Atlanta

Take:

Atlanta Hawks against Minnesota Timberwolves -6.5 (buy 1.5 pts.) (6 units) $1200.00

MNF

Take:

Redskins +3 (5 units) $1000.00

Kings, Thunder, WAS/GSW under

Take:

Sacramento Kings ML -120 (2.5 units) $500
OKC Thunder -4.5 -110 (2 units) $400
WAS/GSW o222 -110 (2 units) $400

3-4-1 42.8% (+2.8 units) +$560.00

Jaguars

Jaguars over the Colts

+3.5 (2 units) $400.00

Record

3-3-1 50% (+5 units) +$1000.00

Lakers, Jazz, Clippers

Last night's push was a real stinker!

Take:
Lakers -4.5 -110 (3 units) $600.00
Jazz -7 -110 (5 units) $1000.00
Clippers +2 (1 unit) $200.00

1-2-1 25% (+2.3 units) $460.00

Record

1-1 (+4.5 units) +$890.00

Take:

Lakers -9 -110 (3 units) ($600.00)
Spurs +3 -110 (2 units) ($400.00)

Predicting the NBA: Player Efficiency Rating

Please read this man's word of wisdom.

"As any reader of this blog knows, I have an infatuation with John Hollinger and his Player Efficiency Rating (PER). Over the weekend, as I pondered how offense and defense balance in predicting NBA team regular season success (at a super awesome hip club of course) I decided to run some numbers and determine how well PER can predict team success. From my other readings I knew that Points Scored Per 100 Possessions minus Points Surrendered Per 100 Possessions was a really good indicator of record so we will use that to compare our results to (and later we will work exclusively with that)...."

...continued at http://sportstome.blogspot.com/2007/07/predicting-nba-part-1.html

Lakers

Looks like we are off to a really nice start.
1-1 (+4.5 units) +$890.00

For tonight take:
Lakers -9 -110 (3 units) ($600.00)
Spurs +3 -110 (2 units) ($400.00)

Let's see if these Lakers can bounce back against a weak team after their streak breaker on the long road trip.

San Diego St.

Take:

San Diego St. -8.0 (5 units) $1000

Steelers Browns Second Half

Take:

Steelers -7 -110

1/2 unit size ($100)

0-0 0% (+0 units)

Gametime!

Hello Folks,

This is where we'll be having our official free sports picks thread. If you have followed me in the past you may know that I post my sports opinions in various locations so I had this idea to make a blogspot. I intend to put my official sports picks here for you all to follow, and I hope that you sign up for my newsletter. I will keep these picks free for you.

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