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Crick's Picks: NCAA Tournament First Round Results

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  • It was another ROLLERCOASTER RIDE through the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament, and we took some BRUTAL "Bad Beats"!! Our record should be much better than it shows currently, but that's the "Nature of the Beast" when it comes to sports-betting. We didn't lose money, especially if you cashed in on the "ML Parlay" on Friday at +1129 Odds!! However, if we can fade a couple tough (last second) beats, we'd be UP a SIGNIFICANT amount. These things happen, and ALL we can do is focus on having a BETTER weekend this time around!!

Here are MY RESULTS from last week:

3/16/23

  • 5-6-1 ATS

  • 3-2 ML's Parlay Lost

  • No "Longshot"

3/17/23

  • 8-3 ATS

  • 7-0 ML's Parlay Won - Odds Boost = +1129

  • 0-2 "Longshots"

3/18/23

  • 4-4 ATS

  • 2-3 ML's Parlay Lost

  • No "Longshots"

3/19/23

  • 4-4 ATS

  • 3-1 ML's Parlay Lost

  • 0-1 "Longshots"

NCAA Tournament First Round Record

  • 21-17-1 ATS

  • 15-6 ML's 1-3 ML Parlay's - Total Odds Accumulated = +1129

  • 0-3 "Longshots"

Best Bets Record For First Round

  • 5-2-1 ATS

Pre-Tournament "Future's" Bets Still Alive

Tournament Winners:

  • Alabama +650

  • UCLA +1000

  • Texas +1400

  • UConn +1800

  • Tennessee +2500

  • Michigan State +7000

  • Kansas State +7500

Region Winners

EAST

  • Kansas State +1000

  • Michigan State +1500

SOUTH

  • Alabama +170

MIDWEST

  • Texas +300

  • Miami FL +1400

WEST

  • UCLA +275

  • UConn +400

To Make Sweet 16

No Sweet 16 "Future's" Cashed

To Make Elite 8

  • Kansas State +390

  • Michigan State +600

  • Arkansas +700

  • Miami FL +750

To Reach Finals

  • UCLA +550

  • Texas +700

  • UConn +900

  • Miami FL +4500

Exact Round To Lose

  • UCLA to Lose in Championship Game +600

  • Kansas State to Lose in Final Four +1000

NIT Winner

  • Vanderbilt +1500

  • Wisconsin +2200

Let's look to make a BIG PUSH this Weekend!! Still A LOT of Basketball left for US!! We'll have some more stuff out for you guy's between now and Thursday leading up to the "Sweet 16" games!!

Good Luck and Good Gamblin!!!!

-Crickett

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In this post I would like to lay out some mathematical foundations for finding the best value on ternary moneyline events, notably association football, which has win lose and draw outcomes. Unlike American sports, where the rare occasion a draw happens it can be absorbed into the +0.5 and -0.5 spreads in assessing your options, the draw has a very significant probability of happening in football to the extent it opens up double chance and draw no bet markets (in which the draw can be significant enough to render both pick'ems unprofitable at the same time, a phenomenon not observed in American sports). This leads directly on to part of the challenge in football betting: the draw can nuke evenly poised spreads since spreads require an edge on one team over the other, so moneylines have to considered to get a full picture of potential value.

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Crick's Picks: NHL & NBA (10/30/25)

You & Your Beautiful Families STAY SAFE Out There!! Good Luck & Good Gamblin!!!!

ATS = Against The Spread

ALT = Alternate Lines

ML = MoneyLine

IPP = Individual Player Props

GP = Game Props

SGP = Same Game Parlay

O/U = Over/Under (Total)

TT = Team Total

Puck Line = -1.5/+1.5 Goals (Hockey)

1/2-Unit = .5 (50%) Unit

1/4-Unit = .25 (25%) Unit

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Crick's Picks Results: NHL & NBA (10/29/25) / YTD

10/29/25

NHL

  • 0-2 IPP -1.5 Units

0-1 (1-Unit Plays)

0-1 (1/2-Unit Plays)

NHL (10/29/25) Overall = -1.5 Units

NBA

  • 0-2 ATS -3.00 Units

0-1 (2-Unit Plays)

0-1 (1-Unit Plays)

  • 1-0 ML +1.45 Units

1-0 (1-Unit Plays)

  • 1-0 IPP +.88 Units

1-0 (1-Unit Plays)

NBA (10/29/25) Overall = -.67 Units

NHL & NBA (Combined) 10/29/25 = -2.17 Units

Year To Date

NHL

  • 1-2 ML -.8 Units

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