Baseball, like hockey, is a Money Line sport. FOR OUR PURPOSES WE ARE ONL Y
What that means is there is no point spread BETTING THE MONEY LINE SO THERE
involved like you have in basketball and football.
IS NO SPREAD INVOLVED. IF YOUR
There is a ‘spread’ if you bet games on the
Run Line, but for our purposes we will only TEAM WINS, THEY WIN THE BET.
be betting Money Line bets. This might be
a bit confusing for some, so let me give an ***For the MLB System we have a radical
example. departure from our normal betting strategies.
First, we are less concerned with Winning %,
You might see a game with a line like this: and more concerned with Units Won. That’s
Team Money Line Run Line Total
New York Yankees -115 -1.5 +160 9.5 -110
Boston Red Sox +105 +1.5 -180 9.5 -110
In this example, the Yankees are favored. On for a couple of reasons. There is no point
the Money Line they are -115; this means you spread involved. And we do wager frequently
have to wager $115 to win $100. If you bet on Underdogs, so you can have a lower
a game on the Money Line, the team only has winning % (in fact you can have a below 50%
to win the game. It doesn’t matter by how winning %) and still do quite well betting on
much they win by, 1 run or 10 runs, it doesn’t baseball. The term ‘Units
matter – your bet still wins.
On the flip side, the Red Sox are +105. This
means you would bet $100 to win $105 on
Boston. And again, they only have to win the
game by a run.
If we were going to use the Run Line, that’s
where a point spread comes into play. You
see the Yankees are -1.5 runs, so they would
have to win by 2 runs or more to win a bet
on New York. Conversely, the Red Sox are
getting 1.5 runs so if they lost by 1 run a bet
on Boston would still be a winner. The total
means the total runs that will be scored in
the game.
Won’ is explained this way: if you are betting example you can win only 41% of your games
$100 a game, and you are +10 units, then and still make a profit! Is it a huge profit?
you would be up $1,000. At Sports Betting No it’s not, but it’s a profit nonetheless – and
Professor, I recommend using between 2- 41% is a ridiculously low percentage to still
5% of your starting bankroll for each wager. be able to make money at. In the traditional
Fluctuations in your standard bet will most point spread sports, the percentage you need
likely cause more damage during the lows to make money is 52.7%.
than it will help during the highs.
The second big difference with the MLB
Many bettors like to stay away from money system compared to my other systems is
line-based sports (such as baseball and that you will not be doubling up your bets, ala
hockey) due to the extremes in winning the Bet A, Bet B, Bet C formula. You can get
percentages, but they can be very some astronomical bet amounts if you were
profitable. Betting on the underdog in to carry over in this manner with Money Line
money line sports may give you a lower won bets.
loss record, but the payouts for winners
will be so much higher that your profits will Baseball is a different animal, and at the end
increase. For example, let’s assume you of the day the point is to make $. So with the
are a $100 bettor. Say you make 100 bets Money Line factor, we’re just looking to turn a
on underdogs of +145 (this means you are profit and we’re not worried so much with win
wagering $100 to win $145). If you lose 59 % due to the fact we’ll be frequently betting
of those bets, that means a loss of $5,900 on Underdogs.
(59 x $100). If you win 41 bets, you would
make a profit of $5,945 (41 x $145). We have been tracking these statistics for
the last 15 years in Major League Baseball.
Take a look at that again. In the above In the course of our research, we have
determined that public opinion plays a large
part in the success of our baseball system.
People LOVE to bet the chalk (or favorites) in
MLB. While betting on favorites might give
you a higher winning percentage you might
not win money - which is the whole point
of this exercise! Betting on teams like the
Yankees will consistently put your odds in the
-200s or higher. If you average odds of -200,
you would need that team to win 67% of the
time to break even. If your average odds go
any higher, you’ll need to win 70% or more to
not lose money!
For example, if you wager on the Yankees
every game of the season (162 games) and
they average -200 odds for the season, you
would need them to win 109 games just to
break even. To turn any substantial profit you
would need them to break the single-season
win record (116). What are the chances of
that happening?
Something else we also discovered was
that in general, home teams are severely
undervalued by the public. The system relies
on whether or not a team is Home or Away,
and what the Betting Percentages are.
HERE IS THE MLB SYSTEM IN A NUTSHELL:
Betting % Home Visitor Total
50% +103 units -54 units +49 units
40% +91 units -30 units +61 units
30% +64 units +13 units +77 units
20% +20 units -4 units +16 units
15% +28 units -5 units +23 units
This is how you read the chart. In the more than 50% of the public action) results
above example, betting the Home Team that in +103 units for the bettor. This means a
receives less than 30% of the public betting $100 bettor would be up $10,300!
action (this means the Visiting Team has more
than 70% of the public action) results in +64 The only situation where we want to bet on
units for the bettor. This means a $100 the Visiting Team is when they are receiving
bettor would be up $6,400! less than 30% of the betting action. That
level produces +13 units.
For another example: Betting on the
Home Team that receives less than Now I am able to access this
50% of the public betting action information through my contacts
(this means the Visiting Team has in the offshore sports betting
industry, which I was a part of for over discipline and patience. There will be days
8 years. But instead of trying to rely on when no games fit the parameters of the
contacts you don’t have, that’s OK – you system. That’s OK; we’re not ‘chasers.’
don’t have to. Only this discipline can guarantee profit at
the end of the season.
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As I mentioned above, Home Teams are truly
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Remember, to be a successful bettor takes