Tag: bad beat

A meaningless Rams field goal with 4 seconds left led to an all-time bad beat for Niners bettors

This was BRUTAL.

Oh this is SO BRUTAL from Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay … and it made everyone wonder: Did he know the spread for his team’s Week 2 game against the NFC West rival San Francisco 49ers?

Here’s the situation: The Rams were down 30-20 with four seconds left. There was no way a field goal would matter for Los Angeles at that point … yet for some reason, McVay lined the team up for a 38-yarder off the foot of Brett Maher.

It was up, it was good, and if you bet Niners -7.5 or -8.5, you lost an all-timer of a bad beat.

Oof:

 

Heat fail to cover the spread for the eighth straight game on a horrendous bad beat

There’s no such thing as a meaningless bucket

The Miami Heat may have won three of their last five games, but the club is on an absolutely brutal losing streak against the spread lately. It got worse on Monday night — much to the delight of a betting public that heavily favored the Atlanta Hawks (+2.5).

Let’s cut right to the end of the game.

Jimmy Butler draws a foul from Dejounte Murray with 1.4 seconds remaining and the Heat leading by three. Butler sinks both free throws to put Miami up by five because of course he does. And because the Heat are cursed when it comes to covering the spread, Murray gets his revenge with barely any time left on the clock.

Atlanta inbounds the ball, Murray is left wide open and Atlanta bettors everywhere rejoice.

Naturally, it was Murray’s first make in six attempts from behind the arc all night.

According to public betting data at Action Network, 51% of bets and 83% of the money wagered had the Hawks covering in Miami on Monday. Murray’s meaningless shot was exactly what they needed.

It was about time Atlanta got some luck against the spread, too. The Hawks are 28-36 ATS on the season with 14 covers each at home and the road.

Miami, meanwhile, falls to a league-worst 23-39-3 ATS.

Bettors suffer outrageously bad beats as controversial no-call forced Duke-Virginia overtime

Talk about some bad beats!

The Duke men’s basketball team landed one of the worst bad beats you’re likely to see anytime soon.

The Blue Devils’ 69-62 overtime loss to Virginia on Saturday cratered any hope for bettors that the team would hit on the moneyline (+215) and cover the spread (+6).

The overtime result also cashed the over (127.5), making anyone who bet on Duke or the under likely throw their phone at the wall. What’s even more maddening about the betting fiasco is how overtime came to be in the first place.

With the game tied at 58, Virginia’s Reece Beekman looked to have fouled Duke’s Kyle Filipowski as he was going up for a game-winning bucket with time expiring in regulation.

If the called foul would’ve stood, it would’ve sent Filipowski to the line for potential game-icing free throws.

However, because the referees reviewed the play and determined the foul actually happened after the buzzer, they overturned the call. That controversial decision put the game into overtime.

Wow, talk about a bad beat for the ages. The refs wiping away the foul gave Virginia a new lease on the game and put Duke betters in a bind.

While the Blue Devils still could’ve won in overtime, Duke fans would argue the game shouldn’t have gone there if Filipowski had hit at least one of his free throws. Such is life, and such is betting.

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Bad beat: A late missed Villanova dunk vs. Marquette cost bettors dearly

Watching the ball rattle around the rim was SO painful.

After holding serve in the first half Wednesday night, it looked like Kyle Neptune’s Villanova Wildcats were going to let their matchup with the Golden Eagles get away from them. Marquette would outscore Villanova 39-29 in the second half — with a 16-3 in the final moments — to wrestle away control from their Big East rivals.

This opened thee door to the wilting Villanova covering a +8.5 pregame spread. As Marquette took a 73-64 lead into the final moments, prospects for this outcome looked dicey. Then the Wildcats’ Mark Armstrong streaked up the court and found himself with an open lane. A clear shot for a dunk if anyone ever saw it. Bettors who had +8.5 were about to rejoice.

Except Armstrong missed it. Badly. He didn’t quite get enough arm extension, and the ball would rattle around the rim before falling into the waiting grasp of Marquette’s Kam Jones.

“Oof” doesn’t do this bad beat proper justice:

Here’s hoping for better luck next time. But if there’s one lesson to be learned: college basketball can be a precarious place to put sizable bets on.

Lakers bettors suffer a cruel bad beat after Pacers come back from down 17 to win at the buzzer

The Lakers or the bettors — who is hurting more?

What an incredibly bad start to the week for Los Angeles Lakers fans everywhere. What an even worse Monday night for bettors.

During the Lakers’ home matchup against the Indiana Pacers, L.A. took a 17-point lead during the fourth quarter and seemed on its way to win No. 6 in the past seven games.

Then things took a drastic turn.

The Pacers would close the final 9:30 of the game on a 32-14 run, as the Lakers missed 14 of their final 19 shot attempts.

Yes, you read that correct. The Lakers made just five field goals in 19 tries during crunch time.

But the final blow to L.A. came on the defensive end following LeBron James’ go-ahead bucket with 20.9 seconds remaining—which gave the home team its final lead of the game 115-113.

Here’s what happened next:

Down go the Lakers and down go the many bettors who had the Lakers to cover (-3.5) or to win outright with a moneyline bet.

What an epic collapse.

The Lakers move to 7-12 on the season (13th in West standings) and the Pacers go to 12-8 (4th in East standings).

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NFL Week 9 betting recap: It’s long past time to stop betting the over

Scoring is way down in the NFL this season.

If you’re still betting on the over in NFL games this season, my only question is why?

