Weighing the Odds in Sports Betting
- ISBN13: 9780935926309
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Sports betting can be attacked intelligently. Smart sports bettors do not gamble the same way as tourists play roulette or retirees play the slot machines. Instead, smart sports bettors are making bets that they have thought through carefully with supporting logic and/or research. The purpose of this book is to give you tools to succeed at sports betting, to show you how to evaluate, compare and view sports betting from an analytical perspective, not from a gambling… More >>
Weighing the Odds in Sports Betting
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The book gives the basics, but some are questionable. The author needs to move into the 21st century and realise that Vegas is a shadow and online books are the way to go. How many readers will interested in hearing about the heat in Nevada? He needed to tackle this from an online perspective, as this is how most people bet.
There is no talk of College football or hoops, nor is the NBA regular season mentioned
Also, the author does not understand efficient markets and fails to realise that the more a market is efficient, the harder it is to beat
Rating: 2 / 5
The information in this book is only insightful to those who have no idea how sports betting works. If you have done any serious betting yourself you will already know 95% of everything written.
Rating: 1 / 5
Can a book be too good? First, you must decide what is meant by “good” . . . Deep insight to some, is inscrutable for others. I’ve run a major sports betting website for many years, and what is undebatable is that the average fan is looking for guidelines, rather than a complicated forumla. But if you are looking to dig deeper, this book offers valuable insight.
Rating: 4 / 5
If you are new to sports betting I strongly recommend buying this book and Stanford Wong’s Sharp Sports Betting. These are the two quintessential books for the beginning bettor. Reading the two books will take you from a total newb to an advanced beginner in the shortest time possible and will make you +EV in sports betting to a certain degree.
Rating: 5 / 5
Really did enjoy this book and will refer to it again and again to re-inforce some of the material in here. Very sound advice and the content is easily grasped. My only criticism (and it’s a minor issue) is that some of the topics aren’t covered in deep enough detail (IMO) i.e. Some of the topics are written in 2-3 paragraphs when I felt they needed a little more in depth coverage on them.
That aside, it’s a good read and useful resource in a genre where quality is hard to come by.
Rating: 4 / 5