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Sunday, September 15, 2013 at 1:15PM | Post a Comment MARS has been no fan of Port Adelaide's abilities all season, so it thought little of the Cats' victory over them in Friday night's Semi-Final. So little, in fact, that it stripped Ratings Points from the Cats on the basis that a 16-point victory was insufficiently decisive given their pre-game Ratings dominance and their home team status.
Sunday, September 15, 2013 at 11:07AM | Post a Comment Football, and sport more generally, can be at its most compelling when it's a cliched "game of inches". Wagering, I can confidently assert, is anything but this when it amounts to a "game of cents".
Wednesday, September 11, 2013 at 7:30PM | Post a Comment With just the two games this weekend, and with short-priced home team favourites in both, wagering is necessarily a little more subdued.
Sunday, September 8, 2013 at 8:45PM | Post a Comment MARS is the only Rating System that I update during the Finals, the other Systems being more readily applied to the home-and-away season performances.
This weekend's results changed the ordering of five teams on the MARS Ratings Ladder, an unusually high level of activity for this time of the season.
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With wins next weekend, albeit unlikely in either case, Carlton have a chance to finish the season Ranked 8th on MARS, and Port Adelaide have a chance to finish 10th.
The Roos also look set to finish the season Ranked no lower than 6th and might even retain their current 5th spot if Collingwood fail to progress. That, maybe as much as anything, highlights how odd it is that the Roos aren't playing in the Finals.
Sunday, September 8, 2013 at 7:47PM | Post a Comment The Head-to-Head and Line Funds called it about right this week as three of the four home-team favourites failed to record expected victories. That was bad news for the only wagers we had, which were SuperMargin wagers, all eight of which lost.
