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[1%] Free Play on Cubs +107

Free Total Annihilator On Saints vs Rams over 37 -110

1* Bet on Sun/Sparks: over 166½

1 Dimer on Saints vs Rams over 37 -110

Ricky's 1* play on KC.

Key Angle: It's important to remember that Ricky never makes a bet on any game based on just one angle. In order to make the grade, all his premium picks must meet several important criteria. He doesn't share all his secrets within his analysis, instead he chooses to reveal only the angle that he feels is the most significant. Here in this game the recent history of these two teams is particularly significant.

- The Royals are 7-1 in their last 8 games.

- The Tigers are 2-7 in their last 9 games.

- The Royals are 3-0 in the last 3 head to head meetings

Verdict: The value is on the home favorite.

3* on Cowboys

1* Free Play on Sun/Sparks over 166½ -110

You can't have a total below 8 in a game involving the Nationals. That's my belief so I am going Over.

The Nationals are starting Jake Irvin, who has a 5.80 ERA. Washington's bullpen has the fourth-highest ERA at 4.81.

The total is low because Eury Perez is starting for the Marlins. He's been good, but he's not dominant and the Nationals lead the majors in runs, homers and stolen bases.

The Marlins' bullpen has regressed ranking fourth-from-last in ERA since July 1 at 5.27.

Free Play on Eagles PK -110

DBacks -1.5

Arizona has value on the RL. Arizona will go with Mike Soroka, who is 8-3 and owns an ERA of just 2.93. He’s been consistent where he typically works 5-6 innings and he’s not letting up any big numbers. He threw 7.0 innings back 6/13 against this Reds lineup where he allowed just 1 run and 2 hits in a ND. Cinci counters with Lowder, who is 4-8 with an ERA over 5. He has struggled command wise and has allowed a combined 24 hits over his last 4 starts. Arizona on the RL is the move. Locking this in early. Ray’s daily FREE plays are meant to be smaller bankroll plays. Money management is everything in this game, and these freebies are designed to keep you moving in the right direction. Today's FREE selection is a strong lean on the DBACKS -1.5. The number makes sense, the spot is right, and it’s a play worth taking. You know what to do. Good luck — Razor Ray.

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Saturday’s free winner: Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

As of posting this release, I see Tampa Bay laying about -5.5 points. This is a lot of points to lay, especially in August play. But very simply, the Kansas City Chiefs do not try in preseason play, at all. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers do! I will admit, the Chiefs backups are pretty loaded with talent. But so are the Buccaneers as I’m sure you’ll recognize most of their backup players by name. If this line would’ve been lower, I would’ve released it as a premium play. Something teams try in preseason and some teams do not. Take the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Thank you.

Jack's Free Pick Saturday: Twins/Padres OVER 8

The Minnesota Twins are a dead nuts OVER team going 71-56-2 OVER in all games.  They are scoring 4.6 runs per game and allowing 5.0 runs per game.  They are as healthy as they've been all season offensively and it is showing.  They have scored at least 4 runs in four of their last five contests.

The Padres are also going through their best offensive stretch of the season to help get them back in playoff contention.  They have scored at least 3 runs in 13 of their last 16 games.  Look for both offenses to have their way with these two suspect starting pitchers tonight.

Dean Kremer is 2-4 with a 5.40 ERA in 10 starts between the Orioles and Twins this season.  He is 0-3 with a 7.20 ERA in five road starts, allowing 20 earned runs in 25 innings.  Kremer is backed by a poor Minnesota bullpen with a 4.69 ERA this season.

No question Casey Mize is having one of his best seasons at 5-7 with a 3.18 ERA in 19 starts.  But Mize does not enjoy facing the Twins dating back to his time with the Tigers.  He is 4-5 with a 5.34 ERA in 12 career starts against Minnesota.  Mize has allowed 9 earned runs in 10 2/3 innings in his last two starts against the Twins.

The OVER is 6-0-1 in the last seven meetings between the Padres and Twins.  They have gone for 8 or more combined runs in eight consecutive meetings.  Bet the OVER in this game Saturday.

