hey ace, freeneasy here
iam an amuture handicapper and i've designed a more or less 'catch all' handicapping system for football and basketball. the system itself relies on team power ratings.
i've used the power ratings by Team Rankings' and there is, at least in my opinion, a seeming pretty decent accuracy about them but Team Rankings has 13 different catagories of power ratings for each team, iow a power rating for each of the 13 different areas of a teams production, which is good. for instance they have an "overall power rating' a 'predictive power rating' a home power rating, a road power rating, neutral power rating ect.
ok that said team rankings also gives out, according to their ratings a game winner, a spread winner and a totals winner. in trying to detemine a spread winner i just cant figure out which catagory they use to a determine how many points a team should win or lose by. i mean do they use the overall or the predictive or the home/road power rating in determing the spread they come up with? i dont know.
ive used the overall ratings alone with my system. ive used the predictive ratings alone with my system, the home and road ratings with my system, and i can say that in some instances i had both brillient success and miserable failure.
are you familiar with the power ratings that Team Tankings puts out and and which of these 13 catagories they use to detemine their spreads? i just cant figure this one out. if your not familiar with their site maybe you could take a quick look-see and tell me what you think.
i guess basically iam looking for the strongest spread ratings to be found
thanks ace
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