Picking Straight Up Winners in Sports Betting
What happens in online sports betting is that people pick the team they think will win the game straight up and forget about the pointspread.
Sports betting success usually comes from understanding the difference between picking straight up winners and picking pointspread winners. Can you sometimes win by only picking straight up winners? The answer is yes. Is it easy to do in sports betting? The answer is no.
As you look at the sports betting season you want to focus on teams that are due for a fall or teams that are due to rise. This way you are focusing on straight up winners that can also be online sports betting pointspread winners. This really applies to all sports, even NFL betting. Some teams may be playing poorly while some teams that were not expected to do well are looking great.
That can immediately give you value when betting for, or against these teams at the online sportsbook. Sports betting oddsmakers and the public are very slow to change their opinion of teams early in the season. It sometimes takes three or four weeks for the perception of a team to change in online sports betting. That can give you a chance to really find some good sports betting value if you are quick enough to recognize it.
Sometimes value will point you in different directions in sports betting. You might have a team like Pittsburgh get off to a slow start. They may be an excellent play in sports betting in the next few weeks for the simple reason that they should get back to playing to their normal level. The same thing can occur in sports betting when teams get off to good starts that really may have benefited from turnovers, good breaks etc. or if they are playing over their head. Very often the breaks will even out and the team comes back to earth a little bit versus the sports betting odds. You have to pick your spots carefully when going against a hot team though in sports betting.
In NFL betting and other forms of online sports betting it is always to your advantage to get as much value as possible and that can happen if you are paying attention.
