Jesus Christ!!! 10-1 and I missed it!! WOW MAN!! How the fuck do you guys cap so well early in the season!?!?! No numbers to crunch! Treads IMO are useless, did, tried, studied Marc Lawerence and his trends. I always start midway through the season. Anyhow amazing!! And CONGRATS!!!!!!
Thanks PHD.
What is most important is relying on defensive advantages.
Early in the season, most teams are ready on defense while offenses are usually not up to speed yet.
A few games were decided by Turnovers and point spreads were off on some due to poor play a year ago.
The last 5-6 games of last year gives enough data to get a picture of what this year would be like.
Main reason for betting Detroit was how impressive they were the last 7 games of last year. Not only did they win 7 games in last 9 - they did it with scoring that validated those wins.
The Lions defense was in the top 5 in the league the last 6 games a year ago.
I think the early opening line was KC-9... But- When I saw line came out with KC -7 I knew then - that the number was totally based on what the public would do with a one-score spread at HOME with the Best QB in the league and a team that won the SB,
If we went back to midpoint a year ago BEFORE Detroit was winning - and if Detroit came into Arrowhead stadium this line would have been KC -13 or more. But the lions were nothing like that team in the first half of the season now coming into this game.
The number for week one now, was completely adjusted to keep most of the money on KC. All the time, the majority wouldn't take any team getting 7 in KC unless they were a playoff team.
What many never paid attention to, was that Detroit held the last 6 opponents to an average 16 points in these wins to close out the season.
That fact was in my write up in window #1.
That ONE factor was the dominating reason that Detroit would and could stay in this game regardless of it being in KC.
Also with Kelce being out - it changed the spread by 2-3 points. IF He was healthy I believe this line would actually go over 7 and more like 8 or 8.5 if the money kept coming in on KC.
But the Line was set with the public perception that the SB winner would be unbeatable - when all the time real capping by Vegas knew they had a good chance to beat the masses by keeping the masses on KC.
To offer you a little insight early. You should look at the last 4 - 6 games any team played and see what the points were scored and allowed. Once you have that in place, then you can start to dissect the data, game-by-game and see where the improvemnt could possibly be or where it may be worse.
IF You knew that the Bills were coming into KC scoring 35 and allowing 16 per game I bet you would have taken Buffalo regardless of what the spread was.
Thats what I considered with Detroit.. The points. - NOT the name of the team. They played as well as any team in the entire league the last 6-7 games of the year.
In fact...As good as SF until SF lost their QB in the playoffs.!!!
BOL to you and everyone.