As always, Good Luck and Play Responsibly
LAS VEGAS — 11 weeks and 77 positions into The 7 Best and we are coming off the worst session in the competition to-date. Effing brutal. Last week’s results yielded a 1-6 ledger and a miss on the week’s Top Choice. I thought I was above weeks like this. I was wrong. I was left in severe self-scouting mode upon last week’s conclusion. The 7 Best record sits at 38-39, 7-4 Top Choice, season to-date. This being an arduous competition (*using Friday numbers*) where I’m mirroring myself with real action against other contestants (bettors) who are competing in a well-known competition (CFFI), on a well-known network whilst using the same scoring system, I can (to minimum extent) stand behind this current record. It’s not what I’m accustomed to record-wise, but this is a tough competition and Friday numbers change everything. In relation to the scoring system for this project, this record equates to a total of 41.5 points (1.5 per TC win, 1 point per win, .5 per push). This stays relevant now and in the coming weeks as my departure in the competition comes when I would be the next eliminated in the CFFI. The good news is, there’s contestants , with like, 37.5 and 38 points, so, hopefully, barring another disaster-class, we don’t have to worry about elimination just yet.
Having all said, here are my 7 Best ATS/Total positions for this weekend in College Football and the National Football League.
— ILLINOIS (+1.5) at Rutgers
— BYU (+3) at Arizona State
— SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (-4.5) at UCLA
— VIKINGS (-3.5) at Bears
— BRONCOS (-6) at Raiders
— 49ers at PACKERS (-3)
TOP CHOICE
Ravens at CHARGERS (+3)
CFB/NFL TV MAPS
*The following teasers were played at various points throughout the week when at my point of numeric satisfaction*
SATURDAY SGT
*2TM 6PT TSR*
WISCONSIN +8.5 — UW/NEB ⬆️36.5
SATURDAY TEASER SPECIAL
*2TM 7PT TSR*
IU/tOSU ⬇️60.5 — BYU +10
SUNDAY TEASER SPECIAL
*3TM 7PT TSR*
TEXANS -1
LIONS -.5
CHARGERS +10
PREMIER LEAGUE PROLOGUE
PL PRIMER
PL STATBUSTERS
KIT MATCHUP OF THE WEEK
Right then, down to business. The MW12 KMOTW brings us to Ethiad Stadium in one of the deluxe fixtures for MW12 as City plays host to Spurs. MCI will be in classic home powder blues. TOT will be sporting its clean traditional (home) white and navy blue. Should make for a fine watch and MCITOT is the selection for the PL KMOTW.
MW12 POSITIONS PL
BEST BET RECORD: 7-3-1 (7W 3L 1P), 63.6% (including Pushes), 70% (excluding Pushes), +EV.
2024-25 EPL Published, Personal Bet Record: 22-13-3 (22W 13L 3P), 56.4% (including Pushes), 61.1% (excluding Pushes), +EV
MW11 Record: 0-4. When the fun stopped. Unsure what happened and why the run ended but I am sure I’m prepared to do better and return to norm this week.
