NFL Thursday Night Football officially kicks off next week. However, on TV tonight is the season opener which will see the Super Bowl Champions - Kansas City - greet the Detroit Lions.
Even though it isn't a game broadcasted as 'Thursday Night Football', I always start the 'TNF Betting' posts in week one.
Not that it matters this week. I'll get to that in a moment.
To catch you all up ahead of this new season - my spreadsheet is still using the same calculations it has been running since I first introduced it on this blog. My database, which holds pointspread and totals results from previous seasons, now goes all the way back to 1995. That is something I have been working on in the off-season.
Now, onto tonight's game.
For the latter, the line is currently set at 53. Therefore it's a certain No Play situation.
As for taking the Lions +5 - that too becomes a No Play (or in this case: a PASS) per the new approach I have applied from this season onwards.
As noted on October 13 last year, I feel the best way to incorporate both my spreadsheet and database is to only choose selections which have a strong history working in its favour.
Using this week's pointspread prediction of the Lions +5 as my example, here is what the database pulled up as it pertains their record against the Chiefs as underdogs.
- 1-4 as underdogs dating back to the mid-90s
- 0-2 as road underdogs
The only positive I can attempt to salvage from the database record is the fact that the only cover out of the 1-4 record is from their most recent meeting, which was during the 2019 season.
In that fixture, the Lions entered the game as +7 home dogs and covered despite losing 30-34.
No comments:
Post a Comment