Tuesday, 24 April 2018

NBA Play-Offs

›
The first round of the NBA play-offs are underway, and the very fact that the games are 'play-offs' means that not too many such mat...
Sunday, 22 April 2018

April Shorties Update

›
Trilla B commented on my MLB April Shorties post  asking: Hi. I did backtest via trend builder and it looks like betting RL in these games...
Saturday, 21 April 2018

NBA 2017 Regular Season Review

›
The NBA 2017-18 season concluded a few days ago, and for The Beast, which suggested backing Overs when the total was 215.5 or higher , the ...
Monday, 9 April 2018

Sleepless In Denver

›
Back in January 2011 , I wrote about the uniqueness of the city of Denver in US Sports: In US sports, Denver is a unique place to go for a...
Tuesday, 3 April 2018

MLB April Shorties

›
The table above shows the results of backing short priced (1.5 or shorter) MLB favourites during the opening month of the season...
1 comment:

Resurrection

›
Well, March was an interesting month. The blog celebrated its tenth anniversary while its creator decided to ignore abdominal pains for 12...
Friday, 2 March 2018

Major Losses

›
A rare visit to the Betfair Forum led me to a YouTube video featuring a TEDx talk from a former problem gambler. After leaving the Army, th...
1 comment:
Thursday, 1 March 2018

The Rule of 40%

›
There was an embarrassing error in the Wall Street Journal’s article on pundits and the strategy of the 40% probability claim.  The full a...
Tuesday, 27 February 2018

The Unimaginative Fool

›
A year ago, I wrote about Warren Buffett's annual letter to shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway, and as tends to be the case with annual...
Friday, 16 February 2018

NBA Systems Half-Time Report

›
With the NBA idle this weekend for their All-Star weekend, it's a good time to look at how the current season is playing out.  Some of...
4 comments:
Friday, 9 February 2018

Correction

›
Another disappointing day in the markets yesterday, as the markets move into 'correction' territory, my draw-down moves into six fi...
Wednesday, 7 February 2018

Fear Index

›
A little under a year ago, I wrote about the Vix trader nicknamed '50 cents' who was obsessively buying call options priced 50 cent...
Sunday, 4 February 2018

BP3 And PC3

›
I'm back from another (almost) two weeks of travel, which included just the one speeding ticket, and a few tweets caught my eye while ...
Monday, 22 January 2018

Crisco Cops

›
A profitable NFL Championship round yesterday, with only the New England Patriots failing to cover the spread v the Jacksonville Jaguars a l...
Sunday, 21 January 2018

Championship Weekend and More on the Draw

›
The Home team and Overs is the trendy play in the NFL Championship round. From the 2001 season, Home teams are 17-15 ATS (against the spread...
Thursday, 18 January 2018

Beloved Draws and Wives

›
Prompted by Richard's above reply, I did look at the 0:0 and indeed the number of goals scored in matches sorted by the differ...