Has your team drafted this years rookie of the year on Offense or Defense?
BetUS.com has early odds on who they think will win, and believe it or not, Dez Bryant isn’t the early favorite. Rookie awards are a prop bet offered by BetUS.com, something that believe it or not, is a bet you can’t get in Las Vegas?
I know what you’re thinking…you can bet on anything in Las Vegas, but actually Casino’s can’t offer odds on something that has to be voted on. Gridiron Experts is teaming up this year with BetUS.com to provide you with tons of cool prizes and special offers. In fact, starting SEPT 1. Gridiron Experts readers will get an exclusive 100% match offer on deposits (up to $500).
The San Diego Chargers Current Odds
(as of July 8th)
Projected Games Won : 10.5
( over -145 | under +115) 5 to 1 : Win AFC Conference 9 to 1 : Win Super Bowl XLV
The Chargers are one of the few teams that regularly make post season hotel room reservations without a second thought. Division champions is a familiar t-shirt or hat in San Diego mainly due to a poor AFC West that hands them a yearly free ticket. But despite the 4 year streak of playoff visits, the Super Bowl has been out of reach for the Chargers for some time, and yet they are always heavy favorites.
This year it came to my surprise that San Diego was ranked as high as they are in top sports betting sites. I almost wonder if maybe, people are just used to seeing them in the post season and just overlooked their recent off-season.
Saying goodbye to Ladainian Tomlinson, (a move that was probably a year late) is understandable. The star was burning out and he had to go, but realistically there is no proven RB waiting in the wings just yet. Sproles and rookie Ryan Matthews will man the fort for now, but for such a deep passing team blitz pick-up was an underrated trait that LT did in his sleep, and teams may send more heat Rivers way than in years past.
Jamal Williams was a center piece for the Bolts at nose tackle over most of the last decade, but after an early season injury he was sent packing for youth. Normally this is something we all know and except in the business of the NFL, but the fact that the division rival Broncos snatched him up might become interesting twice a year. Also, the losses of “what have you done for me lately”Antonio Cromartie seems harmless after his poor season, but the replacement is an open …Continue reading Chargers 2010 Forecast: Overly Confident
The Gridiron Experts team would like to congratulate our head writer for getting featured in this years USA Today’s 2010 NFL preview magazine. Early editions have been sent out and so far the magazine looks to offer a great variety of NFL content along withsome in-depth team pages.
Mike was asked to write a 5 safe and 5 bold prediction article in which he may regret a few picks-lol. But, hey it’s a month before training camp so anything at this point isn’t a long shot.
USA Todays NFL Mag, features over 16 different covers. check it out!
Las Vegas and Sportsbooks dig deep for the Super Bowl. It’s the biggest sporting event of the year, and millions upon millions of people get together to not only watch the game, but bet on it.
Most people can barely wrap their brains around the spread, but prop bets are as easy as a bold statement spouted by your buddy on the couch that ends in someone saying “you wanna bet?” Things like “Colston is going to rack up at least 100 yards on the Colts”, or “Peyton Manning is going to throw for 5 touchdowns on Sunday”.
While these are very likely statements or prop bets, Sportsmakers and Vegas bookies have to prepare for everything that could happen on Super Bowl Sunday…so they did.
Probably the most ridiculous bet you can place is on the coin toss. Yes, the coin toss at the start of the game…you can bet on it. Every year I hear someone in the bar yell out what they want it to be, as flashes of National Lampoons Vegas Vacation pops into my head where Chevy Chase is playing rock-paper-scissors, or pick a number for a pay out-”Rock pays”
This weekends Sunday action is the last slice of football you’re going to see until the Super Bowl on February 7th. Gridiron Experts, along with many (many) of you are definitely going to go through NFL withdrawals, but until then check out these prop bets that you may find interesting (or insulting if you’re a New York Jets fan).
For those who don’t know, these are bets you can place in Vegas or with online sportsbooks on individual player achievements. You can get everything from the coin toss to Superbowl Odds. Most of the time these bets are based on an average of a team or players numbers throughout the year, making the bet not worth a second look, but this week a couple bets caught my eye, in kind of a humorous fashion. (The .5 is so there are no ties)
Prop Bet #1] Over/Under Mark Sanchez will complete 13 passes. 13…that’s it? I understand the Jets have gotten to where they are now with their top defense and power running game, but 13 passes? Wow! So if you were to lose this bet, Sanchez would only average 3 completed passes per quarter. Not a lot of faith for a guy who is one game away from going to the Super Bowl. …Continue reading Props To Prop Bets
It’s hard to believe we’re even thinking about it, but despite a Hall of Fame career and still being the starting running back for the San Diego Chargers, we’re just now beginning to hear some buzz and whispers about LT being a fantasy riser .
He’s had a fairly ho-hum season so far, but almost reached 100 yards on the ground against a solid Philadelphia Eagles defense in Week 10, and notched his second game in three contests of at least two scores. We’re not saying you should pull of a blockbuster deal to land LT while his stock is low, but we are saying that if you have him, either sell high, or take pride in knowing that first round pick you spent on Tomlinson may not be a complete waste, after all.
