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NFL pre-season betting
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There are many bettors who will not even consider having a wager on the pre-season NFL games. BetUSA sees about 3% of the action on a typical pre-season match up as they would on the same game if played in the regular season. But for those prepared to do a bit of research, betting on pre-season games can be the most profitable time of the year.
As a linesmaker, betusa thinks very difficult to set the lines on this game. So much of the pre-season training will have gone on in private and we have no idea how much or little preparation the teams will have got in before they play exhibition matches. Some teams will not be fully fit as the coach will prefer to slowly wind up his squad until they are all ready to fire on all cylinders in Week One, while some want to get the feeling that their team is a well prepared unit that knows what they are doing weeks before the season starts. The well prepared bettor can certainly beat betusa on these games.
The hardest problem to solve is to know when the teams will take off their starters and give other, less important, players a start. The key thing for all teams in pre-season is to avoid any serious injuries to their star players. Having your starting quarterback taken out for the season in a largely meaningless contest is not a good idea and coaches will do everything to avoid this scenario.
The players who win big from us on pre-season spend a good amount of time studying the coaches’ previous pre-season patterns and working out which coaches will be going for a morale boosting win and which coaches really don't care. Some coaches obviously care - either about winning or simply covering the spread to keep the fans happy - and some obviously don't care.
Shrewd bettors will also be spending time looking all the way down the squad to see whether there are players who are currently the second and third choices for their position but who, with a good display in training and the pre-season games, could make their mark and take over the starting position. Where there are two or three players who might impress enough to take over the starting position there is a good chance the side will be motivated to play through to the final down and therefore will be a good bet against-the-spread.
For your information, here's the pre-season record (Against the BetUSA Spread of all the NFL coaches:
(Team/Coach/Record/2003/2004/2005) ARZ Dennis Green 4-4* X 1-3 3-1, ATL Jim Mora Jr. 6-3 X 2-2 4-1, BAL Brian Billick 17-10 1-3 3-1 2-2, BUF Dick Jauron 7-13 1-3 X X, CAR John Fox 11-5 4-0 4-0 2-2, CHI Lovie Smith 5-4 X 2-2 3-2, CIN Marvin Lewis 5-7 1-3 2-2 2-2, CLE Romeo Crennel 3-1 X X 3-1, DAL Bill Parcells 18-6* 2-2 3-1 3-1, DEN Mike Shanahan 34-14* 3-1 2-3 4-0, DET Rod Marinelli 0-0 X X X, GB Mike McCarthy 0-0 X X X, HOU Gary Kubiak 0-0 X X X, IND Tony Dungy 7-10* 3-1 2-2 0-5, JAX Jack Del Rio 8-4 3-1 3-1 2-2, KC Herman Edwards 15-6 3-2 3-1 3-1, MIA Nick Saban 1-4 X X 1-4, MIN Brad Childress 0-0 X X X, NE Bill Belichick 16-9* 4-0 1-3 2-2, NO Sean Payton 0-0 X X X, NYG Tom Coughlin 4-4* X 1-3 3-1, NYJ Eric Mangini 0-0 X X X, OAK Art Shell 14-10* X X X, PHI Andy Reid 10-18 2-2 1-3 2-2, PIT Bill Cowher 28-27 1-3 2-2 3-1, SD Marty Schottenheimer 9-11* 2-2 2-2 2-2, SEA Mike Holmgren 13-15* 2-2 3-1 2-2, SF Mike Nolan 2-2 X X 2-2, STL Scott Linehan 0-0 X X X, TB Jon Gruden 23-11 4-1 3-1 2-2, TEN Jeff Fisher 20-16* 4-0 3-1 1-3, WAS Joe Gibbs 4-5* X 3-2 1-3
BetUSA NFL pre-season betting lines (10 to 13 August 2006) to see the odds click here
The games:
08/10/06 19:30 ET Browns (Cleveland) Eagles (Philadelphia) Over/Under 33.5
08/10/06 20:00 ET Colts (Indianapolis) Rams (St Louis)Over/Under 38.5
08/11/06 19:30 ET Jets(NewYork) Buccaneers(TampaBay)Over/Under 33.5
08/11/06 19:30 ET Broncos (Denver) Lions (Detroit)
Over/Under 38
08/11/06 20:00 ET Giants (NewYork) Ravens(Baltimore)Over/Under 35
