Looks like VT opening +3.5 as a home dog to UNC, Week 8

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Lots of winners in this thread, a few stinkers. VT/UNC 6 OT's, I was thinking only 5 OT's when I took VT +10.5 :think2:. :dancefool

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I'm not following - which were the winning plays? With LSU for example, you said teasing them to -12 would be a good tease, but didn't say the other part of the tease is. I'm not sure if I see any plays posted - but maybe I'm missing something.
 

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I teased LSU down to -12, they covered by 5.5 even without without the tease. I'm posting ideas of games that make sense to me. By teasing games I can get most outcomes within 2 standard deviations or 95% probability of winning. Vegas is shooting for less then one standard deviation with the spreads they put out, a 50-50.

Picking the other side of the tease is up to the bettor. The teases I gave were 7-3 in week 8. The losers were games that came in 3 standard deviations or more. ie. less then 99% probable.

In games like Duke/UVA where Duke came into the game as a 4 point dog, which surprised me. Vegas was correct Duke lost, but by a lot more then -4. The score ended up outside 3 Standard deviations, a 99% improbability. Miami losing to GT, OSU killing NW, and Duke getting crushed in Cville.

My history of picking 3 games a week, outside 3 SD's is 3 SDs in itself. Most weeks it's one game, no games or at most 2 games. It's a bell curve, teasing games creates less skew.
 
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But a tease is two plays — you can’t just say you teased LSU and call it a winner, otherwise you’re just buying points.
 

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I'll just call it a success, instead of winner. The thrill for me is hitting teaser parlays. I gave out 10 picks. Pick two or just ignore. Study Gaussian curves if you want to understand how beneficial it is to tease college games.
 

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