Ralph Michaels
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5% MM ALERT (THUR)! #1 CBB REG SSN & #1 MARCH MADNESS LY!
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•• Ralph’s 5% MAX side plays are 13-4 (7%)! Off a 5% WIN last Sunday (St. Joe’s) and Friday (Cal Baptist, making his CBB 5% run also 13-4 (79%)! This is only Ralph's FOURTH CBB 5% Total since 2022, and they went 2-0-1 (100%)!
•• Ralph finished this CBB regular season as WagerTalk's #1 Regular Season Champ. Ralph is now defending his #1 March Madness profit ranking from last season!
•• Ralph's all-sports run now stands 746-46-1 (62%) with 4% & 5% Best Bets going 40-24-1 (63%)!
•• Ralph's College Hoops is 65-40-1 (62%) with Best Bets going 39-24-1 (62%)!
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#1 CBB REGUAR SEASON & #1 MM LAST YEAR!
TOP-RATED 5% PLAYS NOW 2-0 (100%) % 13-4 (79%)!
#1 CBB REG SEASON! • 60-37-1 (62%) RUN!
#1 FOOTBALL 5% SINCE OCT 2024.....24-10 (71%)!
NFL TEASERS ARE AN AMAZING 32-14 (70%)
MLB FIRST INNING PLAYS 10-2-3 (83%) & 16-8-3 (67%)!
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5% MM ALERT (THUR)! #1 CBB REG SSN & #1 MARCH MADNESS LY!
RARE 5% TOTAL (ONLY 4th s/'22..they are 2-0-1)! • #1 CBB PROFIT REG SEASON & #1 MARCH MADNESS PROFIT LY!
•• Ralph’s 5% MAX side plays are 13-4 (7%)! Off a 5% WIN last Sunday (St. Joe’s) and Friday (Cal Baptist, making his CBB 5% run also 13-4 (79%)! This is only Ralph's FOURTH CBB 5% Total since 2022, and they went 2-0-1 (100%)!
•• Ralph finished this CBB regular season as WagerTalk's #1 Regular Season Champ. Ralph is now defending his #1 March Madness profit ranking from last season!
•• Ralph's all-sports run now stands 746-46-1 (62%) with 4% & 5% Best Bets going 40-24-1 (63%)!
•• Ralph's College Hoops is 65-40-1 (62%) with Best Bets going 39-24-1 (62%)!
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THE PLAY: Regulation Buffalo Sabres -120
(73) Boston Bruins at (74) Buffalo Sabres: Moneyline
2% Regulation Buffalo Sabres -120
AD’s of 125+ with no rest vs teams with 2 days res are 129-290 (30.8%)
From game #70 and later, they are 11-38 (22.4%%)
Boston has played 3 road games with no rest, losing all 3
Boston is coming off a 4-2 loss as a -22 Fav, and they are finishing this season with 15 straight games in a different venue, as short road trips are followed by a lone home game and then back on the road.
The Bruins are 2-8 in their L10 road games, with both wins as a pick’em.
Away vs a good offense (total 6.5+), Boston is 2-8 away, including 6 straight losses by 1.3 goals per game.
Buffalo comes in on a 12-2 run and while they are coming off a loss, it was a -115 AF with no rest vs a rested foe/ With equal rest, they are 8-0 winning by 2.2 goals/gm.
Home off a loss as a Fav Buffalo is 5-0 with the avg score 5.2-2.6
The Sabres have won 4 of 5 vs a team with no rest
Home off at least two road games the Sabres are 6-1
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Ralph was raised in the home of handicappers in Cleveland, Ohio. Starting in the industry as a key member of Phil Steele's early team, which expanded Northcoast Sports during the mid-90s. Ralph's personal following grew fast, allowing him to strike out on his own as the founder of California Sports. Over the next dozen years as General Manager of Phil Steele Publications and lead handicapper of Northcoast Sports, Ralph managed the creation of some of the most popular sports betting content ever, including Phil Steele's College Football Preview Magazine and Northcoast's Power Sweep Newsletter. Content displaying expertise so elite that Ralph was invited into college football's most exclusive club: Heisman Trophy Voter
Ralph Michaels has a math mind, steadily searching for a value in the numbers in addition to matchup edges, situational advantages, and hidden gems of information. Ralph finds more big bets in the college versions of football and basketball, but his handicapping approach also uncovers selective winners in the professional leagues like MLB. Small conferences are particularly profitable due to mispriced injuries and his profiling of exploitable coaching tendencies.
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