re: OFFICIAL NBA Week 1 Bet Thread........

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I have access to PhillyGodfathers plays and was just thinking of tailing him as it lvas he does pretty good as well

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You tail and m in FB? I always wondered if he really was any good he sure does like to talk himself up on twitter.

I think most of us go off of what we know, the same principals can be used in all sports as far as betting on teams when their perceived value is low, and fading when their value is low. Only reason I took the Lakers tonight.

If you don't have experience betting basketball temper your expectations. It's absolutely not the same as football. A lot of games will be won or lost on garbage time baskets or a team fouling at the end of a game, just understand it is part of it. It's a long season and those breaks generally even out over the course of a season.

Personally Basketball was the sport that really started my obsession with numbers and the advanced statistics part of the sport. I thoroughly enjoy breaking down the game of basketball and I've gotten decent at it. My college basketball run I had last year was years worth of work and research that finally came together. I was over 60 percent for a two month period and it was an awesome wave that a lot of people on here rode with me. I can't wait to start that back up but it will realistically be the end of November before I have enough data to start feeling that confident again.

I think tailing people is good as long as they are reputable and you know people that will voucb for their success. It takes a lot of time and dedication to ssuccessfully profit in any sport over time, and that is essentially what most of them do for a living.