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1. Football Action CFB Preseason All-America Team - 6/17/2008
The offseason in college football is cruising along and all 119 teams have completed their spring scrimmage games. Already things are starting to unfold for the 2008 season, and while most of the focus typically surrounds the top teams, who are the best positional players to keep an eye on this fall? Read on as Rich Thomaselli looks at this year’s Football Action Preseason All-America Team, then be sure to pick up this year’s Football Action College Preview Edition now available in stores!
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2. Teams Hog wild about McFadden? - 4/3/2008
Nearly universally regarded as the top prospect ready to make the leap into the pros, RB Darren McFadden is likely to again be stuck on the outside looking in when it comes to claiming the top spot on draft day. It doesn’t seem to matter what he accomplished in a conference that’s arguably the best in the country. Read on as Steve Siniski of CPFN takes a look at McFadden's draft day prospects.
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3. CPFN Pre-Draft Guide prepares you for April 26th - 4/3/2008
Another year, another draft. The lifeblood of the NFL continues in its unique and irreplaceable stream as 32 teams prepare to shore up weaknesses, add to their depth charts, find new starters and accept the fact that 50 percent of their educated guesses will not turn out well. Read on as Joe Klein previews this year's NFL draft as part of his work for the 2008 CPFN NFL Pre-Draft Guide, then order your own copy in the StatFox Store.
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4. Sportsform NBA Weekly Wrap-Up - 3/25/2008
The final issue of the 2007-08 Sportform Basketball publication hits hte store shelves Tuesday and in it is complete coverage of the Sweet 16 and the NBA. For his final submission, NBA writer Alvin Lai takes a look at what the rest of the regular season might hold in store plus who will be taking home some of the individual hardware.
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5. Sportsform Feature: Memphis on a Mission - 3/23/2008
The NCAA tournament is officially underway and it is now crunch time for the Memphis Tigers. Ranked atop the college basketball world for much of the campaign (until their only loss to Tennessee) the pressure is now on John Calipari’s ballclub to bring home a national title. The Final Four will grow increasingly more treacherous as the tourney picks up speed. Kevin Reilly details the Tigers and their hopes for a title.
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6. NBA: Looking East - 3/19/2008
The eve of March Madness makes it hard to think about anything else but college hoops. Even if your thoughts linger a bit towards the pros, you likely end up completely infatuated with the amazing playoff race in the Western Conference, where ten of the fifteen winning teams in the league reside. Pundits might deservedly cast the East as least, but that does not mean you cannot find intriguing games to find some action on. So with one month to go in the regular season, this feels like a good time for Alvin Lai of Sportsform Basketball to take stock of how things are shaping up in the Eastern Conference.
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7. Sportsform Basketball's Potential Cinderellas - 3/19/2008
The 2008 NCAA Tournament is upon us. Who will be this year’s Cinderella teams? Sportsform Basketball's Kevin Reilly analyzes this question and examines some of the candidates based on this year's bracket. He also looks at each candidate's first round game.
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8. NBA Total Variance - 3/12/2008
A few weeks ago, LT Profits discussed how point-spread variance (PSV) is a good indicator to isolate which NBA teams are underrated and which are overrated. This week, they shift attention to NBA totals by looking at the total variance (TV) for each team. Again, TV is defined as the variance between the actual combined point total in a game and the posted total in that contest.
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9. Sportsform's Final NCAA Tourney Tracker - 3/12/2008
With a number of late-season losses, the picture surrounding the third and fourth seeds became real hazy. It's now a case of how well these teams do in their conference tournaments that will determine if they maintain the high seeds. This is just one of the angles affecting Don VanDemark's latest and final Tourney Tracker Update for Sportsform Basketball.
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10. Conferences to Watch in NCAA Tournament - 3/13/2008
The 2008 NCAA Basketball Tournament is now just around the corner, and they do not call it March Madness for nothing, as many have come to expect the unexpected. In an attempt to make some sense of the madness, LT Profits has analyzed all post-season games since the 2000-01 season and broken the results down by conference.
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11. Conference Tournament Thursday Tip-offs - 3/12/2008
Kevin Reilly of Sportsform Basketball is back to finish his series on the conference tournament action. In this third and final installment, he looks at the leagues he call the "Big Dogs", those starting their tournaments on Thursday. These of course are the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, and SEC. Take a look at what he has to say about each and be sure to pick up a copy of this week's publication in the StatFox Store.
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12. NBA Home Court Advantages - 3/6/2008
It is no secret that the home team has the decided edge when trying to predict straight up winners in the NBA. However, home-court advantage may be losing some of its luster this season. Like any general trend though, there are teams that continue to perform much better at home, as well as teams that do not vary their play all that much home and away. We decided to take a look at each team’s Average Margin of Victory both home and away, and we have ranked them by home AMOV variance.
