Deep Dive Gambling - Deep Diving the Combine

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hagrinBPR Review Date: 2024-03-06 01:01:16
Rating: 7.25

Notes:
Some fun entertaining stories at the start, but the sports stuff starts about 20+ mins in. My bias - I love draft stuff, I spend a lot of time on draft stuff for non-betting and betting purposes so this is content I’m biased to like.

25:15 - Not sure I knew this stat or if I did I forgot it - Puka Nacua actually ran the fastest Gauntlet drill during his Combine. Keon Coleman this year's example of Gauntlet success vs 40 speed.

30:15 - MVP of the week, Thor Nystrom. Not a guy I follow, but was very good pumping out accurate 40 projections, could be something for next year. Sounds like some of these parlay picks site offered these and they were super soft.

34:45 - "Draft and mock stuff is rarely, if ever, predictive." Good advice.

Talk about betting draft stuff after this - some of the advice I think is good (same agents), some of it is definite trap material (beat writers). For beat writers, it's important to go back year over year, especially for the guys with same teams and same front offices and you have to grade their tweets / predictions. If you don't do this, this process gets much harder.

43:30 - TEN talk, OL seems to make the most sense, I agree. (Sidenote - TEN has this issue that they drafted the same QB two years in a row - huge sack rates per pressure issues).

59:30 - A lot of "data" people at the Combine vs a real gambling presence. A lot of fantasy guys which I thought was interesting, makes sense once you hear it. "Is it an opportunity next year?" Very interesting question.

1:09:00 - A very funny "wake up, check Flashscore alerts, do I swipe down and look for the final score?" anecdote from Andy at the end.