We also see a massive increase in the volume of bets, which means that many of our regular
season contrarian strategies can be thrown out the window.
Not exact matches
However, this general
contrarian strategy is heavily factored in when releasing our College Football Best Bets, which are 49 - 35 (58.3 %) ATS this
season and 16 - 5 (76.2 %) ATS over the past three bowl
seasons.
For anybody employing a
contrarian strategy, plan on fading the Warriors early and often next
season.
A profitable
contrarian strategy for bowl games is betting teams that were bad against the spread in the regular
season.
Using our money percentages, I found that employing a
contrarian strategy has been highly profitable in the 16 bowl games that have been played this
season.
Last Friday we posted our third article of the
season focusing on
contrarian strategies for DFS tournament players.
Despite the struggles of our betting against the public
strategy this
season, this is an interesting time of the year for
contrarian strategies.
Betting against the public has been a hallmark of our
contrarian strategy, but there has been mixed results in late
season games.
Instead of focusing on these large road «dogs, we wanted to continue highlighting
contrarian value by examining our betting against the public
strategy and teams fitting our most profitable late
season trends.
Our
contrarian betting
strategy had a slow Week 4, finishing 1 - 2 against the spread (ATS), dropping our overall
season record to 9 - 7 ATS.
This
contrarian betting
strategy takes bowl teams from the previous
season in Week 1 when the line has moved against them.