by Jim Feist
The 2013 NBA playoffs are in full swing, which means overall the better teams are battling each other. This is different from the regular season when many nights great teams are playing bad teams and bad teams are playing worse one. Astute sports bettors should pay very careful attention to blowouts. Read the rest of this entry »
by Jim Feist
More than any other sport, baseball is a game of patience. It’s not how you start, but where you finish, and with a 162-game regular season, there is a LOT of baseball left. Did your team get off to a bad start? Well don’t panic. There is plenty of time to make adjustments and turn things around. Did your team get off to a hot start? Don’t start making World Series reservations just yet. Read the rest of this entry »
by Jim Feist
As the NBA playoffs roll on, handicappers should take careful note of how teams did against each other during the regular season. Examine head to head matchups individually and as a group. Does one team dominate another? If so, are the reasons for this, or was it merely a fluke during the long grind of the 66-game schedule?
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by Jim Feist
The NBA playoffs are rolling along, which is a good time to revisit an old sports adage: Defense wins championships. Some teams are already in that playoff mode while fighting for positioning, with the Grizzlies on a 42-19 run under the total playing on one day’s rest. Even an attacking offensive team like the Oklahoma City Thunder ended the regular season on a 10-3-2 run under the total, priming that defense for another long postseason run.
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by Jim Feist
As we start the baseball season, we have already seen some surprises. The Oakland A’s have been terrific on offense, top 5 in runs, but let’s not read too much into that. This is a team that was 14th runs scored a year ago and plays its home games in a huge, pitcher friendly park. They opened against the Mariners and Astros and the rest of the month is a tougher test against the Rays, Tigers, Red Sox and Angels. Read the rest of this entry »
by Jim Feist
Proline Video: Jim Feist talks Final Four Weekend
It’s been a long haul, longer than last year’s abbreviated 66-game NBA regular season, but the playoffs are just around the corner. So who wins the NBA title? The most talented team? The luckiest? The favorites? Read the rest of this entry »
by Jim Feist
Click here: Jim Feist’s Proline Final 4 Preview Video, April 6, 2013
It is a great week for sports fans with the start of baseball, the NBA stretch run, the Final Four and the culmination of the college basketball season next Monday in Atlanta, Georgia for the national championship. It’s clear that it’s not the teams the start the season hot, but the ones that get hot when it really matters — March and April! Read the rest of this entry »
by Jim Feist
Click here: Proline Free Plays Tourney Video – Jim Feist examines the Sweet 16 card, including Duke/Michigan St + Syracuse/Indiana
College tournament play is one of the most enjoyable times of the year for sports fans and bettors, with a seemingly endless stream of action and excitement. Big name schools often end up playing for the title. Florida of the SEC took home back to back national championships by beating UCLA and Ohio State in 2006 and ’07. Then it was Kansas, North Carolina, Duke, UConn and Kentucky winning titles again the last five years. But who did the last three teams beat for the title? Kansas and…tiny Butler? That Butler, of the Horizon League and now Atlantic 10? Read the rest of this entry »
by Jim Feist
It’s the final stretch of a long college basketball season. There are better teams, tougher matchups, and defensive intensity. It’s a good time of the season to look backward — to look back, that is, to conference regular season tourney play and early season matches against different conferences. That’s because it can be tougher to analyze matchups during the Big Dance, with teams from the East Coast heading out West to play.
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by Jim Feist
It’s time! Time for college basketball teams to begin conference tourney play, also known as separating the contenders from the pretenders. It’s important to understand and closely examine the schedule of college hoop teams. Some teams start off the season playing a bunch of cream puffs, while others face a mixture of good and bad teams. Read the rest of this entry »