NFL Power Rankings Week 11
by Robert Ferringo - 11/14/2023

Next week is the week of Thanksgiving. Our handicappers always release our full football cards (college football and NFL combined) at 6 p.m. EST on Thursdays. However, to accommodate the holiday, we will be releasing our picks at 6 p.m. EST on Wednesday. That way you will have time to get your action in on Wednesday and can kick back and relax during one of the best weekends of football all year.

NFL Power Rankings Week 10
by Robert Ferringo - 11/7/2023

Bet every game ‘under’. That is really the only trend you need to follow, as the ‘under’ continues to dominate NFL betting this season. The ‘under’ went 11-3 again last week and is now hitting at a dominating 61.5 percent this season (83-52 against the closing number).

NFL Power Rankings Week 9
by Robert Ferringo - 10/31/2023

The trade deadline in any given sport can be one of the most impactful moments of the season for sports bettors. But not for the reasons most people think. The big news this week has been deadline deals in the NFL (and, to a lesser extent, the trade of James Harden in the NBA). The public loves trades in professional sports. It’s fun! It’s exciting! It’s different! And these maneuvers have a very direct impact on sports betting lines and odds.

NFL Power Rankings Week 8
by Robert Ferringo - 10/24/2023

This is the grind. That initial excitement of the return of the NFL wore off weeks ago. The honeymoon is over. Now we find ourselves midway through the gauntlet of the regular season. That familiar Tuesday-Saturday routine is starting to calcify, and the space between NFL weekends shrinking.

NFL Power Rankings Week 7
by Robert Ferringo - 10/17/2023

You can’t mess with Isaac Newton. You know Newton. Famous scientist. Was a big fan of the pooch punt and the shovel pass. Newton’s Third Law states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. The universe is all about adjustment. Give and take. Forces acting against one another.

NFL Power Rankings Week 6
by Robert Ferringo - 10/10/2023

It is an age-old handicapper dilemma: do you trust your eyes, or do you trust The Numbers? Last week, my two top NFL totals involved the Saints-Patriots and Jets-Broncos games. And I was faced with a choice: do I follow my systems and follow the mathematics for my top play, or should I throw the stats out the window and go with what I’ve seen on tape?

NFL Power Rankings Week 5
by Robert Ferringo - 10/3/2023

Everyone knows everything after the fact. If you learn anything in the Gambling World, it is that everyone is a genius after a game is played. Everything seems so obvious after it happens. So clear. What you should’ve done. Who you should’ve bet. Which lines were ridiculous and which ones you were smart to stay away from.

NFL Power Rankings Week 4
by Robert Ferringo - 9/26/2023

Week 3 in the NFL is a slap in the face. The first two weeks of the year served their purpose. Opening week was that first shot of whiskey on a Friday evening. The one that gets you going. The moment and experience that just reminds you what you were missing and why you’ve been so excited in anticipation.

NFL Power Rankings Week 3
by Robert Ferringo - 9/19/2023

In last week’s NFL Power Rankings, I talked about avoiding the overreaction. What normally happens is that bettors usually freak out over the results of Week 1 and try to glean some hidden meaning from each team’s initial performance. They do this instead of accepting that it is a long season and that people just sit back, relax, and let the season unfold.

NFL Power Rankings Week 2
by Robert Ferringo - 9/12/2023

That was UGLY. NFL Week 1 is in the books. It was like most season-opening adventures: some things went exactly the way we thought they would, and others provided some big surprises. But the overarching theme of the week was sloppy, nearly unwatchable football.

NFL Power Rankings Week 1
by Robert Ferringo - 9/7/2023

Last year was the worst NFL season of my career, a horror of unspeakable defeat and monumental failure. Now, I know what you’re thinking: “Did he actually just admit to LOSING?!?!” I know, I know: bettors in The Online World of Gambling are all WINNERS! As my friend Raphael Esparza likes to say, “Gambling Twitter is undefeated!” The Online World of Gambling is paved with triumph and gold. No one ever loses.

Expert NFL Handicapping: Starting a Rookie Quarterback is a Terrible Idea
by Robert Ferringo - 7/14/2023

Quarterback is the most consequential position in sports. It’s the most important position in the most profitable and popular sport in this country. The flow of billions of dollars, annually, is directed by these offensive conductors.

Impact of Injuries on Sports Betting: Handicapping and Adjusting Your Bets
by Robert Ferringo - 6/29/2023

Injuries are one of the great equalizers of sports betting. We’ve all been there. Swollen with confidence, knowing that an upcoming bet was a brilliant, savvy play against a weak line. You’ve already started mentally spending the money you are certain you are going to win. Then it happens.

The Best Baseball Betting Strategies and Systems
by Robert Ferringo - 6/29/2023

No matter what sport you're talking about, it can be devastating to lose a perfectly good wager by half a point, half a run, or half a goal. Whether it's a run or a point, a loss is a loss and that hook can be as lethal on the diamond as it is on the gridiron, pitch, hardwood or ice.

NFL Draft Grades 2023
by Robert Ferringo - 5/1/2023

NFL draft grades are tricky because you can never really tell how a class is going to shake out until four or five years down the road. But I am grading teams based on how they did with the information they had in the here and now. So, with that in mind, here are my 2023 NFL Draft grades:

2023 Missouri Valley Conference Tournament Predictions
by Robert Ferringo - 3/1/2023

It isn’t always pretty basketball, but the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament always comes through when you are looking for drama and emotion. This tournament, which has its championship game this coming Sunday, really tips off the start of March Madness and hammers home the reality facing every team in the country over the next month: if you lose, your season may be over.

College Basketball Betting Advice: Betting on Bubble Teams
by Robert Ferringo - 2/22/2023

For the uninitiated, a “bubble team” is a college basketball team that is on the fringe of an NCAA Tournament at-large bid. Because the criteria for selection into the tournament is subjective, there is no real way of knowing who is in and who is out heading down the stretch. This isn’t like, say, the race for the playoffs in MLB or NBA, where a team’s record is the sole determination of who makes the postseason and who doesn’t.

2023 Super Bowl Outlook: Old vs. New as Eagles Will Use Brute Strength on Sunday
by Robert Ferringo - 2/10/2023

The Chiefs are hoping to create a dynasty. They won Super Bowl LIV just three short years ago, and this is their third trip to the championship game in four years. That title in 2020 was first championship for both quarterback Patrick Mahomes and head coach Andy Reid. It was supposed to harken the beginning of the league’s next dynasty.

NFL Power Rankings Week 18
by Robert Ferringo - 1/3/2023

The last thing you need is another hot take on the Damar Hamlin situation. I’m not trying to ignore the biggest story in football right now. But I’m instead going to choose to stick to the game. And I have the same advice for every football bettor every year heading into the final week of the regular season: tread lightly.

NFL Power Rankings Week 17
by Robert Ferringo - 12/27/2022

One of the themes that I’ve discussed in this space all season is that the NFL is a fundamentally different game now than it was as recently as five years ago. By extension, betting on the NFL has taken on a completely different form. There is a multitude of reasons for the changes, but the end result is that games are much closer and lower scoring than they have been in decades.