But let's be real...There are 40 some other teams and only two alaskan teams...the day one of us wins something big will be the day I transfer to UAA
Originally posted by Doyle Woody
Best sign by a visting Seawolf fan Friday went to a young man who held up a piece of white poster board that read: "YOU CAN'T SPELL FAILURE WITHOUT UAF."
Burnley is 5000-1 to win the Premier League next season....
Hard to imagine how big a victory that Leicester win will be for sports books. People will be betting those 5000-1 shots for years to come.
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Why do bookies put the odds that high in the first place? Even college football odds tend to max out around 2000 or 3000 for teams like EMU and Georgia State.
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Why do bookies put the odds that high in the first place? Even college football odds tend to max out around 2000 or 3000 for teams like EMU and Georgia State.
The whole idea with sports betting is to have equal money on both teams, not to necessarily reflect what is probable to happen. Man U will have people throw money on them just because of the name even if they are a terrible team in a given year. The fact that there are only a handful of winners that picked Leicester it shows how few people were willing to bet them, even with the high payout as a carrot.
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It's one thing to bring up legitimate points like MLS' single entity system and its problems and another to degrade people by calling their teams "pieces of laundry."
But let's be real...There are 40 some other teams and only two alaskan teams...the day one of us wins something big will be the day I transfer to UAA
Originally posted by Doyle Woody
Best sign by a visting Seawolf fan Friday went to a young man who held up a piece of white poster board that read: "YOU CAN'T SPELL FAILURE WITHOUT UAF."
The whole idea with sports betting is to have equal money on both teams, not to necessarily reflect what is probable to happen. Man U will have people throw money on them just because of the name even if they are a terrible team in a given year. The fact that there are only a handful of winners that picked Leicester it shows how few people were willing to bet them, even with the high payout as a carrot.
That said, normally anything above 250-1 or so is less based on odds (whether real or pari-mutial) and more to do with driving interest and trying to pay a fool from his money. They're promotional gimmicks more than anything, this one just happened to pay off.
That said, normally anything above 250-1 or so is less based on odds (whether real or pari-mutial) and more to do with driving interest and trying to pay a fool from his money. They're promotional gimmicks more than anything, this one just happened to pay off.
Problem is, leagues like the EPL are usually very easy to predict out. 5000-1 is pretty accurate reflection of Leicester's chances back in August. The disparity in the past between the Big 4-5 teams (whoever they are at the time) and the others has always been pretty big.
The question is whether this was fluke and either Chelsea or Man City will win again next season or that the gap between teams is smaller now.
But let's be real...There are 40 some other teams and only two alaskan teams...the day one of us wins something big will be the day I transfer to UAA
Originally posted by Doyle Woody
Best sign by a visting Seawolf fan Friday went to a young man who held up a piece of white poster board that read: "YOU CAN'T SPELL FAILURE WITHOUT UAF."
Problem is, leagues like the EPL are usually very easy to predict out. 5000-1 is pretty accurate reflection of Leicester's chances back in August. The disparity in the past between the Big 4-5 teams (whoever they are at the time) and the others has always been pretty big.
The question is whether this was fluke and either Chelsea or Man City will win again next season or that the gap between teams is smaller now.
The big thing now is that if the smaller clubs like Leicester want to keep a player, they can probably afford to with the money pouring in on the new TV contract. They don't have to sell off assets in order to stay afloat like they used to.
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The big thing now is that if the smaller clubs like Leicester want to keep a player, they can probably afford to with the money pouring in on the new TV contract. They don't have to sell off assets in order to stay afloat like they used to.
Well LC did a fabulous job of finding players who were under the radar. I don't expect that every year, but I would agree that LC is going to be pretty good to the extent that they can keep the guys together and maybe add a few pieces. I give the coach full marks for knowing what rocks to look under for players.
BTW todays AM vs BM game featured some jaw dropping plays. Two penalties saved? when have you ever seen that.
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