Originally <a href='http://www.sportsbookreview.com/forum/showthread.php?p=23383569'>posted</a> on 01/12/2015:

Quote Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn View Post
I read multiple forums and get something out of each one. There are far more substantive MMA betting discussions in the Sherdog threads than there are here by far. More people post detailed analysis there, and also more people post their picks and bets in detail before the fights. Those are concrete things that can be measured and results demonstrated. A few people do that here too, just not as many. Any discussions or wagers that supposedly go on in private are simply not verifiable and are not really interesting or relevant in terms of a forum contribution.
1) As I said, if that's your idea of "detailed analysis", then you belong there.
2) What do you think a "contribution" is? No one is here to contribute to "the forum", most of us don't like "the forum", we're here to mutually benefit from each other's analysis. There's a very obvious reason that so much of this goes on in private; saying that the only type of "interesting" or "relevant" discussion goes on publicly just makes you sound like a sportsbook shill. As for being "verifiable", plenty of people have stated this before. If you're asking if we're all involved in some sort of conspiracy to pretend to discuss fights behind your back while not actually discussing fights, the answer is clearly yes.

Uncoincidentally, pretty much everyone who complains about a lack of analysis has nothing to contribute themselves. I wonder why.