Very Cool New Fantasy Sports Game

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Every day of the week, DraftDay gives sports fans an electrifying way to test their fantasy sports skills. Play Daily Fantasy Sports games for a variety of sporting events with buy-ins ranging from free games to $200. If you have played online poker, you will recognize DraftDay's format as that of either a Sit-n-Go or tournament poker.

DraftDay vs. traditional fantasy sports
-- No season-long commitment. Jump in when you're ready.
-- If you're not happy with your team, there's always another draft tomorrow (or later today).
-- One unlucky injury won't ruin your entire fantasy sports season.
-- Draft in multiple games everyday and easily manage it all from one convenient place.

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Sane Strategies for Sports Betting

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While I am not advocating sports betting, I do think it is important to have a sane strategy for sports gambling if you are going to participate. Sports betting can be a fun way to stay more focused on sports when 'your team' is not playing, but it also can become an addiction if you have an addictive personality so you need to be cognizant of your own tendencies before gambling.

Unlike most gambling games, sports betting has a skill element in a similar manner to poker. In sports gambling, you are playing against the betting line which is actually developed based on demand from other sports bettors. As a result, you are not playing against the house as you are in roulette or blackjack. You are betting against the complete psyche of all sports bettors for each game.

Therefore with the right sports betting strategy employed, it is possible you could actually make money over time. However, keep in mind that only a small percentage of sports bettors do make money. Usually, those positive expected value (EV) sports bettors have a strong knowledge of the sport they are betting, a reasonable cash management system and an system (or knack) for finding betting line discrepancies.

Knowing your Sport
You cannot expect to be a positive EV bettor in all sports. Frankly, it would be tough to do in more than one sport (unless you were buying the expertise of someone in that second or third sport). If you know a sport really well and understand the psychology of the players in that sport, the affect of home court advantage, how injuries affect the game, etc, then you may be able to generate a positive EV in a sport.

I know college basketball and I have definitely won money betting on college hoops over the years. But that does not mean I know pro basketball and it certainly has no bearing on my knowledge of pro football. You need to critically assess your knowledge base and stick to what you know (or pay for expert advice in sports you don't know).

When and if I bet on pro football, I know that I am negative EV and I am just football betting for fun. While I love watching the game, I am not a student of the game. I do not study it or watch enough to truly know what matters in football betting.

When I bet on college basketball, I know that I have a much better chance of winning and I take into account all the factors that I know affect the betting line to make my picks.

Know your sport and stick to it.

Reasonable Cash Management System
In sport betting, you need to use your bankroll wisely. You want to make a lot of small bets to try to take advantage of a positive EV scenario over the long haul. I would advocate betting between 1% to 2% of your sports gambling bankroll on any one bet. In that manner you will have between 50 and 100 bets in your bankroll. For instance, if your bankroll is $1,000 for sports betting on your chosen sport, then you would bet between $10 to $20 per game.

This level of bet gives you enough cushion to sustain a streak of losses without wiping out your entire bankroll. It is also important to remember that you should not vary the bets dramatically, stick with one bet amount for the season to take advantage of your long-term positive EV in the sport that you know. If you vary the bets you run the risk of outsmarting yourself.

And definitely don't increase your bet size after a losing streak to 'try to get back to even'. If you are thinking like this then you are heading down the wrong path and should consider giving up sports betting altogether. Chasing your losses is a slippery slope that can get you into a lot of trouble.

System for Finding Betting Line Discrepancies
This is really where the rubber meets the road. If you know a sport really well you will have ideas about when a line is out of whack. Unfortunately, there is nothing specific that I can tell you here because the sport betting factors are specific to the sport, game and bettor.

The key is to use your chosen sport expertise (or that which you purchased) to apply a consistent methodology for finding betting line discrepancies. As I said, I stick to college basketball and I mostly wait to bet when the conference season begins. That way I have a better feel for the teams and the long running psychological factors that I can rely on in historical conference play and end of year tournaments

Conclusion
Remember that sports betting should be fun. If you are spending your weekends pulling your hair out because of your bets, then you need to give it up. Yes it can be profitable, but only if you have the right temperament. Stick to a sane sports betting strategy that increases your chance of winning (or at least slows your losses) and stick to a sport you enjoy watching since you will spend more time focused on that sport.

