Knowing that both home teams and favorites are being
undervalued during the playoffs, we opted to combine these two filters within Bet Labs.
It's worth noting that historically home - court advantage is overvalued during the regular season, but it's actually
undervalued during the playoffs.
Not exact matches
-- Earlier today we posted an article that explained why home favorites are
undervalued during low - scoring
playoff games.
Earlier this year, we wrote an article discussing the NBA Zig - Zag Theory which argues that teams are
undervalued after a loss
during the NBA
playoffs.
After quickly learning that visitors continued to be
undervalued during the NHL
playoffs, we opted to utilize our moneyline percentage filter to examine teams receiving less than 50 % of ML bets.
Although visitors are historically
undervalued during the regular season, the
playoffs are an entirely different animal with the value shifting to the home team.
In fact,
playoff teams coming off a blowout ATS loss have been even more
undervalued during the postseason.
Past research has indicated that favorites are
undervalued during the NBA
playoffs — a dramatic change from the regular season where underdogs have been historically
undervalued.
Before the start of the 2014 preseason, one of our team members expressed how dirty they felt betting on a preseason game and earlier this year we highlighted a system indicating that
playoff teams have been
undervalued during the preseason.