Superbowl cointoss help ...

[bigsportsguy2006]

my shop is offering this bet ...

WHAT WILL HOME TEAM CALL FOR OPENING COIN TOSS
(WAGER IS OFFICIAL AFTER CHOICE IS MADE)
Feb 07 1003 HEADS -115
3:10 PM 1004 TAILS -115


i have a couple questions for everyone ...

1) who is the 'home' team, does anyone know?

2) does anyone know where i could find a listing of what teams have called for cointosses throughout the year?

i would think a team is more than likely to always say the same thing ... and if so, i think this might be a decent play ... any idea where i can find what saints or colts (whoever is the 'home' team) maybe have called for every other game this year?


thanks in advance if you can answer either one of my questions!!

-bsg

[Romanowski]

home team is indy

gl with question #2 lol

[bigsportsguy2006]

after some research, i have determined that INDIANAPOLIS is the 'home team' ... they switch every year for the home team .... even years is the AFC, and odd years is the NFC ...


so anyone know a good 'coin toss' website for the colts regular season games???

[Romanowski]

the world needs a site dedicated to tracking coin tosses, cmon people

[pittviper]

Betting on the Super Bowl Coin Toss
by Matt Severance - 1/26/2010


It’s easily the most ridiculous bet of the NFL season but it’s also beautifully symbolic as to why the Super Bowl is the Holy Grail in terms of betting options each year: You can wager on the coin toss.

Obviously, betting on the Super Bowl coin toss is going to be even odds on heads or tails no matter where you bet – BetED has it at -110, while Bodog opened its coin toss odds at -105 for each. And, scarily enough, the most overwhelming Super Bowl betting trend of the past 12 years has been the coin toss: the NFC has won it 12 years in a row and is 29-14 all-time in calling the right side of the coin. The odds of one conference winning 12 Super Bowl coin tosses in a row is more than 1 in 2,000 (if my math is right – you have to start at the second win because it’s 50-50 on a conference winning the first one).

The Saints are the visiting team this year and thus will call it – of course they benefited from the Vikings calling wrongly to start overtime in the NFC title game. Last year we saw some history on the coin toss. The Cardinals won it (Pittsburgh incorrectly called tails) but deferred to the second half. Pittsburgh received the opening kickoff, marking the first time in Super Bowl history that the coin toss winner kicked off to start the game. The league just changed the rule last year allowing the coin toss winner to defer. For what it’s worth, only three teams during the regular season opted to defer when winning the coin toss against the Colts: Baltimore, Denver and New England. Indianapolis scored TDs on their first drives against the Ravens and Broncos but went three-and-out against the Pats – this is something to consider on those “first team to score” prop bets if the Saints win the toss (but there’s likely no way the Saints put their defense on the field first).

The loser of the coin toss has won 10 of the last 13 Super Bowls, so it obviously has little bearing on the actual result. The winners of the toss have won 20 of the 43 games overall. In the last 13 Super Bowls, heads has won eight times. The past four teams to make their Super Bowl debut – Cardinals, Seahawks, Panthers and Buccaneers – all won the coin toss. But only the Bucs won the game.

What you might need to do is determine which way the referee holds the coin on Super Sunday and have your hand ready on the “bet now” button. A 2007 study titled "Dynamical Bias In The Coin Flip" and published in the “Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Review” concluded that a coin is more likely to land facing the same side on which it started -- at least 51 percent likelihood but up to as much as 55! So if heads is facing up when the coin is on a person’s thumb, then it’s more likely to come up as heads when flipped and vice versa. One would think researchers at Stanford and UC Santa Cruz would have better things to do than this, but it truly was a study.

After reading this NFL piece head over to our Bet Football Conference winners page. If you plan on betting NFL you'll also want to read our NFL Season Win Total Predictions page. Our NFL Preseason Betting Tips page is also a valuable tool for your NFL research. For more NFL articles and free picks visit our homepage and view the "Doc's Daily Medicine" section.

And this year’s coin will have traveled quite a distance to get to Miami. It was brought into space by the crew of space shuttle Atlantis in November. It is being presented to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, on Wednesday and then will be brought to South Florida.

[bigsportsguy2006]

yea ... im a little confused as to why my website would have "what will home team call for opening coin toss" ... since the VISITOR (saints) will be calling the toss

[pittviper]

This is all from wikipedia.

NFC have won the past 12 coin tosses .. most consecutive ever.
* All teams that have won the coin toss in the Super Bowl (ever) have elected to receive.*

2009: "The Steelers called tails, but it landed on heads" -- HEADS
2008: "After calling tails to win the coin toss, the Giants started the game" -- TAILS
2007: Not sure. Bears won it
2006: "Coin toss, the result of which toss was tails, as selected by Seattle." -- TAILS

etc. You can do the rest of the work if you'd like.

[bigsportsguy2006]

thanks PV ... i am more concentrated on seeing if the new orleans saints have called the same thing during regular season games this year every time to start the game. For instance, if they always call 'heads', then it might be something to consider that the team always does the same thing and that could be a decent bet.

[FalconFreak]

Originally Posted by bigsportsguy2006

my shop is offering this bet ...

WHAT WILL HOME TEAM CALL FOR OPENING COIN TOSS
(WAGER IS OFFICIAL AFTER CHOICE IS MADE)
Feb 07 1003 HEADS -115
3:10 PM 1004 TAILS -115


i have a couple questions for everyone ...

1) who is the 'home' team, does anyone know?

2) does anyone know where i could find a listing of what teams have called for cointosses throughout the year?

i would think a team is more than likely to always say the same thing ... and if so, i think this might be a decent play ... any idea where i can find what saints or colts (whoever is the 'home' team) maybe have called for every other game this year?


thanks in advance if you can answer either one of my questions!!

-bsg

Just flip a coin

[PHILLYBIRDS20]

just flip a coin

[bigsportsguy2006]

falcon freak PB's ghost?? hmmmmm

[bigsportsguy2006]

tryin to actually get a smart wager in fellas ... appreciate the jokes, but trying to see if anyone actually has knowledge of what the saints have called in prior games this season

[smet9772]

I always bet on heads because I like head

[pittviper]

BS guy (big sports guy. haha) nobody on here is going to know what New Orleans has called for heads or tails on all their road games this season .. you're either going to need to start re-watching some footage, or search google.

[pittviper]

Originally Posted by smet9772

I always bet on heads because I like head

I always bet on tails, because I like tail