mrpickem
SDQL Badass Stat Boss
I'm not a regular hockey player at all, but I stumbled on this system by accident and have did pretty well in the short term(small sample)
With the weird regular-season schedule this year, look at trends based on the back-to-back games that are the new norm. I assumed the home team would sweep fairly often but there would be a lot more splits than sweeps. Here's the results of the back-to-back games played in the same location so far (through 1/26):
Couple of other details:
With the weird regular-season schedule this year, look at trends based on the back-to-back games that are the new norm. I assumed the home team would sweep fairly often but there would be a lot more splits than sweeps. Here's the results of the back-to-back games played in the same location so far (through 1/26):
- 35 back-to-back matchups in the same location so far.
- Home team has swept 10 times
- Road team has swept 4 times
- The 2 games have been split 21 times
- In split matchups, the home team won first 8 times, and the road team won first 13 times
Couple of other details:
- Only ML wagers.
- Not counting back-to-back matchups in the north division (Canada) where they sometimes change locations between games.
- A less reliable trend is that the road team is also overperforming in the second game when the home team wins first (winning 8 of 18 so far). If the road team is a big enough dog, this could also be worth a look, but definitely much more situational.
- One bonus to this trend is that if the road team wins the first game in back-to-back matchups, the road team often seen the moneyline move against them before the day of the second game, presumably because public wagers are going in favor of the road team that just won the first game. So, if you take the home team around midday of game day, you're probably getting a good value already, regardless of this trend.