NFL Week 1 Recap

Much of what gambling news will be featuring centers on football. After all, the NFL opening its latest season is one of the most awaited events in the past few months. Many football fans believe that the first week of the NFL sets the pace, or at least the tone, of what we can expect from the league for the year. Some may brush it off as typical start-of-the-season behavior. But still, let’s take an NFL Week 1 recap and see what happened.

So far, we have a lot of strange outcomes in the first week of the NFL. Most of them are different from what we have seen in the preseason. And for those who use white label sports betting, this will be considered when managing lines for the season. In fact, some of these upsets were quite surprising, it must have been good for some bookies.

NFL Week 1

Some of the upsets that were quite surprising to a few in our team, were the Packers losing to the Saints, the Steelers beating the Bills, and the Cardinals beating the Titans even on the road. And its not just because of the lineups, as the numbers speaks for itself. If we look at the sports betting numbers for Week 1, winners came in as underdogs. They only had a 49.8% chance to win. This is only the 4^th time since the 1970 NFL-AFL merger that this has happened. The success rate of these teams were only at 37.5%, at 6-10.

This is one of the most unpredictable Week 1 of The NFL’s whole history. The winners’ average win probability is at 49.8%, while the favorites winning percentage is only at 37.5%. Meaning, those who rooted for the underdogs got a good payday if they were actively betting in majority of the NFL week 1 games.