Now that 2023 is in the rearview mirror, it’s time to look ahead to the 2024 sports calendar and make some bold betting predictions for the next 365 days.
We’ll start with the stadium, but next year we’d like to gradually expand into the entire world of sports betting.
The year of parity begins with the NFL playoffs.
The 2022-23 NFL Playoffs were a pretty chalky season, culminating in a Super Bowl matchup between the No. 1 seeds, but don’t expect the same to happen this winter.
The Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers have been separated from the pack in their respective conferences, while outsiders like the Los Angeles Rams and Cleveland Browns are gaining attention at the perfect time. The top seeds all look vulnerable.
This is a good recipe for chaos, and similar situations are not limited to the NFL.
Other leagues, especially the NHL, have glorious stretch runs.
Andrei Rublev will win the tennis grand slam
Andrei Rublev’s tennis career so far has been about falling short in important moments.
Although the 26-year-old Russian has a firm grip on the top 10 and has plenty of trophies under his mantle (including the Masters 1000 title), Rublev has never reached a Grand Slam tournament. He has never made it to the semifinals. Nine quarterfinals were held.
This is the year that Rublev not only overturns his disastrous loss in the quarterfinals, but also wins big money at one of the Grand Slams.
Viktor Hovland emerges as favorite to win the Masters
Jon Rahm is currently the favorite to win the Green Jackets, but the Spaniard’s jump to LIV makes you wonder if the betting market will cool on him in 2023 like they have with several other defectors Of course.
Hovland ended the season in style and has already performed well at Augusta, so it won’t be long before he’s at the top of the odds board by the time he rolls down Magnolia Lane.
Long shot to advance to Euro 2024 semi-finals
Major international soccer tournaments are almost always won by the favorites, but recent history has shown that dark horses are expected to reach the semi-finals.
Morocco are 2022 World Cup semi-finalists, Denmark reached the last four at Euro 2020 and Wales were badly beaten in the Euro 2016 semi-finals four years ago.
So while one of the big boys is likely to lift the trophy, don’t be surprised if we see a number of players swinging for sleepers, including Austria, Hungary, Romania and Serbia, ahead of this summer’s high-profile football tournaments. please.
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Winnipeg Jets bandwagon will be full before spring
Don’t look now. But Winnipeg’s Jets are right in his race for the President’s Trophy.
Winnipeg is a small-market team and doesn’t have the star power that other teams in the Western Conference boast, but they have a solid structure, deep depth, and one of the best goaltenders in the world. This team is very difficult to deal with. Best of seven series.
The Jets entered 2024 with the third-highest scoring percentage in the league, but are still 30/1 out of winning the Stanley Cup.
Don’t expect these numbers to last long.