Opening Day NBA Betting Notes

Here are sports betting news and notes for opening night
of the NBA

Blazers-Spurs

Portland head
coach Nate McMillan said he will not announce his
starting five until tipoff claiming the media
attention would make it a distraction for the players. They brought in Steve
Blake to compete with incumbent Jarrett Jack.
Most importantly, Martell Webster has a tremendous preseason averaging
17.7 points per game while shooting 58 percent from the field.

Sportsbooks has
the Spurs as a 13.5 point favorite with a total ranging from 189 to 189.5. With
injuries to Jacque Vaughn and Beno Udrih, rookie Darius Washington will be the only point
guard on the Spurs bench.

The Spurs are 19-7 ATS in the head-to-head meeting, with
the home team covering 6-of-8.

Jazz-Warriors

Golden State
is a 3.5 point favorite at BetUs
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with a total of 214.5. Jazz backup small forward Matt Harpring is a game time decision. Because of the California
wildfires causing cancellation of the preseason game to the Lakers, Golden
State
has played once in the last
11 days.

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Rockets-Lakers

The Lakers are without second leader scorer from last year
Lamar Odom.

NewBodog has Houston
as a five point road favorite with a total of 195.5. The Lakers Kobe Bryant is
probable with a sprained right wrist. Houston
has a new coach, the much more offensive minded Rick Adelman.
The series has been close, last year each team won twice, each winning in
overtime in Tinsel Town.

The Lakers have covered 9-of-13 in the series.

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Early Season NBA Betting Crib Sheet

As is the case in all sports, everyone and their sister
are doing NBA season previews. This is very much true even with those in the
handicapping industry. From a spread bettor’s standpoint, these forecasts can
have little value.

As we point out similar examples in every sport, San
Antonio
could have the best record in the NBA and Atlanta
could have the worst. Yet it’s still
conceivable that the Hawks could have a better spread record.

Being right about projected divisional standings assures
little in spread betting. Just imagine
the gambling bloodbath when such predictions are wrong.

This year’s NFL is an aberration where the two of the
three teams widely considered being the best in the NFL before the year
started—Indianapolis and New
England
—also have great spread records. How quickly we forget the
Chargers were among the big three preseason favorites, though we know they will
be heard from. But let us get back to the NBA.

Elite handicappers look for fluid tendencies rather than
handicapping an entire season before it starts. This is a big reason why we
minimize futures bets and even playoff series bets, to eliminate the danger of
being even subconsciously biased in our day to day soothsaying.

At OffshoreInsiders.com,
we compile pages of notes for our betting “cheat sheets” on every
team, updated daily. So here are some highlights of early tendencies we are
looking for in our every day NBA handicapping:

Golden State: “Predictably Unpredictable”

One of our many Golden Rules of sports handicapping is
that square players avoid erratic teams, sharp players love them. In short, the
angle is that we bet against such teams the hotter and bigger favorite they are
and wager on them the colder and bigger underdog they become.

Yes, professional gamblers know there are many situations
to go with horrible, slumping teams and go against elite teams during their
winning streak. Why will the Warriors be a team squares hate and sharpies love?

Well, yet another Golden Rule that has made you and us a
fortune this college football season: it’s easier to be the hunter than the
hunted. Golden State
enters the year as a chic team fresh off a 16-5 straight up run to close out
the regular season, followed by the historic upset of Dallas.

Golden State
is a high flying, up-tempo team that lives off the three-point shot. Last year
they led the league in three-point attempts and their average went up after the
Jan. 16 trade in which they acquired Stephen Jackson and Al Harrington.

Riding the hot hand, they shot the three-pointer even more
in the playoffs, averaging a stunning 31 attempts per game in the post-season
compared to 23.4 attempts before the aforesaid trade. This is even more
significant because defenses tighten and the pace slows in the postseason.

This formula means they will look like a lottery team one
night and a championship contender the next night. Perhaps it’s the Golden
(State) Rule. Watch them drive 90 percent of gamblers nuts, yet be “Golden”
going both for and against for wiseguy gamblers, depending on the situation.