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Dave's Saturday Free Play:

1* on St. Louis Cardinals +137

The Key: I like the price we are getting on the St. Louis Cardinals today.  Quinn Mathews is one of their top prospects and has pitched to a 3.00 ERA in his first 2 starts this year with 10 strikeouts in 9 innings.  Andrew Painter is a failed prospect for the Phillies and shouldn't be commanding this kind of respect as a -150 favorite.  Painter is 2-8 with a 6.43 ERA and 1.54 WHIP in 16 starts and 2 relief outings this year.  Take St. Louis.

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1 Unit FREE PLAY on Tigers/Royals UNDER 8.5

These two poor offenses square off again in Game of this series today after being held to 7 combined runs in Game 1 yesterday.  Drew Anderson is a very talented started for the Tigers with a 4.01 ERA on the season and 87 strikeouts in 76 1/3 innings.  Michael Wacha is an underrated veteran with a 3.58 ERA in 25 starts and a 3.21 ERA in 11 home starts.  Wacha is 3-3 with a 2.92 ERA in 12 previous starts against the Tigers, including 3-1 with a 2.27 ERA in five home starts.  He has held them to 2 earned runs in 14 innings in his last two starts against them.  Give me the UNDER.

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Connecticut @ Los Angeles  (9:00 PM EST)
Play On:  Connecticut +4 1/2

The Connecticut Sun travel to Los Angeles to take on the Sparks on Saturday night.  Connecticut is 9-26 SU overall this year while Los Angeles comes in with a 12-24 SU overall record on the season.  Los Angeles is allowing 94.6 points per game over the past 2 months.  Los Angeles is 10-25 ATS last 3 years as a favorite.  Los Angeles is 18-41 ATS last 3 years at home.  Los Angeles is 6-17 ATS last 3 years as a home favorite.  Los Angeles is 2-13 ATS last 3 years when revenging a SU loss vs opponent as a favorite.  Connecticut is 20-7 SU and ATS last 27 games overall in this series.  We'll recommend a small play on Connecticut tonight!  Thanks and good luck, Rocky

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1* Free Sharp Play on Nashville SC -135

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The Saturday Comp play in Early La LIGA Soccer action is on Real Madrid -1 goal on the Asian Handicap at 3:30 eastern; Real Madrid is a solid favorite here and has won 16 of 18 in the series over RCD Espanyol. Madrid will look to regain the title this season which went to Barcelona last season. They will likely control the ball here and find the back of the net 2-3 times . Espnanyol comes in on the heels of a 3-0 opening day win over Levante bit this will be much tougher and with 10 players having departed it will take time before they can contend with this caliber of talent they will see today. Ream Madrid coasted to 4 wins and a draw in preseason action and will likely get the multiple goal win here. Play on Real Madrid at -1. GL Rob V-

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UNDER 38 Dallas/Arizona

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1* Free Pick on Anthony Hernandez -195

Looking at the Week 0 board this year, one number keeps staring me right in the face. TCU laying a touchdown against North Carolina over in Dublin feels like the cleanest play on the early slate.

I have been on this one for a while now. TCU has the more settled roster, especially in the trenches, and that continuity matters more than most people want to admit in Week 0. North Carolina is still sorting through a heavy overhaul in Belichick’s second season, with a new offensive coordinator trying to install a system on the fly and a pile of new bodies who have not taken meaningful snaps together yet. In college football, that gap tends to show up early, especially when both teams have to fly across the ocean for a noon kick.

Neutral-site openers have always been kind to the more physical, more experienced side. Over the last fifteen years, favorites laying between six and eight points in true neutral-site season openers have covered right around 58 percent of the time. At standard juice you only need to hit 52.4 percent to break even, so that edge is real. When you tighten the filter to games that involved long-haul or overseas travel, the favorite’s cover rate climbs closer to 61 percent and the under hits nearly 60 percent of the time. The average total in those spots has finished almost four points under the number. Jet lag is no joke, and neither is limited practice time before a transatlantic flight.

