Quote Originally Posted by wallstreetcappers:
Thats pretty lame Kline, 5 Dimes had the line, Pinnacle did as well and both of those books are larger than Matchbook.
Keep honest tracking, it will help you down the road.
Thought someone would attack me, surprised its a covers lineman
Lame would be 1). Not sharing information, systems, or claiming "inside info" without posting it, like most on this site do. 2). Not posting season records and units won or lost 3). Never posting write-ups and just using this site as a record keeping tool 4) Coming into someone's thread and bashing the crap out of them for a loss (which I never see a linesman reprimand) - trust me when I say, I don't do any of those things.
In fact, when anyone EVER asks me how I cap, what tools I use, what angles I use, and why I like a play, I always tell them EVERY SINGLE thing I do.
Let me say yet again that I don't like systems at all. It normally takes me 1-2 hours to fully study a game and I only play/post one out of every ten games I study. There are tons of angles I use in February and I tried to condense them into a system so I can narrow down the games I study. It just so happens that when I combined the angles I use to narrow down the games, all the games that fit my angles were hitting at a high percentage (so I posted it IMMEDIATELY for the betterment of the board).
One of the main angles of the system is that betters have a LONG MEMORY and so when the see the Citadels, the Samfords, the Tulanes, the Towsons, the UC Irvines, the Pepperdines, the Georgia Southerns, the Fordhams, and the Marists of the worlds, they have a memory from when those teams burned them this year and laid an egg (often when they took 15+ points with them against a good team by the way) and even though they like the line they won't bet those teams because of the fear of being burned AGAIN. THIS IS WHERE THE VALUE IS AT THIS LATE IN THE SEASON. In fact, 3 of the last 4 games that fit the system (and about 60+% of all the games of the system thusfar), the line moved UP towards the favorite making the system even stronger. This tells me that we have found a very nice angle as people are still willing to lay huge numbers (even with mediocre/crappy teams) against the bottom tier teams from kenpom.
Let me just say that I can tell you significant information about all 8 contributing basketball players on Samford, Citadel, UT Chatt, and a host of other "bad" teams (this just means I have no life by the way), but I had NEVER EVEN HEARD OF UMKC until yesterday. I had to google the initals to even know the name of the school. How can I know what type of value to assign to teams like this when they play games and in conferences that don't regularly have lines?
Teams from the Atlantic East conference (even though Binghamton and Boston U SOMETIMES have a line) they don't fit the system, also teams from the Atlantic Sun, the Great West, the Northeast, the Patriot League, the Southland, the Southwestern Atlantic, and the Summit conference ARE NOT SYSTEM PLAYS.
You will find ZERO teams from these conferences involved in this system that is 29-7 since Feb 13th. I even posted the fact (in all my threads) that the system was intended to run from Feb 13th till Feb 21st originally as I was afraid the emotion of "Senior Night" could influence the results. We agreed in one of the original threads to extend it through this week and see what happens to the results.
People are still more than welcome to use my system on these other conferences and teams as well (and I would argue that taking 6+ points against mediocre to terrible teams is a great idea), but it isn't considered a system play as I have designed and clearly explained this system.
People are more than welcome to modify the system or say that I am full of crap and fade the system (although I wouldn't recommend that).
The system as originally created is 29-7, if you include games from teams listed in the list of conferences above that aren't system plays, it is 30-10. I am not hiding anything and posted THESE FACTS in the original post of this thread as well.
To be clear I work very hard and spend tons of time trying to be an asset to this forum and help my fellow betters as we are all in this together and I don't appreciate being called lame or even the accusation that I'm trying to be dishonest. I hate systems and could care less if this one crashes and burns AND I WILL BE THE FIRST to admit it if/when it happens. I AM THE ONE WHO POINTED OUT THE DISCREPANCY TO BEGIN WITH.
The system is 29-7 if you do it the way it was originally designed The system is 30-10 if you include other teams from conferences that this system wasn't designed forIf you have any questions whether or not a game fits the system, you can do one of two things. 1) Just look for my thread the night before as I will post all games that fit the system (and whether or not I am betting them) 2) Just come into my thread and ask and I will tell you if its a system play or not.
I encourage all of you to play with this system and make it your own (you could only use DD spreads, use teams from 160 or more, include away games with high ranked team vs low ranked teams etc).
I appreciate all the support and kind words and do understand that some people will bash if the system or my alert plays begin to lose. Let make some money
If anyone else has this same type of question, please direct them to this post