Originally <a href='/showthread.php?p=18867630'>posted</a> on 06/07/2013:
Isn't that the whole point though, to buy into the play that you purchased? Any idiot can pick a side in a game without any rhyme or reason, hell I do it myself all the time. If a well written analysis (novel) makes sense and can make a person see the game in a different perspective than their own, isn't that why a person would purchase a "handicappers" plays in the first place, to believe the person selecting them is better at it than they are themselves. If I am paying for a persons insight (opinion) and picks (roughly $25 per selection), I would rather have a novel that is well written and covers different angles and gives the appearance that the person actually put in some time to research and write it, rather than get a generic email that says "Take the Heat-5".
Thats also a pretty generalized statement saying that anyone who writes more than others wins far less than someone who just spits out picks...
Isn't that the whole point though, to buy into the play that you purchased? Any idiot can pick a side in a game without any rhyme or reason, hell I do it myself all the time. If a well written analysis (novel) makes sense and can make a person see the game in a different perspective than their own, isn't that why a person would purchase a "handicappers" plays in the first place, to believe the person selecting them is better at it than they are themselves. If I am paying for a persons insight (opinion) and picks (roughly $25 per selection), I would rather have a novel that is well written and covers different angles and gives the appearance that the person actually put in some time to research and write it, rather than get a generic email that says "Take the Heat-5".
Thats also a pretty generalized statement saying that anyone who writes more than others wins far less than someone who just spits out picks...