Final 4 Matchup: Ringneck/TheFade

[olderthandirt]

Post in this thread all week guys. Use the standard lines found using our lines feed at NBA Odds | NBA Betting Lines & Point Spreads. We are using sides and totals.

i will play orlando under 193.5 i beleive defense will be tighter also i think orlando will win but point spread 91/2 may be a little high

[diondublin]

diondublin,

I'm really sure what you're trying to imply, but I'm just saying that sometimes I've been guilty of not really doing my own research on games (because I'm lazy) and just picking what someone else says is good. In many of those occasions, I end up losing.

I know why, it's just how it usually ends up for me. Maybe I have bad karma (right Pitter? ;) )

I'm just saying that I usually pick games alot better when I do my own research, and get a personal feel for the game than I do when I just trail someone. That's all I'm saying... if you want to perceive it differently that's fine.

The point is simply that it takes a good deal of judgement to get games correct however you do it. Put another way one has to use judgement to choose a tipster and then select amongst his tips.

It also depends on your own abilities. In NCAAB and NFL, for instance, I listen to nobody in terms of what I bet on. In MLB, however, I am like an abandoned kitten, and I just take Jack's tips and bet them, varying only having regard to getting the recommended price or something close (if the price has gone badly, no bet)

I am definitely for showing one's own judgement explicitly though - after all it is your money. However, a competent alternative voice may still help, if only when gauging the strength of your selections. Even in NCAAB, for instance, where I am confident, I would likely increase the bet if Jack indicates agreement and decrease it if he disagrees with it. It is also a general confidence-increaser that we seem to agree more often than we disagree.

Having said all that, in NBA I honestly don't know how I would look at things to gain an advantage over his selections - so I would sort of be doing myself and the competition a bit of a disservice if I represented anything else as the best I could come up with under any circumstances.

There is a great deal to be said for individual skill handicapping, but there is also a great deal to be said for a simple process of getting the most winners!

[ringneck82]

Well said dublin.

Back to the well again.

5-1

Boston @ Chicago Over 200.5 (BETUS)

[pitter]

diondublin,

I'm really sure what you're trying to imply, but I'm just saying that sometimes I've been guilty of not really doing my own research on games (because I'm lazy) and just picking what someone else says is good. In many of those occasions, I end up losing.

I know why, it's just how it usually ends up for me. Maybe I have bad karma (right Pitter? ;) )

I'm just saying that I usually pick games alot better when I do my own research, and get a personal feel for the game than I do when I just trail someone. That's all I'm saying... if you want to perceive it differently that's fine.

Thats right Ringneck! If you treat people right you are a winner!!!!!!

[CaptainJack]

Congrats to RingNeck!