2012 Round 14 Results : Saints Not Favourites

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Favourites won the first eight contests of the weekend and looked set to with the ninth when the Saints led the Roos by over 3 goals at the first change late on Sunday afternoon. Even at half time, with the Saints' lead whittled to just 2 points, there were reasons for Investors to remain confident that the Saints would do enough to cover the 20.5 point spread and leave MAFL in the black for the weekend.
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2012 Round 11 : Wagers & Tips - A Quieter Round

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This week marks the start of a slightly odd period of the season, lasting three rounds, in each of which we'll see 12 teams and six more teams having the bye. In effect, we have two whole rounds spread over three weeks. Across this week's six games the Line Fund has seen fit to lob money at the Home team in five of them, and the Margin Fund has made the same decision in two. The Head-to-Head Fund, meantime, has elected to declare its own bye for this week by absteining from gambling entirely.
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2012 Round 10 : Wagers & Tips - Another Wait

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I'm beginning to wonder if I should mentally plan to write up the week's wagers on Thursday rather than Wednesday nights, so regularly reticent has the TAB bookmaker become in posting markets on games involving GWS. This week, as well as making us wait for Line, Head-to-Head and SuperMargin markets for Saturday's Cats v Giants game, he's also bet-shy about Sunday's Pies v Suns game.

I'll save the full details for tomorrow night but for now just mention that we've already committed to one head-to-head, three line, and four margin wagers, and that I expect to add another line and two margin wagers once the markets come up.

2012 Round 9 : Wagers & Tips - A Drawn Conclusion

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The GWS v Essendon line market finally went up late this evening (Thursday) with the Giants receiving 70.5 points start, 10 points fewer than I was expecting. Unfazed, the Line Fund algorithm felt that almost 12 goals start represented value and so added the Giants to its already-committed bevy of 5 wagers, making it 6 wagers in total, or 30% of its initial wealth, half on favourites and half on underdogs.
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A Giant Omission

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I've locked in all the bets for Round 9 except one: a line bet on GWS. Assuming that they receive around the 80.5 points start I expect them to we'll be on them, but until they do and we are a full blog post will need to wait.

For now I'll just reveal that we've already placed 2 head-to-head wagers, 5 line bets and 4 SuperMargin wagers - including one particularly intriguing bet - covering 7 of the 9 games. 

More soon ...