Thursday's WNBA Trends and Indexes - 6/25

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Trends and Indexes

Thursday, June 25

Good Luck on day #176 of 2015!

NOTE: As information becomes available, we will attempt to post the trends and indexes as soon as possible.Information is posted from what we believe are reliable sources.Any opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the posting member or BettorsChat.

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Armadillo: Thursday's six-pack

-- Why can people vote 35 times for All-Star Game? How about everyone gets one vote and thats that.

-- NHL awards show was in Las Vegas, its draft is in Florida; sound choices.

-- Chucky Brown/Tony Massenberg hold the all-time NBA record; they played for 14 teams each, the most of any NBA player ever.

-- Why don't pitchers wear single digit uniform numbers?

-- Colorado Rockies lead MLB with 13 rain delays, 12 of which were at home.

-- Virginia 4, Vanderbilt 2-- Cavaliers win first College World Series.

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Armadillo: Thursday's List of 13: Only six months left until Christmas......

13) First of all, with great sadness I report the passing of Mr Harvey Pollack at age 93. He was the godfather of basketball statistics, a guy who is responsible for the start of the analystics movement, way before anyone ever heard of the word analytics.

He was the first person to use plus/minus as a basketball stat; he worked for the 76ers for decades and was an original employee of the NBA. I put myself thru college as a student manager of the basketball team and a stat guy-- Harvey Pollack was my hero.

12) I'm watching NBA TV's Mock Draft the night before the real draft and chances are it'll be better than ESPN's coverage of the draft tonight. Just can't take Jay Bilas-- ESPN screwed up badly letting him become their voice of college basketball.

11) Stu Jackson just called Ohio State's D'Angelo Russell the most creative passer we've seen since Jason Kidd, which is quite a compliment.

10) Kevin Love, Monta Ellis, Aaron Afflalo all opted out of their cntracts and will become free agents.

9) If you're a college basketball player who won't make an NBA team, do you play overseas or go to the D-League? You'll make more money overseas, but you're more accessible to the NBA for 10-day contracts in the D-League. Interesting decision a lot of kids have to make. Getting your foot in the NBA door is a big deal.

8) First day of the NBA Summer League next month at UNLV: Minnesota-Lakers are playing the first day, with top two picks in tonight's draft facing each other.

7) Astros lost in 13 innings in Anaheim yesterday; they used George Springer as a pinch-runner in a 1-1 game in ninth inning- he got picked off before a pitch was thrown to the next hitter. Nothing like being ready to play.

6) Baseball teams have these complex algorithms that predict success/failure; hard for me to criticize it, since they're way over my head academically, but the Red Sox gave Rick Porcello a $100M contract, even though he gave up 622 hits in in 558 IP over the last three years. Porcello is 4-8, 5.61 in 14 starts this year.

In other words, whatever algorithm Boston used to pay Porcello, they should put it up on their computer screen, then hit the delete key. Use some common sense!!!

5) Marco Estrada had a no-hitter in 8th inning for second start in a row yesterday; he threw 129 pitches before being taken out, most any big league pitcher has thrown so far this season. Blue Jays won the game 1-0 in 12 innings.

4) You watch Starlin Castro play for the Cubs and you wonder what his future is; he has ability but he doesn't run balls out, his mind wanders in the field, he's not what you want in a middle infielder, where defense is so important. If Cubs try to trade him with Addison Russell also a shortstop, you wonder who will take Castro?

3) American League has an 85-68 lead over the National League in interleague play, which should be the measure used to determine home field for the World Series.

2) Mets are falling apart; they're under .500 now, they've lost seven games in a row, all while Justin Turner is hitting .323 and batting third for the Dodgers, a team with the biggest payroll in baseball history. The Mets let Turner walk as a free agent after the 2013 season-- think they could use him now?

Show me a statistic that measures heart, that measures how a guy adds to a team with his positive attitude and hustle; you can't; the eye-test is still essential!!!!

1) UCLA's football coaches don't want charges pressed against Sean Combs, because they want the whole strength coach scuffle/debacle to go away, since they think it'll hurt them in recruiting, but the coaches do think the elder Combs is a jerk.

