Sports Video Games For Everyone

Unlike shooter games that feature content for mature audiences only and fantasy games that are made for specific niche markets everyone can play and enjoy sports video games. Whether as a single user or engaged in teams there are a wide variety of video sports games to satisfy every fan including football, golf, baseball, tennis, racing games and soccer. Though some sports games can branch out to include action/adventure themes and virtual reality character capabilities the jist of these games is simple one on one fun.

Perhaps the most well-known and popular sports video game is the Madden NFL franchise. Named for the Hall of Fame head coach and broadcaster many have joked that the game has made John Madden more famous than any of his other noteworthy accomplishments. Originally launched in 1989 the game has grown immensely during its two decades on the market and now is considered a staple for any serious game player's collection.

The technology in the Madden games feature the ability to call the offensive plays, audible at the line of scrimmage, choose multiple "hot routes", make receivers alter their routes in motion and call formation shifts. Later versions of the game also expanded on the game players control over defensive players as well. The latest version, #10, has complete ratings for every player in the league and features commentary from ex-NFL stars including Chris Collinsworth. A fun side note to the Madden NFL franchise is the cover jinx theory. Since releasing covers with star NFL players many of those featured have suffered injuries in the year following their cover shot.

Tiger Woods has had his fair share of negative publicity of late but his signature brand of video golf games continue to move off the shelves in mass quantities. The franchise of Tiger Woods PGA Tour has over nine versions to date and each has done very well among the gaming community. Developed by famed game maker Electronic Arts the Tiger Woods series feature a performance coach who offers tips, advice and challenges to improving your golf game skills, a club tuner to maximize each shot and the ability to adjust your handicap as you progress to match your skill levels with the changing courses. The field is a who's who of major tournament golf including Tiger himself, Vijay Singh, John Daly and Retief Goosen.

Soccer, or as it's known around the world, football is one of the most played sports video games. The international governing body of the sport FIFA has launched a series of soccer games beginning in 1993 and now are on version 2010. Being linked with FIFA allows the creators of the game, Electronic Arts, to use famous teams from major soccer clubs around the world including the English Premier League, Spain's La Liga and the German Bundesliga.

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WHIP and ERA is Sports Handicapping

Bill James, the baseball numbers guru is being featured on 60 Minutes. But how do his numbers apply to baseball betting?

We are often asked what our best sport is in handicapping. We've gotten to the point where we are at the top of the list in every sport, so it's difficult to single one out. However there is no question that our mastery of baseball in the early 1990s is what vaulted me to the point where professional sports handicapping would be my lifelong profession.

Yet, to be perfectly frank, while continuing to improve upon our results in other sports, over the last year and a half, I returned to the pack in baseball. It was time for some serious introspection. Fortuitously, going back to my handwritten spiral notebook score phone days, I saved my picks, analysis and results from decades past.

Was I doing something differently all of a sudden? After a few hours of soul searching, it became obvious I slowly but surely abandoned some of the basics that got me to the pinnacle in the first place.

In some respects, I became a victim of my own success. In 2005, I had probably my best year winning what we call "Dandy Dogs". Dandy Dogs are moneyline dogs of 140 or more (includes runline plays getting back 140 or more).

The downside was it led me to develop a bias against even small favorites. I've known and preached for years the basics of risk/reward ratio. For example, a 150 favorite needed to have a 60 percent chance of winning to be a break even bet or based on our threshold had to have 70 percent chance of winning to be a premium play. Yet there were nights I'd go 3-4 and still win money because of betting all dogs. Bit by bit, I developed personal chalk reluctance in betting.

Too many well-handicapped favorites of more than 120 became passes for me simply because of my increasing acute prejudice against laying the juice. Since returning to my roots, the 120-160 favorites have been a major reason behind my return to MLB handicapping prominence.

But even with picking our baseball underdogs, we became victims of the successes we had in other sports. We take great pride in being ahead of the curve with modern technology. The Internet made every team the "local team" from a handicapping standpoint because once regional information is now so easily accessible.

The World Wide Web has been a boon to us in preseason NFL with accurate key player rotation and motivation info. In college football and basketball it has revolutionized the way sharp players bet.

While super systems have been a great addition in all sports including baseball, our self scrutiny brought to light that we were allowing the Billy Beane and Bill James inspired new fangled stats to convince us out of winning picks.

In our first two decades of handicapping, we have had significant success with big underdogs by riding either hot but non-elite pitchers and/or fading struggling star pitchers. Yet information overload had us finding a fly ball/ground ball ratio or walks/strikeout percentage that talked us out of the same kind of plays that for decades won for us.

Let there be no doubt whatsoever that ERA and WHIP are still the two most important statistics in foretelling future results of pitchers. Likewise in handicapping offense we have streamlined with great success. Just like for 20 plus years, we returned to utilizing on base percentage and slugging percentage foremost.

We never stop fine tuning our techniques but our introspection reminds us sometimes we need to remember "if it ain't broken, don't fix it". Since returning to our roots in baseball handicapping, not-so-coincidently we have returned to the results our clients and we desire.

With all other sports, utilizing the Internet and cutting edge computer software is imperative to staying ahead of the curve, but MLB is the clear exception. Baseball handicapping is much like playing the game: master the basic fundamentals.

Joe Duffy is former General Manager of the Freescoreboard scorephone network and CEO of OffshoreInsiders.com , the premier hub of world-class handicappers.

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College Football Handicapper - The Best Sports Picks in Town!

If you are a genuine college football sports betting enthusiast, you have probably hired the services of a good college football handicapper. And if you're not, my question to you is, why haven't you?

Yes, it will cost you some money to have a college football handicapper help you with your bets. But that will be money well spent rather than seeing your hard-earned cash just go down the drain. Handicapping football is not an easy task and it requires a great amount of time. You will have to allot a great deal of your time and effort if you want to come up with a good analysis of the games.

Everybody claims to be an expert in analyzing a football game. Perhaps you may also think of yourself as one. But take a look at your winnings, if you actually have any winnings. And also, if you are having luck and winning bets left and right, you might also want to consider on winning some more. Whichever of these two types of bettors you place yourself, I guarantee you that you will benefit greatly by having a college football handicapper help every step of the way.

Should you decide to hire one, don't just take the services of any college football handicapper that you may encounter. There are a lot of posers out there, both on the Internet and the ones lurking around sportsbooks. Here are some tips you might want to consider before you hire one.

First of all, you must learn to observe. Find out the bettors who are winning consistently and taking home the bigger pays. They probably have good professional college football handicapper working for them. Find who these people are and try to interview them.

Know your credentials. Ask your potential college football handicapper the work he has done and perhaps an overview of the services he can do for you. Each handicapper has his own strategy and technique in making his analyses and I bet he will not freely share it with you. Just ask him about his experiences in handicapping, the people who had hired his services and other related information.

There are also a lot of very good handicappers online. Make a good research on it also and ask other people about the online handicapping services that they have availed. Professional sports bettors can and will be more than willing to recommend to you a good handicapping service.

If you're still not convinced that it's a great idea to have a handicapper, just picture this:

Your nose is buried in every sports section of the newspaper, your eyes stuck and tired at looking at different stats you found on the paper and on the Internet, your mouth had gone dry after asking dozens of people and experts regarding their thoughts on the game, players and the stats, and your fingers tired with typing and writing down notes as you create your own game and stat analyses.

Does all of it sound too tedious? If it does, because it definitely is. Handicapping is hard work and it is less effective if you are doing by yourself and if you're not that well experienced. Here's a friendly advice from one sports bettor to another: get a professional college football handicapper. You won't regret it.

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