MW5-11 Record: 15-8-3 (15W 8L 3P), +EV
— FULHAM -.5 (-45)
— ASTON VILLA 90+ (-65)
— EVERTON DNB (-45)
BEST BET MW12
— IPSMUN OVER 2.5 (-60)
At this juncture, I don’t need to say much. The stats (minus last week’s abnormal mangled mess) speak for themselves. If you want me to explain my plays in full detail, then I’m more than happy to supply my writing to your platform and/or do a full phone interview segment. Anything less is unsatisfactory to me and doesn’t fit the profile of a professional holding the statistics I do in realms of College Basketball and the Premier League especially and to a lesser-extent College Football and the NFL, the core of my betting portfolio. Others with equal or lesser points in a similar competition (CFFI) get national run for gaming insights, but for whatever reason, I don’t. Others in lesser standing in the gaming industry get run I don’t. You have sports bettors thinking they know anything about the casino industry getting run while someone of my experience does not. It’s asinine. To exclude me from public presentation is a major disservice to you, the bettor and you should be asking the questions to whomever you subscribe to or pay for picks, or whatever network you watch as to why they don’t have the best people working for them. Meanwhile all the above plagerize my works on the regular. It’s what I call The Brown Circle Factor. -T
REFERENCES
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- Various individual and entity social media accounts as cited in this work via X
- Grok 2
- Pro Football Reference
- NFL Pro
- Team Rankings
- Covers
- CFB Reference
- Riddell Sports
- Getty Images
- CBS Sports App
- FB Ref
- Sports Mole UK
- 506 Sports
- Darkseid Sports Intelligence
- Darkseid Sports Intellectual Properties
CREATOR’S NOTE: This week’s 7 Best used odds from Circa Sports and William Hill on the day of publish (today). In the opinion of this author, Circa Sports serves as the premier destination in the brick-and-mortar Sportsbook genre in American Gaming and is a certain travel destination for those who visit the great city of Las Vegas. William Hill has the best overall betting menu and is the undisputed champion of soccer betting in the LV market. To be transparent with you, I don’t play at Circa because I’m not welcome, or at minimum not (action and person-wise) wanted. I’ve stopped playing on account at WH as, in my opinion, risk communicates with media entities on what I’m doing, which I find funny because that app doesn’t represent all my action.
CREATOR’S NOTE: Darkseid Sports has no affiliation, whatsoever, with the NCAA and/or any of the programs, athletes, social media accounts, universities, football programs or corporate entities written about or depicted in this writing. The author of this writing is an ardent and serious College Football and Miami Hurricanes fan since the Jimmy Johnson regime.
Creator’s Note: The purveyor of Darkseid Sports has no affiliation, whatsoever, with Manchester United, the Premier League, any of the above athletes, managers, media entities, social media accounts and/or any other corporate entity, either portrayed in written form or depicted in corresponding images. The author of this writing is a passionate and very serious Manchester United and Premier League fan.
CREATOR’S NOTE: The purveyor of Darkseid Sports has no affiliation, whatsoever, with the National Football League, the Green Bay Packers, its players, social media presence and/or corporate entities associated with the team(s) either in written form or depicted in corresponding images. There is no association with any other person, social media account, media entity, corporate entity, etc. The author of this writing is a third-generation Packers fan, a former credentialed-media member covering the franchise, an amateur historian focused on the franchise and is +EV career betting the franchise lifetime. He is a passionate and very serious Packers and National Football League fan. His next game at Lambeau Field will be his 56th.
TIP OF THE FOREHEAD BETTOR’S NOTE: I’ve been touting the return of the Super 5 for months. In response, the Plagerist Betting Network (the same network which airs the Friday night contest which I compete with with The 7 Best with now has its CBB people releasing plays on X in segments featuring 5 plays. One person who now releases 5 picks also started calling himself self such and such SPORTS. My question to PSIN (Plagerism & Stolen Insights Network) would be, “Why 5 plays?” This level of plagiarism is just awkward. What an embarrassment to the legacy of the founder of that network — who deserves better — and the gaming industry wholesale. PSIN fell-off. I barely watch anymore. I’ve turned to Sports Grid. It’s just straightforward, credible sports betting content. Imagine that. What a concept. At Sports Grid, I get authentic content from people looking to pave their own way. I don’t get that at PSIN. PSIN should Just save time and say they want to be me and have my intelligence and work-rate in the field. (I’d share the plagerist committing plagiarism on X but why give a lesser-brained clown who already has no business on the platform he has more run?. He must’ve paid PSiN for the run…only explanation). What do they say on Plagerize The Money? “I can say it but I can’t prove it.”
Author’s Note: The above commentary is in my opinion only and is served as an opinion piece written in my journalistic space — in this case the blogosphere. -T
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