Martingale fade Oakland for the rest of the year

Easy $. Even if its just for small units. This team will never manage a winning streak this year there is absolutely no way in hell.

your right. i just started martingale technique. betting under .5 runs each inning.

Waste of time

 They can still pull a 4-5 game win streak

100 dollar player. Assuming your bankroll is 10,000 so original bet is only 1% of BR

If you risk and average of even -250 you lose game 1-250

You know bet 750 to win 50. It loses(game 2) you are down -1000

Game 3 you have to be 2750 to win 100. If that loses you are down 3750

Game 4 even if you bet your whole bankroll left and win you lose money

They wont win 4 in a row. They cant even win a game.

let's see what happens today lol, for starters 

@JimmyGape

 Are you willing to put up 7500 to fuck around and find out though?   Something so obvious to the public will be punished by the bookmakers, nothing new here...and lez be annas here, baseball has too many games and they could run into a shit team on the road for a week that is just dead wore out.   Pick your spots instead bro

Anyone ever hear of a team being so bad and punishing the books to the point they start pulling the games off the board or making you lay 2.5 on the run line?

Anyone ever hear of a team being so bad and punishing the books to the point they start pulling the games off the board or making you lay 2.5 on the run line?

Get it 

Who won ???

@Natty68

 Absolutely.

The -2.5 RL is a real thing that has happened many times in the past.

It says a little bit of something that the books have actually NOT used it with the A's, to my knowledge, so far this year.

But, let's review what the Martingale system actually is as it relates to sports gambling.

The Martingale theory can be simplified to the concept that you make a wager and if it loses, you double the wager (+ the juice lost) on the next wager.  This allows you to eventually recover all of your losses once you win a wager.

For example.

Say you take the Oakland A's ML on a -200 wager and wager $200 to win $100.  You lose the wager and you are now -$200.

Your next game, you make a wager to win that $200 back.  To keep it simple, we will say the ML in that game is also -200.  You must wager $400 to win $200 to get back even.

You lose that game and are now down $400. 

On your third game, you again wager and the ML is again -200.  You must wager $800 to win $400. 

Granted, the A's have not won more than 2 games in a row all year.  A 3 game winning streak would be exceptional.  But lets say they pull it off and win the game.

Now you are down $800.

On your 4th game, you have to wager to win $800 and the ML is, again, -200.  You wager $1600 to win $800 and thank God, you win.

Now you are back to even. 

But you can see how if they manage to pull off a winning streak of even 4 games, it can get pretty pricey. 

And that is with me keeping the ML at -200.  I'm thinking, even if they win 2 in a row, they will still be facing some -250 and -300 MLs even in a winning streak.

So you might be laying a lot more money to get back to even.

Many have estimated that they will not win 40 games this year.  I think 33-37 is the range I have settled on.

There will be many 4, 5, 6 or more losing streaks to come. 

But there is another problem.  The Martingale theory only "truly" works if there is an unlimited amount of bankroll, a book that does not limit your wagers on the game and enough time/games left in the season for you to get even.

Books will limit wagers on games.  They will "circle" them, change lines for you specifically or just cap the wager you can make on a game.  If they cap you to where you can't make a wager large enough to get back to even, you will have to split it up over 2 games.  Could be a problem.

Obviously, unlimited bankroll is not what most of us have.  Coming up with $2000 to win back $400-$600 is a hard thing to sweat.

I would not recommend a Martingale approach.

.  Info preciated.   

The A's are such trash its incredible. Worst team of all time by far.

Been betting against them since mid April run line and  ML.. Went big against  them on  the Yankees ( RL)  and most recently. I will continue to do so on a smaller scale

 screw the Martingale approach...

@Wizerguy

 Tell em, Wizer !!!

things run in cycles--Houston battering Oakland this weekend reminded me of the 55 win 2012 Astros (still in the NL then); A poster on covers had a thread "Road fade of the Dis-Astros" since their road record was 20-61! he did pretty well fading them that season... tough part about these A's is their inevitable  re-location to Vegas; Books will be trying to adjust with crazy juiced lines---worth fading them now anyways!

@Natty68

 yup seen the -2.5 thing in NHL and MLB at Boyd Casino's

@Surfrancis123

@MJCpirate

Wonder what's worse laying the 2 1/2 or,  what obscene level of juice are you looking at........(-475)?  Five dollars??

Those are the everyday horrible lines of FanDuel.   

The lines have not caught up to the A's yet...for a 10-45 team that has lost 30+ games by more than 2 runs..they should be a lot higher...almost 200 Run differential...Losing by 4 runs a game...

FYI....If the A's lose their next 5 games, which is a high probability...they will be 10-50, which will be the worse start on MLB History thru 60... They are literally a triple A team...Vs the Braves tonight..Not 1 A's players would start over the Braves player in their lineup.......

TRIPLE A team is giving them more credit than they deserve

Its like they are bringing in guys off the streets for tryouts

This is a real life major league folks

except no cinderella ending

They won today you know what that means

load up huge tomorrow

2 in a row would be a fuckin miracle

A's going for the sweep this afternoon