Free Sports Predictions AUG 20: NFL, NBA, NHL, All Sports

Baltimore starter Kyle Bradish projects to give up just 2.3 runs with a 3.31 ERA and 1.18 WHIP.  New York’s lineup has hit just .191 (13-68) with a weak .650 OPS against Bradish in his career.  The Yankees will start Gerrit Cole.  The righty projects to give up 2.2 earned runs with a 3.14 ERA and 1.09 WHIP.  With both starting pitchers projecting well, expect the offenses to struggle resulting in a low-scoring game on Thursday night.

Play UNDER the total.

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Riding the Rays over Jays for the early start in Tampa. The Rays have struggled a bit with winning games at home, but I think they bounce back in this spot against Toronto starter Shane Bieber who has a terrible 37 to 24 strikeout to walk ratio and near a 5 ERA.

Tampa starter Ian Seymore has been great going (9-3) winning each of his last three decisions and has a sparkling 115 to 31 strikeout to walk ratio. The Rays still hold the best home record in MLB and are the #1 hitting lineup vs righties. Lay the (-1) line to get the price down. This one just missed the Thursday client card. For today's free pick- Bet Rays.

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Tokyo Brandon is +114.43 units in 2026  
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• Starting-pitching edge: KT is scheduled to start Ko Young-pyo, who is 9-6 with a 3.70 ERA this season. The current matchup page lists LG starter Park Si-won at 0-2 with a 3.98 ERA, so KT has the much more established starter.

• Ko has handled LG well: He is listed at 2-0 with a 1.38 ERA against LG in the matchup data. That is probably the strongest individual reason to back KT.

• KT has been the better team overall: KT enters 62-41-2, compared with LG at 60-48-1, and KT is currently ranked ahead of LG in the standings.

• Season-long offensive advantage: KT is hitting .279 as a team, compared with LG at .268. That gives Ko a little more run-support cushion.

• Better overall run prevention: KT's team ERA is listed at 4.45 vs LG's 4.75. So the pitching advantage isn't limited strictly to the starter.

• Strong head-to-head results: KT is 9-5 against LG this season, meaning they've won roughly 64% of the meetings.

• Jamsil can help Ko's profile. His command/contact-oriented approach is generally more comfortable in a pitcher-friendly environment than in a small offensive park. Today's game is at Jamsil Baseball Stadium.

The price

-130 requires about a 56.5% win probability to break even.

My rough projection would put KT around 58–60%, mainly because of the Ko Young-pyo + head-to-head + overall team-quality combination.

Projected score: KT 5, LG 3

So I would classify KT -130 as playable, but not a max bet. On your 1%-5% scale, I'd lean approximately 2.5%-3%. The biggest reason I wouldn't go higher is that one current prediction market has KT around 54%, meaning the broader market isn't showing a huge edge at -130.

The part I like most is Ko Young-pyo vs LG: 2-0, 1.38 ERA combined with KT's 9-5 season series advantage.

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Benfica vs Aarhus
Europa League, Thursday, 3pm ET

Play: Pavlidis Anytime Goalscorer
Odds at Time of Release: -175 DraftKings
Line Parameter: Line good to -200

Pavlidis is having an insane start to the season with 9 goals in 5 matches, he just scored a hattrick within SEVEN minutes in Benfica's 7-0 win against Casa Pia over the weekend, he scored in each of L/4 and the guy is just unstoppable right now. Benfica are now hosting Aarhus on Thursday for the first leg of the last qualifying round of the Europa League, and you know Pavlidis is going to have his fair share of scoring chances. Plus, he is the Penalty Kick taker

Aarhus have been leaking goals left and right on the road: 2/4/2/1, allowing 12/29/21/12 shots and Pavlidis doesn't need too many of them to score.

Check the odds out there, Pavlidis to score anytime is currently at -175 at DraftKings and even though it seems like a bad set of odds, this is still a solid bet and these are the best odds than any other book out there.

Take 1.5% on Pavlidis Anytime Goalscorer (-175 DraftKings), line good to -200

Fun/Value Bet:

Pavlidis to Score 2+ Goals (+270)

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This is a free play on Clemson.

I have pegged LSU as the most overrated team in the country heading into 2026. Before you call me crazy, go check who I picked as my most overrated team a year ago (Penn State). The splashy coaching hire, bringing Lane Kiffin over from Ole Miss in the middle of last year's Playoffs has fans expecting big things in 2026. Kiffin landed a $91 Million dollar contract and an unlimited bankroll to buy talent. Keep in mind that while Kiffin was successful at Ole Miss, he never had to navigate the kind of schedule LSU has this year. Dabo Swinney is a three time coach of the year, two time national champion and nine times conference champion. The Clemson stock is low right now after losing a ton of guys to the NFL draft. This line opened at double digits, but sharp money bought it down to single digits. If it goes back up to 10+ I will recommend a play on the dog.

GL,

Jesse Schule

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Some players like specific courses, some players show up at major championships when they have not played particularly well previous, Viktor Hovland plays well during the Fed Ex Cup Playoffs. In 2023 Viktor turned in finishes of T13 - 1 - 1 and followed that up with T2 - T26 - T12 in 2024 and T32 - T7 - 12 in 2025. We haven’t seen Viktor put a full season together in a while but he does play well in spurts and his most consistent streaks are during this stretch of golf, so I am going to ride it until he proves me otherwise.

