Oldmans Picks For Sunday 2/22/04

[oldmanTED]

Coming off a 7-3 day yesterday, winning with Georgetown, Louisville, Georgia, Kentucky, Vanderbilt, Memphis and Texas while losing on North Carolina, UCLA and Temple. Back today with three plays.

3* Georgia Tech -3.5
1* Wisconsin -2.5
1* Duke -13.5


Overall Unit Record YTD: (127-95.8) 57.00% 5*(1-0)(+5.0) 3*(10-4)(+16.8) 1*(92-75-4)(+9.4)
Overall W/L Record YTD: (103-79-4) 56.59%
NCAAB Record YTD: (57-54-1)(+1.4)
NBA Record YTD: (11-5-2)(+7.5)
NCAAF Record YTD: (21-8)(+22.0) (Final Bowl Game Record 19-8 Included)
NFL Record YTD: (14-12-1)(+0.3)

Plays are rated 1*-5*

Good Luck All.

Edit to increase rating on Georgia Tech to 3*.

[This message was edited by oldmanTED on February 22, 2004 at 12:34 PM.]

 

[oldmanTED]

There is a decent possibility that I may decide to bump at least one of these plays to a strong 3* play. I will sleep on this decision and depending on line value will decide if an increase is warranted. Will let you know should I decide to make the bump.

 

[CoachLT]

Ted, kindred soul, thanks for sharing your skills and insights with us. Any chance that you might go to Las Vegas for the RX convention? LT

 

[TheDispatcher]

Ted I like all of your plays today hope you hit them all,I am takeing all of them myself.

Good luck.

 

[Allstar]

oldmanTED

I like the Duke & Wisconsin selections!!! Good luck today my friend!!!

ALLSTAR

 

[SSI]

ted, whats the strong one?

 

[Dante]

im with you on WISC good luck lets kill da man today !

 

[TheDispatcher]

Ted give up the lock!!!!!!!

 

I like your Duke play Oldman. Don't have an opinion yet on the others.

 

[SportSavant]

FYI...g Tech down to 3.5

 

[oldmanTED]

LT:

My kindred soul, your welcome. It's my pleasure to share with the forum. To answer your question, it is highly unlikely that I would go to the RX convention. I will be in Vegas for the first two weeks of the NCAA tournament however.

 

[oldmanTED]

The Dispatcher:

Glad you like all the plays. These came very easily to me yesterday, which is normally a good sign.

In a later reply, you said "Give up the lock". I'm not sure how to interpret that. I assume you weren't being critical as you like all the plays. I'm thinking you just wanted to know which of the three plays I feel strongly about. I will reply shortly.

 

[oldmanTED]

Allstar:

Glad to see we are on the same side with Wisconsin and Duke. Good luck to you as well my friend.

 

[oldmanTED]

omahamoneymaker:

Glad to hear we are on the same side with Duke. Good luck to you with your plays today.

 

[oldmanTED]

Dante:

Nice to see we are on the same side with Wisconsin. Hope we share a win together. Good luck to you today with all your plays.

 

[oldmanTED]

SSI:

Of the three plays, the one I'm considering making the strong play is Georgia Tech. I'll decide very shortly.

 

[oldmanTED]

Savant:

Noticed the line movements. Must say I'm quite surprised by these movements. As I just told SSI, the play I'm considering bumping is Georgia Tech and we're getting better value. Can't understand this line. I've got Georgia Tech favored by between 5 and 6. The movement is odd to me. I need to check for any updates for injuries. Be back shortly.

 

[oldmanTED]

Just checked to see if there is any current information on Georgia Tech that I may have missed. At this point, I don't see any late injuries. Troubled a bit by the line movement however. Unless this is a reaction to Wake Forest beating Duke, which was a totally different set of circumstances. Still thinking. Won't be long.

 

[oldmanTED]

Rechecked everything available to me and prepared to make my decision.

First of all, I want to reiterate that there is no such thing as a "lock". Those of you that have followed my threads no that I am pretty conservative in my releases although yesterday turned out to be an unexpected by active day and the results were good. We have been on a nice streak this week going 13-4 in college hoops, including two 3* wins for a nice overall profit. My strong play releases have been very good too date but any game is subject to a loss. So please keep that in mind. Waking today, it was my intention to leave all the plays the same rating as I like them all, and if correct, a profit would be sufficient. However, the line movement today has created more value for us. This does not guarantee a win, just a better chance of winning. I am going to bump my play on Georgia Tech for a couple of reasons. One is because of the additional line value and the other is because I have been seeing games clearly this week. I have liked Georgia Tech since the beginning of the year when they won the holiday tournament beating Connecticut and Texas Tech back to back in dominant fashion. Although I was against them earlier this week when they played at Maryland, I mentioned in that day's thread, that I greatly respect the Yellowjackets. That road win was done impressively to this oldman. This team plays good defense and has tremendous athletes and team speed and are well coached. While I respect Wake Forest, they have played up and down to me this year and not to their full potential although they are beginning to come around and Paul is the real deal, although he was not a factor in the first meeting shooting 1 or 7 in the Yellowjackets 73-66 road victory. Expect him to be hard to contain. Just believe that the Yellowjackets play tremendous basketball at home, only losing to Duke, and even though Wake beat Duke, a game I released, still like the situation in an up tempo game that promises to be a real show worth viewing. I think the difference here should be the Georgia Tech defense and the ACC home crowd support. This year it has been very difficult for road teams to win in this conference. All that being said, please promise me you will not load up on this game. I am making it a strong play so treat it as such, but do not go overboard. Hence,

3* Georgia Tech -3.5

Good Luck All.

 

[SSI]

thanks ted, my plays are clev +7, wisconsin -2.5, Ga Tech -3.5 and Minnesota -3.. thanks for your work here ted, ive got Jimmy Johnson in todays race, remember i had Junior last week, its a random draw that pays $350 for a $10 entry..