Smart Money Follows the Suns

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Somebody knew something. Within 2 hours of the line market being posted on the TAB on Wednesday, the Suns, granted 75.5 points start by those who determine these things, had moved from $1.90 to $1.70. Meantime, the head-to-head market, frequented it seems by different money, ill- or un-informed and therefore unaware of the team announcements to come, steadfastly supported the Gold Coast's Monday assessment as $13 prospects.
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2011 Round 23 Results: Bird Eats Cat

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It's a fraught time of year to be wagering on teams whose places in the finals have largely been determined and I can't but help feel that Investors were bitten by this fact over the weekend with the Cats perhaps 1% off their game and consequently going down to a determined Swans team playing finals footy, and the Dons doing just enough to beat Port Adelaide but nowhere near enough to cover a 70.5 points spread.
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2011 Round 23: Negatively Marked

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I can acknowledge the beauty in them but I find it difficult to watch Olympic events such as the Ice-Skating, Gymnastics and the Diving, where the final marks are essentially deductions from perfection rather than accumulations from zero. It's for similar reasons that I loathe wagering weekends like the one we Investors are facing this week where success is largely about avoiding losses rather than about totting up gains.
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2011 MARS Ratings After Round 21

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Lots of jostling for minor placings this week as the teams from positions 8 through 15 participated in four games of pairwise leapfrog. The Gold Coast, meantime, shed a further 4.5 Ratings Points to put them just one decent shellacking away from emphatically claiming the title of lowest MARS rated team of all-time, an honour currently lumped upon the St Kilda team of 2001, which finished that season with a MARS Rating of 947.21.
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2011 MARS Ratings After Round 19

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Near stasis again on the MAFL Ratings Leaderboard with only the teams rated last and second-last landing blows in the contest to avoid being labelled the Worst Team of 2011. Meantime Collingwood, now rated 1,065.9, have elevated themselves to be just over 2 points shy of the high-water mark set by the Dons of 2000 of 1,068.1 Ratings Points, the highest Rating achieved by any team in the time for which Ratings have been calculated (1999 to the present).
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2011 Round 19 Results: Another Assortment of Favourites

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For a fleeting few minutes on Saturday afternoon as the Dogs seemed destined to secure the most remarkable of comebacks, MAFL was notionally in profit. But the Eagles rebounded, kicking the last 14 points, compounding Investor disappointment by not just winning but by covering the spread as well. Then, later that night, Freo capitulated to the Hawks, leaving it all up to the Pies and the Crows to salvage the round.
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Some bit.ly links for MAFL

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The URL www.maflonline.squarespace.com is long and, if my weblogs are anything to go by, difficult to remember.

So, I've just used the bit.ly service to create redirects for the following URLs:

  • bit.ly/MAFLO
  • bit.ly/maflo
  • bit.ly/MAFLONLINE
  • bit.ly/maflonline
  • bit.ly/MAFLOnline

Typing any of these into your browser should now deliver you to the home page of the MAFLOnline website.

(I did try to get bit.ly/MAFL and bit.ly/mafl, but both were already taken.)