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It's the National League playoff finals this weekend, with the Regional matches hosted by the higher seeded club. In the North, that's Boston who play Altrincham. The hosts finished 3rd in the table, while their opponents finished 5th and when the two clubs met earlier this season, Boston won 5-0 at home. In the South, it's a 3rd v 6th match-up with Dartford winning two Away games to win a third at Weymouth where they lost 1:3 earlier this season. Looking at the 11 years of data for regional finals, the Draw is the profitable strategy with a 7.14 unit profit from the 22 matches, with at least one of the Finals ended all-square since 2013. Only one of those Draws had an odds-on favourite, and neither match tomorrow does.  The playoff game for a place in the Football League next season is at neutral Wembley, where Notts County are favourites against Harrogate Town.  Favourites since 2004 have a 5% ROI but again, the sample size is small. Notts County are the hottest favourit...

The Home Advantage question now has another angle in the MLB where the Blue Jays will not only be playing in an empty stadium, but will now be playing their 'Home' games in a foreign country. Having been denied permission to host games in Toronto this year, the franchise will be temporarily moving, with Buffalo a possible venue. The good news is that Buffalo Blue Jays is a pleasant sounding alliteration, although I imagine they will officially remain the Toronto Blue Jays in the record books wherever they end up. With only ten games until their "Home" opener, there's not much time for the Blue Jays to get organised. The shortened 60 game season starts on Thursday.  In the National League (the English football one, not the MLB's),  six club play-offs , Home teams continued to struggle with just one win from the four regional Quarter-Final matches yesterday. Results for the Quarter-Final and Semi-Final matches since this format was adopted are now: With the Home...