Weekly Articles "Road to Riches" by Rich 'Tighty' Prew
The Road to Riches Weekend of 2nd=3rd March
Coming up this weekend
- Football, the Premier League fixtures include Tottenham v Arsenal and Everton v Liverpool
- Racing, Over the jumps on Saturday at Doncaster, Kelso and Newbury. All weather racing at Chelmsford and Lingfield
- Cricket, the fifth match in the ODI Series between the West Indies and England in St Lucia.
- Golf, On the USPGA the Honda Classic at PGA National and the Oman Open on the European Tour
- Tennis, ATP Opens in Dubai, Acapulco and Sao Paulo
The Cheltenham Festival (Tuesday 12th – 15th March 2019)
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Cricket: West Indies v England 5th ODI, St Lucia, Saturday
The final game in the series takes place in St Lucia on Saturday. England lead the series 2-1 after a remarkable 4th ODI in Grenada on Wednesday
Jos Buttler smashed a brilliant century as England edged a thrilling fourth one-day international against West Indies in Grenada despite Chris Gayle's brilliant 162.The hosts almost chased down England's 418-6 - Buttler hitting 150 off just 77 balls - but the tourists held their nerve for a 29-run win as leg-spinner Adil Rashid took four wickets in the 48th over.It was a record-breaking match, testament to how playing conditions and regulations are now so batting friendly in the format
- 46 sixes were hit in the match, the most in an ODI.
- England hit a record 24 sixes in their innings.
- 807 runs were scored in the match; the third-highest aggregate total in ODI history.
- Buttler scored the most sixes in an ODI innings for England with 12.
- England passed 400 in ODIs for only the fourth time, all from 2015 onwards and for the first time away from England
This also sets up as a high scoring game, on a small ground.
In the West Indies top batsman market its no surprise to see Chris Gayle as favourite. At the start of his last year in international cricket, in this series he has hit 135,50 and 162 on perfect pitches. He’s listed at 5/2. No one would be surprised to see him go off again and hit another score. However at the age of 39 he trudged off very wearily after his 162 on Wednesday. He’s already a passenger in the field, and doesn’t run singles well when batting. I think we can oppose him for value but with who?
Shimron Hetmyer scored a hundred in the second ODI and now has 4 ODI hundreds. No other West Indies batsman has more than one century before Hetmyer’s age, 22
He averages 42 in 24 ODIs with 886 runs. He has an adaptable game, he can accumulate where the situation demands and has the power and inventiveness of the best modern young batsmen
He has been batting this ODI series at 5, though on occasions in his young career at 4 wheich is probably where he will end up. He scored 106 and 94 in India in successive ODIs last autumn and in this series has 130 runs at a trike rate of 126
In the betting Hetmyer is behind Hope/Lewis/Campbell two of whom will play at 2 and 3 and Hetmyer is available at 6-1 down to 11-2 With Campbell inconsistent, Hope has two scores over 50 this year in all formats as does Darren Bravo likely to be batting at 4. I would have Hetmyer in the 4/1 bracket where you find the other top five batsman apart from Gayle
10 points Shimron Hetmyer Top West Indies Batsman 5th ODI 6-1 Betfair Sportsbook/Paddy Power, 11/2 William Hill and SkyBet
Innovation
Mid way through the Six Nations, we are near the start of a big Rugby year with the World Cup in Japan coming in September
One of the interesting aspects of the current tournament is that for the first time in a number of years there have been signs of innovation in attack. New Zealand aside, where the player’s individual skills have enabled them to rise above the often mediocrity elsewhere, the attacking game has struggled to break down “rugby league” style defences that were ushered into the game near the start of the professional era. That style of defence sees the defending side rush in a single line, a tackle is made, the ball is recycled and the play continues to the next phase or major collision. At least in rugby league you are limited to six tackles before losing possession.