TCU has been the more consistent outfit under Sonny Dykes. His teams usually play with a clear physical identity and they do not mind grinding it out early in the season. North Carolina, meanwhile, has spent the last couple of years looking like a roster still trying to figure out who belongs where. Historical trends for ACC teams opening against Big 12 competition on neutral fields lean toward the side with better line continuity, and TCU checks that box. Favorites in this exact range that also held a clear edge up front have covered better than 60 percent since the mid-2010s. That is the kind of number that keeps the lights on if you stay disciplined.

I will take the under as a secondary piece if the total sits near 48. Early-season scoring is often suppressed when teams are still installing, traveling, and playing a little tight. Both sides prefer a physical brand of football, and that style rarely produces fireworks in the first half of a Week 0 game on foreign soil.

Hawai’i getting points at Stanford and Memphis as a small dog against UNLV are fine secondary looks if you like chasing value on the dog side. I generally leave the massive numbers alone unless the total is screaming. This TCU spot is different. It is the kind of early-season situation where the sharper side of the board usually cashes, and the travel factor only adds another layer of protection.

I have been wrong before and I will be wrong again, but this one sits right with me. Continuity, trenches, travel, and the historical numbers all point the same direction. If the line drifts a half-point either way I am still on it. Good luck if you decide to ride along.

Note: I bet this selection while was able to get -7. But it s still good at this number.

Please unless your a weekend warrior do not buy off the hook.

BUYING OFF THE HOOK 

Buying off the hook is one of those moves that feels smart in the moment and slowly bleeds you over time. I have watched plenty of sharp money and square money both fall into the same trap, and the long-term numbers do not lie. You are paying extra juice to move the line half a point or a full point so a common final margin turns into a push or a win instead of a loss. Classic example is laying the three and a half instead of the three, or taking the plus three and a half instead of the plus three. The hook disappears, your ticket looks safer, and the price quietly climbs from minus one-ten to minus one-twenty or worse.

That extra juice is the real problem. Standard minus one-ten needs you to cash about fifty-two point four percent just to break even. Jump to minus one-twenty and you need roughly fifty-four and a half percent. At minus one-thirty you are staring at fifty-six and a half percent. Those two to four extra points of required win rate add up fast across a season. The probability of a game landing exactly on the number you bought off is almost never high enough to cover the cost over hundreds of plays.

Football is where the conversation gets loudest because the key numbers actually matter. Three and seven have historically been the biggest hooks in both the NFL and college game. League-wide data over the last decade shows finals of three happening in the high teens percentage range and sevens in the low double digits. Buying off those numbers is the only spot where the math gets closer to break-even. Even then you are usually still overpaying. Outside of those true keys the half-points become pure juice leaks. Teams that routinely buy from three and a half to three or from seven and a half to seven have shown thin or negative edges once you factor in the price.

Basketball is a different animal. NBA and college totals and spreads move around half-points constantly, but the distribution of final margins is flatter. Landing exactly on a three or a four happens less often than football’s big keys, so the value of buying the half-point is even thinner. Same story in baseball with the run line. Buying from one and a half to one or two and a half to two costs you juice that the frequency of those exact margins rarely repays. Soccer worldwide, whether Premier League, La Liga, Serie A or the big South American leagues, runs mostly on Asian handicaps where the half-goal and quarter-goal moves are already priced aggressively. Buying further off the number there is usually just giving the book more of your money for protection you do not need.

I have seen the same pattern in hockey, tennis, and the rest of the major venues. The public loves the feeling of being off the hook. The long-term winners almost never make it a habit. They would rather shop for the best available number, take the standard juice, and live with the occasional hook loss. The ones who grind out profits treat buying points like a last resort, not a regular tool. Only when the price is unusually soft on a true key number does the play even enter the conversation, and those spots are rare.

The bottom line is simple. Occasional, selective buys off a real key number at a fair price can be tolerable. Making it standard operating procedure is a slow leak that compounds against you. The juice almost always costs more than the protection is worth. Stay patient, shop the numbers, and let the hooks fall where they fall. That approach has kept more bankrolls healthy than any amount of buying ever will.

