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by DrScump 3817 days ago
"Just by betting on west coast teams in every Monday Night Football game where they played east coast teams you’d beat the point spread 70% of the time. NFL teams that crossed three time zones for a game “were twice as likely to be beaten by a lower-ranked opponent in the tournament’s first round.”

Those are conflicting conditions (Monday Night Football is not a tournament with rounds), so this data (at least) is suspect.