Texas Rangers 2½ System - Page 25 - Sports Betting - SportsBetting Strategy and Forum

One thing that you will consistently see among professional sports bettors is that they keep good records of their bets. Here is a graphical representation of all Texas Rangers 2½ System wagers across the different sports books.

5Dimes received the most action because they offer the 2½ on both favorites and underdogs. Even though The Rangers hit a lot of HRs, lines makers had them as underdogs in plenty of games.

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Originally Posted by calm

LOL. Choo Choo.

does that graph represent all the times you started over for 'bookkeeping purposes'?

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03-07-2010 , 05:34 AM

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bjornb

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Originally Posted by sportslover

has anybody else tried this system with any other team? but wow.. sounds kinda risky

Didn't someone bet against the Pirates every game?

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http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/40...season-601704/

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03-07-2010 , 02:26 PM

#604

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I am willing to argue that keeping detailed records of your bets is the biggest waste of time any sports bettor makes.

My productivity and EV have skyrocketed since I stopped giving a crap about the above.

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03-07-2010 , 02:31 PM

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I'd agree.

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03-07-2010 , 09:50 PM

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Originally Posted by B00T

2nd biggest waste of time is following system threads

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03-08-2010 , 03:58 AM

#607

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seeing this bump made me so happy.

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03-08-2010 , 05:38 PM

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Originally Posted by B00T

depends whether it is a value added activity or not

this mainly relates to whether keeping good records helps you on the path to other profitable subsets

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03-08-2010 , 05:50 PM

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Its mostly a way to statistically masturbate to downswingz.

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03-08-2010 , 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Peeig

2nd biggest waste of time is following system threads

Particularly this one.

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03-08-2010 , 09:23 PM

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wiper

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i will say a bad start to 2010 has me doubting a couple things, whereas if i didn't have the numbers in front of me, i probably would assume i was up a small bit.

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03-10-2010 , 04:00 PM

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Does acquiring Vlad help or hurt the system?

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03-11-2010 , 01:29 AM

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Phildo

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vlad has 407 career hrs so ...

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03-11-2010 , 09:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Phildo

vlad has 407 career hrs so ...

BP projects him for 20 this year, which is probably more relevant

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03-11-2010 , 01:01 PM

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but don't the rangers have the future aka chris davis on 1b?? he hit so many Hrs last year he should get 60 easily this year

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03-11-2010 , 02:08 PM

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Originally Posted by rsigley

but don't the rangers have the future aka chris davis on 1b?? he hit so many Hrs last year he should get 60 easily this year

don't forget Justin Smoak, he might get a taste before the year is out

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03-11-2010 , 03:29 PM

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Phildo

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Originally Posted by Peeig

BP projects him for 20 this year, which is probably more relevant

i don't know; pecota was ****ing garbage last time i checked

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03-11-2010 , 03:36 PM

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Wasn't that a playing time issue more than raw projection issues?

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03-11-2010 , 03:43 PM

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Phildo

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they screwed up the run environment and they messed up babip by double counting defense or some ****. they probably have those fixed by now but bpro is currently being run by a bunch of clowns so **** them anyway.

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03-11-2010 , 03:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Phildo

i don't know; pecota was ****ing garbage last time i checked

if you don't like PECOTA, maybe you like these better

Bill James - 24
MARCEL - 23
CHONE - 18

all more relevant than his career homerun total

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03-11-2010 , 03:52 PM

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Yeah, I read something on fangraphs about is iso taking a dump, whatev. Who currs. Vlad sucks.

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03-11-2010 , 05:12 PM

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i like chone and marcel is fine for what it is although you switched them. james is even more lol than bpro.

but i think discussing baseball projections in this thread is kind of missing the point