Market distribution map for Pats/Bills

[tuckeverlasting]

Oh great, we have to look forward to Eagle and Fouts ugh!!!!!!

noooo....not fouts that insufferable charger homer.

 

[supafly]

West coast teams tend to do poorly on the east coast. Seattle is prone to some stinkers early in the season. So much changes week to week that it wouldn't be shocking to see it happen.

As I mentioned last week prior to the BUF/ARZ game, west coast teams in the Pacific time zone (ARZ is for the first half of the season, then they revert to Mountain time) who have:

1) Covered the spread in the prior week (ARZ won their week #2 matchup 40-7)

and

2) Are traveling across all 4 time zones from West to East

Have a 29% chance of covering the spread since 2005. It starts off at 38% against the spread traveling one time zone over to Mountain time and gradually continues to decrease with each passing time zone. By the time the Pacific teams reach the East, it drops all the way to 29%.

Keep in mind that this system proves that the team traveling West to East has difficulty when they have covered the spread the week before, as SEA did with their victory over SF last weekend. Just something to keep in mind for the future. Much is discussed regarding the suggested difficulty for teams traveling west to east (in the NFL, specifically. The NBA has a reverse effect), there will still be situations where the traveling team wins and covers 3/10 times. Whether or not SEA is one of those 3/10 teams this weekend is anyone's guess, but as you say, "it wouldn't be shocking to see it happen."

 

[supafly]

Woohoo I get the ****ty ass Houston and Tennessee game. All because the Colts are in their division.

I got the Sunday Ticket "to go" package this year for only 199 dollars. It allows me to watch all of our games on my phone or tablet or whatever, and when I'm at home I simply plug my phone into an adapter to the TV (bought it at the apple store for 50 bucks) and watch it on the big screen.

They split the 199 dollars over 5 or 6 months so it's relatively affordable. Just something to consider. I'm sure that you're familiar with it, but some people still don't realize that you do not need to subscribe to Directv or have a dish in your yard, etc.

 

[BradyFTW!]

Worst part about the Rams coming back to the LA is that every weekend I get 2-3 of the Chargers, Raiders and Rams. Used to get the Chargers as a late game more often than not, but then the Fox and late games would be whatever the best matchups were in those time slots.

So far it's been a series of dumpster fires on CBS/Fox, more or less. Might as well not even check, just go right to streaming.

 

[Froob]

As I mentioned last week prior to the BUF/ARZ game, west coast teams in the Pacific time zone (ARZ is for the first half of the season, then they revert to Mountain time) who have:

1) Covered the spread in the prior week (ARZ won their week #2 matchup 40-7)

and

2) Are traveling across all 4 time zones from West to East

Have a 29% chance of covering the spread since 2005. It starts off at 38% against the spread traveling one time zone over to Mountain time and gradually continues to decrease with each passing time zone. By the time the Pacific teams reach the East, it drops all the way to 29%.

Keep in mind that this system proves that the team traveling West to East has difficulty when they have covered the spread the week before, as SEA did with their victory over SF last weekend. Just something to keep in mind for the future. Much is discussed regarding the suggested difficulty for teams traveling west to east (in the NFL, specifically. The NBA has a reverse effect), there will still be situations where the traveling team wins and covers 3/10 times. Whether or not SEA is one of those 3/10 teams this weekend is anyone's guess, but as you say, "it wouldn't be shocking to see it happen."

Any idea if that's only a 1 o'clock matchup thing? Because east to west doesn't seem to have nearly the problems west to east has. I'm guessing that playing that early for them (would be 10am to the westies) somehow throws them off. NBA is interesting though, I do feel like the Celtics have always sucked bad on the west coast.

 

[pwes]

I got the Sunday Ticket "to go" package this year for only 199 dollars. It allows me to watch all of our games on my phone or tablet or whatever, and when I'm at home I simply plug my phone into an adapter to the TV (bought it at the apple store for 50 bucks) and watch it on the big screen.

They split the 199 dollars over 5 or 6 months so it's relatively affordable. Just something to consider. I'm sure that you're familiar with it, but some people still don't realize that you do not need to subscribe to Directv or have a dish in your yard, etc.

Yeah I think I tried to sign up for that a few years ago and for whatever reason my city is not eligible. Just checked again and its still not. Will just have to rely on streams

 

[nabwong]

Cmon everyone. Turn your tv off and stream.

 

[pwes]

Any idea if that's only a 1 o'clock matchup thing? Because east to west doesn't seem to have nearly the problems west to east has. I'm guessing that playing that early for them (would be 10am to the westies) somehow throws them off. NBA is interesting though, I do feel like the Celtics have always sucked bad on the west coast.

That doesn't really make sense because even a "1 o'clock" game on the west coast starts at 10 am Pacific. So the time difference shouldn't affect them more than teams going from east to west who would have their "1 o'clock" game start at 10 am where they normally do not play that early. West to East should have the advantage here as opposed to East to West.

 

[supafly]

Yeah I think I tried to sign up for that a few years ago and for whatever reason my city is not eligible. Just checked again and its still not. Will just have to rely on streams

Sorry to hear that. I figured I'd pass it along just in case.

 

[supafly]

Any idea if that's only a 1 o'clock matchup thing? Because east to west doesn't seem to have nearly the problems west to east has. I'm guessing that playing that early for them (would be 10am to the westies) somehow throws them off. NBA is interesting though, I do feel like the Celtics have always sucked bad on the west coast.

The numbers that I saw through BetLabs were simply from west to east, Froob. There was no specified time slot.

I too, found it interesting that for whatever reason the NBA was opposite. Then again, I think attempting to bet pro hoops is rather difficult, so I stay away from it.

 

[Wheelman]

That doesn't really make sense because even a "1 o'clock" game on the west coast starts at 10 am Pacific. So the time difference shouldn't affect them more than teams going from east to west who would have their "1 o'clock" game start at 10 am where they normally do not play that early. West to East should have the advantage here as opposed to East to West.

Home teams on the west coast never play 1 PM ET games. Only 4:25 PM ET games, or later.

I think this applies to Broncos and Cardinals as well.

 

[pwes]

Home teams on the west coast never play 1 PM ET games. Only 4:25 PM ET games, or later.

I think this applies to Broncos and Cardinals as well.

Did not know that so definitely makes sense then on why they'd be sluggish for 1 pm east coast games. Good info.