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Nebraska | Wisconsin | -8.3 |
Florida Gulf Coast | Eastern Kentucky | 2.8 |
Appalachian St. | Arkansas St. | 3.7 |
Tennessee Tech | Murray St. | -12.7 |
Marshall | Middle Tennessee | -0.6 |
Wagner | St. Francis (PA) | 14.8 |
Sacred Heart | St. Francis (NY) | 4.1 |
Fairleigh Dickinson | Mount St. Mary’s | -5.2 |
Central Connecticut | Long Island | -6.4 |
Bryant | Merrimack | 9.3 |
UNC Asheville | Gardner-Webb | 1.4 |
Liberty | North Alabama | 13.5 |
Jacksonville | Lipscomb | 5.9 |
Detroit | Illinois Chicago | 6.6 |
Robert Morris | Milwaukee | 0.2 |
Youngstown St. | Green Bay | 7.9 |
Coastal Carolina | Little Rock | 11.4 |
James Madison | Drexel | 1.8 |
Charleston | Hofstra | -2.4 |
UNC Wilmington | Northeastern | 1.9 |
Towson | Delaware | 6.7 |
Elon | William & Mary | 8.8 |
Louisiana Tech | Rice | 9.3 |
Stetson | Bellarmine | -2.8 |
Kennesaw St. | Jacksonville St. | -2.6 |
UL Monroe | Georgia Southern | 1.0 |
Minnesota | Ohio St. | -3.9 |
Northern Illinois | Ball St. | -0.9 |
Southern Illinois | Loyola (Chi.) | -7.3 |
UTSA | Florida International | -4.1 |
Southern Miss. | North Texas | -14.1 |
Northern Colorado | Weber St. | -0.5 |
Houston Baptist | New Orleans | -4.9 |
Chicago St. | Utah Valley | -15.2 |
North Florida | Central Arkansas | 6.8 |
UT Arlington | Texas St. | -1.4 |
South Alabama | Troy | 5.7 |
Louisiana | Georgia St. | 3.6 |
Omaha | Oral Roberts | -14.6 |
South Dakota | North Dakota St. | 0.5 |
South Dakota St. | North Dakota | 23.4 |
SIU Edwardsville | Tennessee St. | 4.6 |
Austin Peay | Belmont | -13.2 |
Northwestern St. | Incarnate Word | 5.0 |
McNeese St. | Nicholls St. | -3.2 |
Iowa | Purdue | -1.8 |
UCLA | California | 15.9 |
Memphis | East Carolina | 13.7 |
UC Davis | Cal St. Fullerton | 0.8 |
Southeast Missouri St. | Morehead St. | -7.2 |
UT Martin | Eastern Illinois | 11.1 |
Western Kentucky | UAB | -5.4 |
UTEP | Florida Atlantic | 0.6 |
Montana | Idaho | 14.0 |
Montana St. | Eastern Washington | 6.2 |
SE Louisiana | Texas A&M-CC | 1.2 |
Denver | UMKC | -1.3 |
UC Irvine | Cal St. Bakersfield | 10.0 |
UC San Diego | Cal Poly | 5.8 |
UC Riverside | Long Beach St. | 6.9 |
Portland St. | Southern Utah | -4.5 |
Sacramento St. | Idaho St. | 6.5 |
Portland | Pacific | 4.1 |
San Francisco | Saint Mary’s | 2.2 |
San Diego | Pepperdine | 8.8 |
Gonzaga | Loyola Marymount | 26.3 |
USC | Stanford | 10.5 |
Washington | Colorado | -2.4 |
Santa Clara | BYU | -3.0 |
Hawaii | Cal St. Northridge | 13.1 |
January 27, 2022
PiRate Ratings College Basketball–Thursday, January 27, 2022
January 6, 2022
PiRate Ratings College Basketball Spreads
Thursday, January 6, 2022
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Loyola (Chi.) | San Francisco | 5.1 |
Indiana | Ohio St. | 0.6 |
Illinois | Maryland | 10.9 |
Wisconsin | Iowa | 0.8 |
Cincinnati | SMU | 1.0 |
Colorado | Washington St. | -0.7 |
BYU | Pacific | 19.4 |
Utah | Washington | 9.1 |
California | USC | -7.1 |
January 2, 2022
November 23, 2021
PiRate Picks–Thanksgiving Week
A Windfall!
It wasn’t the best ever for the PiRate Ratings, as we’ve had greater than 200% returns on investment in a handful of weeks in the last 17 years, but last week’s 171.2% ROI was our best in the last three years. We played six wagers last week, ranging from +159.65 to +360. We lost the +360, but we won the other five selections for an imaginary gain of $1,027.74 on an imaginary investment of $600.
Coming this late in the year, if we play a bit conservatively the rest of the year, we will be guaranteed of having our 5th winning season in the last 6 years and our 14th winning season in the 17 years we have been pretending to wager. For the season, our imaginary 54 wagers at $100 per game for $5,400 in imaginary currency has returned an imaginary $6,337.83, for a profit of $937.83, and a ROI of 17.4%. Hopefully, you have seen the word “imaginary” a few times to this point. We hope you get what we’re saying; we do not wager real money on these parlays.
