Sharps

[Skating Tripods]

(11-02-2011 11:35 AM)jimmysingh9 Wrote:  Great Information. But the last two paragraphs I think will further emphasize the overreaction to people using sharp side. If Sharps are indeed hitting around a 54% clip or even 2-3% better. There is no point in finding out where the Sharp side is.

Unless you are playing every single side that Sharps play. You are basically coin flipping which side of a Sharp Play you are on(the winning side/losing side). sure you will have a 4-7% better chance than a coin flip in the long run. But that is nothing to make a wager over.

No, but this year is a bad example of the sharp v. square debate. Heavy public teams tend to do well against the spread, but they don't do it all at once the way they have this year.

Where the sharp sides make their money is on the non-marquee games. They're always going to have opinions on marquee games and those are the ones people want to see but the lines are tighter and they have a harder time finding the necessary value.

Just like there are public teams, there are sharp teams as well. The last couple years, I've noticed sharps gravitating to LA Tech, Bowling Green, and North Carolina.

Like I said, the 2-3% isn't much with what most of us bet. Putting your faith in sharps is just like listening to a stockbroker. Same with buying picks from touts. Same with blindly following sharps on Saturday/Sunday.