Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Woeful 49ers get bageled

Today's Result: £451.55

Decided to stay up late last night / this morning and do some NFL rather than the tennis from Shanghai today so have booked today's result already and won't be getting involved in anything else.

Pleased I did too as I have no complaints with the £450 or so profit. Very happy in fact! That said the match was pretty dire with the 49ers performance possibly leaving them with the label of worst team in the NFL.

They were awful. So bad in fact they managed one 1st down in the entire 1st half. And that would have been challenged if it didn't come right at the end of the first half so there was no point. Still, that one long play mushroomed the 49ers' yardage for the half to 76!

The second half didn't get much better for them although they did manage 5 further 1st downs to record the second lowest total in the NFL this season. Two field goal opportunities were turned down in favour of a 4th and inches and 4th and 3 - both of which failed.

Which made trading the game all rather straightforward. Didn't do much apart from get on the Seattle Seahawks at various points and, for the most part, just leave the positions open. Did close a few here and there to lock in some profit, especially at the start, but as the game progressed it was pretty clear there was only one winner and the Seahawks eventually wrapped it up 24-0.

Been reading a new blog for the last few days which is quite interesting. It's called Betting Blogs and is a useful daily round up of the best stories from all the betting blogs out there. Saves having to visit them all individually. Good stuff - especially as it's mentioned my humble blog a few times!

2 comments:

MissMarple - Poker verhalen said...

Hi,

I was wondering which markets do you trade when trading NFL?

Nice blog BTW, checking it out on a daily basis.

Regards,
Coen

The Betfair Trader said...

Thanks Coen :-)

The vast majority of the time it is simply the match odds market and I only get involved in running.

Just recently I have started having a small stakes look at the handicap markets too. Getting a little more used to them so might start building the stakes shortly.

Prefer the match odds markets though. Even in short odds games. Main reason being the better liquidity.