In this Six Nations England, with a number of players skilled in the kicking game, have shown the evolution of an attacking style to exploit space behind the rush defence notably from different phases (kicking from first phase being comparatively simple to nullify, its expected) and places on the field to provide variety. If the platform is solid, its difficult to counter as the attacking side, knowing what to expect, can be a beat ahead of the defending side with cross kicks and grubbers rather than the traditional approach of hoisting a ball high into the air and creating a 50-50 contest for the ball fifteen yards further down the field. England’s issue, when the kicking game was countered in Cardiff was that there was no plan B. What might some future Plan B’s be?
The current thoughts come down to two areas. Firstly sides defend incredibly well close to breakdowns in the narrow channels. Defending teams position specialists there. The space is out wide, away from the big bodied defenders and we are seeing pockets of more expansive play to spread the field across the game. 16 of the 32 tries scored in the first two rounds of the Six Nations this year were scored by wingers. Secondly there are the beginnings of innovative thinking in terms of the use of individual players. Eddie Jones has talked about utilising Jack Nowell as a flanker and giving him a roving role, essentially allowing him to appear in unexpected areas of the field and the team to field three wingers. In the Southern Hemisphere some teams have lined up in line outs with backs receiving the throw (helped by the rules allowing lifting) and then unleashing big forwards on the backs once the ball has been secured.
How fast these innovations develop and what will be seen at the World Cup remains to be seen but this Six Nations has just seen a glimpse of what is to come, to which defences will have to adapt. Perhaps then the thought that if you were watching a match in black and white and not knowing which teams were which the current attacking styles of South Africa, Australia and most of the Northern Hemisphere are incredibly similar and you’d struggle to differentiate then, all facing established defensive settings.
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The Road to Riches Weekend of 23rd-24th February
Coming up this weekend
- Football, the Premier League fixtures include Manchester United v Liverpool, and the EFL Cup final between Chelsea and Manchester City
- Rugby Union, the third round of the 2019 Six Nations
- Racing, Over the jumps on Saturday at Chepstow, Kempton and Newcastle. All weather racing at Lingfield and Wolverhampton
- Cricket, the ODI Series between the West Indies and England in the Caribbean.
- Golf, the WGC-Mexico and on the USPGA the Puerto Rico Open
- Tennis, ATP Opens in Delray Beach, Marseille and Rio
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The Oscars by Neil Channing
As usual we have 24 categories this year and we have a load of odds-on favourites. There are just two categories where the favourite is odds-against although there are seven where it's bigger than 1/2. I started looking at all of those to try and find a value bet or two and I may have found something for us.
Edges
Earlier this month the Patriots and their Head Coach/Quarterback combination of Belichick and Brady won their sixth Superbowl since 2002.Much was made of the excellent defensive strategy that stymied Goff and the Rams during the game but the victory was the culmination of a different roster construction strategy than that followed by the rest of the league.
Under the new Collective Bargaining agreement between the league and the player’s union, between the shortening of available practice time, which has led to fewer meaningful players developing, and the rookie salary scale, which has pushed mid-level veteran contracts out of the sport, it should have been no surprise that every position other than quarterback has become a young man’s game over the last decade. Rule changes to protect them have essentially elongated many quarterback’s careers. Every other position and most teams are getting younger by the year.
While the majority of teams look to the draft to fill out depth on their rosters, the Patriots’ roster construction has stayed more veteran. It may have begun by necessity, as the team has been picking at the end of the draft for over 15 years so successful have they been. At the moment, only five New England players (Tom Brady, Devin McCourty, Rob Gronkowski, Dont’a Hightower and Stephon Gilmore) have cap hits of $6mn plus in 2018, roughly 3% of their 2018 salary cap. Those six players are only making $28.8m between them in base salary this year within a salary cap of $177m.
Paying so few top-end players has allowed the Patriots to cultivate their roster with mid-level veteran contracts versus the stars and draft picks approach that most teams are taking.
New England had 19 veterans under contract who have cap hits between $1-6m in 2018 and those 19 players are near twice the average of an NFL playoff team and nearly four times the number of mid-level contracts on the Los Angeles Rams’ roster.
