Author: John
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Last Minute Betting Picks and Oscar Predictions
The second episode of the Red Carpet Rosters Podcast is LIVE on your preferred podcast streaming service. Browse all the platforms here:
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Oscars Betting Picks 2/25/2023
After watching all the Oscar nominated short films and watching all the other 39 feature length Oscar nominated films, I’m growing more confident with my betting advice. The short films particularly usually offers GREAT value from year to year. When Colette won Best Documentary Short two years ago, it was paying 9 to 1 odds.…
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My Personal Ranking of ALL Oscar Nominated Films
I try to be objective, but I’m embracing my personal biases rather than trying to ignore them. The lists below are in order of preference, but I separate them in tiers. The last movie in each tier is closer in preference to the first movie in that same tier than it is the first movie…
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Oscars Betting Picks 2/12/2023
It’s Big Game Sunday, so it’s only appropriate to supply you with a first look at the MyBookie.ag betting lines. I’ve been scouring the betting lines at my three preferred sportsbooks, so it was refreshing to finally see some lines from MyBookie. The odds for most categories are similar to other sportsbooks, except for one.…
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Documentaries As Predictors of Best Picture Winners
Moonlight The first year we made it a personal mission to watch every single nominee was the first year I started betting on the Oscars: the year Moonlight won in 2017 (for the 2016 film year.) After watching all the nominees, it clicked for me that Moonlight would pull the upset over La La Land…
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Oscar Betting Picks 1/28/2023
This post is highlighting the race for Best Animated Feature. No one will argue that Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio is the frontrunner, but I will argue that its status as frontrunner is more fragile than many are wanting to admit. Right now, Bovada has a betting line of -1200, which is an implied probability of…
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Oscar Betting Picks 1/24/2023
The Oscar nominations are out! Which means this is a golden opportunity to place some bets on major value. Let’s take a look. Bovada is my only sportsbook that has updated betting lines right now. Brendan Fraser -150 Sure, The Whale didn’t get a Best Picture nomination nor did it get an Adapted Screenplay nomination,…
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Final Oscar Predictions
I usually shy away from Oscar predictions because I’m usually pretty terrible at it, but then again, so is everyone else. No offense. The 4th and 5th nominees in each category are where it goes bad for everyone, so in that spirit, there are some left field predictions here. PICTURE DIRECTOR LEAD ACTOR LEAD ACTRESS…
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ALL FANTASY TEAMS
With the regular season wrapping up today, which players were the MVP’s this season? First Team All Fantasy Position Player Pts PIC Everything Everywhere All at Once 209 ACTR Ke Huy Quan 132 ACTRS Michelle Yeoh 109 DIR/SCRN Daniel Kwan 183 ANI/INT/DOC RRR 126 EDIT/CIN Claudio Miranda 80 PD/CD/MUAH Catherine Martin 59 SCORE/SONG/SOUND/VFX Daniel Scheinert…
