Cnotes 2020-2021 wnba trends, news, best bets and opinions thru the playoffs !

[StarDust Bum]

SEPTEMBER WNBA Best Bet Record:

Date w-l-t % units record

09/09/2021........0-2-0...........00.00%.........,-11.00
09/08/2021........3-1-0...........75.00%..........+9.50
09/07/2021........3-1-0...........75.00%..........+9.50
09/06/2021........1-1-0...........50.00%...........-0.50
09/05/2021........3-1-0...........75.00%.........+ 9.50
09/04/2021........1-3-0...........25.00%..........-11.50
09/02/2021........5-3-0...........62.50%.........+ 8.50

Totals:............16-12-0...........57.14%.........+ 14.00


BEST BETS:

09/09/2021........0-2-0...........00.00%.........,-11.00
09/08/2021........3-1-0...........75.00%..........+9.50
09/07/2021........3-1-0...........75.00%.........+ 9.50
09/06/2021........1-1-0...........50.00%...........-0.50
09/05/2021........3-1-0...........75.00%.........+ 9.50
09/04/2021........1-3-0...........25.00%..........-11.50
09/02/2021........5 - 3 - 0........62.50%........+ 8.50

Totals:............16-12-0...........57.14%.........+ 14.00
 

[Udog]

Friday’s 6-pack
Tampa Bay 31, Dallas 29:
— Prescott was 42-58/403 passing, with three TD’s.
— Cowboys missed a PAT and a 31-yard FG.
— Amari Cooper caught 13 passes for 139 yards, two TD’s.
— Tampa Bay survived minus-3 turnover ratio, 11 penalties for 106 yards.
— Brady was 32-50/379 passing, with four TD’s.
— Bucs scored 24 points in five red zone drives; Dallas 12 points in four.

Quote of the Day
“The longest of journeys begins with a single step.”
Laozi

Friday’s quiz
Where did Dak Prescott play his college football?

Thursday’s quiz
Former Colorado Rockies’ 1B Todd Helton was QB at Tennessee before Peyton Manning.

Thursday’s quiz
In the gambling movie Lay the Favorite, Bruce Willis plays pro gambler Dinky.

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Friday’s Den: Questions with the NFL season starting

13) Buccaneers brought back all 22 starters from LY’s title team; will they be the NFL’s first repeat champs since 2004?

12) Ryan Fitzpatrick is Washington’s QB, the 9th NFL team he has started for. Fitzpatrick has been around so long, his first head coach was Mike Martz, back with the Rams in 2005.

11) For first time since 2005, Saints have a QB who isn’t Drew Brees; how will Sean Payton combine the talents of Jameis Winston/Taysom Hill? Hill was content to back up Brees, one of the all-time greats; Winston is not one of the all-time greats.

10) Urban Meyer as an NFL coach should be interesting; how will he handle losing? If he goes 9-7, they’ll throw him a parade in Jacksonville, but Meyer never went 9-7 in college. He will be playing a rookie QB, which makes things even more interesting.

9) Rams are 43-21 in four seasons under Sean McVay, but they blew things up this winter and traded for QB Matthew Stafford, who played 12 years in Detroit but never won a playoff game (0-3). The trade helped the Rams’ salary cap issues; lot of pressure on the coach/QB to maintain the success that Jared Goff had on the field.

8) Four years ago, the Eagles won the Super Bowl, with backup QB Nick Foles the star after starter Carson Wentz got hurt in Week 14. Now, Foles is in Chicago, Wentz plays for the Colts and Jaylen Hurts is the QB, coached by rookie HC Nick Sirianni.

Eagles went 9-7, 9-7, 4-11-1 the last three years; not sure why Doug Peterson got the boot after one bad season, but now they’re starting over.

7) Dallas Cowboys have 36 new players and a QB who has had major injury problems over the last year- they went 0-4 in preseason, which doesn’t necessarily mean much. They’ll need Dak Prescott to be healthy and productive.