Tomlinson has a supposedly tough match-up against the Denver Broncos next week, as he and his Chargers face-off in a big game that could mean the division for the team that escapes victorious.
LT then has a nice line of soft or mediocre match-ups, taking on the Kansas City Chiefs and Cleveland Browns. You may want to use him for that three week stretch and then ship him off to another team on a high note, as his schedule then gets more difficult with tough match-ups against the Bengals, Titans, and Redskins to end the season.
However, you can feel good about the fact that LT will be the main ball carrier and has looked like his old self in two of his last three games.
Verdict: If your running back depth isn’t great, you may just have to settle with LT coming to life a bit, and take his re-emergence (of sorts) as a win. If you have solid depth, however, now would be a good time to promote his decent schedule in the coming weeks, and try to get a desperate owner to take him off your hands.
BetUS.com has a few new great bets out, including a list of prop bet players that could win the MVP for the year. The odds are pretty good and worth taking a look at. Hey you never know what could happen.
We all know you’re waiting for the season to start, flipping though magazines, reading pre-pre season fantasy rankings and boring news on whether Favre is coming back. So with little to report, being that this is the lull before training camp, Gridiron Experts has dug up an old article that we think you might enjoy. Before there was fantasy football, one of the most common ways to bet on the NFL was to join a pick’em pool. While both pools Pick’em & Fantasy are very popular now and well known, we find that very little advice is put into the Pick’em side of the things. In comparison, fantasy football is 100 times more complicated, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have a strategy when joining these types of pools.
The most important thing to consider when joining pick ‘em type pools is weighing the value of the payouts. Learn the payouts before joining, and always find out if the pub/office takes a cut of the money for running the pool. If you joined a pool with 400 people that each paid $100, you would have a $40,000 pot to divide into the 17 NFL weekly payouts, and (usually) top 5 best overall record prizes at the end of the year. With a $40,000 pot for prizes, you’d figure the pub would take $5000 to run it, maybe more. If you can find a pool that has all money going back to the players, become a regular every year as many of these types of pools have someone pinching from the pot.
Strategies:
Go for the Gold
If the weekly payout is only 10 times your investment, I suggest playing very tight and plan for being in the top overall rankings, assuming that it’s not a winner takes all type pool. In the example above, the pub/office is taking a $5000 cut to run the pool, and has weekly payouts that are $1000. Sounds great, but with 400 people in the pool and a huge pot remaining for the top overall prizes. If you can play it safe and let everyone else kill each otheroff for weekly prizes by taking dumb long shots, the overall record will be easy to take control of . The goal is to get 70-75% of your picks right each week throughout the year. Of course your goal is to win every week, but by counting the amount of games you need to get right to reach 70-75% for each week, it then allows you to take the odd long shot to win the week. This strategy does work, although you need to ignore the overall pool standings until the last 3-4 weeks. Most people see the pool standings and think they need to take long shots to gain ground to get to number 1, that is the wrong strategy, slow and steady definitly wins this race.
Roll the Dice
In this scenario (using the same amount of people and buy-ins), we have a pool with a 15 times payout towards weekly winners. This is a totally different situation; that’s an extra $8500 going towards weekly winners rather than to end of the year payouts. I know it’s only 5 times more per week than the first example, but playing it safe wouldn’t make sense here. Your goal here would be to try to win each and every week. Although when trying to win each week, you need to have a balanced attack when taking long shots and not to go crazy. In every NFL week there are maybe 1-2 real upsets at best; when a team is a 3 point favorite and you call the underdog, that’s not much of an upset. For this you need to become a regular reader to Gridiron Experts, as we give out free betting advice every week- It’s your best bet.
This series of articles focuses on how the new breed of talent from the NFL draft plans to affect overall fantasy football player value.
AFC: NORTH | EAST | SOUTH | WEST
NFC: NORTH | EAST | SOUTH | WEST
Has your team drafted this years rookie of the year on Offense or Defense?
Hilarious Super Bowl Bets
type pool. In the example above, the pub/office is taking a $5000 cut to run the pool, and has weekly payouts that are $1000. Sounds great, but with 400 people in the pool and a huge pot remaining for the top overall prizes. If you can play it safe and let everyone else kill each otheroff for weekly prizes by taking dumb long shots, the overall record will be easy to take control of . The goal is to get 70-75% of your picks right each week throughout the year. Of course your goal is to win every week, but by counting the amount of games you need to get right to reach 70-75% for each week, it then allows you to take the odd long shot to win the week. This strategy does work, although you need to ignore the overall pool standings until the last 3-4 weeks. Most people see the pool standings and think they need to take long shots to gain ground to get to number 1, that is the wrong strategy, slow and steady definitly wins this race.
weekly winners rather than to end of the year payouts. I know it’s only 5 times more per week than the first example, but playing it safe wouldn’t make sense here. Your goal here would be to try to win each and every week. Although when trying to win each week, you need to have a balanced attack when taking long shots and not to go crazy. In every NFL week there are maybe 1-2 real upsets at best; when a team is a 3 point favorite and you call the underdog, that’s not much of an upset. For this you need to become a regular reader to Gridiron Experts, as we give out free betting advice every week- It’s your best bet.
