I use certain metrics to measure whether performance matched expectations, independent of outcome. For soccer, that's expected goals. For college football, that's yards per play. You will see good bets that lose and bad bets that win, due to the fortuity factor in competitive sports. A bet is a good bet if it would have beaten the odds over time. A bet is a bad bet if it would have not beaten the odds over time. Here's a report for the games to date:
EPL
Everton-Nottingham: Won bet. Good bet. Everton was a half-goal better in ExG, which should have made them 60% favorites, instead of even money.
Crystal Palace-Aston Villa. Won bet. Good bet. Palace was 1.1 goals better in ExG, which should have made them 68% favorites, instead of 40% underdogs.
Brentford-Fulham. Lost bet. Bad bet. Brentford was a full 1.3 goals worse in ExG, which should have made them 15% underdogs, instead of 35% underdogs.
Southampton-Leicester. Won bet. Good bet. Southampton was a full 1 goal better in ExG, which should have made them 66% favorites, instead of 23% favorites.
Leeds-Chelsea. Won bet. Good bet. Leeds outplayed Chelsea by an ExG of 1.2 goals, which should have made them 70% favorites, instead of 16% favorites.
Newcastle-Man City. Lost bet. Neutral bet. Man City needed a comeback to draw, as reflected in their ExG edge of 1.5 goals, which means Newcastle should have been 12% favorites, close to their actual rate as 11% favorites.
Manchester United-Liverpool. Won bet. Good bet. ManU outplayed Liverpool with an ExG edge of half a goal, which translates into ManU's proper price at 60% favorites, not 18% favorites, as they were priced.
Southampton-ManU. Lost. Good bet. Southhampton played ManU to a draw in ExG, which means they should have been 33% favorites instead of 24% favorites.
Leeds-Brighton. Lost. Neutral bet. Leeds ExG edge was a negative 0.4, which means they should have been 22% favorites and that is precisely where the odds were.
Chelsea-Leicester. Won. Bad bet. Chelsea played Leicester to a draw in ExG, which means they should have been 33% favorites instead of 70% favorites.
Man City-Crystal Palace. Won. Bad bet. Man City's 1.3 ExG edge made them 71% favorites rather than the 84% favorites they were.
Arsenal-Fulham. Won. Neutral bet. Arsenals' 1.5 ExG edge translates to a typical win rate of 75%, almost exactly their odds.
NCAAF
Nebraska-Northwestern. Lost. Bad bet. While 3 turnovers and a dumb failed offside kick up by 11 in the 2nd half likely led to the loss, the yard per play gap was only 0.2 in Nebraska's favor. Nebraska's 6.4 yards per play was right about predicted, but Northwestern's 6.2 yards per play was their best offensive performance in more than a decade. Indeed, it is Northwestern's best offensive performance against a defense with top-50 talent since 2011!
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🔥 June 21, 2026 Degenerate Special 🔥
Afternoon slate locked with high-K arms! 🔥
Your Locked Open Bets (placed & pending):
1. 3-Leg Parlay — Odds: +121
• Chase Burns 6+ Strikeouts (-440) — CIN Reds @ NY Yankees 1:36 PM ET
• Dylan Cease 6+ Strikeouts (-275) — TOR Blue Jays @ CHC Cubs 2:21 PM ET
• Logan Gilbert 6+ Strikeouts (-310) — BOS Red Sox @ SEA Mariners 4:11 PM ET
2. 5-Leg Parlay — Odds: +200
• Chase Burns 6+ Strikeouts (-420) — CIN @ NYY 1:36 PM ET
• Logan Webb 4+ Strikeouts (-900) — SF Giants @ MIA Marlins 1:41 PM ET
• Dustin May 4+ Strikeouts (-500) — STL Cardinals @ KC Royals 2:11 PM ET
• Dylan Cease 6+ Strikeouts (-275) — TOR @ CHC 2:21 PM ET
• Logan Gilbert 6+ Strikeouts (-300) — BOS @ SEA 4:11 PM ET
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First, four factors dictate whether there is major turnover in the Senate in a midterm election independent of the favorability of the Senate map (due to only one-third of seats being up in any given midterm). Often, as was the case in both 2018 and 2022, is that incumbents are not destined to lose seats, outside of realigning elections in unfavorable maps. This cycle's map favors the GOP, which is why the prediction markets and most forecasters expect a GOP majority in the 2027 Senate. The four factors that prove dangerous to the incumbent party are: first, a recession or cost of living crisis; second, a war; third, a major scandal; and fourth, a sense of betrayal in the voter group that backed the incumbent amongst some portion of their prior electoral coalition. Five midterms feature some combingation of those factors in some significant degree: 1930, 1946, 1958, 1974 and 2006.
Without those factors present in multiple forms, the incumbent party can expect to hold on to seats in states it previously won outside the national margin. When those factors are present, the landscape shifts dramatically. Examining those White House incumbent seats that showed a state-wide election decided by single digits in the prior decade produces the following probabilities: the incumbent White House party lost at least 67% of its incumbent held seats, as much as 85% of its incumbent held seats, and an average of 75% of its incumbent hold seats, rarely upsetting the opposition party in any seat and often losing a surprise or two in seats considered completely safe.