3 Football Handicapping Techniques

NFL betting supporters new to handicapping have spent hours on end trying to perfect a system that can work in any sport. As many sports betting handicappers discover, each sport requires a different system to provide success. For many fans, they believe that the professional and amateur football leagues can operate on the same system and this in itself is a fallacy. To help you become the best NFL handicapper out there here are three techniques which have worked for us and should work for you.

• Statistical Handicapping – As the name suggests, this is when fans attempt to take individual statistics, ranking systems and matchup into account each week. In the NFL this is both the simplest and most pivotal form of studying a fan can do.

The NFL season operates on the shortest time frame of any of the four major sports. Since this is the case, we withdraw the idea of an emotional factor playing affect in each week’s matchup. Basically, in an 82 to 162 game season, such as in the NHL NBA and MLB, it is understandable that players won’t always put forth their best effort, since they can make up the game at a later time. Conversely however, we don’t see emotions such as laziness being an issue in a 16 week season especially since there is a bye week.

• Situational Handicapping – This system takes into consideration the plethora of emotions that are involved as players become more mature. A situational handicapper takes into account revenge systems, and peaks and valleys. In essence a situational game is one in which a team has been destroyed by their opponent in a game during the early part of the season and then elects to play harder the next time they face.

• Technical Handicapping – Essentially when utilizing technical handicapping, you are looking at how the team has fared in its previous matchups leading up to the game you are about to bet on. Some factors to also consider is if the team has covered the point spreads during that time, how they have looked in each half and how offseason moves have affected the team’s dynamic.