Betting On American Football

Football betting, especially pro football betting, is one of the most popular choices of our players. The main professional league is the National Football League, who’s seventeen-week regular season runs from September to December each year. There follows one month of playoffs until the eventual Champion is decided at the Super Bowl, the single biggest day in American Sports.

The main action on American football games is in pointspread, or line, betting, where the sportsbook decides on a margin of victory for the favorite that will make either team an attractive betting proposition.

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Being Smart With Half Points

Is Buying a Half Point a Smart Move?
The normal answer to the question is a resounding "no." It's difficult enough to win when laying 11-to-10 on a routine bet.

The only times a bettor should even consider buying a half point are when they like a 6.5-point underdog or when they like a 7.5-point favorite. There is an advantage to moving the point spread to seven points, provided you are only laying 12-to-10. Some sportsbooks are now charging extra when the move affects the number seven, just as they do with three.

One mistake many bettors make is to buy off of three or seven points, so that they can win instead of getting a push. In the long run, the extra juice bettors are forced to lay will erode any profits gained on those occasions where a team does win by three or seven, and then some. Buying half points should only be done to save potential losers, not create potential winners from ties.

Understanding Point Spreads For Betting

 

Point Spread is a potent tool, depending on how you are able to use it. Most of the amateur players think that they can only bet on the outcome of the game but sports betting is different. It gives you a lot of options. It really allows you to test your expertise as well as reward you heavily for your expertise. Betting On Point spread is one of the ways I highly recommend for betting.

When it comes to betting on football and basketball, a bettor must have a solid understanding of the point spread if they hope to have a profitable season.

The point spread is a handicap placed on one team, for betting purposes only, and it is designed to give both teams in any game an equal chance at winning in the eyes of sports bettors.

Using an example from Week 2 of the 2007 NFL season, the Atlanta Falcons were visiting the Jacksonville Jaguars.

There was little doubt Jacksonville was the better of the two teams and if all one had to do was to pick the winning team, nearly every bettor would have taken the Jaguars.

In this case, Jacksonville was installed as a 10 point favorite, which is commonly written as Jacksonville -10. Atlanta, the underdog, is commonly written as Atlanta +10.

If you bet the favorite, Jacksonville, the Jaguars have to win by 11 points or more in order for you to win your bet. Remember, the Jaguars are favored by 10 points, so we subtract 10 points from their final score for betting purposes. If Jacksonville were to win 24-13, Jaguar bettors would win their wager. If the Jaguars were to win 23-14, Jacksonville bettors would lose because they did not win by more than 10 points.

If the Jaguars were to win the game by exactly 10 points, 24-14, it would be a tie or a push and all wagers are refunded to bettors.

Jacksonville did defeat Atlanta as expected, but the Jaguars failed to cover the point spread when they won by a score of 13-7.

I was not using SportsBettingChamp back then, but I still managed to recover my money. Without a proper system sports betting is tough, real tough!

Free Sports Betting Tips

Looking for free Sports Betting Tips?

 

I have wasted plenty of money on them trying to get to some good source. I don't recommend using free tips to anyone now. More or less they are in some way distributed for the benefit of the Sports BookMaker. However, here are some good sources that you might find useful.

http://www.online-betting-guide.co.uk/hot-tips.php

http://www.freebetting.net/

 

WORD OF ADVICE

Try them at your own risk, I am neither affiliated to them nor are they my personal recommendations. At some stage before I was using a professional program like SportsBettingChamp, I used to check them out and I find that I could play around with them.

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