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WNBA
Long Sheet

Thursday, June 25

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PHOENIX (3 - 3) at SAN ANTONIO (0 - 6) - 6/25/2015, 8:05 PM
Top Trends for this game.
SAN ANTONIO is 8-1 ATS (+6.9 Units) on Thursday over the last 3 seasons.
PHOENIX is 29-18 ATS (+9.2 Units) in all games over the last 2 seasons.
PHOENIX is 22-9 ATS (+12.1 Units) in May, June, or July games over the last 2 seasons.
PHOENIX is 19-10 ATS (+8.0 Units) vs. division opponents over the last 2 seasons.
SAN ANTONIO is 4-12 ATS (-9.2 Units) in home games in May, June, or July games over the last 2 seasons.
SAN ANTONIO is 2-10 ATS (-9.0 Units) in home games after scoring 75 points or more over the last 3 seasons.

Head-to-Head Series History
SAN ANTONIO is 5-4 against the spread versus PHOENIX over the last 3 seasons
PHOENIX is 7-3 straight up against SAN ANTONIO over the last 3 seasons
6 of 10 games in this series have gone UNDER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons

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MINNESOTA (5 - 2) at SEATTLE (2 - 4) - 6/25/2015, 10:05 PM
Top Trends for this game.
SEATTLE is 105-74 ATS (+23.6 Units) in home games vs. division opponents since 1997.
MINNESOTA is 51-35 ATS (+12.5 Units) in all games over the last 3 seasons.
MINNESOTA is 47-29 ATS (+15.1 Units) as a favorite over the last 3 seasons.
SEATTLE is 14-25 ATS (-13.5 Units) in all games over the last 2 seasons.
SEATTLE is 10-19 ATS (-10.9 Units) as an underdog over the last 2 seasons.
SEATTLE is 11-23 ATS (-14.3 Units) in May, June, or July games over the last 2 seasons.
SEATTLE is 7-16 ATS (-10.6 Units) revenging a loss versus opponent over the last 2 seasons.
SEATTLE is 5-15 ATS (-11.5 Units) after allowing 75 points or more over the last 2 seasons.

Head-to-Head Series History
MINNESOTA is 7-4 against the spread versus SEATTLE over the last 3 seasons
MINNESOTA is 9-2 straight up against SEATTLE over the last 3 seasons
7 of 11 games in this series have gone UNDER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons

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WNBA

Thursday, June 25

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Trend Report
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8:00 PM
PHOENIX vs. SAN ANTONIO
Phoenix is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games when playing San Antonio
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Phoenix's last 6 games when playing San Antonio
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of San Antonio's last 6 games when playing Phoenix
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of San Antonio's last 7 games when playing at home against Phoenix

10:00 PM
MINNESOTA vs. SEATTLE
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Minnesota's last 6 games on the road
Minnesota is 2-4 ATS in its last 6 games when playing Seattle
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Seattle's last 9 games when playing Minnesota
Seattle is 2-10 SU in its last 12 games when playing Minnesota


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WNBA
Dunkel

Thursday, June 25


Phoenix @ San Antonio

Game 651-652
June 25, 2015 @ 8:00 pm

Dunkel Rating:
Phoenix
111.822
San Antonio
112.717
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
San Antonio
by 1
154
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
Phoenix
by 2 1/2
147
Dunkel Pick:
San Antonio
(+2 1/2); Over

Minnesota @ Seattle

Game 653-654
June 25, 2015 @ 10:00 pm

Dunkel Rating:
Minnesota
118.445
Seattle
116.930
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
Minnesota
by 1 1/2
152
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
Minnesota
by 9 1/2
145 1/2
Dunkel Pick:
Seattle
(+9 1/2); Over

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WNBA

Thursday, June 25


Over bets on a tear in WNBA recently

If you've blindly bet the Over in the WNBA recently, you're laughing all the way to bank. Over bets have gone 6-1 in the past seven games since Saturday, June 20.

And it's not even close.

The six games that have gone over the number have eclipsed the closing mark by 14, 27.5, 8.5, 7, 13, 25.5 and 37 points, capped by the Chicago Sky's 100-96 win over the Atlanta Dream easily leaving the closing 159 in the rearview mirror.

There are two games on the board Thursday as the Phoenix Mercury visit the San Antonio Stars (149) and the Seattle Storm host the Minnesota Lynx (145.5).