Sorry for the delay guys. Been struggling to get on the NBA stuff. Racing Post are doing a season preview tomorrow in their sports section so might be worth a read if you are interested in other views.
Here are the selections:
Outright - Corals have gone bonkers on this offering top price every team plus 1/2 1,2 ew terms in an incredibly bad ew race as the Eastern Conference only has 2 or 3 teams with a real chance of winning their conference (the place part of a win bet is effectively a bet to win their conference). For example the Cavs are the favs at 7/2 (4.1-4.2 on bf) with coral so 7/4 to place but they are a general even money to win the eastern conference.
I have bet the following teams in the outright market all e/w with coral. http://www.oddschecker.com/basketball/nba/nba-championship/winner
Cavs 7/2 £50 ew for fred
Bulls 17/2 £20 ew for fred
Clippers 12/1 £20 ew for fred
Raptors 66/1 £10 ew for fred9
Of the favs i want to oppose at the prices Spurs are really getting too old now as a team. Happy to oppose them in the tough Western Conference at the prices. OKC best player Durant is injured for at least the first month. The Clippers are a young hungry team close to peaking and i feel they should be a lot shorter than 12/1 in the outright market with no health issues.
The 3 East bets are all very strong ev bets ew wise given the lopsided market towards the West. Raptors are obviously linked to my maximum bet below as i make them the 3rd best team in the Eastern conference (reg season win totals have them joint 3rd favs with the wizards but the Wizards are half the price generally)
Divisional betting:
Maximum bet here. Toronto to win their Division. http://www.oddschecker.com/basketball/nba/atlantic-division/winner
This is a classic spot of having a division with an unfashionable team (Toronto) in a division with 4 other teams. Two of them have literally no chance of winning this division and will be deliberately losing games and tanking to get better draft picks. The other two teams are two of the biggest market teams in the league who are over rated by the bookies and have big salary cap issues in their teams. (Knicks and Nets). To illustrate this i have included pinnacles over/under regular season win predictions for the teams. Toronto are in for 48.5 wins (out of 82 games), Nets 41.5 and Knicks 39.5. The other two teams are in for 15 wins (76ers - potentially the worse team in NBA history this season) and Boston 27.5 wins.
https://www.pinnaclesports.com/ContestCategory/Basketball+Props/NBA/Lines.aspxGiven this gulf in estimated wins i would have thought Toronto would have been big odds on to win this division. Yet we are able to back them at 6/5 in places and pretty much evens or odds against everywhere else. I am recommending a maximum £300 bet at 6/5 or 11/10 on Toronto for fred.
For similar reasons on the reg season wins the SA Spurs are value at 5/6 to win their division with bwin. £60 recommeneded. With a £10 saver on Dallas at 10/1 with hills in the same division. Dallas should be clear 2nd favs based on reg seasons win projections. Houston are a terrible 2nd fav in this market and create all the value.
http://www.oddschecker.com/basketball/nba/southwest-division/winnerOther special markets where i have had bets will be posted tomorrow once i am fully on myself.