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NFL Bets
Saquon Barkley Odds and Futures
Although it’s generally panned as a mistake to take a running back near the top of the NFL Draft, one back with the New York Giants is looking to finally live up to his potential for the 2021 NFL season, and that’s Saquon Barkley.  The juke-stick bulldozer out of Penn State has some high expectations […]
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CFB Bets
Ohio State Football Betting Odds – Buckeyes Futures, Picks, and Preview
The Big Ten conference has been dominated by one team over the last seven seasons, and the gap has widened over the last four. The Ohio State Buckeyes were thought to be in trouble when Urban Meyer handed the keys to the program to Ryan Day, but instead Day has turned them into even more […]
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CFB Bets
Penn State Football Betting Odds – Nittany Lions Futures, Picks, and Preview
The 2020 season brought confusion and uncertainty across the college football landscape. We saw the Big Ten scramble as much as any conference after deciding at the last moment possible to partake in the season. The result included favorites like Penn State and Michigan flailing, and Indiana rising as a true competitor. The Big Ten […]
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MLB Bets
MLB Prop Tracker (August 10)
Welcome to the prop bet tracker. As MLB season gets into high gear, another way to get in on the action is to analyze the day’s best prop bets – from strikeouts to home runs, first to five runs to total bases logged. Each day, we will try to identify a few picks that are […]
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Matt Kupferle
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NFL Bets
Freedman’s Waffle House Challenge – A Postmortem
I thought about giving this article a more SEO-friendly title. Something like, “5 Key Takeaways from My Waffle House Challenge.” But the word “postmortem” feels too appropriate not to include in the title. As I type this sentence, at 10 a.m. CT, the morning after my 15-hour, 10-waffle Waffle House challenge, I have these five thoughts. […]
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MLB Bets
The One Hitter: MLB game-by-game betting breakdown (8/10)
Each day, we are going to try and give you a quick preview of today’s main slate and any interesting betting angles that we spot. Take a look. All betting lines and information are from the FanDuel Sportsbook.  St. Louis Cardinals at Pittsburgh Pirates betting breakdown Cardinals (-142), Pirates (+140)Total: 9.0 runsJ.A. Happ (L) vs. Steven […]
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Matt Kupferle
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NFL Bets
Betting Spreads in NFL – Key Numbers and Trends
Everyone who has ever successfully bet on NFL games has heard about key numbers. A key number is one that occurs more frequently than random chance would suggest. The NFL has the most unique scoring system of any major sport. The scoring events in a football game are random and worth an arbitrary number of […]
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PGA Bets
Wyndham Championship betting preview
Wyndham Championship Betting Preview     This wild, long ride of a PGA Tour season is coming to an end this week with the final “regular” season event on the 2020-21 schedule, The Wyndham Championship. This event has been played at Sedgefield Country Club since 2008, so there is a nice sample of historical data […]
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CFB Bets
Notre Dame Football Betting Odds – Fighting Irish Futures, Picks, and Preview
The Notre Dame Fighting Irish enjoyed a surge in 2020 as they returned to the College Football Playoff with a 10-2 record. It was the fourth consecutive season with three losses or fewer, with 43 wins in that time span. Brian Kelly has this program as well as almost anyone could. (Follow along with our […]
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MLB Bets
MLB betting – Pitchers to Play or Fade (8/9)
In this article, I’ll use the Strikeout Model to sift through the pitching options on DraftKings Monday. We’ll discuss the threshold probabilities and how they combine with projected ownership to allow us to consistently make +EV decisions at the starting pitcher position. We’ve got a five-game slate Monday. If you’ve been reading my stuff for even […]
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FTN Staff
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NFL Bets
Bet these 3 NFL Player Props
Last time out I gave out three middles to take advantage of in your 2021 NFL betting, trying to find numbers that were different enough from book to book or where lines have moved so drastically we were trying to land between both numbers and win both bets. While that is an extremely effective way of […]
