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About Derek

Derek is a professional sports handicapper. He's posted winning seasons every year since 2007 and in 2013 he launched drocksports.com with the goal of teaching others how to make money betting on sports.

NFL Sunday FREE PICK

NFL YTD 5-3 (62.5%) +$180 Chiefs +4 -110 (Sports Interaction) risking $110 to win $100 Chiefs are losers of four in a row both SU and ATS and now are without their best player, Jamaal Charles, out for the season with an ACL injury is a team that you would not want to bet on.  These are situations I look for when bettors are down on a team, that teams stock is low and this is the case here.   On the other hand, you have a team that's stock is rising in Minnesota, and have looked great prior to their bye week covering three straight ATS.  After coming back as 7 point dogs and nearly upsetting the Broncos, the Vikings beat the Chargers 31-14.  Minnesota is coming off a bye and the market tends to like teams coming off a bye, add in a near upset against a strong Denver team on the road and covering 3 straight you get a sell high opportunity here.  Classic Buy Low sell high Theory.  When bettors write off a team, that is when I jump in and start to invest.   Possible upset here

By |October 18th, 2015 11:24am|Free Picks, NFL Picks|0 Comments

CFB Saturday FREE PICK

CFB YTD 3-3 (50%) -$29 Northwestern ml +104 (pinnacle) risking $100 to win $104 I expect NW HC Fitzgerald to have his team ready to bounce back in this one after a disappointing loss with 0 points scored against Michigan.  Northwestern D has been stout at home yielding only 6 ppg and only allowing 227 ypg in Evanston.  NW in full revenge mode for this one after last season's loss at Iowa 48-7, NW's worst loss since 2010.  Iowa had a significant loss last week with DE Drew Ott went down and is out with a torn ACL for the season (leads team in tackles for a loss and tied for lead in sacks).   The home team in this series has won 5 straight up and ATS.  Iowa banged up on the OL is a problem and see this team just wanting to get to their bye week (next week) and get some rest.  Northwestern will be hungry for the revenge win here today.

By |October 17th, 2015 10:59am|Free Picks, NCAAF Picks|0 Comments

NHL Friday Free Pick

NHL YTD 0-0 (0%) $0 Toronto Maple Leafs ml +145 (SB) risking $100 to win $145 First FREE NHL play from me this year.  I like this spot for the Leafs tonight to get their first win of the season.  Leafs are coming off five days rest and play their first road trip of the season (4 games).  I like to attack first games of a road trip of 4 or more games, especially for a young team as getting out on the road for these young players build's relationships and can translate that to wins.  With Mike Babcock having time to study film on the first three for Toronto he'll find a way to break the goose egg with more time to prepare.  The Leafs have not been outshot in any of their three games thus far, which is a huge improvement from last season as they did not accomplish that even once last year.  Toronto’s biggest problem so far has been its penalty kill, which allowed four goals against in 10 tries.  I'm sure HC Mike Babcock will have his team working on that and improving it with that extra time off.  The Jackets are 0-4 and they have allowed 20 goals against so far.  Their goaltending has been horrible and Sergei Bobrovsky is back in net tonight after allowing 6 goals against last game and can't be trusted.  Simply put here, in no way does Columbus deserve to be in this price range here tonight at -165.  This is saying they have about a 62% chance to win this game (here is the implied conversion chart) when in reality it's about 50%, Huge overlay, Leafs win   GL to all tonight and [...]

By |October 16th, 2015 5:53pm|Free Picks, NHL Picks|0 Comments

MLB FREE Premium Pick

Game #923 Cardinals ml +210 (sportsbook) risking $300 to win $630 Simple value play here today in baseball.  No need to go on about how good Jake is and has been for the Cubs, but in no way can he be favored in this price range against a 100 win ball club and what the Cardinals have been able to do to great pitchers in recent post seasons.  They have beaten Kershaw twice last year in the post season and everyone said the same thing they are saying about Jake right now.  Raving how great Jake is and the Cards last season went on and beat the NL MVP and Cy Young winner, Kershaw to advance.  The Cards know how to win big games and in this price range I will put my money on the team who has had success taking down top tier talented pitchers.    

By |October 12th, 2015 11:24am|Free Picks, MLB Picks|0 Comments

NFL Sunday FREE PICK

Free Plays - NFL YTD 4-3 (57.1%) +$80 Washington +7 -110 (sportsbook) risking $110 to win $100 Here we are again with a team, the Falcons, that is blowing out their opposition which in turn causes their stock to soar high right now.  Last week Atlanta opened as a 6.5 pt fav over Houston, but the market wasn’t buying its 3-0 start and Houston was taking money all week, which caused the line to drop to -4 by game time.   Atlanta comes out and blows up Houston by half and was up 42-0 after three quarters. Public perception is a key aspect in sportsbetting and the public see's an undefeated team running up the score that team stock rises and everybody is jumping on the Falcons bandwagon here thinking that this team is easy money.  The best time to jump on a team is when everyone jumps off.  This scenario is the exact same as the Rams/Cardinals last week as the Cards were on fire blowing out teams (95 points in two games) then lost outright to the Rams as 7 point favs.  The market has reacted by overvaluing the Falcons here against Redskins because of how badly they are beating teams and this is a situation I like to attack with this classic case of overreaction. Washington ranks in the top 10 of both offense and defense owning the league’s #1 rated rush offense and the #2 rated rush defense and has been in every game this season.  They have outgained all four opponents in all of their games this season.  Kirk Cousins has been efficient thus far and let’s not forget that the Falcons gave up 37 points to Dallas minus Tony Romo [...]

By |October 11th, 2015 10:01am|Free Picks, NFL Picks|0 Comments