NFL Week 8 Lookahead Lines And 2024 Market Moves
In seasons past, I’ve provided content and insight on NFL betting including NFL lookahead lines and market moves. Now the 2024 NFL Week 8 lookahead lines with matchups, schedules and odds are out to guide us to the bookmakers information ahead of the current week’s games. The odds and information can help you in identifying potential value in the betting market while not overreacting to recent results or any NFL teams good or bad performance in a particular week. That is fairly common in the betting marketplace, as many bettors often fall victim to ‘recency bias’, and recall and react to what they saw most recently.
Our NFL Week 1 underdog picks produced a 3-0 Sunday sweep to kickoff the 2024 season with winners on the Jacksonville Jaguars, Indianapolis Colts and Dallas Cowboys outright. A 4-1-1 Week 2 followed and then 2-1 in Week 3 and 1-0 in Week 4 to run our NFL Underdog Picks to 10-3 ATS heading into Week 5 , but we sh*t the bed going 0-3 in Week 5 and Week 6 and are now 10-9 ATS on weekly NFL underdog picks.
NFL Week 6 was a blood bath for leading online sportsbooks and underdog bettors. I updated in Forbes, as betting favorites went 13-1 SU and 11-2 ATS (or 10-2-1 ATS at close Ravens) after the tough Monday Night Football result for (us) NY Jets underdog bettors as New York missed two FG’s inside the 45-yard line in the fourth quarter to take the lead, and then lost 23-20 to their AFC East rival Buffalo Bills.
Sportsbooks Suffer Blood Bath in NFL Week 6 – Forbes
The previous NFL Week 5 saw favorites go 11-3 SU and 10-4 ATS, so it’s been a tough run for underdog bettors and sportsbooks. Over the past 7+ seasons posting NFL Underdog Picks at OSGA and Vegas Sports Zone, we’ve hit nearly 57% ATS (200-153 ATS). That includes a record 70% season going 28-12 ATS in 2021.
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Follow the weekly NFL Lookahead Lines posted by select sportsbooks like the SuperBook in Las Vegas or FanDuel and DraftKings.
Top Las Vegas Sportsbooks and Videos – Forbes.
After reviewing the current week’s odds, games and my NFL content and underdog picks, monitor the market moves each week and advance NFL Week 8 lookahead lines and compare as the actual week’s betting lines as provided by the leading online sportsbooks following each week’s games. For example, in Fairways Football Forecast Week 2 underdog picks, I mentioned you could and should bet the Vikings +3.5 on the lookahead line at home against the Houston Texans. It even hit +4 at the SuperBook. The Vikings went off as a +2.5 underdog and won outright as one of our Week 2 underdog picks.
Following such domination by favorites in Week 5 and record-setting result in Week 6, we see some notable adjustments in Week 7 and now the Week 8 lookahead lines with the Ravens (-9.5), Jets (-7) and Chiefs (-10) all big division road favorites.
Looking at all the injuries and impact on betting each week will assist you, or perhaps confuse you as well. Three first time quarterback starters this season were in action in Week 6, and those QB’s and teams went 0-3 SU/ATS with losers on the Patriots (D. Maye), Saints (S. Rattler) and Raiders (A. O’Connell).
NFL Week 8 Lookahead Lines 2024
Week 8 look ahead lines includes 5 division games including the key Falcons-Buccaneers NFC South first place showdow. NFL matchups and odds from top Las Vegas sportsbooks include SuperBook Las Vegas with favorites (-) listed and game total. Odds are subject to change, including on prop bets and live betting.
- Minnesota (-3) at Los Angeles Rams, 46 (Thurs)
- Tennessee at Detroit (-9.5), 45
- Baltimore (-9.5) at Cleveland, 42
- Green Bay (-3.5) at Jacksonville, 47.5
- Indianapolis at Houston (-6.5), 48.5
- Arizona at Miami (-3), 48
- Atlanta at Tampa Bay (-2.5), 49
- New York Jets (-7) at New England, 39.5
- Buffalo (-3) at Seattle, 47.5
- New Orleans at Los Angeles Chargers (-6), 39.5
- Kansas City (-10) at Las Vegas, 43.5
- Carolina at Denver (-4.5), 43
- Dallas at San Francisco (-6.5), 49.5
- New York Giants at Pittsburgh (-4), 38
Starting in Week 5 are the NFL bye weeks. And for Week 7 just two teams have a bye with NFC teams Cowboys and Bears. No teams have a bye week in Week 8.
How to use Lookahead Lines
NFL advance Lookahead Lines allow you a sneak peak at the projected lines for the following week’s games. This advance information from top online sportsbooks provides lessons in understanding lines and projections before the current week’s games are played.
The tendencies for many bettors is to over-react to previous weeks’ scores and results. The lookahead lines provide a sense of stability from the linemaker, who is unbiased in setting the lines in advance without the information from the current week’s contests.
Bettors can also gain an edge or find value in the lines once the current week’s lines are released. They do this based on not only a potential over-reaction to the recent week’s results, but by using information they have on teams including power rankings. Making adjustments is part of the process, along with formulating an opinion on certain teams. This can be based on personnel, injuries, situations and stats that come to light as the season progresses.
As you become more astue in your evaluations, betting and handicapping, you’ll be able to use your skills to project and time the market better and make more +EV bets ahead of market moves.
As you evaluate, watch, wager and live bet on the Week 1 games, be sure you review boxscores, impactful injuries, misleading stats and meaningful data from each week’s results. From there you can see where the bookmaker posts the following week’s lines on Sunday and Monday, and compare them to the lookehead lines and market moves during the week.
In the weeks ahead, we’ll compare the lookahead lines to current lines following each week’s results. We’ll shoot to chip-in added insight on key injuries, stats and situatinos that impact the market moves, and shoot for more green and profit on our NFL underdog picks.
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