Comments on: The Patriots and the Spread, Part I http://www.footballperspective.com/the-patriots-and-the-spread-part-i/ NFL History and Stats Tue, 08 Aug 2017 16:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Tom http://www.footballperspective.com/the-patriots-and-the-spread-part-i/#comment-327932 Tue, 08 Aug 2017 16:43:00 +0000 http://www.footballperspective.com/?p=34839#comment-327932 This is quite remarkable…for regular season games, they’ve been favored by 5 points on average, 7 at home and 3 on the road! Only the Steelers come close to that road spread, they’ve been favored by an average of 1 point since 2001.

I’ve been listening to Chad Millman’s “Behind the Bets” podcast with Bob Scucci for the past few years, and your post mirrors what I hear them say a lot – the Steelers and Packers are usually favored in games, the reason being that there’s just a lot of public support for those teams (besides the fact that they are generally “good”). They also say things like “you don’t get rich betting against the Patriots”, which makes sense.

This is an area I’m really interested in, I’ve got a lot more comments, but I’ll hold off until Part II!

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