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13. San Antonio Spurs: Defending Greatness - 3/4/2008
The San Antonio Spurs have won nine straight games and are showing signs once again of the team that has been the closest thing to a dynasty the NBA has seen this decade. The defending champs currently lead the tight Western Conference race for playoff positioning and home court advantage for them could spell doom to the rest of the contenders. Read on as Alvin Lai of Sportsform Basketball profiles the Spurs.
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14. Quality wins/losses key to tourney hopes - 3/5/2008
Last week LT Profits told you that each college basketball team’s record over the last 12 games is an important factor for the NCAA Tournament Committee when trying to decide between similar teams, and this week they look at another important factor: Quality Wins, and Quality Losses for that matter. You might be surprised to know that Texas is the only team in the country that has double-digit wins vs. the RPI Top 50.
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15. Sportsform Basketball Tourney Tracker Update - 3/5 - 3/5/2008
Don VanDemark of Sportsform Basketball is back with another version of his Tourney Tracker update. He currently lists North Carolina, Memphis, Kansas, and Tennessee as his top seeds. Of his locks, likely-ins and bubbles, Don totals 67 teams vying for 65 spots. Do you agree? Disagree? Read on and decide.
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16. Early look at a few major conference tourneys - 3/4/2008
The major conference tournaments on Kevin Reilly's radar in his submission for the Sportsform Basketball this week don't start until next Wednesday, but it's never too early to start analyzing what might happen. In his continuing series of March Madness, Reilly looks at the upcoming Big East, Pac 10, Atlantic 10, and Conference USA tournaments.
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17. Using Combined PPG stats for NBA Totals - 2/28/2008
Betting on NBA totals is becoming more popular with each passing season, but the approach that many players take in betting them may be inherently flawed. These players simply look at the OVER or UNDER records for the teams involved, and decipher that any favorable trend up to that point will continue. A better way of playing totals is looking at how many total points are scored on average on games involving that team, and comparing that to the posted total.
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18. Last Five Weeks Records Key for Tourney - 2/27/2008
While the best way to get a high seed in the tournament is to lose as few games as possible, teams cannot rest on their laurels if they feel they have reached a win plateau that is good enough to achieve their goals. This is because the selection committee has a “last 12 games” filter that looks at how a team did in basically the last third of the season. LT Profits takes a look at the teams that had the best records between January 17th and February 20th.
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19. Sportsform Basketball Tourney Tracker Update - 2/27 - 2/27/2008
The latest edition of the Sportsform Basketball hits store shelves today and in it you'll find Don VanDemark's latest Tourney Tracker Update. For those of you who won't be picking up a copy of the publication at your nearest locale or in the StatFox Store...First, what's wrong with you? Second, we have Don's update for you right here. Enjoy
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20. Saturday is March 1st...Let the madness begin - 2/28/2008
The calendar turns to March on Saturday and some of the smaller conference tournaments are getting ready to tip-off. Kevin Reilly of Sportsform Basketball takes a look at what to expect in the Atlantic Sun, Big South, Horizon, Ohio Valley, Patriot, and Sun Belt Confererence tourneys. Who is favored? Who could be a "Cinderella"?
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21. NBA Pointspread Variance - 2/20/2008
In an effort to determine which NBA teams are overrated and which are underrated, many novice bettors simply look at each team’s pointspread record and conclude that teams with good ATS records are underrated and teams with bad ATS records are overrated. Guido Carapelucci of LT Profits feels that a better approach to determining which teams are overrated or underrated is to calculate their average variance from the listed pointspread in each game.
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22. FoxSheets' Basketball System Report - 2/21 - 2/21/2008
Here's Jim Kruger's latest FoxSheets Basketball Systems report where he digs into a pair of top systems for both college and pro basketball, explaining why they are effective and how you can profit from them. Get hundreds of top StatFox Super Situations every day by visiting FoxSheets.com.
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23. Bettor Line examines college basketball traps & conference tourneys - 2/20/2008
Joe Challmes and the Bettor Line have been servicing Sportsform Basketball & Football readers for many years out of Vegas. In this week's submission Joe examines further a subject he touched upon a few weeks ago...college basketball "traps". He also gives some tips on handicapping the upcoming conference tournament load.
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24. College Hoops Tourney Tracker Update - 2/20/2008
Don VanDemark of Sportsform Basketball is back with another updated version of his NCAA Tourney Tracker. This latest edition has Memphis, Duke, Kansas, and North Carolina securing the top seeds. Does this mean he believes the Tigers will knock off Tennessee in Memphis on Saturday night? You'd have to think so. Read on as Don goes through every conference and looks at the tournament hopes for each.
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25. Points Per Possession Study Pt. 2 - Defense - 2/14/2008
Last week, we gave you the best and worst teams in the country in terms of offensive points per possession (PPP), and showed that there was a direct correlation between that statistic and a team’s success (or lack of) against the spread. We're here now with Part 2 of the PPP study, evaluating the country's best and worst defensive teams. Read on as Guido Carapellucci of LT Profits goes in-depth into this most important of stats.
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