lunedì 30 ottobre 2017

MLB World Series 2017 game 6 picks

Tuesday, October 31

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PITCHING MATCHUP 
Houston
HOU 6 LA 4UNDER 10.5Justin Verlander vs Rich Hill 
WORLD SERIES - GAME 6


NHL games picks 30/10/17

Monday, Oct 30


MLB World Series game 5 picks

Sunday, October 29

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PITCHING MATCHUP 
Los Angeles
LA 2 HOU 4 Under 6.5Clayton Kershaw vs Dallas Keuchel 
WORLD SERIES - GAME 5


sabato 28 ottobre 2017

NFL Fantasy 2017 Tips: week 8 "start or sit"

QB

Start: Ryan, Brees, Wentz, Prescott, Brady, Prescott, Cousins
Sit: Dalton, Stafford, Manning, Brissett, Watson, Roethlisberger

HB

Start: Murray, Gordon, Elliott, Bell, McCoy, Howard
Sit: Lacy, Kelley, Hunt, Johnson, Miller

WR

Start: Crabtree, Evans, Brown, Cooks, Green, Bryant, Fitzgerald
Sit: Jackson, Wallace, Adams, Garcon, Hopkins, Hill, Nelson

TE

Start: Henry, Kelce, Gronk, Walker, Brate
Sit: Allen, Hooper, Fleener, Ebron, Kendricks

K

Start: Forbath, Succop, Gostkowski, Bailey, Elliott
Sit: Crosby, Walsh, Gonzalez, Bullock

D/ST

Start: Lions, Seahawks, Vikings, Eagles, Steelers
Sit: Pats, Broncos, Chargers, Buccaneers, Redskins


MLB World Series game 3 recap and analysis

Race 3 of the World Series was the first in Houston and consequently the first with the designed hitter, a great advantage for the American League teams that have one role, while the Dodgers deprived of Adrian Gonzalez had to deploy the powerful but for nothing, Joc Pederson. The starting pitchers were Lance McCullers for Houston, reduced from a great season where injury has been for some time also the number one of the rotation, possesses a fastball around 94-95 mph, a slider and especially a lethal curveball that uses in addition to 43% of its launches making it one of the first of the MLB in this category. The Dodgers home party was the Japanese ex Rangers Yu Darwish, who in his arsenal can boast a fastball at 95-96 mph, a good mix of cutter and slider and a slow but lethal curveball whose speed is never stable but varies from 65 to 73 mph. Unfortunately for the Japanese he could not find the desired venues especially with his fastball as trying to put too much power on it did not manage to direct them where he wanted and consequently getting always under the ball account and strike failed even to launch with effective his lethal breakballs and the result was catastrophic for him and the Dodgers, 1.2 innings played 4 points awarded and 0 strikeouts. His bats were the low-stakes Houston lineups who in the second inning forced Roberts to take over from the bullpen Kenta Maeda to stop the hemorrhage. The bottom of the second inning was the best of all the series so far for the Astros who debut with a homerun of Yulieski Gurriel managed to send both Reddick and Gattis allowing Gonzalez and McCann to take home two more points with two singles on the exterior and then take home another point with the Bregman sacrifice fly. LA's response did not wait and at the top of the third inning with Pederson and Hernandez on Seager's side he managed to take home a point but not win the RBI as he ran into a double game. As Kenta Maeda came out of the pitch at the bottom of the fifth inning, Evan Gattis scored another point with a single and the next Watson pitcher error that allowed Reddick to get home. The LA again in the following race has tried to reduce the distance from their rivals by putting McCullers in serious trouble that with two runners in the base was replaced by the Hinch manager who in his place sent the long reliever Brad Peacock to the mountain. The former Red Sox and Orioles have given the first point (accused of McCullers) with Yuriel Puig's groundout RBI and another with a crazy throw that allowed Turner to come from the third home base. From then on, the Astros record was unbeatable by winning salvation by knotting the record of its length in a World Series game (3.2 inning) and granting only a baseball with 4 strikeouts.
After Race 3 I think that Roberts is often and too soon to his bullpen that in such a challenging series can have a boomerang effect that is not indifferent, a good result for LA would come back to the Dodgers Stadium under 3-2 and play it in his field but it will not be easy and probably Kershaw if LA wants to have the hope to take home the ring will definitely have to race in race 5 and equally certainly with a shorter rest in a possible race 7 given Darwish's performance. Houston on the other side can not relax but must do everything to not go back to the Dodgers Stadium where a matchup with Hill and Kershaw would be really prohibitive even for a lineup like theirs.


