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biff37 |
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#1 Posted: 1/19/2013 3:24:55 PM
But why are the winners of the league contest based on these people who bet on EVERY SINGLE GAME: both over/under and pointspread. I mean consider our NFL regular season champion, elizalovesolly. Bless her heart last Saturday - she thoughtfully placed 143 separate bets across the board. If I was to track her, I would have lost 30,000 dollars in December and this was prime time for her "skill" sport, NFL football. Is this really the sign of a champion? Is this how Billy Walters bets on a given sports Saturday - laying 143 separate bets for 500 (or 5,000 or 50,000) a pop?
But, in 2012, she did go 261-181 on NFL games equating to being up 30,000. It's just that in every other sport since March 2012 when she joined, she's down 22,000, 28,000 and 24,000.
I've got nothing against Eliza. But she's an average nobody like the rest of us, myself included. She happened to get a cross section of her upside picks in the NFL contest. Overall, nothing special except stamina to day-after-day fill in 100-200 dots.
So here's to the league contests becoming just a little more realistic compared to real betting. Give each person a "budget" of 5,000 a day to bet. If they want to spend it all on one game, let 'em do it. If they really have the inside scoop on 100-200 picks, like Eliza does, they can spend 50 a game and go for it. I'd honestly like to see if among our amateur crowd we have a future (or current) Billy Walters. With the current contests, we don't know what we have. |
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thetomcat1 |
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#2 Posted: 3/4/2013 5:05:54 PM  AGREED! |
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roondog248 |
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#3 Posted: 3/14/2013 11:12:55 PM I see where you have a point.
I look at the weekly leaders and say wow that guy is 28-3 or whatever, then I look at his 52% overall record. there are so many people placing wagers that a small % of them are bound to go on a run. it's like hitting the lotto. but the person at the top with a 60%+ record has to know something about something...otherwise they are hitting the lotto every day. |
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Sinthetix |
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#4 Posted: 3/27/2013 2:11:11 PM |
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#5 Posted: 3/28/2013 8:31:14 PM |
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T99 |
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#6 Posted: 3/29/2013 6:20:05 PM QUOTE Originally Posted by Sinthetix:
Check the RSI if it bothers you so much and leave her alone........ |
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T99 |
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#7 Posted: 3/29/2013 6:26:02 PM QUOTE Originally Posted by Sinthetix:
Check the RSI if it bothers you so much and leave her alone........
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#8 Posted: 4/13/2013 10:04:42 AM WHILE I DOUBT THE HEADS AT COVERS WILL EVEN READ THIS I THINK ALMOST ALL OF US DIE HARD SPORTS INVESTORS WOULD DEMAND THE ABOVE IDEAS I HAVE PUT FORWARD.... I BEG ALL WHO READ THIS TO REPOST, REPOST REPOST... ALSO, PAYOUTS, PAYOUTS, PAYOUTS.. EVERYDAY I ASK MYSELF "SHOULDNT THE BIGGEST GRAND PRIZE (Other than Streak Survivor) BE THE WINNER OF THE OVERALL MONEYLIST AT YEARS END.. ULTIMATELY THATS WHAT ITS ALL ABOUT... WHEN IT IS ALL SAID AND DONE WHAT MATTETS IS BIENG PROFITABLE OVERALL... PLEASE PEOPLE REPOST REPOST REPOST
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Bennyup |
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#9 Posted: 4/15/2013 5:48:18 AM Each system has positives and negatives. Like what happens when average joe loses his $6k start up? Is he out for a month and then can re start with $6k, which is similar to a real-life scenario? I can assure you then he won't come back to the website, meaning less customers etc. is not good for business! Just my two cents on the flip side to having a limited bankroll... |
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unclebingo |
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#10 Posted: 4/18/2013 10:19:09 PM |
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#11 Posted: 4/19/2013 9:15:46 PM
they definitely need to tweak it but i highly doubt they will, do they ever listen to any good idea's we have here.. sh*t, we still have the same emoticons we had 4 years ago.. at least upgrade the avatar's here and the emoticons, did u guys ever see the stp*d as* avatars they offer ? 
no contest or "League Champion" should be forced to play every side and total to have a chance at the Prizes.. but thats what they do here so we have to deal with it |
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#12 Posted: 4/20/2013 1:32:22 PM |
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#13 Posted: 4/21/2013 4:12:34 AM
Parlays, now that's crazy talk.
To me the biggest weakness of the site overall is that there is no career rankings and thus no incentive to not start a new identity every day/month/year.
My next gripe is that whatever RSI is it doesn't work for moneyline sports and a simple ROI is obviously needed...
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#14 Posted: 4/26/2013 2:42:18 AM
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#15 Posted: 5/2/2013 12:08:56 PM |
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#16 Posted: 5/9/2013 7:39:50 AM I agree I often have the highest percentage of winners but I don't lay every game no chance to win
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#17 Posted: 5/18/2013 11:31:09 AM |
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