Trends in the World of Basketball Betting

Welcome to yet another installment of Sports Betting 101, this is Professor Jeffdstuff, the prof with the stuff, and our lesson for the day is a follow-up on yesterday's lesson. Yup, you read it right, you'll be unceremoniously schooled, again.

Yesterday, I gave you guys ''The Little Three'', cousins of the ''Fantastic Four''. And along with the ''Little Three'' is the key in the art of sports betting.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you today's Sports Betting 101 Lesson.

Trends.

You very well know by now that trends do and will occur. In case for those of you not familiar with the term, trends are streaks that are oh so common in the world of sports.

One team could either go for a 14-game winning streak or crumble with a nine-game losing skid. Trends dominate and in the wonderful art of sports betting, you must stop trying to explain these streaks and start having these streaks work for you.

Sports bettors live and die with streaks. That is a fact you must be ready to accept.

I'll give you guys an example on how streaks sometimes, can be an ally today and be an enemy the next.

Let's say you like the New York Yankees and you kept on winning big wagers as the Yanks' went on for a 12-game winning streak. Feeling cocky, you bet half of your winnings on the Yankees' 13th game, thinking that they will surely win again.

Unfortunately, the Yankees lost and you ended up with half of your winnings. The problem here is you relied too much on trends, which is the wrong thing to do.

Yes, you can have streaks work for you but you must not forget that streaks do end and as a sports bettor, you must be ready when it will end. Oh yeah, 13 is an unlucky number, even for a storied franchise like the Yankees.

That's it for this edition of Sports Betting 101, keep your eyes glued on my page because professor Jeffdstuff has more to teach ya'll about this wonderful and awesome sport we call sports betting.