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Scary Feeling for an Illini Fan - Optimism

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I am always worried when I get overly optimistic for my beloved Illini. As an Illini fan the last several years of play have been a bitter pill to swallow. Unfortunately, I think much of the teams lack of success falls back to the combination of the Eric Gordon incident and the Jamar Smith drunk driving situation.

While many may think that is water under the bridge, the late Gordon decommitment and Jamar Smith being kicked out of school left us with a void at the SG spot for 3 years. That void has really hurt the offense.

However, the 2009 class will be Juniors this year and I think they will come into their own this year with big upsides in production. Both DJ Richardson and Brandon Paul have shined at times in the past two years but I expect big things from the pair this year.

The late addition of Sam Maniscalco as a transfer from Bradley shores up a huge need for the coming year -- experience at the PG spot. Already he has proven to be an on-court leader with a never say die attitude on the court. While McCamey was an excellent scorer, he did not have that killer instinct and on-court leadership that the team needed last year. Despite losing McCamey's amazing stats from this past year, I think Sam may be a step-up for this young team because leadership is so critical. If he can equal (or exceed) McCamey's assist numbers and get half his points I will be very happy.

Then there is the budding star in Meyers Leonard. While his freshman year was an up and down affair, rumors are that he has made HUGE strides since the end of the season. That must be at least partially true because he remains one of the finalists for the USA U19 team which is a huge honor and an excellent group of talent. I am very excited to see what Meyers will do in the post this coming year now that he is out from under the shadow of the Mike and Mike show.

Lastly, the incoming freshman class is going to bring a lot of competitiveness, bulk and overall intangibles. If the early workouts are any indication, this group is going to fight for rebounds, loose balls and points on this team. It will be fun to watch them grow. We have a couple of legitimate scorers in Mychael Henry and Mike Shaw (the new Myke and Mike show). Abrams is going to provide valuable minutes at the PG spot. Then we have some real wildcard bigs in Nannu and Ibby -- they will provide some bruising minutes during the black and blue Big Ten schedule. While freshman will definitely make mistakes and play erractically, I love the depth and overall talent in the freshman group.

Overall, I am starting to think that this team will actually be better than last years squad despite losing more than 60% of the offense. Points are replaceable but bringing in the intangibles that we did not have last year is likely more valuable. I would be downright shocked if this years team does not dramatically outrebound last year's team. There are a lot more players in the current group that are inclined to lay their body on the floor for a loose ball. I love the feistiness of Paul and Richardson and Sam's leadership sounds like a big plus.

I hate to get too optimistic early but I hope that we are starting a big upswing in the House of Paign.

Congratulations UConn!

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Okay so my final four picks were a disaster, but then again everyone's picks were a miss this year. However, I did predict UConn would win the National Championship and for that I am going to take credit today.

Great run to Kemba, Calhoun and the boys. While I don't like everything Calhoun does, he does get his guys ready to play basketball, they believe in themselves and they go on to play well at the next level.

Congrats Huskies.

Increase your Deep Links with Social Bookmarking

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Deep links are so important to any SEO project because usually the deep links are your money-making pages. Rarely does a website do most of its business on the main page. Yet, the deep links are the hardest ones to develop. Most directory sites only allow links to main pages and the few that do allow them do not add up to enough to make a serious difference.

Many people pay for deep links by finding blogs and other sites that will allow follow links to deep pages on a site. However, this practice is usually frowned upon by Google and can sink your entire site in search rankings.

However, social bookmarking offers an effective method for obtaining links to deep pages on your site. While some of these sites are nofollow links, many of them offer dofollow deep links. Even if they are nofollow these social bookmarking links are valuable because they validate the category and ties to certain keywords and keyword phrases.

It is critical to use social bookmarking as a tool to build links to your valuable deep pages. Historically, this has been a very time consuming process. There are hundreds of social bookmarking sites. They all require registration, validation and often captcha verification to submit stories. Trying to do this by hand for one deep link would take hours.

That is why I use Bookmark Demon as my deep linking tool. They have cataloged hundreds of bookmarking sites and they automate the process of submitting links. Now, I must warn that it is not 100% automated unless you want to ignore a majority of the bookmarking sites that require captcha. So the software will prompt you when a recaptcha is needed.



I tend to do 150 links at a time doing all my captchas. This typically takes about 20 minutes. If you were willing to do it several times a day you could build thousands of deep links within a week.

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