How do oddsmakers do their power rankings?
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If we only knew..\n\nWe would be rich $$$$$$$$$$$$$
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You pick players at the beginning of the season and what they score is how your team does...\n\nGood Luck
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You can bet a horse to come second or third (place/show-exacta-triple or any other type of exotic bet).\n\nBut, there would be no way to afford legitimate odds to any bettor who tries to bet a horse to come last. Try it sometime - pick any race with eight or more horses and pick a horse to come last.\n\nAll odds and wagering is based upon betting pools. How many other people/bettors in the pool would determine the payoff. If no one else is betting-no pool=no betting.
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The best way is first to sign up and get a league. Then get 1 or 2 magazines and find some good websites. Then Get some rankings. From ther it is all stats. Try to find a system that helps
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Your own experience and research.  If the handicapping software was accurate, all the bettors would be millionaires!
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Yes,\n\na team moves up in the rankings due to a formula that takes into account: The result, the number of goals, the match importance (friendly, group stage, knockout stage, final etc.) territory strength. We'll see the effects next month when they update the tables.
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the odds stay the same i think. u cant bet wen the match has started xxx
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Just pick Baltimore.\nThe Steelers are the worst Super Bowl defenders ever.\nTongue in cheek...\n\nMy initial guess would be no, you cant do this, since each team does not play every other team, and even if they did, they wouldn't play them the same number of times, and even if they did that too, the sample space would still be too small-you would need dozens of games between any two teams.\nThe best analysis would be within the same division, but again, since they dont play the same teams out of division you'd have to use only the data in intradivision games and apply the results similarly.\nI would also assume that the regression variables would be wildly non-linear, so you're going to have a beast of an equation when you're done.\nAgain, these are all just guesses by inspection, and they may be way off, but then again if it were in any way feasible I assume it would have already been done.\nNice try.
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The Powerball site says the odds on winning are 1 in 146,107,962 If you play 9 different tickets, your odds are 9/146107962.\nThe odds of getting the Play 4 winner is 1 in 10000.\n\nSo the odds of both happening are 9/1461079620000
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666 is the Devil's number.  I think they use 6 numbers so that the odds work out best for them, but don't eliminate the chances for winners.
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PR = Power Rating = points+rebounds+assists = p + r =a\nI developed the Power Rating to resolve arguments/discussions.\n\nChamberlain - 30.1 + 22.9 + 4.4 = 57.4\nKareem - 24.6 + 11.2 + 3.6 = 39.4\n\nWilt is the best.
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well, i'm no pro at this, but i just pick whoever's going to be playing that day (cause they're the only ones who are going to have points on that day), and if i have too many of one position, then i pick the best ones there (like if i have two goalies who are playing tmorrow, i pick the better one). captains are hard to pick, because it seems that every time i pick someone who's been doing well, bam another person on the team steps up and has a huge flood of points. it's half luck and half technical stats, but usually i pick a forward or midfielder for captain who has had a lot of points up to date.\n\nformations just tell you the maximum of each type of player that you can have. overall you can only have 10 people on the field at a time, and one goalie. the formations are listed in order defense-midfield-forward, and you can either line up your men in those given formations, or have LESS, but not more.
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tehre's a formula for it...\nit depends how much you run druing the game
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They are separate and distinct polls.  Each poll gives points out for what the voters rank you -- 25 points for 1st, 24 for 2nd, all the way down to 1 point for a 25th place vote.  They then tally all the points and rank the teams in the country from 1 to 25 and also show you who received some votes, but did not finish in the top 25.
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The New York Yankees\n\nCurrently, the odds are for the World Series are:\n\n* The Yankees 7/2\n* Chicago White Sox 9/2\n* New York Mets 5/1\n* St Louis Cardinals 7/1\n\nThe Kansas City Royals are at 400 to 1 \n\nBoston Red Sox 10/1
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it depends on who their sponsors are, and how they win or place
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USA Today has a good page for match-ups and odds.