Analyze Sports but Simply Enjoy Games

Published 09/28/2017, 5:56 AM EDT

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In the United States, September is one of the most exciting months for team sports and for sports betting. Following sports news every day is essential to achieving winning bets.

  • The regular baseball season is winding down to a preliminary denouement: which teams will make it to the playoffs. Then, we have the unique nature of baseball post-season playoffs where you have to win three or four games to advance.
  • The US football season begins with high hopes for all teams. The bubbles quickly burst but even a losing team can win money for astute sports bettors.
  • Professional basketball and hockey will soon get going. In pro basketball especially, this off season saw many players switch teams. How will they play in their new surroundings and with new teammates?
  • College football and basketball get going this month as well. Big time college sports are a training ground for future pros.

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Analyze, Not Sentimentalize

If there is one single bit of advice that we can give to sports bettors it would be: don;t let sentimentality get in the way of making a smart, well considered bet on a sports team or event.

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Avoiding Pitfall Number One

And back to sports and sports betting. Sentimentality causes more financial losses to bettors than faulty analysis. You can always make an argument regarding a team or a single game but when one team is clearly outmatched by the competition no amount of wishful thinking should compel you to bet on the less skilled team to win.

Here are a couple of important points to bear in mind when deciding how and when to place a sports bet.

  • The safest place to bet on sports is at a casino designed to facilitate sports betting. These enterprises are fully regulated, unlike the neighborhood bookmaker.
  • Know your game. If you don’t understand American Baseball, and many sports bettors don’t, then it;s a good idea to find a different sport for your sports betting activity.
  • Trends are important in all sports.

Baseball is Unique in Sports

In many team sports there will be one or more teams every season that wins 70% of their games. This functionally never happens in baseball! This means that many lesser teams beat excellent teams on a nightly basis. Over the course of a full season, talent will out, however.

The reason that it’s so hard to win 70% of your games in baseball (or even 60% for that matter) is that your best players may not get a single chance to help you win on any given night.

In basketball, the best offensive player touches the ball on every play. In baseball, the best offensive player might have 4 chances to help his team. On defense, the best players are involved in every play in most sports but may not be involved in a single important play in an entire game in baseball.

These elements make baseball so exciting to the well-informed. Because players are bigger and stronger than ever, every pitch in baseball is a potential home run. So, in the playoffs above all, every pitch is fraught with tension and excitement.

As a sports bettor, you have to cut through the tension and bet on the team that seems likely to win based on your analysis.

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Beating the Spread

There are some teams that lose far more often than they win but they defy firm analysis because they rarely lose by a big score. If you find a team that seems to always lose but comes close, betting on that team to beat the spread is good betting strategy.

Famous Words about Sports

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Remember the immortal words on sports by famed American director Spike Lee: “Sports cannot be scripted”.

Your analysis of conditions for any sports event will determine how you bet and even with the best analysis you have no guarantees that you’ll be right in the end.

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Dhruv George is a senior Formula One and NASCAR analyst for EssentiallySports, having authored nearly 12000 articles spanning different sports like F1, NASCAR, Tennis, NFL, and eSports. He graduated with a PG Diploma in Journalism from the Xavier Institute of Communications. Dhruv has also conducted interviews with F1 driver Pierre Gasly and Moto2 rider Tony Arbolino.
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