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#421 ASA FREE PLAY ON NY Giants -3 over Miami Dolphins, Saturday at 4 PM ET - Both of these teams lost their preseason openers and the offenses struggled. Miami was only able to score once in a 20-7 loss vs Washington while the Giants lost 13-10 vs Minnesota. NY traveled to Miami earlier this week and the 2 teams had a joint practice on Thursday. The Giants dominated that practice especially in the trenches. It was reported that the Miami offense did very little and their QB’s were under constant pressure as the offensive line could not handle NY’s defensive front. Normally we’d say the heat and humidity would favor the Fins, however the Thursday joint practice was hot and humid and the Giants still dominated. After the practice NYG head coach John Harbaugh was pleased with how his team “held up” in the heat. “I think our guys are in great shape and they had no problem with it,” said Harbaugh. “Our guys – we were strong at the end of practice. We were getting stronger through the practice. I saw that, really, from every single player on the field.” Many times when teams face off in a joint practice, some of the key players, including QB’s, will sit during the game. This one could start out with NYG Jameis Winston at QB vs Miami’s Cam Miller (a 2nd year player from North Dakota State) as the Fins back up Quinn Ewers is banged up. That gives NY the edge early offensively before the 3rd and 4th stringers enter the game and it looks like they’ll control the line of scrimmage based on what happened on Thursday in practice. The Giants want to be a power run FB team and they should be able to gain some traction in this game vs a Miami defense that allowed 174 yards rushing vs the Commanders last week. Harbaugh has shown he wants to win in the preseason with an impressive 47-17 SU and 42-22 ATS in his career. Coming off a rare loss for him last week, we like the Giants to win and cover this one on Saturday afternoon.

Marc David Sports' Free Pick

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We really like the home favorite in this matchup. The Astros (65-64) enter this contest primed to record back-to-back wins, while the Athletics (49-80) continue to slide, coming directly off a shutout loss to Houston in the series opener, their fifth consecutive loss.

Houston hands the ball to RHP Hunter Brown (3-3, 3.67 ERA), who has thoroughly dominated Oakland throughout his career. Opposing hitters on Oakland's rosters have posted just a .204 BAA versus Brown, providing Houston with a commanding edge on the bump. Oakland counters with volatile LHP Jacob Lopez (5-4, 5.22 ERA), giving a high-powered Astros lineup a strong situational advantage at home.

This is a FREE PLAY on the ASTROS -1.5!

Free Pick on Giants -3 -115

FREE PLAY on Orlando City SC +105

PSP Data Driven 1* Guardians.

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Our models suggest that the value is on the favorite. The Guardians are 4-2 in their last 6 games. The Rockies are 1-5 in their last 6 games.

The San Francisco Giants are 52–76 overall and 23–43 on the road. San Francisco has lost six of its last eight games. Blake Tidwell gets the start for the Giants. He has made three starts this season, posting a 4.33 ERA, a 1.22 WHIP, and 20 strikeouts in 27 innings. The Boston Red Sox are 69–59 overall and 32–32 at home. Boston has won three of its last four games. The Red Sox will send Patrick Sandoval to the mound. He is 1-2 in seven starts, posting a 4.76 ERA, a 1.85 WHIP, and 35 strikeouts in 34 innings. Both pitchers struggled last time out. Boston is playing better right now. I will ride with the better team in this one.

Play on Boston minus 1.5 runs. This is a FREE play.

For my best free pick on the board for NFL preseason football for Saturday I am looking at the Philadelphia Eagles at the New England Patriots. EAGLES got crushed last week in a game they were favored to win and do well as I think we will see an improved team effort here. Lots of Morton at QB for the Pats this guy is a 7th rounder from Texas Tech. Eagles far stronger QB rotation here on Saturday. Tanner McKee and Andy Dalton getting the bulk of the action.

Play on the Philadelphia Eagles lay the points rotation #423

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