The Sports Geek Blog
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Featured Blog Posts
Thursday Night Football Week 10 Best Bets and Player Props: Bengals vs. Ravens
Finding the Thursday Night Football best bets this week can be tricky, but our team is here to help! We will share our analysis and expert predictions throughout the entire NFL season, including recommended TNF player props.
Check this page regularly for the latest picks, tips, and Thursday Night Football predictions. Here’s what we have for Week 10 of the season.
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Can You Beat the Geek for a Free Trip to an NFL Game?
We're excited to announce Beat the Geek: a free NFL handicap contest with prizes worth over $15,000! Challenge our artificial intelligence model (aka the Geek) with your NFL picks for a chance to win a trip to an NFL game for two, MacBook Pro, AirPods Pro, and more.
Each week of the 2024–25 NFL regular season, the Geek will submit picks against the spread (ATS), while you can submit your own A...
NBA First Basket Predictions for Tonight: Best First Basket Scorer Bets
What are the best NBA first basket predictions for tonight? Our experts made sure to check the stats and the latest odds, before sharing their top picks for first basket scorer today.
Here's a quick overview of our first basket betting picks, and you can find our reasoning in the next section.
NBA First Basket Predictions for Tonight, November 11
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Best NBA Player Props Today: Our Best Bets for Tonight
Our experts deliver their best NBA player props daily in this article, after doing the hard work and digging through all the basketball bets available today. Their predictions are based on statistical analysis, expertise, and a close look at the latest trends in the league.
Here's an overview of the best NBA player prop bets tonight, November 11.
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Best College Football Props Today: Expert NCAAF Predictions
We deliver our best college football player props daily in this article. Our team regularly scans the odds of the best college football sites to find prop bets based on individual player performance.
Every time we find good value, we add our NCAA football prop bets here, so our readers can take full advantage.
Here’s an overview of our best college football player props today, November 9. I...
Monday Night Football Week 10 Best Bets: Props, Parlays, Predictions
Picking Monday Night Football best bets week after week is a tough task, but our team is here to help. The Sports Geek will review hundreds of markets available each Monday, delivering expert MNF betting picks for player props, team props, and traditional markets like totals, spreads, and moneylines.
Check this page regularly for the latest picks and tips the team at The Sports Geek has prepar...
How Do You Play Football Squares?
I’ve seen football squares played in multiple ways, especially during the Super Bowl. I used to play with my buddies from work on a regular basis. I also hung out in a neighborhood bar that always hosted Super Bowl squares. These are the rules for the football squares games I’ve always played in:
Football Squares Rules and Options
We always used a piece of poster-board to create the squares. The...
11 Sports Betting Strategies for Beginners
When you look for sports betting information online, you find a bunch of articles about the basics, like how to read lines and where to bet. You also find a few pages about advance betting techniques and systems. But few pages are available that help you advance from the beginning to the point where you can use advanced techniques.
This page is designed to fill this gap. You’re going to learn 1...
7 In-Game Wagers You Can Make on MLB and How to Turn a Profit Using Them
Major League Baseball betting traditionally involves standard wagers like the moneyline, run line, and totals (a.k.a. over/under). And many baseball bettors still enjoy making these options.
But another type of betting that's become popular with MLB fans is in-game wagering. Also called live betting, this style of gambling allows you to place wagers in the middle of a contest.
Baseball is perfec...
How Difficult Is It to Truly Get a Hole in One
When you stand on the tee deck of a par-3 golf hole and look at the flag that stands more than a hundred yards away, a hole-in-one can feel like an impossible feat.
But while needing just one shot to complete a hole is extremely unlikely, golf aces also might not be quite as uncommon as you may think.
In this article, we’ll look at the probability of both amateur and professional golfers get...
Why Wayne Gretzky Might Not Be the Best NHL Player Ever
Try to suggest that Wayne Gretzky isn’t the best NHL player ever, and you’ll be met with a series of eyerolls from most hockey fans.
After all, Gretzky collected more assists in his career (1963) than the second-highest scorer in NHL history, Jaromir Jagr, has points. Add in Gretzky’s 894 career goals, which is also the most all-time, and the Great One recorded roughly 50% more points than anyo...
How to Win Consistently at Sports Betting
Is there any other way to be a winning sports bettor than by grinding out profits on a consistent basis?
I suppose that a few gamblers may be able to use a combination of betting systems involving larger and larger bets, or a few big games a year, to turn a profit, but these tactics involve a great deal of risk.
Many gamblers double their bets after losses and try to make a profit by guessin...
How to Build a Sports Betting Syndicate
Most sports bettors work alone. They conduct research, watch games, make evaluations, and shop for lines and place bets by themselves.
Winning sports bettors try to protect their systems and models from others because they know that even a winning system can be destroyed if too many people use it. This is one of the main reasons good sports bettors work alone.
Working alone creates a few issues ...
How to Start Your Own Business Selling Sports Picks
Often, I write information about how to make money as a sports bettor. Some professional bettors are able to turn a long-term profit, but there’s no doubt that it’s hard to do.
But learning how to beat the bookmakers isn’t the only way to make money in the sports betting world. The bookmakers are the ones making most of the money, so you could consider starting your own bookmaking business.
The ...
Beginner's Tips to Understanding Parlay
You may be confused as to what that means. For years it was a battle cry amongst my roommates and me, particularly during football season, and when you got to yell it, chances were you were buying drinks that night. But what does it mean, and what’s a parlay?
What is a Parlay?
A parlay is a type of sports bet in which you combine multiple individual bets (typically 2-10 bets) into one bet or “ca...
