Are you looking for a handicapper? Well, just look at the mirror and you’ll find one. Yup, I’m serious: you are a handicapper. The very fact that you’ve stumbled upon this article means that you are very much into sports betting – and would like to see your numbers improve. [Read more…]
Researching Your Own Sports Picks
Sports betting has become so popular in recent years that it is now seemingly impossible for amateur and inexperienced bettors to find reliable sources that are safe bets. Many of the websites claiming to be experts offering free picks, are merely attempting to increase traffic to profit from marketing promotions or affiliate links. Even some of the more the professionally designed websites’ primary focus is generating advertising revenue, not making sound bets. Aside from vapid websites, amateur bettors should also be weary of picks coming from media pundits on major networks like ESPN.
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Handicappers and Confidence Levels
Sports handicappers typically have professional experience in either applied mathematics or in statistics and probabilities. Handicappers without the professional experience typically have obtained extensive knowledge in advanced mathematics during their maturation in the sports betting sector. Some of the most famous and successful handicappers include Haralabos Voulgaris, Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder and Billy Walters. Handicappers commonly use advanced techniques from statistics in order to create unique betting systems and reliable confidence levels to help predict the potential outcomes of select games. Handicappers use data and math models to mitigate as much of the guess work as possible when gauging lines in a sportsbook.
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What Is Handicapping Guarantee Scam
The sports handicapping websites “guarantee” scams have seemingly evolved into their own industry over the past few years. The number of websites making exorbitant promises are akin to get-rich schemes– the equivalent of any rudimentary online scams we have seen come into fruition in recent times. Today, it seems there are far more of these scams than reputable handicappers offering their services on in the internet. However, rather than paint with a broad brush and eliminate them all, amateur gamblers should take the time to figure out how to distinguish the real handicappers from the frauds.
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Sabotaging Your Own Sports Bet
When you make a bet, you place money hoping that you’d win. If you have done your research and homework, you stand a good chance that you’d win your bet. However there are things you do that can undermine your chances of winning. Avoid these pitfalls and increase your chances of winning. [Read more…]
Why Timing Is Critical for Winning Picks
Odds and pointspreads are not writ in stone. The reason oddsmakers set odds and pointspreads is to draw enough people to place bets on opposite sides of a contest. When bookies succeed in doing that, they turn in a profit. Even match-ups are rare in most sports contests. Instead, you have one team (the favorite) which has an edge over the other (the underdog). The edge may be slight or overwhelming. In such cases, most people would place their money on the perceived favorite. Such a situation wouldn’t be profitable for sportsbooks and bookies. [Read more…]
Sports Betting Myths
As the sports betting industry has matured and expanded over the past few years, it’s becoming more difficult for the average bettor to delineate myths from helpful tips. The bottom line is, anyone can give tips, but few are qualified to do so. Being able to distinguish fact from fiction should help the average layperson make more informed decisions about which bets to make. Identifying sports betting myths can also help bettors differentiate between reliable and illegitimate sources of information. Listed below are some commonplace myths accompanied by a brief elaboration on each. [Read more…]
Profit by Fading Bad Handicappers
You read it correctly: You can use the services of a bad handicapper and still make money. Of course you may ask, “Why should I use a bad handicapper?” Our answer is, “Don’t ask us ‘Why?’ but ‘How?’”