While most of the NFL has opted to lock in money into big veteran contracts, which often include a large signing bonus and two to three years of guaranteed salary, or rookie contracts, which also are also primarily based on guaranteed money at the top of the draft, the Patriots have chosen to sacrifice signing several star players for low-guarantee pay-as-you-go veteran contracts. This allows them to skip the growing pains of players transitioning from college football to the NFL while also giving them the flexibility to instantly drop a player whenever they can no longer perform up to their contract.
Those players, all together, only have a $20.4m dead cap (cost on the salary cap to release) in 2019. To put that into perspective, there are 27 players in the NFL (veterans who signed major contracts) who have a dead cap higher than that in 2019 alone.
As he has done many times in the past, head coach-general manager Bill Belichick has found a way to fully exploit the NFL’s talent market before most teams catch onto his trend. By the time the rest of the league pivots to that approach Belichick may be onto a new edge. It is not just in on the field coaching that Belichick is an all time great its in roster construction and off the field innovation too.
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The Road to Riches Weekend of 16-17th February
Coming up this weekend
- Football, the FA Cup Fifth Round
- Rugby Union, the start of the 2019 Super Rugby Season
- Racing, Over the jumps on Saturday at Ascot, Haydock and Wincanton. All weather racing at Lingfield and Kempton Park
- Cricket, the Big Bash final on Sunday. Next week the five match West Indies v England ODI Series
- Golf, the World Super Six in Perth, Australia and on the USPGA the Genesis Open at the Riviera GC
- Tennis, ATP Opens in Buenos Aires, Rotterdam and New York
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The 2018-19 Big Bash Final
Melbourne Renegades v Melbourne Stars (Sunday 3.45am GMT)
The Stars upset the odds in the first semi final, qualifying 4th in the league table with a 7-7 record and knocking off the long-time league leaders Hobart in Tasmania to reach the final.
The win was set-up by a sensational spell from unheralded Stars quick Dan Worrall who mixed seam, swing and slower balls to good effect. He took 4 for 23 including the prize scalp of Matthew Wade in the second over of the innings.
The Hurricanes lost three wickets in the Powerplay for only the second time in the tournament and again lost the game. Wade and D'Arcy Short contributed just 37 between them after scoring 810 as a pair throughout the tournament.
Stars leading players are Marcus Stoinis with 480 runs and new captain Glenn Maxwell down the order with 330. No bowler has taken more than 15 wickets in their15 games with DJ Bravo ahead of all-rounder Stoinis who has underlined his value with 14 wickets.
The Renegades qualified for the semi-finals with a second place finish in the league table.
In their home semi-final in Melbourne the top wicket-taker in the tournament Kane Richardson who had taken 24 wickets before the semi, went round the park and the Sixers scored a competitive 180-3 which the Renegades reached with two balls to spare with Finch anchoring the innings and the all-rounder Dan Christian rescuing the side from 133-6 with three sixes in his 31* batting seven.
For the final, a Melbourne Derby with the host Renegades my focus is on the Renegades top run scorer market
In Aaron Finch’s 7 innings in the competition (playing for the national side for the first half of the BBL season) he has scored 207 runs. Pro-rata, assuming similar performance over a full competition, he’d be comfortably the top Renegades run scorer in the tournament in a line up with only one other player over 300 runs in the tournament.
Over the course of 50 T20 Internationals and 250 games in total Finch has scored at a strike rate between 140-160 but in this competition his strike rate is 116 as he has taken on the role of providing the platform the side can base their innings around. An experienced big game player on a mixed-use small ground (the Marvel stadium hosts football and the AFL primarily) he has 70 scores of 50+ in his career
Here Finch is available at over 2/1 (21/10) with Betfair Sportsbook/PaddyPower and 2/1 elsewhere
10 points Aaron Finch Top Melbourne Renegades Batsman 21/10 Betfair Sportsbook/PaddyPower and 2/1 elsewhere
Overtime
The NFL’s overtime system has been questioned since it was implemented in 1974, but after the play-offs this season it is facing the sharpest scrutiny since 2010, when the overtime rules were retooled.
