What Bye Week means
A bye week is a scheduled week off during the regular season for a specific team. It's relevant to betting because rested teams have historically performed slightly better against the spread in the game immediately following their bye, a mild but persistent situational trend that shows up across multiple NFL seasons.
Key points
- A bye week is a scheduled week off during the regular season for a specific team.
- It's relevant to betting because rested teams have historically performed slightly better against the spread in the game immediately following their bye, a mild but persistent situational trend that shows up across multiple NFL seasons.
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In practice
It's relevant to betting because rested teams have historically performed slightly better against the spread in the game immediately following their bye, a mild but persistent situational trend that shows up across multiple NFL seasons.
Related glossary terms
These terms sit in the same part of the betting vocabulary and are useful to read next.
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