In other words, college basketball bettors can't
blindly bet against the public — they need to target the most heavily bet games of the day.
Although these systems have been incredibly lucrative,
blindly betting against the public isn't necessarily an effective strategy as you can see from the table below.
Blindly betting against the public isn't necessarily an effective strategy, which is why our annual betting against the public support considers additional trends when determining the sweet spot for contrarian betting.
We don't recommend
blindly betting against Jake Arrieta in every start, but the public's infatuation with the red - hot 30 - year - old has created artificially inflated lines.
Not exact matches
Between those
blindly betting on their preferred candidate and those hedging
against the wrong candidate winning, it is easy to envision the massive interest in
betting on an election.
Blindly following a broad strategy such as
betting against the public isn't always effective, which is why our annual
betting against the public report has to look at other factors that can better produce a winning season.
You can't just
blindly bet on every team on a ATS losing streak while
betting against every team on an ATS winning streak, but there's definitely profitable spots to do so.
As we learned in the
betting against the public report, taking a contrarian strategy is a great approach, but you can't just
blindly take every team getting less than 30 % and make a profit.