Grizzlies Built to Improve as the Year Goes
On

Memphis had
the worst record in the NBA last year, but they have a fresh coach, new GM, and
a plethora of new to the job players.

And we do mean “new”. Their coach Mark Iavaroni has his
first head coaching job. Other than Damon Stoudamire, the average player has
less than three years NBA experience. They will be better in January and
February than in November. Best of all, their early season struggles will lower
their value with the offshore and Vegas sportsbooks just in time for them to
improve.

Look for us to ride them as huge underdogs after their
first 15-20 games of abysmal play. We eye them as one of the top dichotomous
ATS and SU squads. Again, the script and
a successful evergreen one at that: we discount 98 percent of trends, but this
has proven to be the exception to the rule. If a team has a great SU record but
horrid ATS record or visa versa, we bet for that to continue as it is the sign
of which teams are most under or overvalued.

Mavericks an Early Season “Over” Team

Dallas coach
Avery Johnson transformed the Mavericks from a shoot and let God sort them out
team to a squad that thought defense first, second and third. The result was
one of the great postseason failures in sports history.

Johnson learned that having Dirk Nowitzki thinking defense
foremost is the equivalent of trying to make Peyton Manning or Tom Brady a
thousand yard rusher.

Not only will Dallas
correct that blunder, but the focus this offseason was improving their
weakness: their offense against the zone. New assistant coach Paul Westphal was
hired to do just that, among other things focusing on execution rather than
trying to outsmart their opponent with new fangled looks. This is a wise move
considering Dallas has the
offensive weapons. Look for point guard Devin Harris to be among the most
improved players in the league offensively.

Nets Will Come Out of the Gates Quickly

The Nets point guard and leader Jason Kidd is what a point
guard should be. He makes players better
and brings into play his weapons. He has a lot more to work with this year.
Jamaal Magloire, Sean Williams and Malik Allen have been added, Josh Boone is
rapidly improving and Nenad Krstic is back from injury.

The team has gelled in camp and in the preseason. Buoyed
by all this, we look for the Nets to look like world beaters early on.

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Broncos-Packers MNF Betting Preview

Monday Night Football will have fantasy football and
sports
betting expert
s alike watching the Green Bay Packers take on the Denver
Broncos.

The top all-time NFL handicapper Mike Godsey of GodsTips.com says that one of the keys to
finding overvalued versus undervalued teams is comparing straight up records
and points per game stats to the “real stats that handicappers use”, teams net
yardage margin.

There is not a huge edge there as Green
Bay
is 5-2 straight up, but 4-2 in winning net yards
margin. Denver is 3-3 straight up
and 2-4 with the “net yardage margin” win-loss record. However, they have been
beaten statistically in four straight games.

On offense, Green Bay
is getting 5.5 yards per play against teams normally allowing 5.3. Denver
gets 4.7 yards per carry against teams normally allowing 4.3 and 7.5 yards per
pass against teams normally allowing 6.5. That’s a cumulative 6.2 to 5.5.

On defense, the Cheese Heads allow just 3.8 yards per rush
to teams normally getting 4.3. Their opponent, Denver
allows 5.1 yards per rush against teams normally allowing 4.4 and 7.2 yards per
pass against teams normally allowing 6.7. That’s 5.9 yards per play against
teams normally allowing 5.9.

Green Bay has
played only two road games, but won both averaging 29 points per game and
allowing just 14.5.

The Broncos have won two straight Monday night games at
Invesco Field, and 10 of their last 13 Monday home games. Brett Favre has lost
five straight on MNF.

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Week 8 Fantasy Football and NFL Betting Injury Information

Week 8 NFL betting: now let’s take a look at late game NFL
injuries and key information for sports bettors, fantasy football gurus
and more. The early NFL injuries for online gamblers are here.

Bills-Jets

Despite it being an inter-state east coast battle, it is a
4:00 EST start or 1:00 for Las Vegas
sports bettors. Struggling New
York
is a three-point favorite at most sportsbooks. The Jets are without
linebacker Jonathan “Stone” Vilma.

