Thomas Leary

Charlotte

Senior Editor at Gambling.com

Senior Editor @gambling_group with a dash of @rotowire & @bookies Past life @SBJ

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Articles

Can NBA MVPs Also Win the Finals? A Look at Recent History

2 weeks ago | rotowire.com | Thomas Leary

Utilizing Basketball-Reference.com, Rotowire.com looked at how often the NBA Most Valuable Player goes on to win the NBA Finals in that same season since 2000. With Shai Gilgeous-Alexander winning the MVP this season and the Oklahoma City Thunder still alive in the NBA Playoffs, can he join this illustrious group? Unfortunately for Thunder fans, the numbers don't tell a promising story. But it can be done.
Key to Success in NFL 2025

2 weeks ago | pennstakes.com | Steve Bittenbender |Thomas Leary

The Philadelphia Eagles are already the defending Super Bowl champions, but on Wednesday, the team celebrated another big victory as NFL owners decided against banning the â€śtush pushâ€ť at the leagueâ€™s annual spring meeting in Minnesota. Monitor the Eagles Super Bowl odds accordingly, folks.
Which NBA Player Is Fastest on Every Team? 2024-25 Speed Rankings

2 weeks ago | rotowire.com | Thomas Leary

As the Conference Finals roll on, 26 of the 30 teams in the Association are already in evaluation mode for the 2025-26 NBA season. That means GMs and scouts are looking for any analytical insight that can help them build a roster that instead has them playing into June next season. One thing coaches can't teach? Speed. Utilizing NBA.com, Rotowire.com found the players (during the 2024-25 regular season) on each team that had the highest average speed throughout the season.
Post-Derek Carr Era: Can the Saints Beat the Odds After QB Retirement?

3 weeks ago | rotowire.com | Thomas Leary

With the retirement of Derek Carr, we decided to look at how an NFL team does the season after their starting quarterback retires. Since the 2015 season, we found that 10 players officially retired while being a starting quarterback. With training camp just around the corner, let's see what trends we can glean from the Saints' situation.
Next Orioles Manager Odds

4 weeks ago | betmaryland.com | Christopher Boan |Thomas Leary

After starting the season with a win total over/under of 86.5, itâ€™s safe to say that the 2025 MLB season has fallen well short of expectations in the Charm City at Maryland sportsbooks, with the Baltimore Orioles wallowing through a miserable, 13-23 (.361) start. That total puts the Oâ€™s 7.5 games back of the New York Yankees in the AL East and well out of the closest Wild Card spot.
Who Will Win Golf’s Next Career Grand Slam? Top Contenders and Odds for 2025

1 month ago | betcarolina.com | Christopher Boan |Thomas Leary

Rory McIlroy just completed the Grand Slam at the Masters. Only 6 players in history have accomplished such a feat. Can Jordan Spieth, Xander Schauffele or Jon Rahm eventually join the club? Spieth gets the first crack at Quail Hollow for the PGA. The PGA Championship tees off at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte next week, with Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler as the favorites across North Carolina sports betting. McIlroy of course just joined the Grand Slam club with his win at The Masters.
Simulating The 2025 NBA Draft Lottery: AI Predicts #1 Pick After 10,000 Simulations

1 month ago | rotowire.com | Thomas Leary

Next Monday in Chicago, the fates of many future NBA players, as well as current GMs and coaches, will be altered, with the annual draft lottery deciding who picks where. And with a prospect like Cooper Flagg there for the taking, interest - and luck - will be at an all-time high. Utilizing ChatGPT, we used their Artificial Intelligence to simulate the lottery 10,000 times, generating the number of times each lottery team won the #1 pick – based on their official odds given by the NBA.
Top 10 Worst 5-Year MLB Starting Stretches

1 month ago | rotowire.com | Thomas Leary

With the first 30 games past us, RotoWire.com looked into the past five years of data (2021-2025 seasons) to see which MLB teams have had the worst starting stretches. We used Baseball-Reference.com for the results from each team's first 30 games, and ranked teams based on lowest to highest 5-year winning percentage. RankTeamAvg.
Most Impactful Injuries In The First Month of MLB Season

1 month ago | rotowire.com | Thomas Leary

A month into the 2025 season, RotoWire.com wanted to see what the most impactful injury of the first month of the MLB campaign has been. Using RotoWire.com's Injury Report, we ranked all MLB players who have been injured within the first month of the season and ranked them based on careervWAR, according to Baseball-Reference.com, to see the impact they have on their team by not playing.
Who Will Be Broncos’ Starting RB in 2025? Top Contenders For Denver Broncos

1 month ago | betcolorado.com | Christopher Boan |Thomas Leary

Now that the 2025 NFL Draft has concluded, each of the 32 teams in the league are hard at work trying to winnow their rosters down to 53 men by the time the summer wraps up, which got us at BetColorado.com thinking about who Denver Broncos head coach Sean Payton will go with in 2025. With that in mind, we came up with some hypothetical odds on which running back will be atop the team’s depth chart in 2025, with second round pick R.J. Harvey of UCF leading the way right now.