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Welcome to my betting breakdown for UFC Vegas 40: Ladd vs Dumont. The UFC will continue their run of fight night events at the Apex Facility in Las Vegas, Nevada this weekend. The ten-fight card is headlined by a women’s bantamweight bout where the winner could potentially stake their claim for the next shot at […]

The goal of this article is, of course, to provide winning picks. However, it’s also to provide a blueprint on how to cleverly bet props with math. We’re targeting small same-game parlays that underestimate the correlation involved. On the season, we’re now 4-13 (+1.75 units) on the same-game parlays from this article. Let’s see if […]

Barely 12 hours after he played against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Thursday night, TE Zach Ertz is reportedly on the move, with ESPN’s Adam Schefter reporting the Eagles the veteran to the Arizona Cardinals. The 30-year-old Ertz is in his ninth season. He was a three-time Pro Bowler for the Eagles (2017-2019) and averaged 145.5 […]

At the beginning of each week, we highlight our favorite college football bets so that you can get in early and lock in the best possible odds. This companion piece will drop each Friday, where I will talk about some advantageous parlays you can consider and the reasons why I favor them so much. These […]

I tend to bet sides and totals early in the week — usually Sunday night or Monday morning — in the expectation that lines will move as the week progresses. You can find all my bets in the FTN Bet Tracker. Use the promo code FREEDMAN to get 20% off your FTN subscription. Given the line […]

This week the PGA Tour is staying in Las Vegas for the CJ Cup. The tournament will be played at Summit Golf Club, a new course for the tour. This event, typically played in Korea, was also played in Las Vegas last year but at Shadow Creek.  Keep this in mind if you’re looking into […]

Week 7 of the college football season is full of fantastic on-paper matchups and some sneaky soft lines. In this weekly piece, I will be highlighting some of my favorite college football games to bet, which site has the best odds, and my reasoning for picking said game. Let’s take a look below at some […]

The results of Week 5 around the NFL are in, and it was a more straightforward week of NFL betting. Good teams won a lot of games. The ones that did lose lost to other good teams. We did have a few upsets, but they were not massive surprises. We had a few almost upsets […]

Across the sports betting market, there tends to be strong uniformity in NFL sides, totals and moneylines — but not total uniformity. Using our NFL odds page to lineshop, I’ve identified the following three lines that right now offer the most value at DraftKings Sportsbook relative to the rest of the market. For my best Week 4 […]

The FanDuel SportsBook has a ton of props listed for this Sunday, and with that many on the board, some of them are bound to be a little off. Using the FTN Prop Shop, I scoured my favorite plays of the week to find which ones are good values at FanDuel. I came up with a few […]

The goal of this article is, of course, to provide winning picks. However, it’s also to provide a blueprint on how to cleverly bet props with math. After a lackluster performance in Week 1, I switched things up by targeting small same-game parlays that under-estimate the correlation involved. Week 4 was a disappointment, dropping my […]

Week 5 of NFL action kicked off Thursday, and PointsBet has tons of interesting numbers for us to bet on for the weekend. It’s a somber start to the week as one of the league’s biggest stars was knocked out for a month or two of action. Russell Wilson’s finger looked really bad as he hit […]

Welcome to my betting breakdown for UFC Vegas 39: Dern vs Rodriguez. The UFC will continue their run of fight night events at the Apex Facility in Las Vegas, Nevada this weekend. The nine-fight card is headlined by two Brazilian straweights who are vying for a title shot.  Despite there being nine fights available to […]

I tend to bet sides and totals early in the week — usually Sunday night or Monday morning — in the expectation that lines will move as the week progresses. You can find all my bets in the FTN Bet Tracker. Use the promo code FREEDMAN to get 20% off your FTN subscription. Given the line […]

We kick off Week 5 in the NFL with one of the best games of the weekend Thursday night. Fresh off their first loss of the season, the Los Angeles Rams take on the Seattle Seahawks. The Seahawks are flying high after knocking off divisional rival San Francisco last weekend 28-21. The Rams are 2-2 […]

The PGA Tour heads to Las Vegas to continue on with the fall swing for the Shriners Hospital for Children Open, which will be played at TPC Summerlin.  A common theme of the fall swing courses is that a majority of them are quite generic and offer no real distinct advantage to certain skill sets.  […]

