Late Breaking News Can Give You an Edge

By Tom Wilkinson

While a sports betting minimum edge based on such factors as power ratings and statistics is both necessary and a good sports betting guide for a sports bettor to weed out potential sports betting candidates from the sports betting odds list it alone is not enough. sports bettors preparing to make sports wagers at online sportsbooks or casino sportsbooks need additional ingredients to help give them an edge against the sports odds when analyzing football picks or other sports betting possibilities for that matter.

Part of the sports handicapping challenge facing sports bettors is that there are very few secrets when it comes to sports betting and “inside information” is rare and tends to stay INSIDE if it exists at all. Therefore, the great sports handicapping challenge for a sports bettor is to isolate items that will help add to his overall edge against the odds.

Late sports news is one way for a sports bettor to help add to his potential minimum edge against the online sportsbooks and casino sportsbooks. Let’s take a sports handicapping example of a sports bettor analyzing potential football picks and one of the games he likes has a late breaking story about a team illness/epidemic such as the flu. Depending on which team this affects the potential edge of such football picks against the sports odds could be substantial. On a late breaking sports news story, however, a sports bettor must move fast and immediate because the sports odds makers are constantly monitoring such sports betting information as are the “wise guys/sharps” of sports betting.

Another type of sports betting news that can break is a previously undisclosed injury to a key player, or something like an ill wife, family death, childbirth, etc that can take a key player away from his team and alter the sports betting equation not just with his loss of playing ability but the disruption to the game plan of the team that he plays for.

While late breaking sports news is important it is also just as important for a sports bettor to not overreact to it and let such stories affect his sports wagers too much. Such information should simply be part of an overall sports betting equation.