We are issuing just two parlays this week. The odds were not what we hoped for, as too many games have very large Money Lines. Additionally, our plan is to play one, two, or three games in each parlay while receiving odds better than +120 and preferably better than +150. Having to ask four teams to win for us is basically one too many. Alas, we had to issue a 4-game parlay this week to bring the odds up above +150.
Here are the two parlays we have selected this week. If either one wins, we are guaranteed to have another winning week. If both win, we may retire for the season and enjoy our imaginary winnings. If neither win, we will have given back a little of our profits.
Odds: | +201.37 |
Must Win | Opponent |
Ball St. | Buffalo |
Georgia St. | Troy |
Memphis | Tulane |
Odds: | +150.77 |
Must Win | Opponent |
Central Michigan | Eastern Michigan |
Old Dominion | Charlotte |
UCLA | California |
Alabama | Auburn |
September 8, 2021
PiRate Picks For September 9-13, 2021
Last week’s opening picks missed, as Virginia Tech made Sam Howell look like Thurston Howell. Duke then failed to show up against Charlotte, and poof, our two picks were destroyed. Such is life when you wager on parlays that return the odds we look for when we place our imaginary wagers.
We have two more picks returning some fat odds this week, and maybe we’ll get lucky and hit on one. We will also tell you a week 1 tip for the NFL. Although we are here just for Money Line Parlays this year, it doesn’t mean we cannot give out a little interesting information.
Here are our two Money Line Parlays for Week two of the college season. We will eventually pick some NFL games, but Week one is not the time and place for that.
Parlay 1
Odds: | +224 |
Must Win | Opponent |
Virginia | Illinois |
Rutgers | Syracuse |
Michigan | Washington |
Parlay 2
Odds: | +180.56 |
Must Win | Opponent |
Mississippi St. | North Carolina St. |
TCU | California |
Here’s our tip for Week 1 of the NFL season. Underdogs of 1 to 3 points tend to win outright 50% of the time, but they also lose by less than 3 points another 8-10% of the time. That’s 58-60% success for wagering on 3-point Underdogs.
There are seven games as of this writing with a 3-point spread. The Dogs are:
Houston against Jacksonville
Arizona against Tennessee
Philadelphia against Atlanta
Indianapolis against Seattle
Cincinnati against Minnesota
Miami against New England
N.Y. Giants against Denver
November 13, 2020
Add On Game College Football — Sunday, November 15, 2020
Pirate Rating Spread For UCLA-California game added Friday, November 13 to be played Sunday, November 15.
Home | Visitors | PiRate | Mean | Bias |
UCLA | California | -4.0 | -5.6 | -6.3 |
February 27, 2020
PiRate Ratings College Basketball For February 27, 2020
Thursday’s Games
Home |
Visitor |
Spread |
Austin Peay |
Morehead St. |
12.3 |
Belmont |
Tennessee Tech |
21.1 |
Cal Poly |
UC Irvine |
-11.5 |
Cal St. Bakersfield |
UT Rio Grande Valley |
2.3 |
California |
Colorado |
-9.9 |
Canisius |
Iona |
1.7 |
Charleston |
Delaware |
4.7 |
Charleston Southern |
Gardner-Webb |
-2.2 |
Fairleigh Dickinson |
Bryant |
0.4 |
Florida Atlantic |
UTSA |
2.7 |
Florida Gulf Coast |
Jacksonville |
-0.2 |
Florida Intl. |
North Texas |
-2.7 |
Gonzaga |
San Diego |
26.3 |
Grand Canyon |
New Mexico St. |
-5.9 |
Green Bay |
Youngstown St. |
3.5 |
Hampton |
Radford |
-7.2 |
Hawaii |
Cal St. Fullerton |
7.9 |
High Point |
UNC Asheville |
-2.0 |
Hofstra |
Towson |
6.9 |
Idaho St. |
Portland St. |
-3.2 |
Illinois Chicago |
Detroit |
7.1 |
IUPUI |
Oakland |
-4.4 |
Kennesaw St. |
Liberty |
-23.0 |
Little Rock |
UL Monroe |
10.3 |
Long Island |
Wagner |
9.1 |
Loyola Marymount |
Pacific |
-1.4 |
Merrimack |
Central Connecticut |
16.0 |
Miami (O) |
Central Michigan |
-0.6 |
Michigan |
