All-Sports Expert Betting Tips to Help Win Cash this Week 2/8/2016

by Dave Schwab - 2/8/2016

Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Alex Smith

The 2015 football season officially came to an end with Denver's upset victory against Carolina in Super Bowl 50, but that game marks the relative beginning of an entire year of betting action across any number of sports betting events. One of the tricks to earning a positive return on betting a wide spectrum of different events is to look for a solid inside edge and then pounce on the opportunity.

Doc's Sports' expert handicappers have been generating a positive return for sports bettors for years by finding an inside edge for every selection they release. They also use Doc's Unit Betting System to properly gauge just how big that betting opportunity really is. The easiest way to earn a good return on your sports bankroll is to simply subscribe to their selection packages, but if you still want to go it alone, then maybe the following betting tips can help provide that inside edge that every bettor is looking for.

Betting Super Bowl LI Futures

It did not take Bovada all that long to release its NFL futures odds to win Super Bowl LI, and one of the biggest benefits of betting this event a year in advance is the tremendous value in the posted odds.

Right now you can get +900 odds on Carolina, New England and Seattle to win next season's Super Bowl as favorites. You already know that all three teams will be highly motivated to get back on top in 2016 after a disappointing finish to this season, and a $900 return on a $100 wager will only get driven down on lower as we continue to slowly make our way to kick off in Week 1 of the next NFL regular season.

These early odds also offer quite a bit a value to take a flyer on an up-and-coming team. The Kansas City Chiefs won 11 games in a row before bowing out of the playoffs, and their futures odds to keep winning right through Super Bowl LI next season are set at +2500.

Green Bay is a perennial contender with Aaron Rodgers still in the prime of his career as the team's starting quarterback. The Packers' odds to get back on top next season are set at +1200.

Pittsburgh was thought of by many NFL experts as the team that nobody wanted to face in the playoffs this year, and it did come awfully close to beating Denver in the Divisional Round. The Steelers' future odds to win Super Bowl LI are also set at +1200, while the Broncos' odds to repeat as champs have been set at +1600.

The bottom line with highly-speculative bets such as this is to pick one or two teams that you have the most confidence in and make a small play on both to try and cash in on the current value.

Celtics Continue Their Climb in the East

Don't look now but the 31-22 Boston Celtics are making a charge at the top spot in the NBA's Eastern Conference standings with a straight up 9-1 record in their last 10 games. This could be a tough feat to pull off with 34-16 Toronto also going 9-1 in its last 10 games, while Cleveland's SU 7-3 record during this same span has the 36-14 Cavaliers leading the East by two games heading into Monday night's action.

When it comes to betting on the top three teams in this conference right now, the Raptors have failed to cover against the spread in four of their last five games, and Cleveland is 1-4 ATS in its last five outings. That leaves Boston as the hottest team both on the court and at the betting window in light of its current four-game winning streak both SU and ATS.

The Celtics appear to be building some solid momentum for their second-half push to the postseason during this current 10-game span, and bettors along for the whole ride are $580 richer on a $100 bet given the team's 8-2 record ATS during this same stretch.

Boston will be back in action on Tuesday night on the road against Milwaukee, and it brings a 4-1 record (SU and ATS) into this conference clash in its last five road games. The Celtics have gone a perfect 4-0 ATS in their last four road games against the Bucks, and they are a profitable 5-1 ATS in the last six meetings overall.

Betting the Under on the Eagles

The ACC's Boston College Eagles have been a pretty good team to go against in conference play this season since they opened things up with an 81-64 loss to Duke on Jan. 2 as 14.5-point underdogs at home. Since that loss they have added another nine SU losses to remain winless in ACC play and their record ATS during this 10-game slide is just 2-7-1.

It would probably make perfect sense to go against BC again this Tuesday night at home against North Carolina no matter how high the spread is set given an 89-62 loss to the Tar Heels to close out January as a 26.5-point underdog on the road. A better way to go in this obvious mismatch could be a play on the total line. The total has stayed "under" in seven of the Eagles' first 10 conference games and on the year it has stayed under in 13 of the 18 games with a posted closing line.

Boston College is averaging just 61.6 points a game, and there are just eight other Division I teams scoring fewer points out of 351 programs. Defensively, the Eagles are holding opponents to a respectable 69.6 points a game, and this drops to 65.6 points on their home court. Not helping matters is the loss of freshman guard Jerome Robinson, who remains out of the lineup with a hand injury after averaging 11.6 PPG this season.

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