Both the NFC and AFC championship games went into overtime, and in the latter matchup the Kansas City Chiefs and New England Patriots combined for 48 second-half points, 31 of which came from Kansas City to tie the game at the end of regulation. The Chiefs did not get the ball again.
The Patriots correctly called heads on the overtime coin toss, elected to receive, and drove down the field to score a touchdown and win the game in sudden death. The loss sparked a few questions: How much influence should a coin toss have on the outcome of a game? Should overtime conclude after only one offense has stepped onto the field?
The original policy was amended because the team that won the coin flip had a disproportionate advantage. From 1994 (when the kickoff was moved back 5 yards) to 2010, the team that won the coin toss won nearly 60% of overtime games. Since the sudden-death rule was tweaked to exclude first-possession field goals in 2012, the disparity isn’t nearly as dramatic (52.7%) though in 5 of 8 post season matches that have gone to overtime since then under new rules, only one side has had the ball.
The NFL Competition committee meets each off-season and one thing likely to crop up this year is a variety of proposals to change and in some cases eliminate the impact of the coin toss.
One of these is likely to be a version of the rules that apply in college football where the team that wins the toss chooses whether to play on offense first or second and get the ball on opponents 25 yard line.
Nate Silver has suggested this system but modified so that offensive touchdowns only count in overtime, a system that would have got both Brady and Mahomes a chance to have the ball in the AFC Championship game.
Still though, in the college game there are inequities. The team that goes second has a massive advantage, knowing how many points it needs to tie or win the game. A ten year study found that teams that went second won 54.9% of the time. Another study found that teams that start on defense had a 52.1% win probability, smaller than the NFL’s but still significant. Allowing both teams to touch the ball lends plausible fairness to the game, but it doesn’t make it even.
There is no perfect system, and perhaps it is not the priority for the competition committee (still reflecting on chances to the catch and the tackle rules that proved so controversial this year) to change the current NFL system anyway in response to a high profile event
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The Road to Riches Week of 9th-10th February
Coming up this weekend
- Football, Premier League fixtures include Manchester City v Chelsea
- Rugby Union, the second weekend of the Six Nations
- Cricket, the third test between the West Indies and England in St Lucia continues.
- Golf, the Vic Open in Australia and on the USPGA the AT+T Pebble Beach Pro-Am
- Tennis, ATP Opens in Cordoba, Sofia and Montpellier as the clay season starts
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Big Bash League Sydney Thunder v Hobart Hurricanes Saturday 7.14am GMT Canberra
The Thunder go into their last group game 5th of 8 with 5 wins from 12 games yet win here and they stand a chance of making the semi-finals next week despite losing the Sydney derby last time out. Hobart have been top of the league table throughout and have only lost three of 13 games on their way to the top seeding.
Hobart are a well rounded T20 side, and one of their major strengths has been top order batting where Short (595 runs in 13 innings including 6 fifties) and Wade (545 runs including 6 fifties) are comfortably the top run scorers in the competition (next best Ferguson of the Sydney Thunder with 395). It helps that the Hobart wicket is one of the most true in a competition of generally slow stodgy tracks.
This match is played in Canberra, which bodes well for a high scoring match too compared to some of the over-used Sydney strips at the back end of the Australian season. In the recent test match at the ground there were four hundreds and Australia compiled over 540 first up.
D’Arcy Short should be the stand out performer here. Last season Short scored a total of 578 runs, including five half-centuries and a century, the most runs by any player in the competition history and is about to beat that. He is the percentage play to be top run scorer in the Hobart innings here. One of the opening two Hobart batsman has been top scorer in 10 of the 13 Hobart innings this season.