Texans-Chargers

Houston
quarterback Matt Schaub is considered probable to
questionable. San Diego starting
defensive tackle Jamal Williams is a game time decision. San
Diego
will fight the distractions of being displaced
because of the California
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services of running back Ahman Green.

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Jaguars-Buccaneers

Tampa varies
among sportsbooks as a 3.5 or
four-point favorites. Jacksonville’s
running back Maurice Jones-Drew is a game time decision. WFAN
radio’s Mike Francesca believes the Jaguars will be “as conservative as a team
can be today” because the Jags are without quarterback David Garrard. “It will
be a 10-6 type game” according to the talk show host. Garrard may miss four
weeks.

Saints-49ers

Darrell Jackson is doubtful. Running back Frank Gore is
now considered questionable after being listed as probable early in the week.

Redskins-Patriots

New England’s running back Sammy
Morris and tight end Ben Watson are questionable.

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Early Game NFL Injuries

Here are NFL injuries for sports betting online, Vegas
sportsbook gambling and fantasy football for
the early games. We will check the injury status of Maurice Jones-Drew, Matt Schaub and others for the late action, in a separate
article shortly.

Browns-Rams

The Browns running back Jamal Lewis will be a game time
decision. Once doormat, Cleveland
is a three-point road favorite according to NewBodog. Wide
receiver Danta Hall is also out for St.
Louis
. St. Louis
is likely to regain the services of running back Steven Jackson for this game.
He will not get his normal workload though.

Colts-Panthers

Indianapolis
is a 6.5 point favorite at BetUs
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with a total of 44.5. The Colts will be without wide receiver
Marvin Harrison and linebacker Freddy Keiaho. Aaron Moorehead gets the start for you fantasy football players
in place of Harrison. DeShaun
Foster is probable for Carolina as
the running back has practiced since Thursday.

Carolina
remains minus regular starting quarterback Jake Delhomme and his backup,
journeyman David Carr will not start because of a back injury. Vinny Testaverde
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Giants-Dolphins

In the game from Wembley
Stadium, the Giants will be minus key back-up running back Derrick Ward.

Raiders-Titans

The Titans are concerned about two players who are
questionable: running back Chris Brown and wide receiver Brandon Jones. Titans
quarterback Vince Young is considered close to 100 percent and will start.

Eagles-Vikings

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The Eagles will once again be minus free safety Brian
Dawkins with a neck injury. Also starting offensive left tackle Jon Runyan is a game time decision. Eagles
tight end L.J. Smith will play, but be limited.

Steelers-Bengals

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NFL Betting News and Notes From NFL Lock Betting Experts

Here are sports betting news and notes for NFL games of
Sunday, October 28. This NFL betting information is for your football locks in
the early games.

Colts-Panthers

Indianapolis
has won 11 straight games going back to last year (includes playoffs). Surprisingly
the Colts are third in the NFL in defense allowing just 269.5 yards per game.
Wide receiver Marvin Harrison has a bruised left knee but is expected to play.
We will update injuries Sunday morning at OffshoreInsiders.com

Carolina is a
perfect 3-0 in the series. However they have not met since 2004. It looks like
43-year-old Vinny Testaverde starts at quarterback for the Panthers.

This is only the Panthers third home game, but is that
good or bad? In a great anomaly, the road team is 6-0 straight up in the
Panthers games this year.

Lions-Bears

Detroit is
looking to sweep the series for the first time in 2004, but it’s a huge revenge
game for the Bears. Detroit scored
34 fourth quarter points to knock off the Bears on Sept. 30. Chicago
is 5-1 straight up in the series at home. Detroit
is 7-44 straight up their last 51 road games, including 1-2 this year.

Raiders-Titans

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quarterback Vince Young and running back Chris Brown. Both missed last week’s
game, but practiced Friday. Oakland
has a combined 98 yards rushing in the last two games.

