NCAA Basketball Betting: Who’s Clueless?

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We’ll admit it—every year when we bet on the NCAA tournament we usually do pretty well. However, during the season so far, well, we’ve sucked meaty ass. However, Covers comes to our defense today by running an article entirely devoted to some of the pitfalls bettors experience when trying to make money off the hardwood kids:

When looking at the stats, you have to make sure you are looking at the right stats and also looking at them correctly. Simply looking at points scored for and against can be very misleading at times. For example, early on last season Texas A&M led the country in scoring margin at +34.8 ppg. A novice might see that and say that the Aggies are playing great basketball right now but not notice that they have played the weakest schedule in the country that included wins against NAIA Texas of the Permian Basin and Division III Trinity.

If stats such as this are being used in your analysis, either factor in schedule strength or use only comparable Division I numbers.

See? They’re so smart. This is a must-read article for those of you considering betting heavy this year.

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