Michigan vs. Western Michigan is no bet at any sportsbook. Most offshore houses use Vegas rules which require 55 minutes to be played. All full-game bets and second half bets are washed out

Please note that almost all offshore sportsbooks go by Vegas rules which say a game is official after 55 minutes. Even if Notre Dame-South Florida does not finish, it is official according to the sportsbooks!

Rick Perry entering the US Presidential race jumps him to the front of the Republican pack according to many political experts, but not according to top sportsbooks Sportsbetting.

Shockingly, Perry is still listed at 11-1 with Barack Obama heavily favorite to be re-elected at 2-5.

NFL preseason picks are up for Saturday. There has been some serious movement in the NFL lines:

Among the top sports betting picks:

GodsTips is ready to continue the winning. America’s Greatest sweeps the board with Wise Guys. Miami wins outright in the NFL and the underdog Anaheim Angels also come through. Get five NFL winners including a Wise Guy play. No handicapper has ever dominated any sport—decade after decade—the way GodsTips has the NFL going back to our scorephone days. We have added a baseball winner as well utilizing one of the top angles in all of sports. That makes it 6-0 in all.

Now to Power of 620 sports services behind every selection, the MasterLockLine where bettors get $312 worth of NFL service picks for just $16:

Wunderdog Sports is top 10 both overall and in NFLX. 3 unit pick on NY Giants/Carolina

Leo Getz is 5-0 in the NFL this preseason. NFL Preseason Game of the Week Bills/Bears

Kongpop Sukhibomrong, head of the famed Pan-Asian Syndicate which dominated Asian and European soccer for years has now taken over the North American sports scene.Pop’s syndicate is the most requested source of winners in the history of the SuperLockLine and MasterLockLine. Two totals in the NFL

No. 6 MLB sports service out of Las Vegas has their MLB 2 Team Parlay of the Year. Get all of the picks

The PGA Championships are right in the back yard of OffshoreInsiders.com. Here are the Round 3 betting odds.

More info from The Canadian Crew: Pittsburgh starters won’t play any more than 10 snaps, at most, Mike Tomlin said. They play the Washington Redskins Friday.

Look for the Panthers line to go up according to Mike Godsey of GodsTips, anchor of OffshoreInsiders.com

Coach Ron Rivera said the starters will play more in the preseason than they have in years past under former coach John Fox. More news and notes for NFL preseason odds, week 1 are up at ScoresOddsPicks.com

Quite a few people have asked me if my systems and angles used at GodsTips, anchor of OffshoreInsiders.com comes from the SportsData.  Apparently the two-page ad in Mark Lawrence’s Playbook football annual has sparked some interest. Regular clients have successfully bet my angles going back to the scorephone days.

Yes, we did very much see the article—which came across as an advertorial in ESPN the Magazine via ESPN Insider.

A few of the reasons my interest was piqued, then once I scratched the surface became disinterested:

So how do the “owners” of this alleged powerful database perform?

According to Power of 620 sports services behind every selection, the MasterLockLine, Tom Stryker, Right Angle Sports, and Al McMordie each have one Top 25 finish in any sport for a full season since 2006. Only RAS has a Top 10: 2008 in college football and 2009 in college basketball.

Dr. Bob Stohl was a major force in the early part of the century and in the 1990s, but his following among sportsbook whales has all but disappeared. A consistent top performer for a decade, his star is no longer shining.

In addition, most of that statistics quoted fall well short of uniformly most powerful unbiased (UMPU), statistical significance: tools used by statisticians to measure the reliability of data. They also fall short of the simple test we apply: return on investment (ROI).

If at one unit per bet, minus 10 percent juice, the angle falls below 80 units, it must have a z-score of 4.5 or above for us to consider worthwhile.  Those who utilize the so-called Buckeye Database rarely, if ever, quote angles of that magnitude.

Conversely public databases such as SportsDataBases (not to be confused with the aforesaid SportsData), do have systems that meet the criterion of effect-size statistics.

They don’t cost $15,000 to get in and certainly don’t take days to learn. They are quite user friendly and we’ve unearthed angles much better than any I’ve seen quoted. Still if and when it goes public, we will make final judgment.

So far, it sounds like anyone who would pay 15 dimes for such a database may also believe they have a Nigerian aunt who just left them $1 million USD.

For sports picks that utilize statistically significant angles coupled with other factors including the revolutionary Performance Gap Analysis, check out the world class handicappers at OffshoreInsiders.com