In addition to Facebook's announcement of a new partnership with the MLB to live stream
a number of regular season games, the social network this week also signed a deal with global esports company ESL to bring over 5,550 hours of esports events and other original content to Facebook, including 1,500 of original programming.
It's time for baseball, in tandem with expansion, to focus on quality over quantity and reduce
the number of regular season games so that (a) the front - end of the season is more likely to played under more favorable conditions than it currently is and (2) the determination of the sport's champion is played in conditions that showcase the championship and let it be determined without exposing those games to weather extremes.
Not exact matches
Entering the final week
of the NFL
regular season the playoff picture is almost set, but there remain a
number of meaningful
games to be played in week 17.
As we have previously stated, the value derived from betting against the public is directly correlated with the
number of bets placed on each
game and marquee bowl
games (like BCS Bowls or College Football Playoff
game) receive nearly six times more bets than the average
regular season game.
The typical NFL preseason
game receives just a fraction
of the bets that are placed on
regular season games, but that's still a significant
number.
Our earlier research had found that the
number of bets on the full
game line increased considerably between the
regular season and playoffs, but we weren't certain about how second half betting was impacted.
In fact, my research found that the average
number of bets placed on an NBA Finals matchup is roughly twice the average playoff
game and five times greater than the average
regular season game — and that may be a conservative figure.
They were featured in 12
of the 20 most heavily bet
regular season games, and that
number would have been 13 had I not included the 2016 NBA All - Star
game.
(We arrived at these
numbers by taking 20 %
of each sport's total
regular season games played).
Typically the more public books like Bovada or Sportsbook.com offer a large
number of prop bets for
regular season games, but everybody joins...
Typically the more public books like Bovada or Sportsbook.com offer a large
number of prop bets for
regular season games, but everybody joins the party when it comes to the Super Bowl.
English Champions, Manchester United announced the signing
of the promising player at a fee
of # 30 million and in his first
season, won the Premier league and Champions League crown playing a good
number of games despite not been a
regular starter.
Because
of this, the
number of bets on bowl
games is higher than what we see during the
regular season which makes it an excellent time to fade the popular opinion on these
games.
Over the years, I've grown to root for this type
of young prospect, holding out hope that one day I'll see one
of them wearing a single - digit
number in a
regular -
season game and I'll know they've made it.
The study reviewed the past 5 years
of regular season games in the NBA, NFL and NHL and noted the winning percentage
of the visiting team depending on the direction
of travel (east vs same time zone vs west), and the
number of time zones crossed for every
game.