NHL Totals system

I've been trying to find a good totals system for the NHL and have read through many of the tried systems on here and elsewhere. I think I may have come up with one that can work.

The premise is simple: Run a standard labby line of 4 numbers per team, each number being 1/2 unit (a $10 better would be 5-5-5-5). For each NHL game you bet the Over if the line is 5 and bet the Under if the line is 5.5 or higher. You combine the 2 outside labby line numbers from the two teams playing. So if you are just starting the bet would be to win $20 if your betting units are $10. If you lose, you add a number to each team's line. In the above example if the line was -120 and you lost $24 trying to win $20, you'd add $12 to the end of each losing teams labby line (5-5-5-5-12) The next bet for that team would be to win $17, plus whatever their opponent is at on their labby line. When the line clears, start again for that team.

I haven't done too much official backtesting so I can't provide numbers, but a quick look at the last 2 years seemed pretty good. I think one team got up to 9 or 10 numbers but it eventually cleared.

I'm personally using 1/2 of the numbers I used above just to test it out and my results are really good. I started on October 9 and including the NYR/Wash game I'm at +48.43 units. Will probably lose the Cgy/Ana under of 5.5 since it's 3 goals in the 1st period. Even if that loses it will be 46.43 units in 8 days. It would be hard to think of that pace continuing but I thought I'd share in case someone wanted to try it out.  

Sorry guys, I was unable to post or follow too much due to travel. Because I missed so many games, I'm banking my previous winnings and starting each with team with full lines. Someone mentioned why 4 numbers and not 2. Really no answer for that one, just my preference. Since I'm splitting the numbers to a half unit each I didn't want to have the situation where I lose game one making it 3 numbers, then after a win left with just a half unit bet.

yes Rivermonsterz, play small unit size on this system. Let's grind out some decent profits. I do expect some longer lines at some point and you can be creative with those losses. Split to a second line if need be for a specific team or even transfer a little bit to other teams to make the bets smaller. Lots of flexibility with the labby lines.

I haven't seen the totals lines change too much. I tend to bet closer to gametime if possible so I really don't watch the lines all day.

Not sure how this should be tracked and posted going forward if it all. Maybe we just play it according to how I described in post 1 and just comment on here about how we are doing. I'm +50.43 units for the time of Oct 9 - Oct 16. Starting up again today with clean, 4 number labby lines of 1/2 unit for each team. My original thought was to have each team clear 3 teams which would be 6 units per team for a total of 180 units. I'll post my totals and see if we can make some decent profits!

The wedding was fantastic, I'm exhausted. I'm using low amounts for my labby numbers since this isn't a proven system and I want to test it out a bit. I agree that we will taper off toward the end of the season. But for now, let's see where this takes us. Our numbers might be off a bit due to different lines and some rounding but it should be close enough.

I don't know, never tested it.

Not a good first night back, went 1-6 with a push, -11.9 units. To date, +38.53 units. Only 2 games Wednesday

Interesting stuff, good work. Let's track this  alittle bit and see if we need some filters.