Quote Originally Posted by grabbitt:
Hello and thank you to everyone who's been contributing to this thread. I'm sure w1s3k1d got busy so maybe I can kickstart this back up.
A question I had, if there were 4 games that fit, would you pick the 3 you prefer or split it into 2 2-team parlays?
Today there are 4 games that fit the bill:
LAD RL +145 @ STL ML +101 (o/u 8)
CHC RL +115 @ SD ML +132 (o/u 8.5)
NYY RL +110 @ BAL ML +132 (o/u 8.5)
DET RL +120 @ KC ML +121 (o/u 9)
Also, nfl_huskers, have you run any tests on whether this is profitable over an entire season? I see that you're running very helpful tests on the probability of certain outcomes, I'm just wondering whether you've seen anything to suggest that this is a good profit. I always wonder about profit when I see that a successful night (straight bets) results in .2 units won whereas an unsuccessful night results in 2 units lost. So you'd need to win 10 times to account for every loss. Any insight would be appreciated and if I can be of service in tracking this system I'm happy to help
I started to back test the system, but I wasn't sure of the exact criteria being used, except for Away Favorites and O/U Total greater than 8, so I just used that filtering.
On days when the number of plays was even, I split them up into 2-team parlays. So, four plays turned into two 2-team parlays. If the number of plays was three, I used a 3-team parlay. If the number of plays was odd and greater than 3, such as 5, then I used one 2-team parlay and one 3-team parlay. Basically, tried to use all available plays. Make sense?
I'd have to go back over the data for 2016. I didn't save the results. I just remember bouncing between break even and a profit of +15 units. Never went negative.
Those 3-team parlays were good and bad. They went on quite a few winning streaks, and were the primary reason for the +15 unit profit. However, there were a couple losing streaks that dropped it back to break even very quickly.
I personally think that the system can be profitable because it is based on two filters that generate a positive ROI on the run line. However, I just mentioned those filters early in this thread as a starting point.
More research needs to be done on the games where the run line loses. This system multi-team parlay also wins if the underdog wins. We need to maximize the instances where the underdog wins and minimize the instances where the favorite only wins by 1.
I need to play around with those numbers.