6) Minnesota Vikings have their sixth offensive coordinator in six years; their OL coach got fired for refusing the COVID vaccine. This will be Kirk Cousins’ 4th year as starting QB; the team was 25-22-1 the last three years. More is expected this year.

5) Last four years, New Jersey Giants are 18-46; Daniel Jones is 8-18 as starting QB. They’re 10-21-1 ATS at home the last four years; will Jones protect the ball well enough (22 INTs in 26 starts) to help the Giants move up in the standings?

4) What will the Houston Texans do with Deshaun Watson? He is on the 53-man roster but Tyrod Taylor will start, and Watson won’t be active. Watson’s legal issues still lurk; will another team have the onions to trade for him, and if so, what will Houston get back in return?

3) Can the Buffalo Bills take over dominance in the AFC East? Lot of expectations for the Bills after they went 13-3 LY and lost in AFC title game.

2) New England will have a rookie QB starting for first time since Drew Bledsoe in 1993; they went 5-11 that year, when Bill Parcells was the coach. Mac Jones won a lot at Alabama, he knows the playbook, always a good thing, so he should be an upgrade over Cam Newton.

1) Sam Darnold has mononucleosis last summer, then came back and played and the Jets were a bad team, so they fired the coach and traded Darnold to Carolina- they play Carolina Sunday.

I’m thinking the Jets made a mistake trading Darnold; mono is a tough illness to bounce right back from. Now the Jets have a rookie QB, and rookie QB’s generally struggle. They also have a rookie head coach.

 

[Udog]

WNBA

Friday, September 10

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Trend Report
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Atlanta @ Washington
Atlanta
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Atlanta's last 5 games
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Atlanta's last 5 games when playing on the road against Washington
Washington
Washington is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Atlanta
Washington is 8-1 SU in its last 9 games when playing Atlanta

Indiana @ Minnesota
Indiana
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Indiana's last 5 games when playing Minnesota
Indiana is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games on the road
Minnesota
Minnesota is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home
Minnesota is 8-1 SU in its last 9 games when playing at home against Indiana


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[Udog]

WNBA
Dunkel

Friday, September 10




 

[StarDust Bum]

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10
Game Time(ET) Pick Units

ATL at WAS 07:00 PM
ATL +5.5
O 156.5
+500 +500

IND at MIN 08:00 PM
IND +11.5
O 158.5
+500 +500

[StarDust Bum]

SEPTEMBER WNBA Best Bet Record:

Date w-l-t % units record

09/10/2021........1-3-0...........25.00%..........-11.50
09/09/2021........0-2-0...........00.00%.........,-11.00
09/08/2021........3-1-0...........75.00%..........+9.50
09/07/2021........3-1-0...........75.00%..........+9.50
09/06/2021........1-1-0...........50.00%...........-0.50
09/05/2021........3-1-0...........75.00%.........+ 9.50
09/04/2021........1-3-0...........25.00%..........-11.50
09/02/2021........5-3-0...........62.50%.........+ 8.50

Totals:............17-15-0...........53.12%.........+ 2.50


BEST BETS:

09/10/2021........1-3-0...........25.00%.........-11.50
09/09/2021........0-2-0...........00.00%.........,-11.00
09/08/2021........3-1-0...........75.00%..........+9.50
09/07/2021........3-1-0...........75.00%.........+ 9.50
09/06/2021........1-1-0...........50.00%...........-0.50
09/05/2021........3-1-0...........75.00%.........+ 9.50
09/04/2021........1-3-0...........25.00%..........-11.50
09/02/2021........5 - 3 - 0........62.50%........+ 8.50

Totals:............17-15-0...........53.12%.........+ 2.50

[Udog]

Saturday’s 6-pack
Major league leaders, runs scored:
107— Vladimir Guerrero, Tor
105— Freddie Freeman, Atl
104— Bo Bichette, Tor
100— Marcus Semien, Tor
97— Jose Altuve, Hst
96— Mitch Haniger, Sea

Quote of the Day
“I spent a lot of years playing with a lot of those guys. Coming through the right field fence here [the visitor’s entrance], I’d never even set foot on that side of the concourse, so I was lost. I had no clue where I was going. All these cameras were in my face, so I tried to play it off like I knew was I was doing. It’s still so new, sitting in another dugout, in a different uniform and actually facing the guys I played with for so long.”
Kris Bryant, on returning to Wrigley Field Friday

Saturday’s quiz
When the Cubs won the 2016 World Series, who did they beat?