08/11/06 20:00 ET Patriots (New England) Falcons (Atlanta) Over/Under 36
08/11/06 22:00 ET Bears (Chicago) 49ers (San Francisco)
Under 34.5
08/12/06 16:00 ET Steelers (Pittsburgh) Cardinals (Arizona) Over/Under 36
08/12/06 19:30 ET Bills (Buffalo) Panthers (Carolina)Over/Under 35.5
08/12/06 19:30 ET Jaguars (Jacksonville) Dolphins(Miami) Over/Under 33.5
08/12/06 20:00 ET Chiefs (KansasCity) Texans (Houston)Over/Under 36.5
08/12/06 20:00 ET Saints (New Orleans) Titans (Tennessee) Over/Under 35.5
08/12/06 22:00 ET Packers (Green Bay) Chargers (San Diego) Over/Under 36
08/12/06 22:00 ET Cowboys (Dallas) Seahawks (Seattle)
Over/Under 35.5
08/13/06 20:00 ET Redskins (Washington) Bengals(Cincinnati)
Over/Under 35.5
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Friday 21 July 2006
SciDev.Net news team wins top UK science writing award
Lawrence McGinty, Health & Science Editor, ITN News (far left) and
Martin Taylor, Chairman of Syngenta (far right) present the award to
SciDev.Net's director, David Dickson and senior correspondent,
Catherine Brahic.
The Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net) news team has been awarded "best science journalism on the world wide web" by the UK's top science writing body.
The prize was presented to SciDev.Net by the Association of British Science Writers (ABSW) for its online coverage of the consequences of the tsunami that swept across the Indian Ocean in December 2004, claiming 300,000 lives.
Its timing coincides with calls to improve the region's tsunami early warning system, put in place in the aftermath of the 2004 disaster. This week, a new tsunami struck the Indonesian island of Java. Although the threat was detected, the warning messages did not reach the coastal communities, contributing to a death toll that is currently nearing 550.
SciDev.Net's coverage is grouped into a continually updated feature known as 'Tsunami update'. This combines regular news coverage of tsunami-related research, policy decisions and events with detailed background information about the causes of the disaster, analysis of its consequences and comment about lessons for the future.
SciDev.Net's coverage of the tsunami was coordinated by news editor Mike Shanahan, senior correspondent Catherine Brahic and South Asia regional coordinator T. V. Padma.
Other contributors to 'Tsunami update' during 2005 include SciDev.Net freelance reporters Sanjit Bagchi in India, Mustak Hossain in Bangladesh, Dilrukshi Handunnetti and Nalaka Gunawardene in Sri Lanka, Ochieng' Ogodo and Kimani Chege in Kenya, Abiodun Raufu in Nigeria, and Marilyn Smith in France.
In announcing the award, Ted Nield, the president of the ABSW, said that the short-list for the web-writing awards had provided a strong set of contenders that all made full use of the web’s capabilities. "Our winner delivered a really high quality writing product," said Nield. "Science writing for the web has finally arrived."
David Dickson, the director of SciDev.Net, said that he and the organisation's news team had been thrilled and honoured to receive recognition of its work by the ABSW. "I would like to thank all of those who contributed to this achievement, which demonstrates that one can combine good science journalism, the new possibilities opened up by the Internet, and a commitment to improving people's lives," he said.
The SciDev.Net news team has decided to donate its UK£2,000 prize money to the Disasters Emergency Committee, a coalition of aid agencies providing ongoing relief in areas affected by the 2004 tsunami.
Also at the 2005 ABSW science writing awards, Sonja van Renssen, who worked as an intern at SciDev.Net in the summer of 2005 and contributed to 'Tsunami update' during this time, won the category of "Young broadcaster of the year" for a radio programme about the ethical dilemmas raised by military research.
See scidev/content/opinions/eng/we-need-a-slow-race-for-science-based-development.cfm
for a flavour of some of their posts.
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