Covering The Spread

Covering the Spread

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A daily sports-betting podcast hosted by FanDuel Research's Jim Sannes and a rotating group of analysts, Covering the Spread outlines where you can find value at FanDuel Sportsbook when betting football, basketball, baseball, golf, NASCAR, and more.

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Betting Against the Analytics With Teddy Covers 29.08.2019 48:31

Betting markets in 2019 seem to be partly driven by analytics. How can we exploit those markets and find value in the NFL? Teddy "Covers" Sevransky joins The Power Rank's Ed Feng and numberFire's Jim Sannes to discuss the method he uses to find edges, which teams that has led him to bet entering 2019, and why betting markets may not have reacted enough to Andrew Luck's retirement. Additionally, Fe...

College Football Week 1 Betting Preview With Edward Egros 26.08.2019 46:51

With Week 1 of the 2019 college football season approaching fast, which bets stand out as being advantageous? Edward Egros of Fox Sports Southwest joins The Power Rank's Ed Feng and numberFire's Jim Sannes to chat Utah versus BYU, Auburn versus Oregon, and Houston versus Oklahoma, along with his favorite bets of the week. Additionally, Feng and Sannes react to Andrew Luck's retirement and what it...

Accounting for Offseason Changes in NFL Betting With Rob Pizzola 22.08.2019 56:21

With all the changeover across the NFL from one season from the next, it can be hard to keep up. How do we account for those changes when projecting how teams will perform in 2019? Rob Pizzola joins The Power Rank's Ed Feng and numberFire's Jim Sannes to break down his process, player-based models, manually adjusting teams, and which teams he likes and dislikes entering the season. Then, Feng goes...

U.S. Open and Tennis Betting With Whale Capper 19.08.2019 58:44

With the 2019 U.S. Open just around the corner, what do we need to know about betting on tennis before the opening serve? The Deep Dive Podcast's Whale Capper joins The Power Rank's Ed Feng and numberFire's Jim Sannes to discuss his tennis betting process. Whale runs through his favorite markets for tennis betting, what metrics he weighs into his model, and some players he's monitoring for both th...

NFL 2019 Division Winners With Keith Goldner 15.08.2019 38:22

Which teams present us with betting value as we look at divisional odds across the NFL for 2019? Keith Goldner of numberFire and FanDuel joins The Power Rank's Ed Feng and numberFire's Jim Sannes to break down what numberFire's analytics say about each division in comparison to the odds at FanDuel Sportsbook. Then, Feng outlines an area in which Patrick Mahomes could take a step back this year, ...

College Football Championship and Playoff Futures With Bud Elliott 12.08.2019 50:25

The Clemson Tigers and Alabama Crimson Tide have won four straight college football championships. Can they do it again in 2019, or should we back another team to disrupt the dominance? Bud Elliott of SB Nation and Banner Society joins The Power Rank's Ed Feng and numberFire's Jim Sannes to break down his thoughts on the 2019 championship landscape. Elliott discusses a couple teams with longer odd...

Betting Unders on 2019 NFL Win Totals With Gill Alexander 08.08.2019 48:07

The start of the preseason is supposed to be a time of optimism. But which teams could fall short of expectations and hit the unders on their season win totals? Gill Alexander of VSIN joins The Power Rank's Ed Feng and numberFire's Jim Sannes to break that down, discussing three teams whose win totals may not be low enough. Additionally, Alexander dissects whether anybody can push the Houston Astr...