{"id":5037,"date":"2018-04-19T03:40:18","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T03:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=5037"},"modified":"2018-04-19T03:40:18","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T03:40:18","slug":"the-overwatch-league-betting-tips-for-stage-3-week-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/the-overwatch-league-betting-tips-for-stage-3-week-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Overwatch League &#8211; Betting Tips for Stage 3 Week 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/overwatch-league\/\" title=\"Overwatch League betting\">Overwatch League<\/a> is about to enter week 3 of Stage 3 and as always there are 12 matches to be played from Wednesday till Saturday. A whole variety of betting opportunities are available this week but before I start analyzing them, let\u2019s take a look at the current standings table.<\/p>\n<h2>Stage 3 standings table<\/h2>\n<ul>\n1st place: Los Angeles Valiant (4 WINS \u2013 0 LOSSES)<br \/>\n2nd place: Boston Uprising (4 WINS \u2013 0 LOSSES)<br \/>\n3rd place: New York Excelsior (3 WINS \u2013 1 LOSS)<br \/>\n4th place: Los Angeles Gladiators (3 WINS \u2013 1 LOSS)<br \/>\n5th place: Philadelphia Fusion (3 WINS \u2013 1 LOSS)<br \/>\n6th place: Seoul Dynasty (2 WINS \u2013 2 LOSSES)<br \/>\n7th place: San Francisco Shock (2 WINS \u2013 2 LOSSES)<br \/>\n8th place: Dallas Fuel (1 WIN \u2013 3 LOSSES)<br \/>\n9th place: London Spitfire (1 WIN \u2013 3 LOSSES)<br \/>\n10th place: Houston Outlaws (1 WIN \u2013 3 LOSSES)<br \/>\n11th place: Florida Mayhem (0 WINS \u2013 4 LOSSES)<br \/>\n12th place: Shanghai Dragons (0 WINS \u2013 4 LOSSES)\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Betting predictions<\/h2>\n<h3>Houston Outlaws (1W \u2013 3L) vs. Florida Mayhem (0W \u2013 4L)<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Match date:<\/strong> April 19th<\/p>\n<p>After finishing Stage 1 on the podium and getting a mediocre result in Stage 2 (7th place), Houston Outlaws started Stage 3 with some bad results and a victory against London Spitfire. Keep in mind however that these bad results came against the 3 strongest teams in OWL at the moment, namely Boston Uprising, New York Excelsior and Philadelphia Fusion. And 2 of these 3 matches were actually really close (score 2 \u2013 3). Subsequently, we can conclude that in spite of its poor start, Houston Outlaws is actually a very strong team that will likely crush weak adversaries like Florida Mayhem.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Betting prediction:<\/strong> Houston Outlaws to win, paying -400 with <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/go\/betonline\/\"  title=\"Claim bonus at BetOnline\"  target=\"_blank\">BetOnline<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Boston Uprising (4W \u2013 0L) vs. London Spitfire (1W \u2013 3L)<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Match date:<\/strong> April 19th<\/p>\n<p>Here we have another deceptive match between a team that\u2019s 4W \u2013 0L so far in Stage 3, and one that\u2019s 1W \u2013 3L. However, keep in mind that London Spitfire won Stage 1 and then finished Stage 2 in 3rd place. In Stage 3, it lost 3 matches against 3 tough opponents: Houston Outlaws (2 \u2013 3), New York Excelsior (0 \u2013 4) and Philadelphia Fusion (2 \u2013 3).<br \/>\nThe head to head record between these two teams is 1 \u2013 1. Overall performance favors London Spitfire. Current form statistics favor Boston Uprising. The last direct encounter ended with a crushing victory in favor of London Spitfire (4 \u2013 0).<br \/>\nThis match is highly unpredictable but I&#8217;m leaning slightly towards Boston Uprising.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Betting prediction: <\/strong>Boston Uprising to win. A bet on its victory with a +1.5 maps advantage would be the safest betting option, because the match could go easily finish with a 2 \u2013 3 or 3 \u2013 2 result. You can place this bet at <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/go\/betonline\/\"  title=\"Claim bonus at BetOnline\"  target=\"_blank\">BetOnline<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Philadelphia Fusion (3W \u2013 1L) vs. New York Excelsior (3W \u2013 1L)<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Match date:<\/strong> April 19th<\/p>\n<p>This is another close match between two teams that have already met each other several times, with an overall score of 2 \u2013 1 in favor of New York Excelsior. In principle, the New York team should win this match with the score of 3 \u2013 2 or 3 \u2013 1. But its latest defeat against Boston Uprising emphasized some serious weaknesses in its strategies.<br \/>\nOverall performance favors New York Excelsior. Current form statistics also favor it slightly, in spite of its loss against Boston Uprising. The match will be close but the New York team is should win it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Betting prediction:<\/strong> New York Excelsior to win, paying -175.44 with <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/go\/betonline\/\"  title=\"Claim bonus at BetOnline\"  target=\"_blank\">BetOnline<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Overwatch League is about to enter week 3 of Stage 3 and as always there are 12 matches to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":5040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[113,117,115,118,119,85,112],"class_list":["post-5037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","tag-boston-uprising","tag-florida-mayhem","tag-houston-outlaws","tag-london-spitfire","tag-new-york-excelsior","tag-overwatch-league","tag-philadelphia-fusion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5037"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5042,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5037\/revisions\/5042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}