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Scott is now in his 16th year of professional handicapping and can currently be seen nationally on
Proline, aired on football weekends at 9AM ET on the USA cable network. Scott is the only
handicapper to advance to three straight finals in the Station Casino's Invitational. In fact, he's
the all-time Station Invites Win Champion! Scott released over 500 NFL and College Football plays
in five seasons and finished with a 59%...
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NFL: Digging For Gold
A lot of handicappers are having trouble separating the cream from the crop in the NFL right now. Two
thirds of the league is at .500 or better, which means everyone but the truly horrible teams are
still in the playoff race. It's easy to tell who the really bad teams are. But how do you
differentiate amongst all the contenders? I know a lot of guys are having trouble with that. Even
some of the most respected computer ratings have glaring errors that couldn't possibly be right. Tennessee...
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College Rivalry Handicapping
Probably the most solid strategy of all is to take home underdogs in rivalry games. No matter how
poorly the season has gone, a team will get up when its hated rival comes to visit. I've found that
the favorites tend to take these games too lightly. They know they're the better team (or they
wouldn't be road favorites!). They assume it's going to be easy. And, watching game films from the
past few weeks doesn't change their minds. Once the game starts, they're a step or two slow in an all
out war...
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NFL: Strength of Schedule
This year it's very important to monitor strengths of schedules when evaluating NFL teams. We have
more extreme differences in 2008 than at any time in the recent past. Let me illustrate this by
quickly running through three divisions. New England: Not nearly as strong as last year as
they've had to tone things down with an inexperienced quarterback. NY Jets: Sluggish so far
with an over-the-hill Brett Favre who throws too many interceptions and makes fewer big plays
than he used to..well besides...
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