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Playing Football Teasers

Written August 21, 2008 by Jack Jones

The first thing that you need to know about teasers is that they are called that for a reason, but that doesn’t mean that these bets can’t work out for you.

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The keys to winning teasers is to tease the number not the team.

During the season you might see Carolina playing New York where Carolina is laying 7 points. Now you don’t want to lay that many since you have to win by two scores. This doesn’t really mean that you like New York, just that 7 is a bad number and if you can tease that number down to -1/2 then it’s worth a look. -1/2 is a great number because the game isn’t going to end in a tie, so -1/2 and +1 are worth the same.

This is why for 6.5 teasers there are key numbers to look for and to take advantage of:

-1 through -5 to +5.5 or +.5 isn’t going to give you much of an advantage. However, when you get a six point favorite then you get +.5 where you will just need to win the game to win the bet. This means that -6, -6.5, 7, and 7.5 work well. If you tease a line at -8, -8.5, or -9 then you get the spread down to less than a field goal which can be fairly profitable as well since you won’t have to win by a touchdown.

Then you get to -10 through -11, which we don’t recommend teasing down.

For underdogs, look for +11 since that will bump you up to +17.5 which shows good value.

We think the number 13 is a good one to avoid whether you like the favorite or the underdog, since you are teasing yourself to -7.5 or +19.5 which aren’t very good value numbers.

Don’t tease + or – 14 or 14.5, but teasing 15 up to 21.5 or teasing 15 down to 8.5 are both good ways to go.