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Wish I had done this research this year before betting the playoffs!! 
Going back and looking at stats from the past 7 years of NFL playoffs, I noticed some interesting trends. I'm posting this on this gambling board hoping it helps everyone make $$. I will not list specific games, season stats, etc, but in a nutshell attempt to capture what I found. I will personally follow these religiously going forward. Barring injuries, teams fitting certain criteria demonstrated a strong probability to advance to the conference finals, superbowl, or win it all:
Strongest Trend: 
- defenses that allowed the lowest yards per attempt, had the highest average percentage of negative passing plays (resulting in a sack or a pick), and allowed the lowest average percentage of 3rd down conversions had a very high probability to win it all
Scoring Defense Trend:
- teams that led the league in scoring defense had an extremely good shot to make it to at least the conference title game
Underdog trends: 
- High power offensive teams (24ppg or more in the regular season) that are playoff underdogs have a great chance of covering and outright winning, particularly if they showed signs of being able to contain opponent rushing (under 100ypg) entering the playoffs. The caveat is their opponent was not rated in the top 5 in overall defense.
- Good offensive teams (21ppg or more in regular season) with a more prolific QB than the opposition and facing a middle of the pack scoring defense (ranked 10-20) had a great shot at covering as underdogs and even outright winning
- teams that allowed less than 15ppg in the regular season playing and opponent that allowed more than 18ppg had a great chance at covering as underdogs (barring injuries)
Rookie QB/lower rated QB teams:
Teams with rookie or lower rated QBs in the playoffs were suicide bets. The only exceptions were teams with a dominant defense in the top 5 in NFL in scoring, rushing yards allowed, and total yards allowed
Passing Yards per game average:
Teams that averaged more than 75 passing ypg than their opponents playing as underdogs had an outstanding chance to cover the pointspread and send the game over. In situations fitting this criteria, a 7-point teaser on the underdog and the over was as good as gold.
I'm hoping to discover stats showing similar trends and patterns for the NBA and college basketball as the playoffs for these will be upon us in no time.
Hope this helps. Hope everyone enjoyed the superbowl as well, what a game!! I was strongly hoping for the Cardinals win(always root for the dog), and congratulate all the Cards backers. Congrats to all the "true" Steelers fans as well, and condolences to the Steelers pointspread backers, who lost their $$ and watched the team they bet on celebrating (the worst feeling for a gambler IMO) 
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