10 Points D’Arcy Short top Hobart Hurricanes Run Scorer at 9/4 with Bet365 and SkyBet, 2/1 generally
Around the corner
The IPL returns for it’s a twelfth season at the end of March with the tournament now widely considered the most glamorous and definitely the most rewarding of all the T20 leagues.
In addition to the financial benefits the IPL has brought Indian cricket, the league has had a huge positive effect on playing standards. Since the advent of the IPL, Indian national teams have been more confident and aggressive in their approach to the game, and nowhere does this better show up than in their fielding.
The overseas influence on Indian cricket through the IPL has resulted in a more combative national team which recently won Test and ODI series in Australia and looks well placed for an attack on the World Cup in England this summer
Last season’s IPL was notable as local players often overshadowed the overseas ones. There were, in fact, two games when teams played just three foreign players in the XI out of choice.
Indian cricket is now at a point where there is serious competition for places in all the national teams. India are now the envy of the cricket world when it comes to producing skilful young batsmen. On the bowling front their fast bowling attack is now right up there and that bodes well for performing away from home going forward.
While India are riding high on the back of IPL riches and success, England are trying to forge a different path. The next addition to an England summer schedule that is already haphazard is the 100 ball competition that has the backing of few outside the ECB.
The overall level of talent at the top end of the English game is high particularly in all rounders and bowlers but while there appears to be great uncertainty among players surrounding the new competition, there can be no doubt that the scattergun approach to England's domestic cricket schedule is having an unsettling effect on the country's batting prospects with the opening batting position still a major concern.
There's no doubt India can be thankful for the high-profile IPL and the positive influence it has had on the national team. This extremely successful venture could pay even bigger dividends in the UK this summer.
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The Road to Riches Weekend of 2nd-3rd February
Coming up this weekend
- Football, Premier League fixtures include Manchester City v Arsenal
- NFL, the Superbowl
- Rugby Union, the first weekend of the Six Nations
- Racing, Over the jumps on Saturday at Musselburgh, Sandown and Wetherby. All weather racing at Kempton Park and Lingfield.
- Cricket, the second test between the West Indies and England in Antigua continues.
- Golf, the Saudi Open and on the USPGA the Waste Management Phoenix Open at Scottsdale
- Tennis, Davis Cup World Group Qualifiers
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Saturday 2nd February Big Bash Sydney Sixers v Sydney Thunder (Saturday 8am GMT)
The Sixers, led by the bowling attack of Abbott, Curran and O'Keefe with over 45 wickets between them in the competition this season have seven wins out of 12 and are in second place in the table and the most improved team in the competition this year headed into the last week of the group stages.. Their now vaunted bowling attack dismissed the Strikers for only 124-8 in the in last game.
For their four main bowlers the results this season, and 12 games in we are getting towards as meaningful a sample size as you can get for a single T20 tournament (this is a long tournaments, its been going two months and is still a fortnight away from finishing!) have been as follows
For the wicket taking fast-medium all rounder Abbott
43.1 overs bowled-350 runs conceded-18 wickets taken at a strike rate of 14.3
For Surrey’s Tom Curran effective death bowler full of variations 43.5-326-16 wickets SR 16.4
For the Slow left arm veteran spinner O’Keefe 45-343-17 wickets SR 15.8
Complemented by new ball bowler Dwarshuis 44.4 302-12 wickets SR 22.3
We can see this attack has depth but that Abbott has taken the most wickets at the lowest strike rate and should be outright favourite in the Sixers Top bowler market yet he is not, and therein lies the opportunity
10 points Sean Abbott Top Sydney Sixers bowler 3/1 William Hill and Bet365
From Zero to Hero?