Friday’s quiz
Dak Prescott played his college football at Mississippi State.

Thursday’s quiz
Former Colorado Rockies’ 1B Todd Helton was QB at Tennessee before Peyton Manning.

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Saturday’s Den: Clearing out a cluttered mind…….

13) NFL needs to get step back from its crackdown on taunting; none of us who watch games give a rat’s ass about players running their mouths. Tell the officials to tune the players out and only penalize players who hit each other illegally.

Week 14, 2017; Eagles @ Rams. Big game. Carson Wentz throws an incomplete pass on third down, Philly is going to try a field goal, but the ref flags the Rams’ DB for taunting, giving the Eagles a first down. Later in that same series, Wentz runs with the ball and tears his ACL. Had that taunting flag not been thrown, Wentz wouldn’t have torn his ACL, Nick Foles wouldn’t have been Super Bowl MVP.

Taunting penalties are way too subjective; sometimes stepping back from a bad decision is the best way to go and this is one of those times.

12) 40 or so years ago, Texas Longhorns had a basketball coach named Abe Lemons who was ahead of his time; his teams played fast (this was before the shot clock era), he was a character, would’ve been a big star on social media today.

One year his team was struggling; Lemons’ weekly TV show opened with the shot of a coffin on the set, with a spotlight on it. The camera focused in on the coffin, with organ music playing in the background.

The door of the coffin opens and there is coach Lemons in suit/tie; he sits up, looks at the camera, smiles and says…….

“We ain’t dead yet!!!”

Like I said, the man was ahead of his time.

12) Dallas Cowboys lost RT La’el Collins for five weeks; there are rumors that Collins didn’t flunk drug tests, he simply neglected to show up for them.

Dallas is expected to get Zack Martin back next week, but now their OL still won’t be 100% until at least Week 7.

11) Thursday night, Cowboys were 4th NFL team EVER to gain 450+ yards, have a +3 or better turnover ratio and yet still lose the game.

10) When Teddy Bridgewater takes the field Sunday, he’ll be the 10th QB to start for Denver since Peyton Manning retired five years ago.

9) Doug Kezirian is hosting Daily Wager on ESPN and he just called Mike McCarthy “an idiot” and roasted him for a couple minutes on national TV. Yikes.

8) Now that my fantasy baseball team has been forcibly removed from the playoffs, I’m scouting guys for next year (it is a dynasty/keeper league).

When I’m scouting a young player, prefer to watch the other team’s TV feed; they’re way more likely to give honest opinions about players on the other team. The home TV network guys always say positive things, even if the guy is playing poorly.

I mean, Keibert Ruiz is hitting freakin’ .107, but the Washington TV guys praise his defense, his eye at the plate if he takes a pitch out of the strike zone. He was a career .301 hitter in the minor leagues, so he figures to hit eventually, but it is OK to criticize a guy until he does.

7) Mets 10, Bronx 3— Bronx is 2-11 since their 13-game winning streak; they’re 2nd team in MLB history to go 2-11 or worse in the 13 games immediately following a single-season win streak of 13+ games (1991 Rangers).

6) Reds 4, Cardinals 2— Joey Votto hit his 30th homer, Reds scored two runs in 9th.

Dodgers 3, Padres 0— San Diego drops into a tie with the Reds for the second Wild Card slot.

5) When Big X snubbing Memphis in its expansion, should the Tigers try to join another league, like the ACC? They’re elite in basketball, halfway decent in football; they’d help some league, and the AAC seems like a conference on a serious decline right now.

4) Sports betting became legal in the state of Washington Thursday; former Sonics’ star Shawn Kemp made one of the first bets.

3) Trevor Bauer’s administrative leave was extended again; he is done for this season, and is likely to be eventually suspended for all of next season, too.