Nobody wants to use a bad handicapper. No one wants to pay good money to get poor advice, right? But the reality is: Sometimes you feel you made the right selection when your choice turned out to be a lemon. Or so, his current performance suggests. [Read more…]
Why Use a Sports Handicapper
What is the difference between sports betting and other forms of gambling? In the latter you have not much to go by in making a bet. For example, when you are asked to choose between heads or tails in the toss of a coin, you may wrack your brains trying to decide which to choose. But whatever you choose, either option has an equal 50% chance of winning. Assuming of course that the coin is not doctored. [Read more…]
How Betting Records Are Manipulated
A successful record is a handicapper’s only means to qualify their expertise in sports betting. Unfortunately, there are many scam artists online, fraudulently presenting themselves as successful handicappers.. Some people will falsify records in an attempt to lure in clients and increase their subscriber base. There are also legitimate handicappers who exaggerate their own success for similar reasons. Its relatively safe to assume that a significant number of handicappers online either fabricate, lie, hide or misrepresent their own betting records. However, because records are so important to reputable handicappers, it’s relatively easy to detect which professionals are genuine, and which ones are frauds. [Read more…]
How Sports Monitoring Sites Go Wrong
One way to find out if a sports handicapping service or handicapper is good is to see if it is being monitored by an independent, unbiased sports monitoring agency. The latter are in the business of tracking and documenting the performance of handicappers and verify if their claims (especially their winning percentage) are true. [Read more…]
Spotting Bad Sports Betting Service
As with any product or service, sports betting services, sports pick services and handicapping services basically come in three types – the good, the mediocre and the cheats. Put in another way, they can be classified as 1) those who are good in what they are doing; 2) those who do know what they are doing or are not that good in forecasting winners; and 3) those who are good — in ripping off customers. There are not too many betting or handicapping services in the first category. A bettor would have to do a lot of research (and even personal interviews with the handicappers) to really find the crème of the crop. [Read more…]
Why Good Handicappers Can Still Lose
Why do good handicappers lose? Or more correctly, why do good handicappers make wrong calls? The answer to that is “Why not?” Handicappers are only human. They, like the sports teams or athletes they predict outcomes on, also have their “off days.” “You win some, you lose some,” as the saying goes. But if you think that explanation is too flippant, let’s go mathematical. [Read more…]
Winning Units vs Winning Games
So you are new to using sports handicappers and are now ready to look for one. You zero in on two handicappers: Handicapper A has a 60% success record in calling games while Handicapper B has a 55% record. If you picked Handicapper A based on his winning percentage alone, then you’re indeed new to sports handicapping. There’s another parameter you have to look at – and that is “unit.” Total units won is a better gauge of a handicapper’s skill than winning percentages. [Read more…]
How Winning Records Lose Money
It sounds crazy to new bettors but a winning record can still lose money. You can win more bets than you lose – and still end up losing money. It’s not really puzzling when you take into account three concepts in sports betting: the vig the moneyline, and the cost of picks. [Read more…]
What are Scamdicappers?
If you are seriously ill, you wouldn’t want to treat yourself; you would consult a doctor. Ditto with sports betting. If you seriously want to increase your winning percentage in betting, you would consult a professional sports handicapper. Well, the adjective “professional” says it all. The sports handicapper follows your favorite sport – be it NFL, NBA, MLB, NCAA, NHL or whatever other sport – more ardently than you do. The truly professional sports handicappers take their pursuit as a full-time job or even their passion. They study the sport and latest developments at least 40 hours in a week. The result is that the good ones have a good data base of information about the sport of their choice. From this data base, they can come up with calculated and educated forecast. [Read more…]
Sports Handicapping Myths
As the sports betting industry has matured and expanded over the past few years, it’s becoming more difficult for the average bettor to delineate myths from helpful tips. The bottom line is, anyone can give tips, but few are qualified to do so. Being able to distinguish fact from fiction should help the average layperson make more informed decisions about which bets to make. Identifying sports betting myths can also help bettors differentiate between reliable and illegitimate sources of information. Listed below are some commonplace myths accompanied by a brief elaboration on each. [Read more…]
Why Handicappers Give Free Picks
One of the most effective techniques in marketing promotion is the giving away of free samples. You see it in supermarkets and malls. People line up for a small plastic glass of free juice or coffee. If you like the taste, you come back and buy the merchandise. If there were no free sampling, you probably would not buy it. Why? You have no idea of how the product tastes. [Read more…]
Calculating Sports Handicapping Cost
The story is told about a business tycoon whose personal safe was jammed. Unable to open it, he placed an ad in the papers seeking the help of anyone who can safely open the safe. A young man came and offered to open the safe for $100. The tycoon agreed. The young man then took a look at the safe, knocked at a certain area of the door and kicked one side of the safe. To the wonderment of all, the safe opened. The young man then asked for his $100. [Read more…]
Profiting from Sports Handicappers
Insanity may be defined doing the same thing again and again and yet expecting a different result the next time. In sports betting, you can fit that definition of insanity if you keep on betting and having a so-so record of betting success because you used your own information and resources. You may need expert advice. It is called professional sports handicapping. [Read more…]