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Restart Updates For NBA, NHL; MLB Negotiations

by WagerHome Blog on June 11, 2020

You can now get a haircut, go to a restaurant, and very soon you will be able to watch major American team sports on television. We’ve almost made it. Congratulate yourself, and then get ready for the wildest summer of sports you’ve ever seen as leagues continue to put together their plans to restart.

NBA Going to Orlando

The NBA’s return won’t happen until July 31, but when it does, watch out. If you thought two months of playoffs with 16 teams was intense, the restarted NBA will feature 22 teams, eight seeding games, a play-in tournament, and then a full playoff schedule of 16 teams, with every game taking place at ESPN’s Wide World of Sports in Orlando.

We’ll get the draft lottery at the end of August and October will feature the end of the NBA Finals, the Draft, and the start of free agency. Then, a new season is set to begin Dec. 1.

All of this has been approved by both the league and players union, but, as with everything in the sports restart world of COVID-19, it’s all subject to change.

NHL With 24-Team Playoffs

One-upping the NBA is the NHL’s agreed-upon restart format. The top four seeds in each conference will play a round-robin to determine final seeding, while the other 16 teams (seeds five through 12 in each conference) will play best-of-five series to determine who moves on to face those top seeds.

An exciting change and one many hockey fans have been pushing for long before this season, is that each playoff round will be reseeded. Instead of a hard bracket, which would render the round-robin of the top seeds moot, the top seed will always face the lowest remaining seed.

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Teams have begun to return to their practice facilities, and the league hopes to resume play by late July/early August in two yet-to-be-selected hub cities – one for all Eastern Conference games and the other for all Western Conference games.

MLB Remains A Mystery

For weeks we have heard: “Don’t worry, there is too much money at stake for baseball to cancel its full season.”

Maybe that’s the problem. There is simply too much money at stake, both for 2020 and beyond, for MLB and its players union – two long-time adversaries – to come together.

Sliding scales, prorated pay, and different season lengths have all been discussed. Even the dreaded label “salary cap” has been said.

They’ve blown past their self-imposed June 1 deadline to get a deal done, but negotiations do continue. So does that mean there is still hope for a baseball season? Las Vegas oddsmakers say yes.

There is still a 75% chance a season will be played. But with each passing day, that becomes a longer bet.

Pay Per Head Software

Baseball notwithstanding, sports betting is coming back in a big way, and if you run your own bookmaking service, you need to be ready. Now is the perfect time to join forces with a pay per head software provider and make the most of the coming wave.

A partnership with WagerHome.com gets you a fully customizable website, automated odds, complete customer support, and all for a small fee per person.

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MLB Spring Training Gets the Baseball Betting Started; Don’t Forget the Great PPH Locations

by WagerHome Blog on February 25, 2020

Most people look at Opening Day of the Major League Baseball season as the place on the calendar where the real baseball betting season begins. But with all teams now playing their full slate of Spring Training games, if you’ve been dying to place a baseball bet during this long, dark, and cold winter, there’s no reason to wait until the regular season.

Wagers can be placed, winnings can be collected, and you can begin to build your baseball betting strategies for the 2020 season right now.

Now is also a great time for bookmakers to take advantage of pay per head software. By joining forces with a PPH provider, you can elevate your client offerings, give them greater access to the things they crave and provide for them a layer of account security you simply can’t do on your own.

And best of all, at WagerHome.com, you can try it free for the next four weeks before having to make a modest commitment financially.

What is Pay Per Head Software?

If you could hire a team of trained professionals to build you a website and mobile access and put it on a super fast and flexible platform, provide your clients access to wagers on sports from around the world, and give them the security of encrypted financial transactions and 24-hour access to customer service, you would.

With pay per head software, that is exactly what you can provide, and all for a small “per head” fee – as the name suggests.

Everything is customizable to make it yours. And it is, in fact, yours if you use WagerHome.com. Some other companies retain ownership of the webpage they provide, taking away from the business you built.

PPH Advantages for the Bookmaker

PPH software is everywhere, so no matter where you have your business, it’s yours to use. And that means no more chasing down clients. No more tracking shifting odds on your own. And no more taking phone calls in the middle of the night so your customers can place a bet.

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The cost of creating your own dynamic website capable of in-play wagering and instant financial transactions, and staffed by a team of trained professionals, would cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars. Instead, with PPH software, you can save the money but still get the service.

PPH Advantages for the Customer

Giving your customers the upgraded experience of PPH software will keep them loyal. They will get access to all of the perks of a big bookmaking site – including mobile access – but still get the personal touch that only you can provide.

Your customers, no matter where they are located, will be playing on the best and latest technology. The odds they play will be the most up to date in the business. Their transactions will be backed up by encryption technology. And if they encounter any technical or account issues, customer service is available to troubleshoot a solution.