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Eliot Crist
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MLB Bets
The One Hitter: MLB game-by-game betting breakdown (8/9)
Each day, we are going to try and give you a quick preview of today’s main slate and any interesting betting angles that we spot. Take a look. All betting lines and information are from the FanDuel Sportsbook.  Milwaukee Brewers at Chicago Cubs betting breakdown Brewers (-205), Cubs (+172)Total: 9.0 runsFreddy Peralta (R) vs. Alec […]
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Matt Kupferle
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NFL Bets
MagicSportsGuide: Previewing the NFC South for 2021
With the start of the 2021 NFL and fantasy football season fast approaching, our own Kevin Adams is going division by division to preview every team in the league from a DFS and betting perspective. Strategy, pace, personnel and more — he’s hitting the season from every angle to help you get ready to put […]
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Kevin Adams
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MLB Bets
MLB Best Bets for Monday (8/9)
Someone call the fire department, because MLB Best Bets has absolutely been on fire lately. We double dipped on the under 9.5 in the San Francisco and Milwaukee game Sunday and just barely sneaked by with a final score of 5-4. The win capped off an undefeated 6-0 week for the MLB Best Bets writeups […]
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NBA Bets
2021-2022 NBA Scoring Champion Odds
Points scored in the NBA might be the most rudimentary statistic to grasp for a casual NBA bettor or follower and it also has the most hype when trying to determine a player’s impact on a given game. Well, one shooting guard from the Washington Wizards nearly was the points-per-game leader during the 2020-21 season […]
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CFB Bets
Michigan State Football Betting Odds – Spartans Futures, Picks, and Preview
The Big Ten East was a two-team race last year, as Ohio State and Indiana proved to be significantly better than any of their competition. The two schools combined for a 13-3 record while no other division member reached a winning record. That must change in 2021. At the bottom of the Big Ten East […]
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CFB Bets
Michigan Football Betting Odds – Wolverines Futures, Picks, and Preview
The Big Ten East is expected to be another landslide once again. The mighty Ohio State Buckeyes loom so large over the division that oddsmakers aren’t even offering a play on the Big Ten East. Although there’s not much we can do about that, we’ve found several great value plays within the conference. The Michigan […]
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NFL Bets
Freedman’s Waffle House Challenge
On Monday, Aug. 9, I am doing the Waffle House Challenge to raise money for Cook Children’s Medical Center, a not-for-profit pediatric hospital in Fort Worth, Texas. Barring the unforeseen, the event will take place at Waffle House No. 861 in Burleson, Texas, at 405 E. Renfro St. I was born in Fort Worth and raised […]
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MLB Bets
MLB Best Bets for Sunday (8/8)
That makes it five straight winners for the MLB Best Bets column, with San Francisco and Milwaukee combining for only three runs in 10 innings Friday to cash the under on eight total runs. I’ll admit I was a little nervous when Milwaukee scored an early run in the first and then again when the […]
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FTN Staff
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MLB Bets
MLB betting – Pitchers to Play or Fade (8/8)
In this article, I’ll use the Strikeout Model to sift through the pitching options on DraftKings tonight. We’ll discuss the threshold probabilities and how they combine with projected ownership to allow us to consistently make +EV decisions at the starting pitcher position. We’ve got a 10-game Sunday slate, so let’s get to it. Pitchers to play […]
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FTN Staff
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MLB Bets
MLB Prop Tracker (August 7)
Welcome to the prop bet tracker. As MLB season gets into high gear, another way to get in on the action is to analyze the day’s best prop bets – from strikeouts to home runs, first to five runs to total bases logged. Each day, we will try to identify a few picks that are […]
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Matt Kupferle
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CFB Bets
5 players to watch in college football in 2021
The college football landscape changed after the pandemic dramatically altered the 2020 season. The Alabama Crimson Tide stomped through a tough schedule while Ohio State and Clemson further cemented their status as blueblood programs. Everyone else is simply chasing the top three. The 2021 college football season could bring significant change. Each of the top […]
