankee Stadium Profile

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yankee-stadiumLocation: New York, NY

Capacity: 52,325

The original Yankee stadium was built in 1923 and fans betting on the team could enjoy both regular season and playoff matchups at the old Yankee stadium until 2008. In 2009, the New York Yankees led by Captain Derek Jeter and star third baseman Alex Rodriguez, switched to the New Yankee stadium, located across the street from the old Yankee stadium. One thing that did not change when the Yankees switched stadiums, was their tradition of winning championships, as in the inaugural year of the new stadium, the Yankees once again became World Series champions.

Although winning the World Series last year for the first time in nine years, fans betting on the team to win their first ever game at the new stadium, were treated to a rude welcoming as the team was defeated by the last place Cleveland Indians 10 to two. This season however, Yankee fans have much to cheer about at the new stadium as the team is the leader of the American League East and currently boasts a 25 and 10 record at home.

With the creation of the new Yankee stadium, it represents a changing of the guard, as the old Yankee stadium, was filled with historic moments overshadowing today’s team. By building the new stadium, owner George Steinbrenner, has created a new home, pressure free for current and future players to create their own history. In addition to providing a new ball park to the teams current crop of players, the new Yankee stadium maintains the traditions of the old stadium, as it still has banners of past championships, retired jerseys and a museum with all of the gear of past Yankee legends.

In the April 16th defeat at the hands of the Cleveland Indians, to kickoff the opening of the new Yankee Stadium, Indians outfielder Grady Sizemore became the first player to hit a grand slam in the new ball park. Other firsts, for the new stadium, included hall of fame catcher Yogi Berra throwing out the first pitch on opening day, and current staff ace CC Sabathia won the first playoff game at the new Yankee Stadium. Furthermore, the new stadium can hold between 50 to 52,000 fans and has been host to a number of non baseball events. The most recent event was the first ever outdoor boxing match in New York on June 5th 2010, as Orthodox Jewish Rabbinical student and former champion Yuri Forman was defeated by knockout sensation Miguel Cotto. The event was the first boxing match in the Bronx since 1976.

MLB Stadiums June 23rd 2010

Fenway Park Profile

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Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Capacity: 36,984

Few professional sports venues in Northbet America can compete with the tradition of the oldest sports venue still in use today, America’s Most Beloved Ballpark, Fenway Park. Since it first opened in April in 1912, 4 Yawkey Way in Boston, Massachusetts has been one of the premiere sports betting destinations. Home to the Boston Patriots, and Boston Braves in years past, the Fens is now only the home of the Boston Red Sox, the team that played in the park since it first opened.

Whether it’s the famous Green Monster, the triangle out in left field, or the “Williamsburg”, the features that make up the identity of the oldest ballpark in MLB betting history are recognized by sports and trivia friends from not only all over the continent, but all over the world. Expanded all the way to the street side near Kenmore Square Boston University, Fenway Park rests in an area few would recognize as being the proper location for a baseball field, but whether it’s David Ortiz hitting a bomb deep to left field, or Jon Lester bringing the crowd to its feet, fans have kept coming to the Fens over the years. In May of 2003, the Red Sox sold out for the 456th consecutive time, which set the record for most consecutive sellouts in the majors, a streak that continue to this day. The host to the NHL’s 2010 Winter Classic, Fenway Park is recognized as one of the greatest sports venues of all-time

MLB Stadiums May 25th 2010