Point Shaving in NCAA Basketball
Point shaving is where players/coaches purposefully keep the point difference between their team and their opponent below the “point spread”. For example on November 29th 2006, Wake Forest played Air Force. The point spread for that
Perspective: A Turning Point for a Panel: 4 Harrowing Days in Iraq
7 — For some members of the Iraq Study Group, the turning point came during four days in Baghdad in September. They found the trip so harrowing, they said, that they wondered if they could afford to wait to speak out about the disaster
Handicapping the AFC
The formula to determine winning percentage (the dependent variable) from point spread is Y = -0.028X + 0.500. So a point spread of 0 would of course give a team a 50% chance of winning; a point spread of -3 would equate to a 58.4%
The Future of the Middle East
The effort to spread democracy in the Middle East has devolved into sectarian violence, debates about civil war and the prospect of a larger regional conflict. Friday, on To the Point, what is the Middle East likely to look like in
Football Picking Contest.
For those not familiar with the contest you pick a pro or college football game against the point spread. If you get the first game right you win $25. You can risk all of that for $50, then things get interesting.
NFL Picks of a Thoughtful Fool, Week 14
like some kind of blithering fanboy and asks him about beating meat. Then he makes him say "Yo Tony!" I guess we're lucky he didn't ask him to autograph his breasts. On to the picks. Click the headings for the spreadsheets. Point Spread
NFL Picks of a Thoughtful Fool, Week 14
If they lost by more than four, I would get a win in against the spread. Cruelly, they lost by 3, thereby hosing me on both the money line and point spread. The Giants are pure, concentrated evil. Last year Jay Feely's missed field goal
Danger: Do Not Heed
For point spread picks, I always assume 10-11 odds (-110), implying a bet of 1.1 units, and that 1 unit is won if the bet is successful, unless I specify otherwise. If I take the underdog to win, I assume one unit is bet,
Is it better to be memorable to fewer or consumable to more?
I guess my point is that it's possible to be memorable and consumable - it's called a hit. Be it a song or a tv series, both can be memorable and both are able to draw people in and engage them - They spread by word of mouth because
Question from Chris: What is a point spread?
A point spread is when a team either gets points added or subtracted from its anticipated final score to make the matchup seem a little more even. For example, in this week’s Sunday night game on NBC, the Cowboys are (as of writing

Point spread - Definition for Point Spread Sports Betting
Sports betting definition for Point spread, including college basketball, NFL football and NBA hoops.
Spread betting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Many Nevada sports books will allow these bets to be used in parlays, just like team point-spread bets, making it possible to bet, for instance,
Point spread function - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The point spread function (PSF) defines the propagation of He developed an expression for the point-spread function amplitude and intensity of a perfect
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NFL Point Spreads - NFL Point Spread Information
Article on the art of the NFL Point Spread, including information and links to live NFL point spreads websites.
Point spread function
Click on point spread function (PSF) so see a graphical representation. The point spread function you saw if you clicked on the above figure was a two
MSNBC & COVERS.COM: Matchups, Odds, and Injuries
It is standard for point spread bets in most sports that you wager $110 to A money line, used in baseball and hockey, takes the place of a point spread.
ACIS/HRMA Point Spread Function
This spatial redistribution function (the so-called point spread function, or PSF) is a combination of the HRMA PSF and the ACIS instrument's pixelization
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