Handicapping For Bettor Or Worse

This bettor's guide to handicapping racehorses teaches horse players how to use all the available information to form their own system. Explains the advantages and drawbacks in current popular handicapping methods.

The handicapper's wallet keeps score very well. What remains in it when you leave the track is the final say in whether or not you won. Dean C. Arnold has tested his wits against fellow handicappers since the day he was old enough to approach a parimutuel window. His approach to building a sensible methodology will help you tackle the sometimes overwhelming task of winning money betting on thoroughbred races. Find out how to better manage money, time and data, and develop your own strategy that will lead to consistent profit.

A reprint of one of the classic volumes on racetrack efficiency, this book is the only one in its field that deals with the racetrack betting market in-depth, containing all the important historical papers on racetrack efficiency. As evidenced by the collection of articles, the understanding of racetrack betting is clearly drawn from, and has correspondingly returned something to, all the fields of psychology, economics, finance, statistics, mathematics and management science.

Every year, sports bettors around the world wager billions of dollars on the NFL. But only a small fraction win. The decades of experience the sportsbooks have when creating the lines combined with the vigorish charged on each bet mean that without a battle-tested, mathematically sound handicapping approach, the typical recreational sports bettor has no chance.Picking NFL Winners: A Statistical Handicapping Primer introduces a powerful handicapping methodology grounded in predictive analytics to give the reader the upper hand over the sportsbooks. In this book, we will explore which statistics, ratings, and other information have had the biggest influence on the NFL point spread. Using this knowledge, we then introduce predictive models which the reader can use themselves, leveraging readily-available information, to beat the NFL.Written for intermediate to advanced sports bettors, or anyone else who wants to win, Picking NFL Winners: A Statistical Handicapping Primer addresses many key questions about NFL handicapping, including: -- How to account for injuries-- Which statistics have the most value in predicting the point spread-- How one should weigh recent results versus past results when handicapping-- Why early-season and late-season handicapping are very different-- How big of an influence do short-rest weeks, the bye week, and travel have on the point spread-- Whether time-zone effects / circadian advantage exists in the NFL-- How to use teasers, halftime lines, and line moves to improve your NFL betting resultsAnd much more. Picking NFL Winners: A Statistical Handicapping Primer is an invaluable resource to all serious NFL bettors, and anyone else looking to understand how to beat sports betting, regardless of what sport you wager

This advanced guide to handicapping, which includes a new Foreword by the author, is chock-full of the wit and wisdom that have made Beyer a legend in the sport. The Winning Horseplayeroffers the sophisticated bettor invaluable advice on handicapping and betting. "(Beyer) is the grand guru . . . of handicapping".--Boston Globe

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A classic guide to handicap strategies in the field of thoroughbred racing Just as football evolved with the introduction of the forward pass and basketball with the development of the jump shot, so too was handicapping forever changed by the use of speed figures--and it all started with Andrew Beyer. With a foreword discussing the changes that have swept horse racing since the book's original publication in 1975, Picking Winners is essential reading both for serious horseplayers and curious amateurs.

Sports betting generates hundreds of millions in bets on the Superbowl alone, to say nothing of pro and college football, prizefights, baseball, basketball, and hockey. In this book, players learn the techniques of beating the bookie at all these sports.

This step-by-step guide takes the intimidation out of betting at the racetrack. Readers learn about types of wagers from straight to exotic, how odds are set, and how to place a bet and cash a ticket. In addition, the guide explains how to read past performances. Workouts, medication, and equipment as they relate to wagering are also discussed.

"The Logical Choice is a great piece of work. Well done!" ~ Ed Watts If the challenge of picking 'the winner' in every race is what motivates you when it comes to horse racing, this book is not directed at you, though there are insights within its pages that may help you with your endeavors. The sections on Beyer Speed Figures, track variants, how to calculate more accurate running times, and how to find 59% winners and still lose money are more than worth the price of this book. However, if your interest is in making money while betting on horse races, you need to face facts. Playing favorites is financial ruin in the making, yet most people (72.7% in 2010) end up wagering on the three horses with the lowest odds in race after race. Unfortunately, you cannot make long-term profits betting on such horses. You need to find horses that pay you $16.60, $27.40, $18.80, etc. - what the author calls Value Plays - if you want to make money. This book will show you how he manages to do so. Professional handicapper G W Cohail has handicapped horse races for over fifty years. In the pages of this book, he challenges many aspects of traditional handicapping others take for granted and often swear by, including the revered Beyer Speed Figures, par times, daily track variants, etc. He then demonstrates how he successfully bets on horse races with making money, not picking winners, as his primary goal. Mr. Cohail spent decades handicapping races in a traditional way, always looking to zero-in on 'the winner.' He considered himself a top-notch handicapper, and he averaged 38% winners two years in a row. Yet he never made a lot of money from his handicapping skills. Luckily, he never lost the rent money either. Then one day while watching the tote board his life changed forever. Is it possible to wager on horse races and win? The Logical Choice: Tote Board Handicapping Made Easy provides insights into wagering for profit. The concepts presented in this work are usable by anyone, whether they be an experienced handicapper or a budding novice. In many respects, not knowing how to handicap races makes you a better candidate as the less you think you know about handicapping, the less you will have to unlearn.