Sports: Handicapping Baseball Totals

Handicapping Baseball Totals

Written by Ron Dyer

Betting on baseball totals provides outstanding value and opportunities to profit from for a variety of reasons: Home plate umpires have tendencies that can be exploited. In baseball, more so than any other sport, repparttar

home plate umpire has a tremendous impact on repparttar 133239

game because of repparttar 133240

size of his strike zone. Each umpire has a different strike zone, some are wider, others are tighter. Umpires with a wider strike zone favors repparttar 133241

pitchers while umpires with a smaller strike zone will favor repparttar 133242

batters. Baseball totals streaks are not as noted by repparttar 133243

Public or

media providing excellent line value for repparttar 133245

astute handicapper. Nothing drives away line value quicker than repparttar 133246

Public's backing. For repparttar 133247

first part of repparttar 133248

2004 baseball season, lefty - lefty matchups of starting pitchers were ringing up unders at an alarming rate. Unfortunately for repparttar 133249

Public, it appears that they jumped on repparttar 133250

bandwagon too late as repparttar 133251

trend is reversing to Overs in these matchups (as all trends do with time). Unfortunately, repparttar 133252

Public has driven up repparttar 133253

line on Unders in these matchups, so they're losses are more than they should be do to repparttar 133254

inflated lines and lack of value.

Sportsbooks don't have as much room to adjust their totals. Baseball totals typically range from a low of 6.5 and a high of 12 (except for Coors Field which produces an abundance of high scoring affairs). When two hot hitting teams face off against one another against average starting pitching, repparttar 133255 total will not go above 12 (-145) in most instances. Likewise, when two cold hitting teams play against two dominant starters, repparttar 133256 total will not drop below 6.5 while laying no more than (-145). However, if a Top 10 pitcher on a winning team faces a struggling team and pitcher you may have to lay -300 to win $100. Capping totals involves many components:

1) We start be reviewing who repparttar 133257 home plate umpire will be. If this is repparttar 133258 first game of a series, this information will usually not be available until an hour before game time. The umpires follow a rotation with repparttar 133259 first base umpire behind repparttar 133260 plate repparttar 133261 next night. Pay attention to repparttar 133262 umpires over/under record in their games called and repparttar 133263 percentage of strikes that they call. Once again, a higher percentage of strikes will more than likely produce Unders as repparttar 133264 wider strike zone favors repparttar 133265 pitchers. A lower percentage of called strikes will favor repparttar 133266 batters as they will more than likely be facing hitters counts where repparttar 133267 pitcher will have to throw a strike.

The One Piece Takeaway In Your Golf Swing (pt. 2)

Written by Glen Osborne

Pictures and video clips are shown for this part on my website at: http://basicbodymovementforanygolfswing.com/onepiecetakeaway.html

The One-Piece Takeaway Movement

This is a brief outline of what is in my lesson modules. (Note: repparttar references are for a right-handed golfer. I am a left-handed golfer, myself. Please think left in place of right if you are also a left-hander.)

You have positioned yourself at your golf ball, set up in a comfortable posture, and you are now ready for your first movement to take your golf club away from your ball.

The start of your first move is to draw your right shoulder and armpit area back towards your right heel --- in a straight line. The completion of this move will place you in a position which features: * The front of your shoulders closely in line with your right foot. * Your shoulder blades facing repparttar 133238 green or fairway area where your ball will land.

* During this single movement action you are to maintain your posture angles. * You must also maintain repparttar 133239 position of your arms to your body and of your hands to your forearms. * There must NOT be any sideways movements of your arms to help you turn. * There must NOT be any turning of repparttar 133240 hands. * There must NOT be any "flipping" or "hinging" of repparttar 133241 hands at your wrists during repparttar 133242 early part of this movement.

An often used instruction to start repparttar 133243 takeaway is to initiate repparttar 133244 movement with your left arm and left side. Little thought is given to your right side. Your right side has to move backwards, out of repparttar 133245 way, for your left side to arc comfortably down and under your chin.

And, guess what? Correctly pulling your right shoulder area back to your right heel will comfortably draw your left shoulder under your chin without any difficult pushing activity. So, how do you pull your right side backwards as indicated above? First, a practice exercise.

1. Stand up right. (Do this in front of a mirror if you can.) 2. Put your hands on your shoulders to prevent arm movement. 3. Firm your whole body. 4. Pull your right shoulder straight back to be above your right heel. 5. You must feel repparttar 133246 weight of your body about half way between your right hip joint and your tailbone. 6. The front of both shoulders should be above your right foot.

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