do you spend more than 10 minutes capping an individual game

[mofome]

ever?

[ShamsWoof10]

EVER..???? Yeah but in the last three years FFFFFFFF*CK NO!!!!

[SBR Lou]

I never spend more than 5 seconds capping an individual game.

[mofome]

I never spend more than 5 seconds capping an individual game.

[area51steve]

Whats up mofome?? More than 10 minutes?? Yea, when it comes to betting big money you gotta make sure your on the right side. Stats, trends, injuries, line movement, etc.. Gotta look at everything..

[mofome]

Whats up mofome?? More than 10 minutes?? Yea, when it comes to betting big money you gotta make sure your on the right side. Stats, trends, injuries, line movement, etc.. Gotta look at everything..

not much man, just tryin to get a feel for what some of the guys do before they put their money down. some games i'll take 1 minute to look at, but some i'll spend a lot of time on. the less games, the more time i normally spend looking around, because not as many lines will stand out.

[SBR Lou]

Everyones different, it varies depending on volume. With football, if nothing on the board jumps out at you right away, you have enough time during the week to evaluate things. So I don't think there's any set answer. I will say, though, that the people who are more thorough, and try to cover as much ground as possible will do better in the long run, assuming they have none of the leaks typically associated w/ problem gambling. So I think yeah, on average, there will be plenty situations where you require more than 10 minutes.

[durito]

I've developed a formula that might work for you. It's fairly complicated so let me know if you have any questions:

Less posting + More Handicapping = Greater Returns

[mofome]

I've developed a formula that might work for you. It's fairly complicated so let me know if you have any questions:

Less posting + More Handicapping = Greater Returns

1-0 this evening, im pleased with the returns. thanks for the system though.

[pico]

depends. i go anywhere from 10 sec to 2 hours. on average 15 minutes per game.

[Dark Horse]

In the NBA I play trends (for quarters and halves) that don't require a lot of time. Until the ASB the NBA is not a high intensity league so many teams develop habits -some long term, some short term-, that aren't hard to identify. After the ASB I use a different approach that focuses on intensity.

For the NFL I have a 20+ page printout with systems updated every week, plus a 4 or 5 page printout for each week's games. I use combinations of angles that by themselves produce winners; such as different overlays on a vertical axis set off against another numerical approach on a horizontal axis. This produces sweet spots. For instance, qualifying overs went 68-41, but the sweet spot within that total went a ridiculous 34-2 (sounds crazy, or as Ganch would say, like data mining, but it isn't; I believe the sweet spots to be the result of build-in motivational factors). I also try to stay a step ahead so one or two pages have experimental angles. Most of those end up in the trash, but a few make it into the 'proven' systems. (This year I added a new angle that went 53-27 ATS for the season, without a losing week). For the NFL just going over the starters for each team, based on Friday's injury report, takes a couple of hours. I'm careful with playing sides ATS for the full game, because the linesmakers are too good there. By comparison they merely guess at setting totals.

My main focus isn't on sports, so I stopped wasting my time on amateur athletes. (I just can't watch football all day on Saturday and then expect to be sharp on Sunday). The stock market is much the same game, but with a bigger board, juicier dice, and better refs.

Oh. I pretty much suck at MLB. And I'd like to keep it that way.

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[awhitejackson]

I had a bad week three weeks ago when i played on whims and quit taking the full ten to fifteen minutes to cap.. Had to rebuild finances to hit it again this week and have found so far that this extra time (capping and research) has helped....Its not all about luck.. So far Ive only been playing the picks I have in the parley contest and as of tonight I'm 5-1.. GL...

[mofome]

I had a bad week three weeks ago when i played on whims and quit taking the full ten to fifteen minutes to cap.. Had to rebuild finances to hit it again this week and have found so far that this extra time (capping and research) has helped....Its not all about luck.. So far Ive only been playing the picks I have in the parley contest and as of tonight I'm 5-1.. GL...

5-1? we dont need gl, just post your picks and we should be fine.

[2Pac]

Why should we try to handicap games when the experts have already done it? The linesmakers out in Vegas have tools and skills that we could never imagine.

[guitarjosh]

When you factor in the amount of time I spend keeping up with teams and players and stuff like that, yes.

[louisvillekid]

not unless my computer is messing up, everything is at a click of a mouse. yahoo,espn,cbs sportsline, SBR's free Statfox report, i can check all those sites and more and jot down on paper what i like, all in under 10 minutes for 1 game.

[jjgold]

best way to bet sports now a days is trends and systems

No way to predict how athletes are going to perform daily so throw all the bull shit out and just bet angles, ect

[aszzzbrokerman]

I play max 1 game per time slot so I do take some time. First thing I look for is weird lines. Once I have those all picked out I go with whichever seems furthest from what the line should be according to my research. Then I have to pick a side which usually takes a while. I literally just read until I find something that makes me say aha....no wonder that line looks like this.

For instance to me, the fishy 12pm line today is Md +1 at charlotte. I'm probably jinxing myself but Maryland seems to be the right side in this game.