The NFL off-season, which begins on Monday, is long which gives plenty of opportunity to assess which teams might rebound in the next regular season one of the beauties of the NFL being that the salary cap and free agency combine with the draft to make it possible to turn franchises round quickly, often accompanied by coaching changes. The Patriots buck the trend in the NFL, thanks to all time great coaching and quarterback play. For most other franchises, they deal in short windows to win
Two years ago the Eagles and Jaguars went from bottom of their division the year before to first. In the year just finishing, the Texans did the same and it is now 15 consecutive years that a team has achieved this. Of course, the odds are against most last-place teams, at least based on the past five seasons: 19 of the 40 last-place teams went on to finish in last place again, while just six managed to claim a division title but the betting opportunities are there if the right teams are identified as the turn-around stories are rarely factored into prices in advance.
So taking the 4th placed divisional finishers in alphabetical order
Arizona Cardinals (NFC West)
- One of the toughest divisions, have to overcome the Rams, Seahawks and the 49ers (with Garoppolo returning at QB)
- About to have their third head coach in three seasons
- Have the number one draft pick
- Potentially have a franchise quarterback from last year’s draft
- Should use star RB David Johnson better
- Have to significantly improve the offensive line to become competitive
Cincinnati Bengals (AFC North)
- A coaching change, but that new coach faces a tough task to overcome the franchise culture that underinvests in scouting and rarely spends in free agency
- Draft focus might be on quarterback but the defense needs significant work in the back seven, they were one of the weakest defensive teams
- There is offensive talent with running back Joe Mixon and at receiver A J Green
- The division might be winnable, the Steelers in transition for example but Cleveland are ahead in their race to competititveness
Detroit Lions (NFC North)
- Only won one game against a team with a winning record in 2018
- The offense needs fixing, Stafford threw for less than 200 yards per game last year, and a new offensive co-ordinator has been appointed
- The defense ranked 10th in 2018
- Have to beat a resurgent Bears team to win this division
Jacksonville Jaguars (AFC South)
- Get a quarterback!
- Defense ranked fifth in the league last year
- Offense ranked 31st and whether via the draft or free agency (Nick Foles) the new offensive co-ordinator needs players who can help to put up some points to give that defense a chance, and that process wilinvolve straightening out Fournette too
- The Colts had a massive turn-around in 2018 with good drafting and the return of Andrew Luck but this is a winnable division again if the Jags can become more balanced.
New York Giants (NFC East)
- Lost 8 games in 2018 by seven or less points
- Very even division, 8-9 wins usually has a team well in contention
- In Beckham, Barkley and Engram there is skill position talent to spare
- The key will be upgrading the pass rush after finishing tied for 30th in sacks and fortifying the offensive line further which might take two drafts
- A decision needs to be made on Eli Manning. The franchise passed on a quarterback in last year’s draft and are indicating they will stick with him again for this year.
New York Jets (AFC East)
- Can they overtake the Patriots in one year from where they are now?
- On the upside they might have a legitimate franchise quarterback in Darnold
- On the downside the roster needs a lot of work, Darnold neads weapons and a better offensive line
- The Jets are projected to have plenty of salary-cap space to use in free agency.
- If it goes right, they are a potential wild card candidatefor next year
Oakland Raiders (AFC West)
- Three first draft round draft picks will represent the start of the rebuilding process in the last year before the move to Vegas and both sides of the ball require strengthening
- Derek Carr finished last season with career highs in passing yards (4,049) and completion percentage (68.9) and with more talent around him the team should improve, but unlikely to be a one year process, or not enough to threaten the Chiefs and Chargers in another tough division.
- The un-fireable Gruden hasn’t always drafted well but the recruitment of Mayock as GM gives him a strong talent evaluator to help
Tampa Bay Buccaneers (NFC South)
- The offense is high powered and especially with more consistency from Winston (not a given) under new head coach Arians should be capable of putting up lots of points again
- The Bucs were -18 on turnovers in 2018 (Winston, and the defense not creating any) get that back to league averages and the win loss record improves
- The defense needs an influx of talent,particularly at pass rusher and fortunately that coincides with the depth and strength of the upcoming draft.
- Overcoming the Saints isn’t going to be easy but this franchise has some “easy wins” to make.
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