Not exact matches
I had a great soccer
game day today... my
team Arsenal took me on whirlwind
road for a while but it was all good
in the end!
I concede that the Premier league is the most competive professional league
in world football and every
team loses a
game or two they shouldnt (especially on the
road) but unfortunately when you only able to secure 7 out of 24 available points against Manure / Shitty / Spuds / Cheshit you CANT drop points
in such fixtures.
That was a potentially pivotal
game for us
in the title race and we went into it with high hopes against an injury hit
team, but it was Rashford who took the glory on the day, stunning Arsenal with two goals
in the space of three minutes to set us on the
road to a damaging 3 - 2 loss.
This
team will Not win another
road game in the Big10 this season.
The
road team has covered the spread
in all four
games this series, and that's par for the course this postseason.
FSU's early - 1980s strategy of taking on any
team at any time would peak
in 1981, when the Seminoles took on
road games against Nebraska, Ohio State, Notre Dame, Pitt, and LSU
in consecutive
games.
According to my analysis,
road teams have actually gone 2,639 - 2,455 ATS (51.8 %)
in conference
games.
The Cardinals have had past success
in pivotal
games (3 - 0, +2.71 units) and
road dogs have performed superbly
in the postseason, but the edge has belonged to home
teams in recent series deciding
games.
In games with the highest ticket counts, the road team is getting more than 70 % of spread bets in each one of them but the line movement has differed on al
In games with the highest ticket counts, the
road team is getting more than 70 % of spread bets
in each one of them but the line movement has differed on al
in each one of them but the line movement has differed on all.
For starters, we believed that
road teams would perform particularly well
in games with high totals.
After dropping seven consecutive
games and losing its coach, Ole Miss rebounded with an impressive offensive performance against a stellar defensive
team, and showed enough fight to pick up its first
road win
in conference.
If everyone is ok with going 7 - 5, 8 - 4, or at best, 9 - 3 every year while almost always losing to top 20
teams, especially on the
road, and getting creamed
in a New Year's day six bowl
game when they get an invitation then by all means, keep Kelly.
Whereas baseball
teams get
in three
games in three nights on the
road, NBA
teams will often arrive
in town and cool their heels for 36 hours before a
game.
White and Fucillo went the opposite direction, predicting the 49ers to become just the second
road team in 18
games to win
in Seattle.
Road trips to Ohio State and Illinois could trip Wisky up, but the Huskers are far and away the best
team left on the Wisconsin schedule — and may well end up dancing with the Badgers again
in the Big Ten Championship
Game.
... We settled
in and played our
game, our
road game, our
team game,» Thompson said.
On a side note, I couldn't help but think 2 predominant thoughts when watching the
game against Bournemouth on the weekend: (1) Wenger is still willing to put his own personal agenda ahead of the
team's best interests when it comes to
team selection, which luckily for us didn't cost us the 3 points this time and (2) if Eddie Howe is earmarked to be the successor we are
in deep trouble because he's simply a poor man's version of our present manager, as he's tactically inept and has an even worse
road record.
The UMass Minutemen were down to the Drexel Dragons, who many felt deserved to be
in the NCAA Tournament, by 17 points
in the second half and, as a six seed, were trying to become the first
team to ever make the NIT semifinals
in Madison Square Garden by playing three straight
road games.
The Stars fell to 3 -8-1 away from home and have just one win
in seven
road games against fellow Central Division
teams.
Whenever they are the
road team in the annual Snoopy Bowl, they play 3 preseason
games @ Metlife.
However, when compared to most of the
teams featured here, Marquette played decently away from home, going 5 - 5
in true
road games and 3 - 2
in neutral - site situations.
The Cowboys won't get Bailey back Sunday and if his injury is serious, the
team will undoubtedly scoop up a kicker before a
road game against Washington
in Week 8.
The Pittsburgh Steelers took the hard
road to Super Bowl XL, winning three straight
road games against the toughest
teams in either conference.
His play all
game long — and yes, especially at the very end — helped the Steelers go on the
road,
in a hostile environment, and get a win over a very good Chiefs
team and advance to the AFC Championship.
In games refereed by Scott Foster,
road teams have gone 204 - 160 ATS.
Four of those
road games are against
teams in the West playoff race; the other two are against the feisty Lakers and the moribund Kings (that's the season finale).
