Originally Posted by
wantitall4moi
To all the guys claiming to make money, and maybe you do. The ROI isnt nearly as high as it is in any other sport, there simply arent enough betting opportunities.
So basically if you are 'making a lot of money' youre betting a lot of money. reward versus risk just isnt there.
Unless youre making bets that are all over the place in terms of a unit size then you cant possibly hope to make the same type of money as betting baseball.
There are 256 NFL games a year. So say by some miracle you find 200 betting opportunities (about 10 a week counting playoffs), between halves, totals, sides, quarters, whatever. And you go a miraculous 55%. Betting roughly the same amount or same sort of bets of 1,2 or 3 units. So we make your average win 2.25 units per game (which it more than likely wouldnt be, but for the sake of the argument.) So that would mean your re going to be 105-90-5. So youre looking at around a 34 unit profit. Doesnt sound too bad, but remember this is a return that is nearly impossible to obtain.
A more realistic one would be you bet maybe 150 times during the season, around 7 bets a week. You hit 53% if youre lucky, you get reduced vig and you throw in a ML dog here or there that hits. BTW these are for guys that know what theyre doing. not degenerates who bet huge on a late Sunday game or Moday game to get even. So under those conditions youre looking at maybe a 10-12 unit increase. A couple bad bounces or missed FG or special teams error and youre even or losing for the season.
Football is the perfect sport for books, they have people over a barrel. You lose 10 or 12 in a row in baseball you still have a couple thousand more bets before the season ends. In football you lose 10 in a row youre begging just to get back to even, or I suppose you could just go all in and hope. Which is always a great money management practice. Because really the only way to win at football is to take an approach that doesnt make any sense and do well at it. So it is either get rich or go broke strategy basically, and not one most guys trying to make long term profits under take.