Weekly Review Jan 2nd
What an up and down week we endured here at www.betcris.com. Things got off to a very, very bad start for us last Monday with the heavily supported New England beating the Jets by 10 points in a high scoring match. Considering the bad Sunday we also had last week (Xmas day) we were really hurting and plenty of our customers had lots of money to spend going into the New Year. Many College Bowls concluded this past week, and while we did have a lot of anxious moments, in general the week was good for us in the Bowl games. NBA was a week where many of our customers found some winners, but for us College basketball returned a few bettor results. The last week of NFL is always very difficult for bookmakers, and this week was no different with many results going as expected. It is always difficult to handicap games when good teams have nothing to play for and rest some of their key players. But how long will they play? It seems every year, the general bettor seems better at working that out than we are. The worst result for us happened with two teams which had only 5 wins between them, Houston at San Francisco. San Francisco was by far our worst ‘Teaser’ result with nearly all our bettors banking on them to win the ‘Reggie Bush’ bowl. Mainly the thinking was Houston would lose to ensure the worst record and therefore claim the number 1 daft pick in 2006. They didn’t disappoint either, even though at one stage they were winning 10-0!! One day I am sure the NFL will look into its draft order as games where teams want to lose just cant be good for the sport.
Best College Bowls for the public.. Rutgers was a popular bet against Arizona State in the Insight Bowl receiving anywhere between 13.5 points when we opened to 9 points at kick off. Our worst College result for the week with Arizona winning by only 5, 45-40.
Missouri receiving 3.5 points was just enough to sway the public to bet another upset in the Independence Bowl. Straight up win bettors also got their cash with Missouri winning on the floor 38-31.
Best College Bowls for the house.. Utah’s upset victory over Georgia Tech was our best College result by far for the week. Georgia Tech was well supported to win the Emerald Bowl pushing the opening line of 7, all the way to 9 at kick off. They were never in the hunt though and Utah cruised to a big victory, Utah 38-10
NFL Games of note… Like I explained above, San Francisco was probably our worst result of the week. It’s the first time this year that I’ve ever seen a teaser bet on San Francisco, let alone San Francisco being the most bet for the week by our customers!
Green Bay was another bad result for us. We opened Seattle a 2 point favorite and immediately we were swamped with Green Bay bets. It wasn’t until we got to +6.5 before we could find any serious money for Seattle. We of course were not too happy with a Green Bay 6 point win.
Washington was a great public result as well. They needed to win to ensure a place in the playoffs, and the public bet them like hey would do it. They came from behind and eventually covered the 7- 7.5 point spread and won 31-20
Thank god the final silly week of NFL is finished, and the Playoffs begin. I hope all of our customer enjoyed a great 2005 and New Years party, and from all of us here at Betcris, we hope 2006 is even better.
Until Next week,
Shane Catford
What an up and down week we endured here at www.betcris.com. Things got off to a very, very bad start for us last Monday with the heavily supported New England beating the Jets by 10 points in a high scoring match. Considering the bad Sunday we also had last week (Xmas day) we were really hurting and plenty of our customers had lots of money to spend going into the New Year. Many College Bowls concluded this past week, and while we did have a lot of anxious moments, in general the week was good for us in the Bowl games. NBA was a week where many of our customers found some winners, but for us College basketball returned a few bettor results. The last week of NFL is always very difficult for bookmakers, and this week was no different with many results going as expected. It is always difficult to handicap games when good teams have nothing to play for and rest some of their key players. But how long will they play? It seems every year, the general bettor seems better at working that out than we are. The worst result for us happened with two teams which had only 5 wins between them, Houston at San Francisco. San Francisco was by far our worst ‘Teaser’ result with nearly all our bettors banking on them to win the ‘Reggie Bush’ bowl. Mainly the thinking was Houston would lose to ensure the worst record and therefore claim the number 1 daft pick in 2006. They didn’t disappoint either, even though at one stage they were winning 10-0!! One day I am sure the NFL will look into its draft order as games where teams want to lose just cant be good for the sport.
Best College Bowls for the public.. Rutgers was a popular bet against Arizona State in the Insight Bowl receiving anywhere between 13.5 points when we opened to 9 points at kick off. Our worst College result for the week with Arizona winning by only 5, 45-40.
Missouri receiving 3.5 points was just enough to sway the public to bet another upset in the Independence Bowl. Straight up win bettors also got their cash with Missouri winning on the floor 38-31.
Best College Bowls for the house.. Utah’s upset victory over Georgia Tech was our best College result by far for the week. Georgia Tech was well supported to win the Emerald Bowl pushing the opening line of 7, all the way to 9 at kick off. They were never in the hunt though and Utah cruised to a big victory, Utah 38-10
NFL Games of note… Like I explained above, San Francisco was probably our worst result of the week. It’s the first time this year that I’ve ever seen a teaser bet on San Francisco, let alone San Francisco being the most bet for the week by our customers!
Green Bay was another bad result for us. We opened Seattle a 2 point favorite and immediately we were swamped with Green Bay bets. It wasn’t until we got to +6.5 before we could find any serious money for Seattle. We of course were not too happy with a Green Bay 6 point win.
Washington was a great public result as well. They needed to win to ensure a place in the playoffs, and the public bet them like hey would do it. They came from behind and eventually covered the 7- 7.5 point spread and won 31-20
Thank god the final silly week of NFL is finished, and the Playoffs begin. I hope all of our customer enjoyed a great 2005 and New Years party, and from all of us here at Betcris, we hope 2006 is even better.
Until Next week,
Shane Catford