Wisconsin |
6.6 |
Milwaukee |
Cleveland St. |
6.2 |
Murray St. |
Eastern Kentucky |
12.5 |
Nebraska |
Ohio St. |
-9.8 |
Niagara |
Saint Peter’s |
-4.1 |
North Alabama |
NJIT |
4.1 |
North Dakota St. |
South Dakota St. |
2.2 |
Northeastern |
James Madison |
12.5 |
Northern Arizona |
Montana |
-0.7 |
Northern Colorado |
Idaho |
17.4 |
Northwestern |
Illinois |
-6.8 |
Oral Roberts |
Western Illinois |
15.1 |
Oregon |
Oregon St. |
10.4 |
Presbyterian |
Longwood |
0.1 |
Purdue |
Indiana |
4.7 |
Sacramento St. |
Montana St. |
4.3 |
Sacred Heart |
St. Francis (NY) |
9.9 |
San Francisco |
Portland |
15.8 |
Santa Clara |
Saint Mary’s |
-6.3 |
South Carolina Upstate |
Winthrop |
-9.7 |
Southeast Missouri |
Eastern Illinois |
-5.0 |
Southern Utah |
Eastern Washington |
2.2 |
St. Francis (PA) |
Mount St. Mary’s |
9.2 |
Stetson |
North Florida |
-5.6 |
Tennessee St. |
Jacksonville St. |
2.8 |
UAB |
Marshall |
0.7 |
UC Riverside |
UC Santa Barbara |
-0.5 |
UCLA |
Arizona St. |
0.6 |
UNC Wilmington |
Drexel |
-0.5 |
USC |
Arizona |
-3.9 |
UT Martin |
SIU-Edwardsville |
4.5 |
Western Kentucky |
Louisiana Tech |
0.1 |
Wichita St. |
Temple |
9.7 |
Key TV Games On Thursday
Time (EST) |
Network |
Home |
Visitor |
7:00 PM |
ESPN2 |
Michigan |
Wisconsin |
7:00 PM |
FS1 |
Purdue |
Indiana |
8:00 PM |
ESPN+ |
Murray St. |
Eastern Kentucky |
9:00 PM |
ESPN+ |
North Dakota St. |
South Dakota St. |
10:00 PM |
ESPN |
USC |
Arizona |
11:00 PM |
Pac12 |
UCLA |
Arizona St. |
January 26, 2020
PiRate Ratings College Basketball For January 26, 2020
Sunday’s Games
Home |
Visitor |
Spread |
California |
Stanford |
-8.5 |
Connecticut |
Tulsa |
4.3 |
Creighton |
Xavier |
6.2 |
Drake |
Missouri St. |
3.4 |
Fairfield |
Canisius |
1.5 |
Houston |
South Florida |
13.4 |
Indiana |
Maryland |
-0.6 |
Iona |
Monmouth |
0.6 |
Manhattan |
Rider |
-0.3 |
Minnesota |
Michigan St. |
-2.4 |
Northern Iowa |
Loyola (Chi) |
5.7 |
Northwestern |
Ohio St. |
-7.7 |
Oregon |
UCLA |
13.6 |
Saint Louis |
Fordham |
13.9 |
Saint Peter’s |
Niagara |
6.7 |
Siena |
Quinnipiac |
4.0 |
UNLV |
San Diego St. |
-9.1 |
Valparaiso |
Evansville |
10.0 |
Wake Forest |
Virginia |
-1.3 |
Saturday Was Upset City
There were more than two dozen upsets Saturday in Division 1 college basketball. While your favorite team in a power conference may have won, and you’re thinking that you don’t remember many upsets, let us tell you that many of them occurred in the Mid-Major conferences. Because most of the Mid-Major conferences will be one-bid leagues, and the conference tournament champion will be the representative in the Big Dance, our bracketology must undergo massive restructuring in the #13 through 16 seeds.
Thus, we will put out an update Bracketology later today, or basically as soon as we can clean up the mess and “un-muddle the water.”
January 19, 2020
PiRate Ratings College Basketball For January 19, 2020
Division 1 Basketball Games on Sunday
Home |
Visitor |
Spread |
Canisius |
Rider |
-0.8 |
Chicago State |
Cal St. Bakersfield |
-15.8 |
Cincinnati |
East Carolina |
16.9 |
Fordham |
Davidson |
-7.4 |
Illinois State |
Loyola (Chi.) |
-4.9 |
Maine |
Binghamton |
1.8 |
Marist |
Iona |
-4.5 |
Niagara |
Siena |
-2.2 |
North Dakota State |
North Dakota |
7.4 |
Rutgers |
Minnesota |
3.9 |
South Dakota |
South Dakota State |
-1.3 |
Southern Illinois |
Drake |
0.1 |
UCLA |
California |
6.5 |
UMKC |
Grand Canyon |
3.3 |
Wake Forest |
Boston College |
6.7 |
January 16, 2020
PiRate Ratings College Basketball For January 16, 2020
Power Conference & Top 25 Teams Playing Thursday
Home |
Visitor |
Spread |
Memphis |
Cincinnati |
4.7 |
Arizona |
Utah |
14.3 |
Arizona St. |
Colorado |
-1.7 |
BYU |
San Diego |
18.1 |
USC |
California |
11.0 |
Gonzaga |
Santa Clara |
18.4 |
Washington |
Oregon St. |
4.1 |