2) Marvin Miller got inducted into baseball’s Hall of Fame this week; he made all the players a boatload of money, had a tremendous impact on the business of baseball, not sure he made the game better or worse, but the players sure as hell better appreciate all he did for them.

The guy who gave the speech honoring Miller Wednesday went on longer than he was supposed to; the crowd was restless, was giving him grief, a crowd made up mostly of Bronx Bomber fans. Ungrateful bastards; it was Miller’s work that played a huge part into the advent of free agency and buying players, which is the only reason Bronx regained prominence in the late 70’s- they’ve gone on to outspend teams in smaller markets for decades.

If anyone should’ve given Miller’s legacy a huge ovation, it is New York fans.

1) I’m not saying summer went by fast or anything, but NBA training camps open in less than three weeks.

[Udog]

WNBA

Saturday, September 11

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Trend Report
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New York @ Dallas
New York
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of New York's last 5 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 4 of New York's last 6 games when playing on the road against Dallas
Dallas
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Dallas's last 5 games
Dallas is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games when playing at home against New York

Connecticut @ Phoenix
Connecticut
Connecticut is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Connecticut's last 5 games when playing on the road against Phoenix
Phoenix
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Phoenix's last 5 games when playing at home against Connecticut
Phoenix is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games


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[Udog]

WNBA
Dunkel

Saturday, September 11




 

[StarDust Bum]

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11
Game Time(ET) Pick Units

NY at DAL 08:00 PM
DAL -4.5
U 158.0
+500 +500

CONN at PHO 10:00 PM
CONN -3.5
O 149.5
+500 +500

[StarDust Bum]

SEPTEMBER WNBA Best Bet Record:

Date w-l-t % units record

09/11/2021........2-2-0...........50.00%............-1.00
09/10/2021........1-3-0...........25.00%..........-11.50
09/09/2021........0-2-0...........00.00%.........,-11.00
09/08/2021........3-1-0...........75.00%..........+9.50
09/07/2021........3-1-0...........75.00%..........+9.50
09/06/2021........1-1-0...........50.00%...........-0.50
09/05/2021........3-1-0...........75.00%.........+ 9.50
09/04/2021........1-3-0...........25.00%..........-11.50
09/02/2021........5-3-0...........62.50%.........+ 8.50

Totals:............19-17-0...........52.77%.........+ 1.50


BEST BETS:

09/11/2021........2-2-0...........50.00%............-1.00
09/10/2021........1-3-0...........25.00%.........-11.50
09/09/2021........0-2-0...........00.00%.........,-11.00
09/08/2021........3-1-0...........75.00%..........+9.50
09/07/2021........3-1-0...........75.00%.........+ 9.50
09/06/2021........1-1-0...........50.00%...........-0.50
09/05/2021........3-1-0...........75.00%.........+ 9.50
09/04/2021........1-3-0...........25.00%..........-11.50
09/02/2021........5 - 3 - 0........62.50%........+ 8.50

Totals:............19-17-0...........52.77%.........+ 1.50
 

[Udog]

Sunday’s 6-pack
Major league leaders, RBI:
107— Jose Abreu, CWS
104— Salvador Perez, KC
102— Rafael Devers, Bos
101— Vladimir Guerrero, Tor
99— Adam Duvall, Atl
98— Austin Meadows, TB

Quote of the Day
“I apologize to our fan base, to our university, to all Seminoles for the performance we had. I take ownership of it, but we go in and work, correct the things that have to be corrected to play to the level we’re capable of playing. This team has talent, they have heart, they truly do believe in what we can accomplish, but we have to go execute.”
Florida State football coach Mike Norvell, after losing to a I-AA team Saturday

Sunday’s quiz
What manager has the most wins in New York Mets’ history?

Saturday’s quiz
When the Cubs won the 2016 World Series, they beat Cleveland.

Friday’s quiz
Dak Prescott played his college football at Mississippi State.

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Sunday’s Den: Wrapping up a sports Saturday

13) Oregon 35, Ohio State 28:
— Ducks ran ball for 269 yards, pulled a big upset.

