It's just a certain percentage of what you allocate as your "bankroll" for betting purposes. Doing it that way is supposedly a good money management technique -- and I'm not arguing it isn't -- but I've never done it like that.
I"m up just barely on the evening, having put down a bit more on Utah, which won, than I did on shitty shitty VT*, which lost. *And they really are bad. They'll gain -87 total yards on us in the Bristol Bowl, and that's if they're clicking on offense.
What about some of these dogs this week? Rutgers +21.5 Washington +21 Colorado +21 FIU +22 TAMU +14 Oky St +10
Colorado is a good play. THey aren't good, but they play hard and keep games close. USC rarely covers at home either. Washington seems like a good play until you realize that that game has been an ass kicking for years. the real question is if Oregon is back or ucla wasn't very good. I'd probably lean towards the latter, but UW's offense is legit bad. they needed two non contact fumbles returned for tds to score that many points. 3 tds isn't a big spread to cover for Oregon.
YTD 32-25 +5.6 untis 5 units Central MI -8 4 units Florida Atlantic over 67 4 units Georgia Tech ML 4 units Kansas +14 4 units Cal +7 3 units Iowa +4.5 3 units Notre Dame +10
I've cleaned up on soccer the last two days. I would post it in here but I figured no one cares about people's soccer picks.
You do you go by feel, or is there a particular margin that makes you go heavy on one game vs another?
Let's say you handicap a game at -6, and Vegas says -3, would you be willing to bet more, because you believe the -6 team is way better than Vegas thinks? What would cause you to want to put more money on game X than game Y?
Remember the point spread does not represent the number of points Vegas thinks the favorite will win by. Stated another way, they want to create a line that half the people find appealing to bet one way while the other half find it appealing to bet the other way (known as 'dividing the action'). my units are 3,4,5 which really represents normal wager,1.33 times normal wager and 1.67 times normal wager. Start with a comfortable bankroll and never over bet on a game. Stay consistent and stick with the process. The process sound familiar?