🎅 'Tis the (Football) Season

Hi BettrNation family! We wanted to start off the newsletter this week by wishing you and your families a very Merry Christmas 🎄 Happy Holidays 🥳 and a Happy New Year 🍾 Thank you for allowing us to be a part of your betting journey. Whether you are a member of our Skool community or you just enjoy our weekly newsletter, we are grateful to be a resource for you 🙏

Despite the rapidly approaching holiday season (anyone else still need to get gifts for some people? 😳), you may want to push off some of that last-minute shopping and reserve some time this weekend to watch some football! Starting with college football, if we had to bet 😉, we think each of the CFP contests on Saturday will be more competitive than that Notre Dame-Indiana game last night - and some of the rumors in (and outside of) Columbus are that, if Coach Day can’t pull out a National Championship 🏆, his time as head coach of THE Ohio State University may come to an end. Speaking of coaches who struggle to win the big game, let’s see if Coach Franklin can finally lead his Penn State Nittany Lions to a significant win on a big stage too!

Not to be outdone, the NFL tries to takeover a bit of your CFP Saturday (because apparently Sunday, Monday, Thursday, Christmas Day, Black Friday, etc. aren’t enough 🤯) with some great matchups. With the playoff picture starting to materialize, teams only have a few more chances to set themselves up for a playoff run. Meanwhile, for bottom feeders (like my Jags, the Giants, and others), perhaps they can play the spoiler for a few other teams in the coming weeks. (I mean they’ve certainly spoiled some of my bets so far this year! 😤)

Here’s to hoping your teams (and bets) show up better than the Oklahoma City Thunder did this week for the NBA Cup Final 🫠 Most importantly, remember:

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We scour the marketplace to save you time and money! Several experts and platforms are aligned on the following opportunities for this weekend. Consider incorporating these insights into your betting gameplan for this weekend before the lines (i.e., prices) change!

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ESPN ANALYTICS
The Worldwide Leader in Sports (Betting) 🤑

We crunched the numbers on ESPN Analytics’ forecasts for NFL Week 16 and wanted to flag the following +EV plays based on ESPN Analytics!

• NYG v. ATL - NYG Spread - EV: 60%

• BUF v. NE - NE Spread - EV: 42%

• LAR v. NYJ - NYJ Spread - EV: 16%

• CIN v. CLE - CLE Spread - EV: 41%

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NEWS
📰 Stay Informed 📰

Like in traditional investing, dumb money often loses out to informed and strategic decision-making. Make sure you stay up-to-date on the latest news and insights that may impact your analysis! Click on the below links for some of the most relevant - and helpful - insights and analysis ahead of this weekend:

• CFP: Expert Predictions (ESPN)

• CFP: Can Big Favorites Cover the Spread? (FOX Sports)

• Best ATS Picks: NFL Week 16 (CBS Sports)

• NFL Week 16 Best Bets (Action Network)

• NFL Expert Picks: Week 16 (ESPN)

PERFORMANCE-ENHANCING PLATFORMS
💪 Improve Your Betting Game 💪

Outsource your time and effort in preparing for your bets to us @ BettrNation; we vet the resources in the marketplace and distill the data into actionable information, all in an effort to help you filter the signal from the noise.

This week we are super stoked to feature BettingNews. If you are looking for daily free picks, odds, and sporting news, look no further! They also produce excellent daily content on Twitch and YouTube. We sat down with Head of Content, Daniel Collins (aka @SweatpantJesus):

What brought you to the sports betting industry?

I have always loved sports, played sports and found the amazing world of sports betting in 2019. I worked in the TV and entertainment industry before that and always wanted to work in the sports entertainment industry. I got the wonderful opportunity to work with BettingNews as a writer and content creator in 2022 and have loved every second of the past 2.5 years working in this fantastic, fast-growing industry. The sports betting industry is changing every day and the type of content we create at BettingNews I think really syncs up with the current desires of every type of bettor. Our motto is “Come for the Winners, Stay for the Vibes” and that mantra shines in our articles, daily shows on our network and with our kickass team of creators. 

What advice would you give to a new sports bettor?

Find the betting style you enjoy and hone it every day! Whether you want to make small gains every day and profit long term or bet small amounts on big odds parlays to sweat out for your favorite big matchups, manage your unit size properly and always have fun with it. Sports betting is supposed to be fun. Don’t let anybody tell you otherwise! I always say on all of our shows that there are no bad plays and there are no stupid questions. Grow every day as a bettor and enjoy the ride! 

What is your favorite bet to place?

Oh man. Well, I love betting lottos. Straight betting player props will always be my bread and butter but betting lottos for a cup of coffee to win $1,000 is what I love the most. Crazy things happen in the sports world every single night, with massive scoring nights in the NBA, hat tricks in the NHL, 200 rushing yard games in the NFL and so much more. Finding those spots before they happen and cashing in on them is just so much fun. Lottos don’t hit very often but when they do (and I have hit quite a few) the thrill is unmatched. 

What professional athlete do you want to meet most?

I have been a Lebron James fan since he was drafted. Meeting Lebron, knocking back a couple glasses of wine and talking life would be a dream come true. The other is Dennis Bergkamp. Dennis Bergkamp played for Arsenal in the Premier League in the 90s and early 2000s. He was one of the best strikers of all time and who I looked up to as a soccer player growing up. If you know who Dennis Bergkamp is, we are now immediately friends. If you don’t, do yourself a favor and go peep his highlights on YouTube. You're welcome ;) 

TRIVIA
❄️ Baby, It’s Cold Outside…

As we near the end of the football season, we can count on two things: (1) colder weather starting to come and (2) some coaches will be on the hot seat. Speaking of hot seats, Ohio State Coach Ryan Day finds himself under pressure, despite his team being in the College Football Playoff. I guess 4️⃣ straight losses to Michigan will do that 🤷‍♂️ We will see how far his Buckeyes go into the CFP but for his sake, his team (which boasts the most expensive roster in college football) will likely need to make a deep run in order for him to save his job - even though he has one of the best winning percentages of active CFB coaches. On that topic, can you name the active CFB coach with the highest winning percentage going into this season??

EDUCATION
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The sports betting marketplace is just that - a marketplace, where you can find different prices for the same “goods” (in this case, lines). You can capitalize on those pricing discrepancies with “macro” plays, which are betting opportunities that are based on those market inefficiencies. The king of “macro” plays is arbitrage betting, and for this week, we highlight our friends at OddsJam who have mastered the arbitrage approach:

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RESPONSIBLE BETTING
🧑‍⚕️Prioritize Your (Betting) Health

At BettrNation, we are serious about empowering you on your betting journey, which includes not just helping you identify valuable opportunities but also by helping you develop good (responsible) betting practices and serving as an accountability partner for you.

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TRIVIA ANSWER

This week was a trick question, as the CFB coach with the highest winning percentage entering the season was the man himself: Coach Ryan Day at Ohio State! Entering the season, he had an 87.5% winning percentage! With that in mind, it is pretty astonishing that he is on the hot seat now (despite being in the CFP)! They must take that Michigan rivalry pretty seriously in Columbus 😲

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