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yeah the multiple events stuff is a double edge sword, canceled fights take away value, or bad weight cuts, on the flip, i get early lines where lines move dramatically and i keep the value.This same argument has been rehashed over and over and over on this forum. I always find the "parlays are better!" and "parlays are a long term loser!" arguments to be weird. If you actually want to look at it purely from an objective mathematical standpoint...parlays don't add or take away any value. There's a psychological aspect to betting, so if Stat is able to stay more centered and is less likely to tilt because he risks less to win more, that matters. He may win less often, but when he does they are bigger hits. On the flipside, there can be more risk if you're spreading it out over multiple events, etc. Because of odds shifts, new information, etc. You can have 3 legs hit of a 4 leg parlay and then a few days before the final leg of your parlay you learn something that makes you wish you hadn't locked in the bet tied into the others that you've already won.
Basically, the short version is that there's good and bad about them. Which is true about most things.
Another thing that Nick is missing out is that we all do parlays in one form or another. If you win a straight bet 1 week and you earn 1k and then you take the total 2k and make another straight bet. That is essentially a parlay , you just did it from a smaller pool in a longer time span.
I would rather evaluate 100 fighters in a single weekend and choose the best 3-6 best ones and bunch them up together now instead of waiting for future cards to scatter my winnings into isolated bets.
I also have nothing against straight bets. He was bragging about Cossio(who i mentioned in the bellator forum) and Cossio was losing 2 rnds down and came back from behind. That is in no way a bet i would feel proud to single bet, neither Aldrich or Bill did feel merited a single straight bet. All of those fights were between young strong fighters with equal or near skill level.
Leah McCourt was the only regret i had this weekend. She had youth and size and was a 240+ dog opening lines. That is the type of straight ML bets i make. The ones where you don't need to over explain or go to deep to validate.