Oakland
quarterback Josh McNown, who started the first three
games, is expected to be at full-speed. However head coach Lane Kiffin has not said whether he or Daunte
Culpepper will start. Oakland is
3-1 SU in the series.

Browns-Rams

Injury riddled St. Louis
is 0-7 and averaging just 11.3 points per game. They are though expected to get
back running back Steven Jackson who missed the last four games because of
injury. Jackson
led the league in yards from scrimmage last year. He joins Marc Bulger who
returned last week after missing two games.

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Eagles-Vikings

Philadelphia
scored eight touchdowns to Detroit,
but in all other games they are averaging just 12.0 points per game. According
to Cy McCormick of MasterLockLine.com,
even though Vikings starting QB Tavaris
Jackson is being called a game time decision, Kelly Holcomb is
likely to start.
Jackson has the lowest passer rating and completion percentage
among all starting signal callers. Philly has won 6-of-7 in the series.

Giants-Dolphins

Remember, this game is being played in London,
England
, though Miami
is considered the “home team”. Miami
is the only team in the NFL to give up more than 200 points and they’ve given
up 231, far and away worst in the NFL.

New York has
won five straight, the last four by double digits. Things got worse for Miami
as last week they lost leading rusher Ronnie Brown and starting safety Renaldo
Hill for the year. Brown led the league in yards from scrimmage.

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Steelers-Bengals

Pittsburgh has
won six straight and 14-of-17 in Cincinnati.
The Steelers are best in the NFL in points allowed at 13.0 points per game and
yards per game at 250.3.


Saturday College Football News and Notes

Here are sports betting news and notes for games of Saturday, October 26, 2007

Georgia-Florida

Florida is
8-1 straight up in the series and 15-2 the last 17. “Florida
has been much better with Andre Caldwell (wide receiver) healthy. He is back to
100 percent as he showed last week against Kentucky,”
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New Mexico State-Hawaii

Hawaii
averages more than 52 points per game. The Aggies are
minus their top receiver Chris Williams but will get Nick Cleaver and A.J. Harris. Last week they got quarterback Chase Holbrook
back from a two game suspension. He threw for 404 yards. Hawaii
has won the last three in the series by an average of 18 points.

Ohio State-Penn State

Penn State
is on a three-game winning streak in which they have averaged scoring 33.6
points. However, they face Ohio State
which is allowing a nation’s best 7.8 points per game. Four of the last six
meetings have been decided by seven or fewer points.

USC-Oregon

This is the first time the Trojans were a conference dog
in their last 45 games to the Pac-10. Mark Sanchez starts at quarterback for
USC as starting QB John David Booty is still nursing a broken middle finger. Booty,
though, may be available.

North Carolina-Wake Forest

Underdog UNC is 12-4 in the
series. However, Wake has turned it around winning 3-of-4. The Tar Heels have
played brutal schedule with the combined record of their foes so far at 40-13.
Wake has won five straight entering this game.

California-Arizona State

The Golden Bears have lost two straight. ASU’s 7-0 straight up start can be attributed in great part
due to the fact their first four opponents in the Pac-10 can a combined 4-13
mark. Their schedule is ranked 97th in toughness by the NCAA.
They’ve also been healthy all year, but that changed as starting tailback Ryan Torain has been lost for the year. He has 553 yards rushing
with five touchdowns, plus two more catching the ball.

South Carolina-Tennessee

Despite being coached by Steve Spurrier, South
Carolina
is 93rd of 119 teams in offense.
Steve Spurrier has used three quarterbacks in practice this week.

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SBG Global and Radio Tout Sebastian Stiff Clients

We’ve been sent some emails about a radio tout named Sebastian.
What we know is he got on a hot streak after sending clients to scam sportsbook
SBG Global.

He wasn’t supposed to win, but he got lucky and all of a
sudden the clients he sent started winning. Now, the notorious sportsbook is
refusing to play clients.

This is why OffshoreInsiders.com
and JoeDuffy.net totally vet
all sportsbooks and will refer you
only to the best ones. We took
Sportsbook.com off our site many months ago and just recently a major site said
they were removing them as a sponsor.

