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Little Brother Eli Wins Second Title
Filed under Educational Game Review, Trading StrategyFeb 5
Eli Manning will likely no longer be refered to as Peyton Manning’s little brother as he led his team on a clutch 88-yard drive to score the winning touchdown and earn his second Super Bowl title.Although the Giants won the game, the best trade came by backing the Patriots late in the second quarter.
Throughout the season, backing good offenses that have an opportunity to have the last meaningful drive of the first half and the first drive of the second half has been quite successful.
It worked wonders once again as the patriots were able to bookend halftime with 14 unanswered points. The chance to bookend the half did not look possible as New England has the ball at their own four yard line with 3:40 remaining. However, after New England made a couple first downs, backing them with long odds and down just six made a high probability proposition that paid off.
After Tom Brady took the Patriots down the field to start the second half with an 8 point lead, it certainly made sense to try to ride the Patriots for a win. However, the Giants responded with a field goal to cut the lead to five points. At this point, you knew Brady just led his team on two straight touchdown drives, so you may not want to green up across the board. A better move was to eliminate your risk by backing the Giants at 3 to one. Considering you should have been able to back the Patriots at long odds, you could have been sitting with a nice potential win with no risk.
However, after Tom Brady could not move the ball in what now looked like a game that could go down to the wire, it was best to take a third of your potential Patriot winnings and back the Giants at two to one to green up and guarantee yourself winning 2/3 of your potential Patriot winnings regardless of who won the game.
With the Giants coming back to win, it certainly worked out to win a nice profit on the Giants by backing the Patriots. Only on betting exchanges can you end another exciting season with a loss that provides a nice win to complete another season well into the green.
This will be the last posting for A Bettor World until next season. However, this marks the beginning of the 2012-13 football season. Doing your homework in the next six months is the key to finding new trading strategies while refining existing ones.
Thus my last bit of advice from the 2011-12 season is to download all the box scores, drive charts and play-by-play charts and do some magic in Excel.