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Three Teams Worth A World Series Futures Bet

by WagerHome Blog on February 22, 2020

Spring training games are upon us, and baseball is getting itself geared up for one of the more interesting seasons in recent memory. The offseason is usually all about the news of player movement, while this year, it feels like we’ve done nothing but talk about trash cans, buzzers, and tainted World Series titles.

Time to get back to the business at hand, and which teams are most deserving of your World Series futures bet.

Houston Astros (8/1)

Yes, I just said let’s get back to the business at hand, and now I’m talking about the Astros. But the reality is that even without trash cans, they remain a very good team, and at 8/1, they provide better wagering value than the two favorites, the Yankees (3/1) and Dodgers (7/2).

The Astros have a great lineup, a great rotation, and a massive chip on their shoulder. As much as other teams are going to be motivated when they face the Astros, it’s clear that the Astros have equal motivation to prove that they are deserving of their World Series.

It may feel distasteful to put money on Houston, but it’s also a smart play.

New York Mets (18/1)

You can, of course, place your money on that other team for New York, but at only 3/1, and considering it’s been 11 years since they last won the World Series, I think the Mets offer much greater value.

They, too, have one of the best rotations in all of baseball, with a pair of Cy Young winners highlighting the starting five. And whichever team can emerge from the NL East is going to be tough and battle-tested, having survived the Nationals, Braves, and Phillies.

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I think the Mets can be that team, and at 18/1, they make for an enticing World Series future play.

Minnesota Twins (18/1)

The Twins are like the anti-Mets, in that they have the luxury of playing in one of the worst divisions in all of baseball. The Tigers have a win total line of 56.5, and the Royals are at 64.5. That means a lot of losses for those teams and a lot of wins for the Twins.

And even though the prospects for the Indians and White Sox are better than the bottom two, neither team is expected to be in the postseason.

We know about the home run prowess of the Twins – they hit an MLB-record 307 last season – but what may make the difference this season is the acquisition of starting pitcher Kenta Maeda. This team is simply too good to be listed at 18/1, making this a very appealing play.

Pay Per Head Software

With the baseball season and its 2,430 regular-season contests right around the corner, there is no time like the present to scale up your bookmaking business by joining forces with pay per head software.

At WagerHome.com, it’s free to try out for four weeks, getting you ready just in time for opening day.

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Will Astros Be Marked Men Every Game During 2020 MLB Season?

by WagerHome Blog on February 4, 2020

We’re just a couple of weeks away from full squads reporting for Spring Training, and pitchers and catchers will report even sooner. So there’s no time like the present to take your bookmaking service to the next level by joining forces with a pay per head software provider.

With PPH, you can offer your customers full web and mobile access and a wide variety of sports and betting options. You will get fully customizable reports on each of your clients, so you know how to better meet their needs.

At WagerHome.com you can give it a try for four weeks free, giving you the chance to see all the many benefits of pay per head software before the baseball season begins.

Astros Scandal Fallout

The top teams in the league are always targeted by their opponents. It serves as extra incentive to get the win because you want to beat the best.

But also since the team is a preseason favorite, you also know that if you want to win the division, you need to get those head-to-head wins.

This year with the Houston Astros, we’re going to see something similar, but on an entirely different level. They are still a great team. But they will spend this season under the cloud of the cheating scandal that was uncovered in recent weeks.

Not only will teams be extra vigilant when they face the Astros, but look for opposing fans to be into games on a different level. For many of the Houston road trips, there will be almost a playoff atmosphere in the stands.

Most notable is the disgust about an Aug. 4, 2017 game involving the Astros and the Toronto Blue Jays. The Astros were in first place and leading their division by 15 games. The Blue Jays were a last-place team.

But reports show that there were a season-high 54 pitches that had trash can bangs – the Astros’ signal to the batter about what pitch was coming – during that game with the Blue Jays.

The best team in the league playing one of the worst teams in the league, and they actually ramped up the amount of cheating on their way to a 16-7 win. That doesn’t sit well.

Astros Management and Suspensions

The hiring of Dusty Baker to manage the team in the wake of A.J. Hinch’s suspension and firing does give the Astros a seasoned manager with a solid reputation to help rebuild their credibility.

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But with so many of the players implicated in the scandal still on the team – most specifically Jose Altuve and the allegations of buzzer usage – Baker alone will not get the Astros past this.

There are not likely to be any more suspensions, so from a player standpoint, those who are on the team are likely to remain on the team for the foreseeable future. But that may only serve to aggravate the many Astros haters that have emerged in the last several weeks.

Without a complete house-cleaning, this team will be public enemy No. 1 for all opposing baseball fans and players.

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