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FTN Staff
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MMA Bets
UFC 265 Gane vs. Lewis – Betting Breakdown
Welcome to my betting breakdown for UFC 265: Gane vs. Lewis, which goes down this Saturday night in front of a sold out crowd at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas! After last week’s card was one of the lesser offerings in recent memory, this week is a pretty stacked PPV card. In the headliner […]
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FTN Staff
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NFL Bets
Maximize your return with these NFL middles – NFL Betting 2021
During the regular season, we are constantly looking for middles between books or due to closing line values that give us ways to win both bets. Essentially on a -110 you have 20-1 odds that a player or team lands in the middle of both numbers and you win both bets. Middles on spreads and […]
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Eliot Crist
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MLB Bets
The One Hitter: MLB game-by-game betting breakdown (8/6)
Each day, we are going to try and give you a quick preview of today’s main slate and any interesting betting angles that we spot. Take a look. All betting lines and information are from the FanDuel Sportsbook.  Tampa Bay Rays at Baltimore Orioles betting breakdown Rays (-152), Orioles (+128)Total: 9.5 runsRyan Yarbrough (L) vs. […]
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Matt Kupferle
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MLB Bets
MLB Best Bets for Friday (8/6)
MLB Best Bets is back for Friday to end the week strong, and we’re looking to keep the momentum rolling after Wednesday’s late-inning heroics. Toronto cashed the F5 o5.5 early, with eight runs in the first three innings off Cleveland starter J.C. Mejia. The score would be stuck at 8-0 until the top of the […]
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CFB Bets
CFB Division Odds – SEC West Betting Picks
The college football season is finally almost upon us. Just a few weeks remain until opening kickoff happens. This is the best chance for bettors to land odds with great value attached to them.  We’re breaking down each college football division for you to unearth the best plays. The SEC West will be an entertaining […]
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FTN Staff
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CFB Bets
CFB Division Odds – SEC East Betting Picks
The 2021 college football season is finally here as the end of August nears. Opening weekend is quickly approaching and we have a full slate of games every weekend until the end of the year. Plan for each Saturday accordingly.  Although there’s a heavy favorite with the Georgia Bulldogs looming large, there’s real competition that […]
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NFL Bets
Long Shots – NFL Passing Yards Betting Futures
In 1984, Dan Marino became the first NFL quarterback in a single season to pass for 5,000 yards — a threshold no other passer managed to cross until Drew Brees in 2008. Since then, the 5,000-yard barrier has been broken 10 times by seven different quarterbacks: Brees four times, and Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, Ben […]
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FTN Staff
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MLB Bets
MLB Prop Tracker (August 5)
Welcome to the prop bet tracker. As MLB season gets into high gear, another way to get in on the action is to analyze the day’s best prop bets – from strikeouts to home runs, first to five runs to total bases logged. Each day, we will try to identify a few picks that are […]
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Matt Kupferle
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MLB Bets
The One Hitter: MLB game-by-game betting breakdown (8/5)
Each day, we are going to try and give you a quick preview of today’s main slate and any interesting betting angles that we spot. Take a look. All betting lines and information are from the FanDuel Sportsbook.  Seattle Mariners at New York Yankees betting breakdown Mariners (+172), Yankees (-205)Total: 9.5 runsTyler Anderson (L) vs. […]
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Matt Kupferle
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CFB Bets
Tennessee Football Betting Odds – Volunteers Futures, Picks, and Preview
The 2021 SEC race is bound to be one of the most exciting we’ve seen in recent years. Alabama and LSU have often dominated the SEC despite flashes from Georgia, Texas A&M and Florida. Everyone else is aspiring to be a true rival to Nick Saban and the Crimson Tide, but every program would settle […]
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FTN Staff