Entering Week 9, only seven of the 26 teams in action had played in more games that hit the over than games that hit the under. Of those teams, only the Philadelphia Eagles played in a game that went over again this past week.

In fact, only four of 13 games crossed their over thresholds in Week 9.

Scoring is way down in the NFL this year, at its lowest since 2017. And now that we’ve crossed the midpoint of the season, it’s time to accept lower scoring as the new normal. Bet the under.

Phillies no-hitter leads to one of the all-time bad beats thanks to the 76ers offense

You can’t make this up.

The Philadelphia Phillies were on the wrong side of baseball history Wednesday night when the Houston Astros threw the first postseason combined no-hitter against them — in the World Series.

That likely left some unsuspecting bettors on the wrong side of an all-time bad beat.

DraftKings Sportsbook offered an all-Philadelphia over/under of 19.5 on Phillies hits combined with 76ers 3-pointers, according to Chattanooga Times Free Press columnist Jay Greeson.

And the Sixers made exactly 19 threes in their game against the Washington Wizards. All bettors needed was a single hit from the Phillies to cash out, and well, you know the rest.

This was an absolutely brutal way to lose.

Of course, not everyone was a loser. The no-hitter also made a few people a lot of money.

Circa Sportsbook offered a no-hitter prop with 75-1 odds on the “yes.” Sportsbook owner Derek Stevens told ESPN’s David Purdum the prop did receive some bets.

I guess one person’s bad beat is another’s treasure.

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Blue Jays’ epic collapse against Mariners was an all-time bad beat

This one will sting for a long time.

Facing elimination, the Toronto Blue Jays jumped out to an 8-1 lead in the fifth inning of Game 2 of their American League Wild Card series against the Seattle Mariners.

Before they could even let the sure victory sink in, the lead was cut to 8-5 the next inning. Four innings later, their season was over. The Blue Jays lost the game 10-9.

It was an epic postseason collapse, one not seen since 2008 — and only one other time before that had a team blown a seven-run lead in the playoffs. For those who bet on Toronto to win, which was pretty much everybody, it was an all-time bad beat.

Toronto had a win probability of 99%! And 80% of moneyline bettors at BetMGM picked the Jays to win, which looked promising when starting pitcher Kevin Gausman was pulled to a standing ovation.

Then the bullpen proceeded to meltdown, and a season that started with so much promise for Toronto ended in severe disappointment. This one is going to sting for a long time.

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Saints’ clanging missed FG in loss to Vikings wasn’t even the worst bad beat from the game in London

The Vikings won, but their bettors aren’t likely happy.

The New Orleans Saints’ missed field goal at the end of their loss to the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday would have been as dramatic as Kawhi Leonard’s bouncing game-winner against the Philadelphia 76ers had the stakes been as high.

The 61-yarder struck the left upright of the goal posts at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, ricocheted to the crossbar, then bounced back out of the uprights for a heart-breaking missed field goal. Instead of a tied game headed for overtime, the Vikings won 28-25, and Saints bettors were left in disbelief.

However, the missed field goal wasn’t the worse bad beat from the game. That distinction belongs to a missed extra point about four minutes earlier.

New Orleans’ miss was no doubt a tough blow for Saints moneyline bettors, the majority of the betting public was on Minnesota. The Vikings received 78% of bets against the spread and 84% of bets on the moneyline.

Those spread bettors got the rawest deal, because the line closed at -4 and bounced around between -3 and -3.5 in the days leading up to the game. That missed extra point could have very well been the difference between a four-point win and cover — or a push at the very least — and a loss.

Down just three after the missed XP, the Saints were willing to settle for a 60-yard field goal the following possession, rather than attempting to convert a fourth-and-9 with under two minutes left. Had they been forced by a four-point deficit to go for it, and failed, the game likely would have been over. Instead, kicker Will Lutz hit the field goal to tie the game at 25, and Vikings kicker Greg Joseph responded a minute later with a 47-yarder to redeem himself for the missed XP.

That set the stage for Lutz’s dramatic miss to end the game. But while the Vikings won, their bettors weren’t likely happy at all. The three-point win didn’t do much for many of them.

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Devin Williams gave up a walk-off home run after the Brewers traded Josh Hader and baseball fans couldn’t believe it

Williams hadn’t given up a home run all year. Whoops.

Let’s get two things clear:

  1. Devin Williams is arguably the best reliever in MLB and has the stats to prove it.
  2. Baseball is so, so cruel.

On that first point, Williams had gone 30 consecutive outings without allowing a run. He’d gone all season long without giving up a homer. A sterling 1.59 ERA and 66 strikeouts on 19 walks in 39.2 innings is plenty evidence of his greatness.

It’s the type of stuff that convinced the Milwaukee Brewers to trade equally-dominant closer Josh Hader to San Diego at the deadline and move Williams into the 9th inning role.

Wednesday provided Williams with the first opportunity to show he could handle the added pressure as he entered a game tied at 7 against the Pittsburgh Pirates on the road.

It, uh, did not go well.

Wowowowow.

Ok, there’s a lot to unpack here.

That’s just the second walk-off home run of Reynolds’ career. He also hasn’t had too much luck against Williams before Wednesday, striking out three times in 12 plate appearances with just three hits—and none of them went for more than a single. Williams had previously only allowed one home run at PNC Park and that was back in 2020. Wednesday’s home run was just the third hit given up by Williams in Pittsburgh since.

And the walk-off absolutely crushed the betting public.

According to Action Network, 81 percent of all moneyline bets and 69 percent of all the money wagered on the ML was on Milwaukee.

What a brutal beat.