i want to start handicapping sports on my own. so i will get together some database and analyze the numbers. what is a sport and what is a good bet or prop to start out with for a beginner and why?

edit: i guess the title should be, "advice please, WHERE to start HANDICAPPING"

nascar. or at least that's sigley's new area, must be some money there.

that was a joke. don't handicap nascar. in fact, don't handicap anything, just sign up at sharkysports. they got you.

Boxing

Always bet on PBF and Pacquio

EZ game

given that you made this thread, i'm gonna go out on a limb and say that you're probably incapable of handicapping anything successfully

but if you do decide to pursue it, indian premier league prices are way off i hear

countdown to rsigley posting some easy way to make >100k in a year that op completely doesnt understand.

but seriously, aussie rules is the way to go. its just a fun sport to watch

I don't understand how hard it is to look at full game line and use that to derive prices for quarters/halves. i've only been posting about it 5 years and is part of the reason people liked me then because i went something like +70u in ncaaf in 6 weeks doing it, then i used all that money + wong teaser money (another so simple concept that people fail with every week) to learn how to handicap. There's so many places where free data is available and if you don't know how to write a script to parse it just use time to learn or do it manually.

or how hard is it to blindly bet home team in 1st inning K which went +220u when i posted it last year and 307-245-325 (35.01%) +50.75u so far this year

When I first started doing this and saw all the off lines in halves/quarters/and other derivatives (e.g. team totals) i wondered why books offered them and how they stayed in business, but then I found this forum and saw how ignorant a majority of the posters are and how they can't do simple math or have self control and now I understand it doesn't even matter in the long run.

im somewhat new here so i dont know this one but i agree completely with everything you said. it is shocking how easy it is but how bad some people are at it

Rsigley, how does it feel being king of the idiots?

PLEASE ELABORATE

IF YOU Follow my advice you wouldn't have ot be begging for a stake

posting things that noone here has the ability to achieve e.g. deriving when it requires a massive db to develop a formula to profitably derive smth

i bet you could even post romantic poems here and people would think youre so great

no one here has the ability to go to sbrodds or oddsportal or the many sites with free public archives and manually type the full games lines and quarter scores into excel and do basic math? what will that take, 2 days max to archive years of data by hand?

pretty much that, yes

Tukkk, his question was of the rhetorical variety.

no it wasn't. are you ever right about anything?