Post your worst bad beat (an experiment).

There is a HUGE difference between losing and a bad beat and only a couple posted here were bad beats. Words and terms you need to remove from your vocabulary if you want to be successful:

Bad Beat

Close (subtract the C and you have lose)

Almost (subtract the a and the m and you have lost)

I think (Anybody can have a thought on a game but handicapping is about quantifying. Everyone has an opinion and you know what they say about opinions).

Please enlighten us

If you had the Falcons in the 2016 super bowl you had a bad beat. Atlanta entered the 4th quarter leading by 19 points. Teams leading by 11 points or more heading into the 4th quarter of the super bowl are 27-1 SU all time. 

@vanzack

 Haha yesss, OT.. forgot to put in the most important detail.. BRUTAL still till this day.. haha

nfl game about 8 years ago.  total something like 49 and i had the over.  47 scored at halftime.  scoreless 2nd half

couple laterals where the lateral team scores and beats me

couple laterals where the other team grabs and runs in for a td.

Not sure if this qualifies but 2020 Ravens/Browns.

Had Browns +3.5. Ravens lead 45-42 with 4 seconds left. Last play of the game Browns take a safety on a ridiculous play and Ravens win by 5. I have to admit I was already counting my winnings. Cost me a few grand and I’ll never forget it. I got a whole list of these if I could remember them all. 

Im sure this one doesn’t qualify. Rams/packers. Rams up 2 with one minute to play. I believe they were a 7 point favorite. O/u 57. Todd Gurley avoids scoring a TD on a wide open run with 50 something seconds left. Final 29-27 Rams. If he scores it’s Rams/over. Instead Packers/under. Yep that one cost me a few bucks too.

Only recent one i can remember this year in college football. I had Baylor +3 against Colorado. Baylor leading 24-10 late in second quarter. Colorado eventually ties, Baylor takes lead late 31-24, Colorado ties with hail mary as time expires then scores first in OT, then Baylor guy fumbles over the goal line while going in for the tying TD in overtime. 

This ranks up there for me as well. I thought it was a 99% win when the Seahawks had it 1st and goal. It's probably the worst beat for me if judging by the swing in my bet. I had a $6k straight plus a lot of parlays around the Seahawks. I don't think think I've felt so sick in any moment more than that one 

THAT is a bad beat.

This is before the advent of in-play.

I normally do 3 or 4 team round robins now, but I did a few $20 8-teamers way back. I had the first 6 in and the 7th and 8th games had just started when the 6th game finished that I won by a last second field goal. The 7th game was close but always had the lead and it ended up winning. The 8th game was a LOCK at half time…I mean the LOCK OF ALL LOCKS. It was Louisiana Monroe against Florida Intentional or Florida Atl…one of those. The over was 66 1/2. There was 61 points at half time. The two teams only managed a field goal TOTAL in the 2nd half. Ended up at 64.

so many in like my 60 yeras of gambling but i got quite a few

nfl eeeeeehhh cant say they were bad beats like you state a series of events that caused it to happen

oooooooyes wait this year Eagles home -9.5 vs Brown s not 1 no 2 b ut 3 missed 2 pt attempts and a missed fog they blew my money out the window

i was saying are they looking ahed to old team they were part of before sb years known as steelgals 200$ gone

if they make all xtra points and that fg they cover win by 11

Double OT! Unreal Bad Beat. Ruled a fumble and returned like 90 yards. That was a fun ASU team. Jake the Snake!

So please let all of us know what qualifies as a bad beat. Is it the amount of money wagered?

Is it the amount of teams wagered?

Is it a .05 point beat?

To the few posters that have been doing this longer than you have been alive a bad beat would be and I am using examples.

A bet on a game under 39 and it is 21-20 at the half. Just a really bad beat on the numbers and or system being used.

A head coach using analitics causing very poor play calling.

Or the biggest mistake of all. poor money management.

What say you?

[Quote: Originally Posted by undermysac]Quote Originally Posted by C-70Blues: My experiment is working. Could the experiment be that no one ever recalls their lucky wins?[/Quote]

..... Agreed, this the main takeaway,  even if the OP disagrees....

Sure, the thread pointed to discussion of bad beats, but no one really talks abouts the games they didn't deserve to win.... not very often, anyway.

And this just  doesn't happen by accident.   A fair amount of research has been done to show that people feel the pain of a loss more acutely than the euphoria of a win.   The subject of  "" behavioral finance"" goes into this to a degree..

I think I have the winner but it’s a friends bet not mine. He showed me the screen shot. Jacksonville State vs LA Tech this year he has LA Tech +4.5 on an in game bet. LA tech is up 37-31 with the ball inside of 2 mins and doesn’t cover. It’s the worst I’ve ever seen and it’s not even close. Look up the YouTube video. Probably 1,000,000-1 type of result. 

I say that bad beats happen once every few years, not weekly like so many here seem to think.