Big betting on the WNBA.

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By Eric Spitznagel

Fetish WNBA in Tim York makes his jealous wife. "She sometimes asks me, 'That you see in women's play basketball?'". ", said the 31-year-old Houstonian. "Of course, some girls are nice to look at while they play." But this is not why I do it. "Unlike the creepy, or purists voyeurs who like watching a game below rim played a reduced tempo, York interest in women's basketball is purely financial. "I tell him all the time, ' he y money in this sport.". ?

A professional player and the owner of the Las Vegas Group Sharp handicapping, York is at the forefront of the movement of women's sport bet. As the women's National Basketball Association franchises are preparing to start training camp this month, York his annual analysis of the teams and players of the League. In the three years where he was betting on the WNBA, its preparation was successful: York says that he did a large part of his annual salary estimated $ 100,000 to the League. It is quite a feat, given that the WNBA includes only 12 teams who play a 34-game schedule during a regular season of four months. When it comes to women's basketball, York, said, "I consider myself as one of the best in the business."

There is lot of competition. While $ 2.76 billion was legally wagered in the books of sport in Nevada in 2010, according to the Nevada gaming Control Board, there is no record of how a bet on the WNBA. Scott Ghertner, Director of sports and promotions for MGM Mirage (MGM) in Las Vegas, figures that it was "perhaps a couple of percentage points more." This is exactly how professional players like him. "He leaves the opportunity," said York, "for the guys who for live to intervene and see things that sometimes the oddsmakers know not to do."

Jay Rood, the Director of the sports book for MGM Mirage, admits that bookmakers have created an opening for the WNBA to operate gaming pioneers. Bookmakers "probably don't pay that much attention to the WNBA as we do with other things," he said. This is because the more casual players are not interested in women's sport - even those where players are almost bare and fight against each other. "We have reserved the Lingerie Bowl this year," Rood said, referring to the Amazonian football competition pay-per-which aired during halftime of the Super Bowl XLV. "" "". "But it was very, very slightly bet in." In the experience of Rood, sport women is the domain of professionals or, as he calls, "the sharpest players." If you are betting on the WNBA, mean you probably business, said Rood. "It is one of the sports more difficult to make a profit to."

This is because complete WNBA statistics are not readily available in other pro sports leagues. "If the third top scorer of for the New York Liberty, not many people will be able to estimate its value," explains Edward Golden, a hamper for Internet service Angle right Sports in Paris. He said that there was a percentage of 59 winning ratio on more than 300 WNBA Paris over the past three years. To maintain this success for its seven-more WNBA plays weekly, Golden is trying to "win as a more intimate knowledge as possible on each WNBA team, player and coach in the League". It compiles comprehensive data all by itself.

This devotion is a registered trademark of bettors WNBA. Anthony Nassor, founder of sport monitor Blueprint based in Las Vegas, a disability and service management, pari, said more than 30 per cent of its business comes from the League. In preparation for each WNBA game, Nassor evaluates dozens of variables, including how many players from each team participate professionally overseas during shoulder season, recent trip schedule each team and how much energy - based on the fact that opponents style - the players performed in previous games. Nassor also based its claims on exit rather than just offensive defensive numbers. It calculates a statistic "cumulative defensive" it converts into a "total hypothetical"-and then maintains the information to himself. He also has the habit of betting against deceptively warm teams until they begin to lose and betting on teams home returning from trips of the road without a victory. If this does not occur, he monitors players Twitter feeds, look for even the slightest advice on injuries, emotions or other factors that could help them decide which side of the spread that he wants to bet on. Betting on the WNBA games, said, is just like playing the stock market. "Do you your indexing and research and analyze your budget," he said "and try to buy when a good stock is low."

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