WNBA Betting Tips
Betting on the WNBA might sound like some sort of a joke. You almost definitely don’t watch the WNBA, you probably couldn’t name a single player in the league, and chances are that even if you do watch women’s basketball, you pay a lot more attention to college basketball – most fans seem to find the University of Connecticut a lot more interesting than the Connecticut Sun.
Usually, all these facts would add up to a sport that you should avoid gambling on at all costs. And, appropriately, almost nobody bets on the WNBA, meaning there isn’t the volume of action you’ll find on almost any other sport. But believe it or not, this actually makes betting on the WNBA a very attractive prospect for sharp bettors. Since the public isn’t betting much money on the sport, the bookmakers don’t have much interest in spending a lot of time setting lines. This adds up to very exploitable lines that can earn you big profits, if you know where to look.
One of the simplest WNBA betting tips is to watch how the lines are moving in the days and hours before a game begins. In most sports, this is a losing strategy. Typically, all that a moving line tells you is how the public is betting and the oddsmakers are reacting. By the time you jump on the line, it’s probably already past the point where that bet would have been profitable.
But things are different in the WNBA. Because only sharp bettors (for the most part) are betting on the WNBA, when lines move, it’s because people who know what they’re doing have seen that a line is off. Because the sportsbooks aren’t paying as close attention to the WNBA as they do to most other sports, they’re slow to change lines. When they do, they rarely change the lines fast enough to keep up with the advantages that sharp bettors see. If a line is off by 4 or 5 points, and the bookmakers move it in the right direction by 2 points, there’s still a huge edge for a gambler who jumps on the sharp side of the bet. Because of this, when a line moves in the WNBA, it’s usually a sign that there’s a winning train you should hop on.
Following the line movements might help you win more than you lose in the WNBA, but the best way to find great bets is to study the sport. You don’t even have to figure out the whole league; becoming an expert on a single team will probably be enough to find you quite a few significant edges over the course of the WNBA season. Of course, as with any sport, the more you learn about the WNBA, the better your chances of finding sharp bets to make – and the more often you’ll be able to take advantage of your edge. The main difference is that with the WNBA, your edge over the bookmakers will grow much more quickly, since they have relatively little information to use when they set their lines.
Sports with a low public profile are usually a good investment, and the WNBA is no exception. If you put in a little work into taking advantage of this, you’ll find that the WNBA is a great place to pick up some easy profits to boost your sports betting bankroll.
