Wineguy you bring back some very fine memories. Unfortunately they did fizzle out after a couple of really good years. Its funny but I thought that was one of my secrets that I never posted anywhere! After two good years of playing those, the NBA allowed zone defenses. I thought that this would make the 3rd quarter under even more valuable, as I envisioned teams changing up their defenses after the halftime break, playing zones starting the 2nd half and teams missing jump shots early until they got warmed up, etc. I figured IF the books did not adjust the totals down, that this was going to be the road to easy money. Luckily I still started that year out playing small and it was a good thing I did as I think there were more overs than unders by a big margin, at least at the beginning. Since that time up until this year I kept track of league O/U's for the 2nd and 3rd quarter and the unders never came back in the 3rd quarter. One trend that has been consistent for the last few years is that there have been a lot more 2nd quarter overs than unders, enough that in some of those years if you had played every over in the 2nd quarter for the whole year you would have turned a fair profit. This trend does not interest me much as I am a pretty hardcore under player, and when I do play any over my teams go cold in a hurry.
The only forum I have followed the last few years here has been the golf forum, so I don't know if you and BadAngel (and anybody else here) have posted many plays, but please feel free to post plays or ideas in any of my threads. I hope to hang around for awhile and not get discouraged by too many bad streaks.
