NFL-Lines

The NFL season is roughly five months away, and already sports betting enthusiasts are handicapping when the best time to take their favorite team will be. With 32 teams competing for 12 playoff spots, some teams betting online hit their peak earlier then others. Today, we will look at when the best time for is. We’ll also look at when a team is more susceptible to giving up an interception.

Despite being one of the most talented teams in the NFL, the San Diego Chargers are one of the most infuriating teams on the betting line. Notoriously slow starters under current Head Coach Norv Turner; the Chargers are the best team to fade in the first half of the season and the best team to back in the second half. Since Turner arrived in San Diego, the Chargers have gone six – 12 – two against the spread in the month of September. Conversely, the Chargers are an incredible 15 and six under Turner in December. Meaning to say, when deciding when to use your interception NFL betting system, September appears to be the best month.

San Diego isn’t the only interesting team against the spread, as some of the other heavyweights of the NFL also seem to struggle. Although they make the big dance annually, the Patriots are one of the worst bets against the spread for three out of the four regular season months. New England is incredible in October, as they are an impressive 15 – five – one against the spread. This season, the Patriots strong record in October will be put to the test, as they face the new look Denver Broncos, New York Jets, and Seattle Seahawks. Each team has had a busy offseason and will be in full stride come October.

It’s been a week since the NFL draft, and already online sportsbooks are arranging their prop bets for the 2012 season. For handicappers new to the NFL, there are plenty of opportunities on the props line that exist, which allow us to turn a profit. One such option is to predict how many sacks a team will total throughout the regular season. Throughout the season, many sports betting sites will place prop bets on each team in regards to who they believe will sack the quarterback first. This simple wager will indicate which teams are good and which need to improve for next week.

The basic system to predicting how many sacks each team will total based on individual games requires that we use a few different principles. Today we will apply these principles to the upcoming Chicago Bears v St. Louis Rams game. The Bears have historically been one of the best defensive units in the NFL, while the team’s offensive line has conceded the most sacks. On the other hand, the Rams are about average in both categories, which should make for an interesting matchup. Here is a look at the principles we need to consider for the sack total system.

Raw statistics are those variables, which remain constant throughout the game. For example, last season, the league average for sacks per game was four and a half. Therefore when the Bears and Rams met, we would take the Chicago’s three point sixty six sacks a game and St. Louis five point forty two sacks per game, and multiply them by each other, then divide them by the league average of four and a half which gives us a game total of four point four for the game. Our job is to then predict whether the total will be more then four point four or less then four point four.