Playing a Team off a Heartbreaking Defeat

By Tom Wilkinson

When a player is  handicapping a game versus the line or odds posted at an sports gambling house or casino sportsbook, one of the better sports handicapping angles to consider is a team coming off a heartbreaking defeat. Particularly in college football and basketball where emotion is such a strong motivating force such teams that had their bubble burst in the previous weeks are prime candidates to oppose against the sports odds if other factors that a sports bettor that is sports handicapping such candidates check out.

There are many occasions in which a team will point for a long time towards a particular game and rival, focusing considerable attention on it, only to lose in a tough loss, sometimes late in the game. A sports bettor should always give consideration to opposing such teams when sports handicapping their next game as they often have little left to give and, if they are at home after that tough loss, the fans that show up may not have much enthusiasm to bolster the team’s motivation.

It is both wise and important for a sports bettor to make careful notes of different types of sports handicapping motivation theories and setups to track which of these are beating the sports odds and which one are not. A sports bettor that keeps notes of potential motivation factors and tracks their progress, (or lack there of), against the online sportsbooks and casino sportsbooks will have an additional important sports handicapping weapon to use in his sports betting arsenal.

Many professional sports bettors devise spreadsheets and notebooks that track all kinds of sports handicapping angles and theories against the sports odds in the eternal struggle to find gems that they can beat the sportsbooks and online sportsbooks with.

“Solid record keeping of different (sports betting) angles has been a major part of my success against the (sports betting odds),” said Eric, a professional sports bettor in Las Vegas. “Keeping sports handicapping theory records not only separates winners from losers but sparks additional theories and ideas that I come up with to track and study against the (sports betting odds).”