Online sports betting on the football is very popular with gamblers around the world. There are so many gamblers doing so many things in NFL betting and college football betting, many of which are wrong. If you want to stay ahead of the crowd in sports betting then you need to avoid a lot of things they are doing.
Online betting football myths begin with injuries. Key injuries are often the cause of mass panic attacks in online sports betting. If a quarterback or other key skill position player goes down, the masses will flock to the other team, regardless of merit. There is but one problem, of course; the online sports betting oddsmakers know about these injuries as well and, beyond that, they know how the masses will react to those injuries.
So what do the sports betting oddsmakers do? They raise the online betting lines up on the “healthy choice” that the masses all want, which actually adds to the value of the injured party. Think of the many times that teams with “insurmountable injuries” ended up succeeding in spite of them, while blowing up a lot of online betting bankrolls in the process.
Another angle that the masses use too much in sports betting are winning or losing streaks. While it is true that if an online sports betting gambler bets with a streak he can lose only once, it is also true that stepping out on a hot team or against a cold one can be potentially lethal. Once the masses arrive on or against a team in force that team’s value changes because so many people are betting on them. This is a major issue in football online sports betting because of the pointspread. The team may still win or lose but they don’t cover the sports betting pointspread anymore.
Media hype is yet another factor that the masses fall all over themselves wagering on in online betting. The less that you put stock in ESPN and other networks, the better off you will be as that is what the masses use for “inside information” in online betting. Like everything else in online sports betting, what is at face value is actually often the opposite of reality.
Injuries, streaks and media hype are just three of the myths that gamblers get too excited about in NFL and college football betting.