For those that don’t know me, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Walter Waddell and I will be covering college football, college basketball and various other niche sports going forward. I have been covering college sports since the early 2010’s and have been one of the most active DFS CBB streamers/podcasters over the […]

Week 4 was a tough week for many NFL bettors. That means it was a good one for the books. The Chicago Bears looked dreadful in Week 3, and the Detroit Lions almost beat the Ravens if not for a last-minute drive and a 66-yard field goal that doinked in after hitting the crossbar, but […]

Fresh off their first win of the season, the Indianapolis Colts now have the privilege of having to travel to Maryland to face the Baltimore Ravens in Week 5. The Ravens have won three in a row after falling short in Week 1 and are starting to claw back into contention for the AFC crown. […]

In what’s considered a heavyweight matchup in the AFC, the Buffalo Bills head to the Midwest to face the Kansas City Chiefs for a Week 5 matchup that could be very impactful for future playoff seeding. The Bills have been on a scoring spree the last three weeks while their defense has shut out two […]

The Seattle Seahawks return home at 2-2 after a very tough road win over the San Francisco 49ers but playing in the NFC West, the schedule doesn’t get much easier. The Seahawks now have to host the Los Angeles Rams, who are coming off a home loss to the Cardinals and beat Seattle at Lumen […]

Thanks to the Mets’ offensive incompetence, the MLB Best Bets are back in the win column. New York fell to the Marlins by a score of 3-2 on Wednesday, cashing their team total under of 3.5 runs at a juicy +115 price. The column is 53-50 overall on the year, good for a 10.53-unit profit […]

We’re just days away from the puck dropping on the 2021-22 NHL season, and FTN has everything you need to get you set for your fantasy hockey drafts. We’ll also take care of you throughout the fantasy hockey season as well with waiver wire adds, four-game streams and weekly rankings. Last year was fun, but […]

Across the sports betting market, there tends to be strong uniformity in NFL sides, totals and moneylines — but not total uniformity. Using our NFL odds page to lineshop, I’ve identified the following three lines that right now offer the most value at DraftKings Sportsbook relative to the rest of the market. For my best Week 4 […]

The Sunday slate of NFL Week 4 is almost set to kick off, and PointsBet has a few interesting prop numbers that we can take advantage of this week. Using the FTN projections, I ran our numbers against the numbers the sports books are offering via our FTN Bets Prop Shop and looked for the best […]

The prop bet market is one of the softest you will find when betting on NFL games. The sheer magnitude of potential plays from touchdown scorers, to passing yards, to rush attempts means that books are likely to hang a few bad numbers that we can exploit. By using a combination of our FTN projections and […]

The goal of this article is, of course, to provide winning picks. However, it’s also to provide a blueprint on how to cleverly bet props with math. After a lack-luster performance in Week 1, I switched things up for Week 2 and since then we’re rolling. In the last two weeks we’re 3-6 and +5.25 […]

Welcome to my betting breakdown for UFC Vegas 38: Santos vs. Walker. After an awesome night of fights at the T-Mobile Arena last weekend for UFC 266, the MMA leader is headed back to their Apex facility in Las Vegas for a card featuring 12 fights. In the headliner this weekend, former title challenger Thiago […]

I tend to bet early in the week — usually Sunday night or Monday morning — in the expectation that lines will move as the week progresses. That was the case this week: Sunday, I put 15 early plays into our FTN Bet Tracker. (That’s where you can find all my NFL sides, totals and player […]

The New York Giants may not be considered a true contender for Super Bowl 56 but by playing in the NFC East, anything is possible once you get into the playoffs (big if). The G-Men are still hoping to make an impact in 2021 and with Daniel Jones leading the offense again this season, opinions […]

Unfortunately, Kansas City, our longshot road dogs of +160, couldn’t get it done against Cleveland Tuesday, losing by a final score of 8-3. We were still correct in some regression coming around to hit Cal Quantrill and he allowed three earned runs and six hits through six innings of work, but Jackson Kowar wasn’t able […]

The Denver Broncos look to stay undefeated for the 2021 NFL season in Week 4 after taking down the Giants, Jaguars and Jets. However, Week 4 is a bit of a step up in competition as they host the Baltimore Ravens, who are 2-1 and a top contender in the AFC. Quarterback Teddy Bridgewater is […]