MLB World Series game 4 picks

Saturday, October 28

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PITCHING MATCHUP 
Los Angeles
HOU 7 LA 4OVER 10.5Alex Wood vs Charlie Morton 
WORLD SERIES - GAME 4


MLB World Series game 3 picks

Friday, October 27

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PITCHING MATCHUP
Los Angeles
HOUOVER 9.5Yu Darvish vs Lance McCullers Jr.
WORLD SERIES - GAME 3





venerdì 27 ottobre 2017

Pittsburgh Steelers early season's struggles analysis

After six matches the Pittsburgh Steelers have a record of all respect (5-2), controversy does not derive from this, but from the performance of the team, especially those of the attack. The defendant number one especially after the fierce performance at home against the Jaguars was Big Ben Roethlisberger who finished that match with 0 touchdowns and 5 intercepts (highest in career), but unfortunately for the Steelers the blame is not all his is the result of a bad offensive group test, the line has suffered the Jaguars front seven which not only limited the racing game but managed to put a constant pressure on Roethlisberger because of the excellent manhole made by AJ Buoye and Jalen Ramsey did not have the chance to produce yards but only turnovers. In the Pittsburgh attack as already mentioned more than one mechanism is not working since the atypical rating of Ben Roethlisberger (82.3) and the average of LeVeon Bell racing yards (4) are definitely below the average, in part they are attributable errors in game decisions but the other part is attributable to an offensive line that after years of very good performance can open holes for Bell and give Big Ben time to extend the game and find its receivers on deep traces able to create big plays that made it an elite quarterback. The best in the Pittsburgh attack so far has been Antonio Brown with over 100 yards of game averages and 3 touchdowns while other receivers such as Bryant, James, Heyward-Bey and Rogers are producing too little and making the attack more competitive of Steelers will also need to make a good contribution to give Roethlisberger a credible alternative to Brown in the air game.
As far as defense is performing well this season and unlike the past, the 3-4 of the Steelers is more effective against the passages than against racing and is something that historically has not happened many times in the history of the franchise of the steel city . Middle-linebacker Ryan Shazier after the departure of Lawrence Timmons has become the leader of the defense and drives the Steelers defense in every category except the sack where the rookie TJ Watt, Cameron Heyward and Vince Williams are all at 4 and this testifies 'Great pressure that Pittsburgh's defense succeeds in making quarterback opponents. The advantage and disadvantage of the Steelers defense is that being a blitz zone is almost always played in zaonia and in some matchups as against the Kansas City Chiefs may prove to be the winning weapon, instead against other teams and quarterbacks such as the New England Patriots and Brady is almost always in a weak fatality. The blitz zone devised by Dick LeBeau is not only beaten through "dead zones" but also with races as they have shown brilliantly by John Fox's Chicago Bears, capable of knocking Steelers by trapping the two midlinebackers in their own blitz reading them in advance and doing so leaving Jordan Howard free to get on the second level unknowingly, producing a great amount of yards. Having chosen Shazier and Williams both mobile linebackers is more difficult than the past when there were Timmons and Foote stopping the races and destroying offensive line blocks and this will be one where the front office will have to work offseason to improve it.
The AFC North I believe is now in their hands as there is no team able to compete with them but once at the playoffs the Steelers if they want to have a chance to win the Vince Lombardi Trophy will have to force limit the turnovers as they know that in the playoffs the rate of lost balls makes all the difference in the world between those who advance and who are eliminated.





NHL GAMES PICKS 27/10/17

Friday, Oct 27