In order to gain experience of development in Meteor rapidly, I'm building two open source projects related to gambling. The first one will do what I said in the title; it will be a checklist to go through BEFORE placing a bet. It will filter out the really bad ones. I have a plan mapped out for it and I've done more than 30% of the work. But I need to hear other people out: what checks do you want for your bets? I'm talking about the type of checks that would disconsider a bet in your eyes; I know from my own experience that sometimes it's hard to let go of them. But when you want to bet and the app will tell you "no" and offer valid reasons, maybe you'll actually listen. Here’s an example with the two most basic checks I can think about:

- First thing, to get it out of the way and not have the user influenced by the subsequent tasks, ask for a percentage based probability on how often will the event occur. For example: do you want to bet that Real Madrid will win instead of drawing or losing in their next match? How often do you think that would happen? 85%. OK, let’s go to step 2.
- Input the odds, calculate the bookmaker margin, compare it with the averages for that event and so on. The checks will get more complicated as it goes on. I have a certain flow in mind.

The interface is beautiful and it allows for events with any number of outcomes and odds expressed in these formats: fractional, decimal and moneyline. For this reason it will also be helpful to people that bet on things like 1x2 and horse races, not just for handicappers.

Sounds interesting. I might be able to help you. Send me an email with more info at advantage 21 player AT gmail DOT com.

I've been extremely busy funding a company and making it work, therefore just yesterday or the day before I've managed to find the time to put the web app up and running:

http://filterbet.win

Bookmark it and use it before placing your bets, in order to get rid of the obvious long term losers.
Do you have some friends that are really bad at sports betting and would benefit from it most? Is the Dunning-Kruger effect really strong with them and they actually believe their picks are golden, yet unlucky? Or are they the kind that only remember the winners? Since the web app is not very complex at the moment, they will benefit from it most currently.

Also you'll notice that I've added a method in which we can collaborate in order to improve it. It needs tuning and improving and it can become the go to tool for everybody before placing their bets.

This sounds interesting, I'll check back on this

The code is available on GitHub: https://github.com/Gamblers-United/FilterBet.win