2009 NBA Predictions: Ranking the Top Teams

The NBA season starts on Tuesday. It is always important to make early season NBA predictions in order to help you identify which teams will be most profitable during the year. This is a good practice to use in all sports. It is important to have power ranking in place so that you can take advantage of key match-ups that create tremendous value for the bettor. I will break down what I feel are the top 3 teams in each league. This may lead you into making better decisions throughout the course of... 

NFL Week 7: A Handicappers Point of View

There are several key week 7 NFL match-ups. To help you get an understanding of what is needed to handicap successfully, I will break down 2 of these games. The average gambler doesn’t know what to look at when breaking down NFL games. Most bettors generally use a teams past performance to dictate their NFL picks. This isn’t necessarily the wrong way to look at things, but you need to do so with caiution. Brett Favre and the red-hot Minnesota Vikings go to Pittsburgh to take on Ben Roethlisberger... 

Week 6 Shows How Hard NFL Picks Are

If you don’t think that making NFL picks is hard, just look at some of the week 6 results. The average gambler doesn’t realize that the difference between the best and worst teams in the NFL may be a couple of key players and coaching. Either way, even the worst teams have a chance to win on any given Sunday. The Oakland Raiders offense has been nothing short if dismal this season. Any team that is a 15 point underdog at home can’t be good! Despite facing a Philadelphia Eagles squad that has... 

Baseball Predictions on the Championship Series

The Championship Series for both leagues have been set. For the most part the post-season has stayed true to form as far as baseball predictions go.The first round match-ups looked as though they would be more competitive, but the better teams did prevail.The only major shock in regards to the division series was the relative ease in which the Dodgers disposed of the St. Louis Cardinals. It seems that the dropped fly ball by Matt Holliday in game 2, (would have been the final out) was all that LA... 

2009 Divisional MLB Picks

If the 2009 MLB Playoffs are going to be anything like the Minnesota/ Detroit play in game, we’re in for an amazing post-season. The Tigers and Twins battled for 12 innings in a drama filled game. Minny came back 3 times to tie the game, finally winning in the 12th on a single to right. The first round divisional match-ups look to be full of excitement. Making MLB picks on these games will not be easy. The defending Champion Philadelphia Phillies are facing a red-hot Colorado Rockies team that... 

Playoff Baseball Picks Come Down to Wire

After all of the talk of adding an additional “wildcard” team to the MLB playoff race due to lack of excitement coming down the stretch, the tide has turned with several key races to end the season. At the beginning of the season many expert made baseball predictions that didn’t involve Minnesota or Colorado. Now both of these teams find themselves in a position to get in. The Twins have won 7 of their last 10 and now find themselves just 2 games behind the slumping Tigers. A critical 4 game...