Again, we are months ahead of the curve. SBG Global got in bed with a 50 percent capper with a
following thanks to a radio show. His was supposed to lose—and the public has
been. But everyone he sent was betting his plays, now an estimated 10 clients
are out in the cold for a combined $200,000.

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Radio Touts Revive Myth of Bailout Game

Joe Duffy (OffshoreInsiders.com)

Often spending 15 hours per day in front of this computer,
I do listen to a lot of sports radio stations around the country via the magic
of streaming audio. Every Monday, Friday and Saturday, I am entertained by
so-called handicappers, “Vegas legends” and other mercenaries. The various
pitchmen purchase infomercial segments peddling their weekly “opportunity of a
lifetime”.

Bobby Ventura is the most pathetic. I heard a commercial from a guy in radio
voice saying he was Bobby Ventura and they were 6-1 on Monday Night Football.
Then another guy in a boiler room Long Island accent comes on, says he’s Bobby
Ventura and it’s only his second Monday Night Football release of the year.

A handful of the touts do supply worthwhile information,
but most of the shows, to quote politico William Gibbs, consists of an “an army
of pompous phrases moving across the landscape in search of an idea.” It’s a
weekly echo chamber of how many ways the huckster tries to sway listeners into
believers. “You have to know which teams are coming to play and which are not”
generally followed by a strange segue comparing football teams to horses, race
cars or other generic talking points.

However, the one recurring specific assertion makes me
cringe because the boiler room tout is exploiting a myth with the intent of separating
fools from their money.

It’s the fairy-tale where the canned script claims that
with about 60 or so college and pro football games they find “one game” in
which “information so strong” comes in.” Of course “when an opportunity this
strong (“strong” seems to be a favorite word of the scamdicappers)
lands on your lap, you have to simply unload on this game.” As luck would have
it, that week’s treasure chest just so happens to fall on the same day the paid
announcement is scheduled to broadcast.

The “unload on this one game” fool’s gold could not be
further detached from reality. Like we said in reference to the Tim Donaghy
scandal, sharp players look to get information (not necessarily the vague
claims of “inside” information) that will give them an edge over a span of
hundreds of bets.

This is the No. 1 reason the NCAA should be concerned
about Texas A&M coach Dennis Francione’s
secret newsletter. “Getting accurate injury information before the oddsmakers
acquire it would increase any decent sports bettor’s winning percentage by 6-8
percentage points” says Mike Godsey, Senior Handicapper of GodsTips.com. He admits that estimate errs
on the conservative side.

Stevie Vincent of BetOnSports360.com
agrees if “every coach published a secret newsletter, professional gamblers
would annihilate the sportsbooks.”

But contrary to what the boiler room touts want you to
believe, Vincent and Godsey are not referring to “betting the mortgage” on any
single game or a small number of games, but hitting 60-plus percent of hundreds
of bets per year.

Between having been the GM of the Freescoreboard
scorephone network and now CEO of OffshoreInsiders.com,
I’ve gotten dozens of inquiries from handicappers who wanted to be part of said
networks. I always demand at least a week’s worth of writing samples before
they are even given consideration.

Frankly this caveat weeds out about 95 percent of
applicants. If the aspiring candidate does not supply analysis that convinces
me that the handicapper has insight that few bettors possess, he has zero
chance of ever being on a site in which I am the decider.

My credo is that all established professional handicappers
are proud to show off the amount of research that goes into a bet. If a handicapper gives you no rationale, rest
assured you just paid for a coin flip.

Many claim to have “information” such as the previously referenced
newest wave of radio touts. Those who actually can supply the privy and precise
scoop will document their claims with specifics of what their knowledge actually
is. Otherwise it’s all propaganda.

Again, the golden rule is no matter how invaluable the lowdown
proves to be, any upper hand will pay off long-term. This is no “bail out
game”. Excluding pushes, even the
preeminent gamblers will lose four out of every 10 bets.