The claim that what we saw was us not turning up is as pathetic and utterly unacceptable an excuse to use because we've been down this
road before, WEEKS were spent hyping Arsenal up, players, fans and coaching staff alike spent weeks
in advance talking about our real chances winning the league, our players back from injury and on the first
game of the season, where we had renewed optimism and were swelling with expectation we cracked under the pressure to a
team you expect to finish no higher than 8th.
Our past research had also indicated that
teams were undervalued when they were
in the midst of a
road trip, so we used the «Previous
Game Home / Visitor» filter
in Bet Labs and selected visitor.
Four of the five
road games are against
teams in the chase or
in the bracket, too.
The public is favoring
road teams in many of the big
games in this second weekend of NCAA football, creating some lopsided
games that we have broken down for your viewing pleasure.
Now that we had our data subsect, we wanted to test whether
road teams playing on back - to - back nights were offering value
in early season
games.
MSU plays x2 UM, IU, OSU, UMD, PSU, UMD = 12
games MSU plays x1 Wisc (
road), (@ even yrs / vs odd yrs): Illini, PU, NW, Neb, Minn, Iowa = 7
games MSU plays allotted «rival» Wisc (Home) = 1
game OR just make the +1
game vs one
team in the opposite division to be different every year on a 7 year cycle.
1 W
in Milwaukee would be great, but given our
road game status, well... please destroy all the way and show this
team why they should've hoped for a different 1st round match - up
But the Orange represent the first major
game of the season for Rutgers, a
team that lost to Ole Miss
in its lone notable
road game of the year.
Conley suffered a facial injury
in the Grizzlies»
Game 3 victory, and will be sidelined as the
team tries to complete the sweep on the
road in Game 4.
All of the
teams around us also seem to have easy
games in midweek, so it is vital that we keep up the pressure with a good win at Loftus
Road and also that we increase our goal difference.
There has clearly been an edge taking underdogs
in divisional
games, and focusing on
road teams with high totals only improves upon those results.
The Jayhawks were blown out by a struggling Baylor
team on the
road and trailed Texas Tech by a
game in the standings with six to play.
These
games tend to happen earlier
in the season when FBS
teams are playing FCS
teams, and this year 30 + point
road dogs have gone an astounding 51 - 20 ATS for +27 units.
Unfortunately, using a simple favorite versus underdog filter provided no additional value, and betting against
road teams playing
in their second
game in as many nights actually produced a win rate above 50 %, but failed to cover the necessary vig needed to produce a winning system.
Alabama does still have to win two
road games versus opponents who have at least occasionally been salty this year (Mississippi State, Auburn), and an Auburn
team not much worse than this one almost took out «Bama's national title winner
in 2009.
Since 2005,
road teams with at least 4 - days between
games have gone 48 - 76 ATS (38.7 %)
in the NBA Playoffs.
Since 2003, the four aforementioned
teams have gone 33 - 22 ATS (60 %)
in road games played at 8:00 PM EST or later.
We have also written previously about how NBA
teams in the midst of a
road trip are typically undervalued, so we opted to add the previous
game home / visitor filter which was not available at this same time last year.
For starters,
road teams have gone 253 - 227 ATS (+13.1 units)
in conference
games while Auburn actually holds the best
in - conference ATS record of any SEC
team with a 46 - 34 (+9.18 units) mark since 2005.
One of the most dominant individuals
in NBA history overcame one of the league's most dominant
teams, when the Cleveland Cavaliers shocked the Golden State Warriors on the
road in a thrilling 93 - 89 win
in Game 7 to win the NBA Championship, the first
in Cavaliers history.
(It will all come down to how the committee balances
road record against wins against top
teams) If we go 2 - 2 we are looking ok, and one ACC tourney win probably leaves us on the bubble with a 60/40 type situation, but our record against bubble
teams probably really helps us after a sweep against GT and possibly another bubble win
in the first tourney
game against a wake / clemson potentially.
After one loss last season, mindful of the long
road to respectability, he went up to Tomlinson, who
in his first three seasons has rushed for 4,564 yards on a
team that has won 17
games, and told him, «I'm going to do everything
in my power to make sure your career is not played
in vain.»
Sure, a series where a
team drops the first
road game and then wins it
in five is common enough.
First off,
road teams have won just 24 of 125
Game 7's
in the NBA Playoffs all - time (19.2 %).