{"id":12895,"date":"2012-05-11T18:56:37","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T23:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/?p=12895"},"modified":"2012-05-11T18:56:37","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T23:56:37","slug":"correcting-espns-chad-millman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2012\/05\/correcting-espns-chad-millman\/","title":{"rendered":"Correcting ESPN&#8217;s Chad Millman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oy boy. Not only did ESPN\u2019s Chad Millman quote the <a href=\"http:\/\/scoresoddspicks.com\/news\/2012\/05\/11\/the-single-dumbest-stat-in-sports-betting-history-fools-gold\/\">single biggest square player statistic<\/a> in all of sports gambling, but his numbers were also a bit off. \u201cOf all the NFL games last season, only 39 teams that were straight-up winners did not cover the spread.\u201d Actually, there were 45 times. 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Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oy boy. Not only did ESPN\u2019s Chad Millman quote the single biggest square player statistic in all of sports gambling, but his numbers were also a bit off. \u201cOf all the NFL games last season, only 39 teams that were straight-up winners did not cover the spread.\u201d Actually, there were 45 times. Here is the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2012\/05\/correcting-espns-chad-millman\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Correcting ESPN&#8217;s Chad Millman<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports_betting_news","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12895"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12897,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12895\/revisions\/12897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}