Tips for Betting on Basketball

Posted in Basketball Betting Resources on Oct 13, ’09

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In order to stay a step ahead of the linesmakers for the upcoming basketball betting season, you should devise your basketball betting system now so it's ready to start making positive basketball predictions once the basketball gambling season tips in October.

In order to become a great basketball handicapper, you need to pin point what it takes to not just win in both the college and pro ranks, but what it takes to cover the basketball spread. Since ATS and O/U results are what's most important when NBA betting and college basketball betting, go back and check the statistics from last season to see which teams excelled for basketball bettors against the closing NBA betting lines and college basketball betting lines.

When looking at last year's basketball gambling statistics, you'll notice teams that succeeded in covering the online basketball betting lines were those that played solid defense and ranked amongst the best in either the league or country in rebounding. If a majority of the team is returning next season, you‘ve found yourself a team you should be making basketball predictions upon next year.

Take for example the Cleveland Cavaliers. They dominated their opposition throughout the 2008-09 basketball gambling regular season (66-16 SU). In doing so, they not only won 60+ games, but they made NBA bettors extremely happy by covering the basketball betting line in 50 of their 82 overall regular season NBA betting games.

If you dig deeper into their 2008-09 basketball gambling stats , you'll notice they were the #3 ranked team in terms of rebounding margin with 3.3 more boards per game than their opponent. They also ranked out as the best defense in the league surrendering an average of just 91.4 points per game on 43.1% shooting from the field. They got it done against the basketball betting lines for NBA bettors by playing trough nosed defense, and dominating their opponents on the glass. They ranked in the middle of the pack offensively (#13) averaging 100.3 points per game, so the saying that defense wins championships held true for Lebron and company in the 2009 online basketball betting season after capturing the Central Division championship of the Eastern Conference.

This basketball betting system of betting on teams that play solid “D” and rebound well will produce winners throughout the long haul of the upcoming basketball gambling season, but you also need to pay attention to the trends that develop once the 2009-10 basketball betting season begins.

Throughout the first two months of the college basketball betting and NBA betting seasons, pay attention to how teams perform in specific roles. Oddsmakers are still getting a feel for how each team performs, so you could catch some extreme value in a line early on. If a team rattles off a handful of covers in a row as a large underdog, look to jump on that streak until it fizzles out. If a team continuously gets tabbed as large favorites and fails against the online basketball betting odds, my basketball betting tip to you is to continue fading until the oddsmakers catch up and realize the team isn't worthy of laying that type of chalk early on in the season.

Towards the middle of the season, NBA betting lines and college basketball betting lines will get much tighter. This is when you have to pay specific attention to how the teams perform on the road and at home. There could be a huge disparity, and more often than not, the oddsmakers fail to reflect it in the basketball betting lines. In the pro's, start keeping track of how teams play on no days rest, one days rest, two days rest, and so forth. Some teams excel on no rest, while others are terrible. Too much rest makes some teams rusty, while other teams play at their best when rested. These basketball betting trends are another form of a basketball betting system that could help you hit your basketball predictions at a 55% clip or higher next season…