{"id":964,"date":"2006-10-02T23:38:50","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T04:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2006\/10\/sports-handicapping-and-emotion\/"},"modified":"2012-12-02T13:23:25","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T18:23:25","slug":"sports-handicapping-and-emotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2006\/10\/sports-handicapping-and-emotion\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports Handicapping and Emotion"},"content":{"rendered":"

I write this article knowing there is nothing joyful about\u2028 benefiting from tragedy in\u00a0sports betting<\/a>, albeit in this case indirectly. But every now and then\u2028off field tragedy causes an emotional response from players that cannot be manufactured \u2028or duplicated, nor should be ignored by gamblers, as impure as it seems.<\/p>\n

I keep hearing after-the-fact experts telling us that \u201cno\u2028team was going to beat the New Orleans Saints\u201d in their Monday night game \u2028against the Atlanta Falcons, the first game in New Orleans in the post-Katrina \u2028era.<\/p>\n

We told you all that before the game as New\u2028Orleans was our Monday Night\u2028 Game of the Year. In short, New Orleans\u2028 was playing in no uncertain terms, the biggest game in franchise history, while \u2028Atlanta was simply in the way.<\/p>\n

While I do not mind bragging I have to admit, I am an\u2028after-the-fact Bill Buckner and Jacky Smith all wrapped into one in missing the\u2028 Rice \u201cintangible\u201d. Before I go in any further, I will again acknowledge, there\u2028is a certain level of unease in exploiting tragedy in sports handicapping, but\u2028ignoring such angle benefits only the bookmakers.<\/p>\n

Rice, a double-digit dog, crushed Army 48-14. They were riding the emotion of freshman \u2028defensive back Dale Lloyd collapsing earlier in the week at practice and\u2028passing away.<\/p>\n

In 2001, our MLB Game of the Year was when the NY Mets\u2028 played their first home game since 911, and were a home dog to Atlanta. \u2028True, the Mets had to get a dramatic walk off home run from Mike Piazza to win, \u2028but the seemingly scripted ending was reflective of how the Mets were simply\u2028not going to be denied victory that night.<\/p>\n

One of my first NHL regular season selections was November 15, 1985. I bet on the\u2028 Philadelphia Flyers in their first game back after star goaltender Pelle Lindbergh was killed in a car accident. The Flyers,\u2028as a big underdog, dominated the then seemingly invincible Edmonton Oilers.<\/p>\n

I even decided to retroactively test this theory. Is there\u2028a more poignant sports speech in history than Lou Gehrig\u2019s \u201cluckiest man in the\u2028world\u201d speech? Honestly I didn\u2019t know\u2028the game score was that day, but I researched it convinced there was no way the\u2028Yankees lost. I was right; they crushed\u2028the Washington Senators 11-1 following that historic speech on Independence Day\u20281939.<\/p>\n

Emotion should never be underestimated and simply can\u2019t be\u2028 contrived. Regrettably opportunity \u2028knocks when real-life circumstances transcend sports. But it is opportunity nonetheless.<\/p>\n

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I write this article knowing there is nothing joyful about\u2028 benefiting from tragedy in\u00a0sports betting, albeit in this case indirectly. But every now and then\u2028off field tragedy causes an emotional response from players that cannot be manufactured \u2028or duplicated, nor should be ignored by gamblers, as impure as it seems. I keep hearing after-the-fact experts … Continue reading Sports Handicapping and Emotion<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports_gambling_strategy_articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13219,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions\/13219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}