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11/03/2011 - Fort Worth, TX (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Texas-native James Buescher claimed the pole for the WinStar World Casino 350k Camping World Truck Series race after topping points leader Austin Dillon in Thursday's qualifying at Texas Motor Speedway.
Buescher, who hails from nearby Plano, TX, turned a lap at 181.062 mph around the fast 1.5-mile track for his third career pole in the series. His maiden pole came at Texas in June. Buescher has yet to win a truck race.
Dillon will start alongside Buescher on the front row after posting a lap at 180.783 mph.
Blake Feese qualified third, while Sprint Cup Series regular Kyle Busch took the fourth spot. Busch has won the last two fall truck races at Texas.
Ricky Carmichael and Justin Lofton will start from row three, followed by Nelson Piquet Jr. and Ty Dillon, who is Austin's younger brother, in row four.
Ron Hornaday Jr. and his team owner, Kevin Harvick, will occupy the fifth row. Hornaday won this year's spring race here.
Dillon presently holds an 11-point advantage over Buescher. Hornaday and Johnny Sauter are both 15 points behind the leader. Sauter qualified 12th.
Tim Andrews, Norm Benning and Derek White failed to qualify.
Friday's 147-lap truck race at Texas is scheduled to start just after 8:00 p.m. (et).
<< Jets blank Islanders
Uniondale, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Ondrej Pavelec stopped all 34 shots he faced
to lead the Winnipeg Jets to a 3-0 victory over the New York Islanders at
Nassau Coliseum.
It was Pavelec's first shutout of the year and the seventh of his
<< Toronto rolls past Columbus
Columbus, OH (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Clarke MacArthur scored a pair of goals,
leading the Toronto Maple Leafs to a 4-1 win over the Columbus Blue Jackets
from Nationwide Arena.
John-Michael Liles and Joey Crabb scored the other goals,
<< Canada announces roster for WC qualifiers
Ottawa, ON (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Canada manager Stephen Hart announced his 18-man
roster Thursday for two upcoming FIFA World Cup qualifiers, sticking with the
majority of the team that played in the country's recent matches.
Nineteen-year-old
<< Mexico leaves Marquez off roster
Mexico City, Mexico (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Mexico coach Jose Manuel de la Torre
left Rafael Marquez off the 20-man roster announced Thursday for an upcoming
friendly against Serbia.
Marquez, 32, is usually the captain for Mexico, but was n
Verlander named Player of the Year by peers >>
New York, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander was
honored as Player of the Year in voting among his major league peers.
Verlander, also named the American League's Most Outstanding Pitcher, had a
career year a
Anderson leads by 3 in California >>
Desert Hot Springs, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Stuart Anderson fired an eight-under
64 Thursday to grab a three-stroke lead after the opening round of the Desert
Dunes Classic.
Anderson claimed his fourth tour title earlier this year at the Can
Kallstrom signs two-year extension with Lyon >>
Lyon, France (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Midfielder Kim Kallstrom signed a two-year
contract extension with Lyon on Thursday as the Swedish international extended
his stay with the French club through the summer of 2014.
Kallstrom, 29, joined Lyo
Cullen leads Wild past Canucks >>
St. Paul, MN (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Matt Cullen scored two goals and added an
assist, leading the Minnesota Wild to a 5-1 victory over the Vancouver Canucks
from Xcel Energy Center.
Pierre-Marc Bouchard scored and dished out two helper
In any football or basketball game (the main sports that use point spreads) there are two teams playing against each other.
Those teams, though, are rarely exactly evenly matched – meaning that typically one team has a better chance than the other to win the game. If bettors were allowed to bet on who was simply going to win the game, smart ones would obviously bet on the better team (likely winning more than 50% of the time in the process).
If winning were that easy the Las Vegas and online sportsbooks would stop taking any bets! This is where the point spread comes in: the basic function of the point spread is to balance the likelihood of each team “winning” by adjusting the final score by the point spread. After this adjustment is made you get the Against The Spread result (ATS result for short).
Let’s look at Super Bowl XXXIX, New England Patriots vs. Philadelphia Eagles. Most people believed the defending champ Patriots to be the better team – so if betting were simply based upon which team would win the game, an uneven majority of people would have wagered on New England. But, by using the point spread, the bookmakers adjusted the terms of the bet, evening the proposition so about half the people believed the Pats to be the smart bet, while the other half considered Philly to be the smart bet.
New England Patriots -7 vs. Philadelphia Eagles
The better team, called the Favorite, is expected to win the game and must “give” or “lay” points to the weaker team. The favorite is listed with a minus sign and the number of points they are favored by (e.g., New England -7)
In the case of our example, New England must not only win the game, but they must win by more than 7 points for Pats bettors to have a winning ATS result. An Eagles bettor wins his bet either if:
There was also the possibility that the final score could land exactly on the spread number (for example, the Pats winning 28-21 when -7), which is called a “push” or “no action” and a refund is then issued to bettors of both teams.
The same game with the same point spread can be considered from the weaker team’s perspective: The Underdog (Philly in the case of our example) is not expected to win the game and online football betting thus receives or “gets” points given by the stronger team. When a game is stated from the underdog’s perspective the team is listed with a plus sign and the number of points they are underdogs by:
Philadelphia Eagles +7 vs. New England Patriots
Keep in mind that Philadelphia +7 and New England -7 is the same point spread on the same game, simply stated differently. The first is from the underdog’s perspective; the later is from the favorite’s.
Not a must, but for some a mathematical approach is insightful. You can determine the ATS winner by either:
Let’s look at the actual result of Super Bowl XXXIX: New England 24 Philadelphia 21
The favorite, New England, won the game but not by more than the point spread they were favored by (7), so the ATS result was a LOSS for Pats bettors.
Looking at it from the underdog’s perspective, Philly did not win the game, but they lost by less than the point spread (7), so the ATS result was a WIN for Eagle bettors.
Mathematically considered, 24 for the favorite Pats minus 7 equals 17, which is less than the 20 the Eagles scored, so the underdog Eagles win the ATS result (or you could figure 20 plus 7 equals 27 for the Eagles, which is more than 24 for the Pats).
Emily’s boyfriend understood the point spread and wagered $100 on the Eagles at +7. The Eagles may not have gotten a Super Bowl ring, but since they won the ATS result Emily’s boyfriend cashed his bet – giving him money to take her out to a nice dinner.
And now hopefully you understand how to read point spreads, putting you one step closer to joining the fun of sports betting.
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