Patrick Cantlay has put up consistent finishes and that is tough to bet against but, as with everyone in the field, he has a lack of course knowledge at Bellerive CC and his driver has not been the crutch that he has had when playing his best. Patrick has lost strokes or gained less than a strokes off-the-tee to the field in 5 straight tournaments but he has been able to lean on his ball striking to keep him competitive while gaining 6.7 and 5.6 strokes to the field on approach in back-to-back weeks. Bellerive is a major championship venue and while it will not be setup like one at this time of the year and for a playoff event, it will still show it’s teeth throughout the round and I believe this is going to be an off week for Patrick with Bellerive tightening up where he averages his carry off the tee.

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This shapes up as an excellent bounce back opportunity for Nasrat Haqparast. He sits at a true pick'em price tag and there's absolutely value in that number. Haqparast brings a polished striking game built on consistent volume. He fires long rangy combinations while managing distance with sharp footwork. As a slick southpaw he displays high-level technical boxing that lets him control exchanges from the outside. Padilla is a well-rounded fighter who works effectively in the clinch. He shows competence across every phase of the game yet lacks true elite skill in any single area. He likes to pressure forward with heavy shots powered by real strength. Lately he has found success by driving opponents toward the cage and controlling the pace once he gets there. The betting line stays tight mainly because of Haqparast’s most recent outing against Quillan Salkilld. In the opening round he absorbed a brutal head kick that flattened him completely. The finish looked devastating and left legitimate questions about Nasrat's recovery. The encouraging part is the 10 month layoff he took afterward. That amount of time should be more than enough for a full physical and mental reset. Now on the feet Haqparast holds clear advantages and his combinations are much cleaner. He has faster hands and better distance management as well. Padilla will struggle to close the gap cleanly and will leave himself open to counters as a result. Expect Haqparast to accumulate the higher volume of significant strikes and to win the majority of the minutes. He is simply the sharper point fighter when the action stays standing. His crisper combinations should allow him to outland Padilla throughout the contest. One possible path for Padilla involves wrestling entries, yet Haqparast is fully prepared for that threat. He currently owns a strong 86% takedown defense rate backed by reliable defensive wrestling. He can sprawl effectively and then return to brawling in the pocket where his volume becomes even more decisive. This matchup is likely to remain standing for long stretches and that is exactly where Haqparast does his best work. In a strong bounce back spot at an attractive price Nasrat Haqparast is the play to get the job done on Saturday night.

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This is a free play on CAL.

The Bruins made a splashy hire bringing in Bob Chesney as their new head coach. The last coach that left James Madison for the BIG10 ended up winning the National Championship in Year 2 at Indiana. Nobody should be expecting the same from Chesney. I like the hire, and I think the Bruins future looks bright, but Week 1 on the road against a team with a better quarterback and a defense that was far superior a year ago, I think the Bruins are the clear underdog.

GL,

Jesse Schule

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Over the last ten seasons, the Jets have averaged 4.9 wins per year and they have only gone over this 5.5 win total three times. You can point to injuries and in-season trades as a big reason why last season was a failure, but we now have a ten-year sample size of this being one of the worst organizations in the NFL. Geno Smith was brought back to the franchise after a disastrous run in Las Vegas with the Raiders, but we're struggling to see the upside. The Athletic just released a comprehensive QB ranking that was voted on by coaches and front office personnel. Smith was voted as the 30th-best quarterback heading into the 2026 season. One defensive coordinator was quoted as saying, "He looked terrible on the film we saw." Another defensive coach put more blame on the Raiders' system around him, saying "Once you get hit and keep getting hit and hit and hit, how good are you going to be? They had no identity on offense. Geno got a bad rap. He was getting murdered out there." That's fair, but why is there any reason to believe things are going to be any better with this team? Head coach Aaron Glenn was retained, but nearly every assistant coaching position was flipped after last year’s 3-14 campaign. Frank Reich has been brought in to lead the offense, but Reich hasn't coached in the NFL since 2023 when he went 1-10 with the Carolina Panthers. Bill Musgrave was hired as the quarterbacks coach. Musgrave was the Browns' QB coach last season and Cleveland had arguably the worst offense in the NFL. We're really struggling to see how the Jets are going to double their win total from three to six this season. It's not like this team was knocking on the doorstep and suffered a couple heartbreaking losses along the way. They finished with a -203 point differential, allowed the second-most points in the league and suffered eight double-digit losses. When the NFL schedule was released, DraftKings released opening point spreads on every game for every team for the upcoming season. The Jets are not projected to be favored by more than a field goal in any game this season, and only five games have a point spread between -2.5 and +2.5. So in order to eclipse this win total, the Jets would have to go 5-0 in those toss-up games (vs Cleveland, Las Vegas, Arizona and Miami x2) and still would need to pull another upset along the way. We don't see that happening.

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This is a free play on the Memphis Tigers.

The Rebels are the team with all the hype, and I hear fans glowing about head coach Dan Mullen. The coach on the other side has the more impressive resume, at least in recent seasons. Charles Huff won a conference championship with Marshall, then took over a Southern Miss team coming off a 1-11 season, and won seven of nine games to start last season. With 13 defensive players coming with him from Southern Miss, Huff's defense should be in good shape. I am not sold on the Rebels quarterback situation with Jackson Arnold and Alex Orgi. We will put this on our wait list, hope the line gets bet up to -7 and take the points when it does.

GL,

Jesse Schule

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