12) Stanford 42, USC 28:
— USC’s kicker was tossed for targeting on the opening kickoff.
— RB Peat ran ball only six times, but for 115 yards.
— USC alums ain’t going to be happy with this score.

11) Jacksonville State 20, Florida State 17
— Gamecocks hit a 59-yard TD pass on last play for the huge upset.
— WR caught ball on the 19 and avoided several defenders to score.
— Dieter Brock’s alma mater is I-AA; this is a horrendous loss for FSU.

Dieter Brock was a great QB in the CFL; in 1985, at age 34, he signed on to play for the Rams, and he helped them win the NFC West (12-5 as a starter), won a playoff game, then lost NFC title game. That was his only season in the NFL.

10) BYU 26, Utah 17:
— Cougars win this rivalry game for first time since 2009.

9) TCU 34, California 32:
— Golden Bears went 0-3 on 2-point conversions, blew a 19-7 lead.

8) Notre Dame 32, Toledo 29:
— Toledo grabbed 29-24 lead with 1:35 left.
— Notre Dame drove 75 yards in three plays to avoid the upset.

7) Upsets of the Day:
— Stanford (+17.5) 42, USC 28
— Oregon (+15) 35, Ohio State 28
— BYU (+7) 26, Utah 17
— Vanderbilt (+6.5) 24, Colorado State 21
— Arkansas (+6) 40, Texas 21
— Iowa (+4) 27, Iowa State 17

6) Brewers 3, Indians 0:
— Corbin Burnes/Josh Hader combined to throw a no-hitter.
— Indians are first team to be no-hit three times in a season.
— Zach Plesac started all three of those games for Cleveland.
— This was Milwaukee’s first no-hitter since 1987 (Juan Nieves).

5) Toronto swept a twinbill in Baltimore:
— Toronto 11, Orioles 10— Jays scored four runs in last inning.
— Toronto 11, Orioles 2— Trailing 1-0 in last inning, Jays erupted for 11 runs.

4) Air Force 23, Navy 3:
— Since start of last year, Navy has started six different QB’s.
— This was first win for Air Force in last five visits to Navy.

3) Arkansas 40, Texas 21:
— Texas fired Tom Herman after he went 32-18 in four years, 22-13 in Big X games, 4-0 in bowl games.
— Just because someone worked with Nick Saban (Sarkisian), it doesn’t make him a great coach.

2) Texas A&M 10, Colorado 7:
— Don’t see lot of 10-7 college games.
— A&M’s QB got hurt early on; his backup threw game-winning TD pass with 2:41 left.
— Total yardage: A&M 288, Colorado 260

1) Miami 25, Appalachian State 23:
— Miami kicked a 43-yard FG with 2:04 left for the win.
— App State had a 100-yard kick return for a TD.
— Total yardage: 375-326, Miami

 

[Udog]

WNBA

Sunday, September 12

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Trend Report
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Washington @ Chicago
Washington
Washington is 13-3 ATS in its last 16 games when playing Chicago
Washington is 12-3 SU in its last 15 games when playing Chicago
Chicago
The total has gone OVER in 8 of Chicago's last 9 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Chicago's last 5 games

Indiana @ Minnesota
Indiana
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Indiana's last 6 games when playing Minnesota
The total has gone UNDER in 11 of Indiana's last 16 games
Minnesota
Minnesota is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home
Minnesota is 9-1 SU in its last 10 games when playing at home against Indiana

Seattle @ Los Angeles
Seattle
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Seattle's last 5 games when playing on the road against Los Angeles
Seattle is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Los Angeles is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games when playing at home against Seattle
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Los Angeles's last 7 games at home


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[Udog]

WNBA
Dunkel

Sunday, September 12




 

[StarDust Bum]

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
Game Time(ET) Pick Units

WAS at CHI 03:00 PM
WAS +8.0
O 169.0
+500 +500

IND at MIN 07:00 PM
MIN -11.5
U 158.5
+500 +500

SEA at LA 09:00 PM
LA +7.0
U 154.0
+500 +500