Perhaps the biggest difference between the professional
gambler and the degenerate is that the elite bettors measure success by the
month, year and decade. Losing 40 percent of their bets has to be the cost of
doing business. The deadbeat meanwhile falls
prey to any clown with a sales pitch and an 800 number.

Luckily for radio sales people and bookmakers, so many rainbow
chasers continue to choose the latter.

Joe Duffy is CEO of OffshoreInsiders.com
and lead handicapper of GodsTips on said site. His picks are always
backed by specific rationale as to why you too should bet his plays.


Critical Betting and Gambling Notes, Secrets of the Pros, Handicapping Formulas

It’s been awhile since we authored a volume in this series.

However more anticipated than a Harry Potter novel, the Tid-Bets return to take a look at various sports handicapping and betting issues.

How Do Handicappers Work Overtime? 

CBS announcer Gary Danielson accurately observed how college football overtimes can greatly distort statistics. From a handicapping standpoint, this is certainly true for those who use deceptive rankings or points per game statistics. Luckily sharp bettors do not or they are weighted very lightly.

The main statistics that we use: yards per rush, yards per pass, and yards per play on offense and defense compared to the cumulative average of their opponents are not debased by overtime play. The same is true for ace football handicapper Joe Duffy who utilizes net yard advantage/disadvantage cumulative statistics.

We’ve explained in previous articles why straight up wins and losses, point margin, and offensive and defensive rankings are the most popular choices of square players planning their own sportsbook death sentence.

“If a team wins by eight points in four overtimes, it looks the same as an eight-point win in regulation,” says Mike Godsey, referring to those who use the above fatal stats.

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“But if the losing team is stopped on the three-yard line trying to tie the game, it is very much accounted for in our statistics,” brags Godsey.

Godsey adds that while as a fan he despises the fact that teams start 25 yards from pay dirt; it is built-in insurance that the more reliable numbers don’t get too distorted in overtime.

Will the Pitching and Defense Cliché Ever Die?

In 2007, no surprise, seven of the top eight offenses based on a team’s on base percentage made the playoffs. Two of the three teamsthat finished with 70 wins or less, Pittsburgh and Baltimore, ranked in the top five in defense, ahead of six of the eight playoff teams. And six of the top 10 pitching teams missed the playoffs.

This is on the heels of St. Louis winning the World Series with Chris Carpenter and a cast of rejects on their pitching staff. Their closer was a converted rookie starting pitcher. The year before the White Sox had a good starting pitching staff and an abysmal bullpen. In recent years, Arizona won with Johnson and Schilling and the rest of the staff worth killing.

The Toronto Blue Jays this most recent campaign had the best pitching staff in MLB with A.J. Burnett, Roy Halladay, Dustin McGowan, Shaun Marcum and Jesse Litsch. All they did was finish 13 games out of first place.

This year the Colorado Rockies enter the World Series having won an historic 21-of-22 games. The ace of their staff is Jeff Francis, a very solid pitcher indeed. Problem is, he’d be the No. 3 starter on the Atlanta Braves, a team that the media said failed to make the playoffs because of lack of pitching. But not to worry, rounding out the Rockies pitching staff is Ubadlo Jimenez and Franklin Morales. Combined, they have seven career wins under their belt. Yes, combined they have seven more wins at the Major League level than I do.

Pitching and defense wins in the media, but the teams with the best clutch hitting are the squads that professional gamblers laugh with
all the way to the bank.

ESPN Fantasy Football Simulations a Tool for Proposition Bettors

Over the last several years, online gamblers have been able to bet on the production of individual players in their respective sports. An elite gambler in fantasy football betting is Mike Snow of BettorsAdvice.com.

He says there is no better starting point than the ESPN fantasy football projections. “We of course make adjustments for injuries, but contrasting the player proposition odds to the ESPN simulations has proven to be great foundation in fantasy NFL betting.”

Lower betting limits make it more challenging for sharp players to clean house on the sportsbooks, but Snow says some of the highest return on investments have been in betting NFL player propositions.

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