Thursday NBA Odds, Predictions: Profitable Pick for Mavericks vs. Pelicans (Feb. 17)

Mavericks vs. Pelicans on Thursday night fits a historically profitable betting system.

This 8 p.m. ET tipoff jibes with a proprietary PRO algorithm that has a 12% return on investment (ROI) since 2005. Of course, anything above 0% is an ROI win. Any ROI above 8% beats the stock market's average annual return.

For reference, Bitcoin is down roughly 20% since this time last year.

Since 2005, if you had wagered on the roughly 45 NBA games per year that have fit this algorithm, you'd be up about $7,000.

That's about $425 per year, good for a solid 57% win rate over a lengthy sample size. For reference, a success rate of 52.5% is enough to turn a profit.

Read further to see what the system is, the theory behind it and how to incorporate it for this afternoon.

The 57% ATS, 12% ROI Pick for Thursday