posted May 9, 2008 at 20:05 in Other Articles

AFL bettors get another late night helping of Arena Football betting action to wrap their hands around when the (5-4) New York Dragons invade the Staples Center to take on the (4-6) Los Angeles Avengers. The Dragons were on their “bye” week during the AFL’s 10th week of action, while the Avengers churned out a gritty 66-59 home win and cover making their AFL betting backers very happy in the process. New York enters tonight’s contest 1-3 SU and against the spread on the road this season, but overall, they’ve made their pointspread backers some decent coin by going 6-3 ATS. Los Angeles is both 3-2 SU and ATS in the comfy confines of their own arena, but they’ve proven to be a losing team both SU and ATS this season by going 4-6 overall in both categories. They did however snap its two game losing streak both SU and ATS vs. Arizona last week.

Coming into Week 11’s AFL action, the NY Dragons sit four games in back of the National Conference’s Eastern Division leading Philadelphia Soul with a 5-4 SU mark, and they come into tonight’s contest winners of four in a row both SU and ATS. As for the Avengers, they sit one-game in back the San Jose Sabercats for the top spot in the Western Division of the American Conference. This will be just the sixth match-up between these two franchises as the Avengers have a stranglehold on the series winning four of the five match-ups both straight-up and against the spread. However, NY notched its first win of the series back in 2006 when they went into the Staples Center and upended the Avengers 70-61 as three-point road favorites. The 131 combined points soared over the closing ‘total’ of 112 to make the over 3-1 ATS in the L/4 overall meetings.

Oddsmakers tagged the Dragons 4.5-points better than the hosting Avengers with the ‘total’ set at a lofty 111.5. BetUS.com offers all the Week 11 Arena Football lines, so be sure to log into your account before the opening kick at 10:30 ET.

The Dragons have played some phenomenal defense to start the season that’s seen the under cash in six of their nine lined games this season. The under is a perfect 3-0 ATS when they’ve lined up against non-conference opposition, and it’s cashed all three times they played in a game with the total equal to or greater than 110. That said, LA is fighting for its playoff lives and the over has cashed in 4 of their 5 home games this season. It’s also 4-1 ATS when the total is equal to or greater than 110. Historically, this has been a high scoring series, so look for that to continue tonight regardless of how well NY’s defense has played throughout its L/5 games.

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