There are plenty of prognosticators trying to give you tips and insights when it comes to betting on NFL preseason games. These are all crap. Pro football exhibitions are nothing more than a coin flip. Players, schemes, home team and everything else are pretty much irrelevant when push comes to shove.
If an expert is selling you on one team’s fifth-string players being better than another’s, ignore them. It is all speculation from someone throwing darts and hoping to land on the bullseye. Sometimes they do hit. But there are plenty of tosses that are wildly off the mark. Don’t get caught up in the noise.
So, what do you really need to know about betting on NFL preseason games? Look for significant underdogs and bet on them. Take last week, for example. The Arizona Cardinals were getting +214 against the Cincinnati Bengals for no apparent reason. Seriously, this should have been a pick’em contest.
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This week over on 188Bet, the Chicago Bears are +254 against the Seattle Seahawks in their preseason matchup. What? That makes no sense. Apparently oddsmakers really think the home field advantage here is massive even though maybe 10,000 people will be at the game.
We aren’t saying the underdogs are more likely to win. The Bears could easily lose to the Seahawks and there were plenty of favorites that were victorious last week. The takeaway here is that if some offers you coin flips odds of +200 on heads and only +125 on tails, don’t sell yourself short.
That is the only thing you need to know about betting on NFL preseason games. All other information about these contests is people blowing smoke up your butt. However, do not take our word for it.
Watch preseason games and see if you can find any worthwhile trends that would really influence how you wager. The awful local announcers might make it an impossible task, though.
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