Sports Edge! Graphs
Line charts are very useful in helping to visualize team patterns of game results and performance trending.
Within several of the matchup screens that list chronological game data, a line chart
is displayed based on one of several listed team stat values. Particularly
useful is the W/L by point margin using a rolling avg which shows the relative
strength of two teams that can be used to compare to the current game line.
Below is a recent game log chart for a NCAA Basketball game showing 8 game avg
W/L margin over the prior 27 games. The Red line
tracks the road team and we can see that Miss St. coming into todays game (far
right of graph) is trending upward while
Tennessee (Blue line) is trending downward. While schedule difficulty is a big factor
in determing the chart pattern, the fact remains that when comparing the Home
team (blue line) to the red line throughout the 27 game timeline, rarely is there ever a win loss spread
average with
the home team stronger than today's -9
point spread. This is an indication of value with taking the road team, Miss St. and the
points.
Since College sports are significantly dependent on the site location, it makes sense to also look at the Site Specific game chart as well.
Below is for the same game only this time only using past home games for the
home team and past road games for the road team. Again, here we can see
that the home team is somewhat overvalued with a -9 pt spread. End result,
home team wins by 2 but does not cover the -9 spread.