If I could recommend one book on SPORTSBETTING..........
....it would be WEIGHING THE ODDS IN SPORTSBETTING by Yao.
Yao covers many types of sports and bets such as Super Bowl props, horseracing's Triple Crown, major league baseball totals, and the NBA playoffs. He also considers many other issues critical to successful sports betting including thinking about sports betting as a market, hedging, and scalping and middling. At times, the book jumps from one topic to the other fairly abruptly. This isn't surprising, since many of these chapters were once stand-alone articles for Two Plus Two's online magazine. It's not a significant shortcoming, though, since they all contain good information, and they're unified by Yao's approach to sports betting.
Many of the author's methods are extracted from the data he accumulates in his sports databases. Since this is so crucial to his methodology, one chapter I would have like to have seen included would have some discussion about how one sets up and maintains these repositories. What information does the author consider important? Is it necessary to automate this process, and if so, how can one do that? How does one prevent errors and typos from creeping into one's records? These are all issues that would have made a nice preview to many of the topics in this book. It's too bad that they're not mentioned, although Yao's book is still exceptionally valuable without this information.
Weighing the Odds in Sports Betting is a very strong reference for those interested in beating the books. It is also the first book on the topic I've read that provides strategies that I'm certain comprise a winning methodology by themselves. Everyone interested in this topic should definitely check out this book as it's one of the very best books on sports betting I've read. More than any other, this book along with a great deal of diligent work can transform someone with an interest in sports betting into a long-term winner. It doesn't contain everything one needs to achieve these goals, but it represents several giant steps along the path. I recommend it highly.
Yao covers many types of sports and bets such as Super Bowl props, horseracing's Triple Crown, major league baseball totals, and the NBA playoffs. He also considers many other issues critical to successful sports betting including thinking about sports betting as a market, hedging, and scalping and middling. At times, the book jumps from one topic to the other fairly abruptly. This isn't surprising, since many of these chapters were once stand-alone articles for Two Plus Two's online magazine. It's not a significant shortcoming, though, since they all contain good information, and they're unified by Yao's approach to sports betting.
Many of the author's methods are extracted from the data he accumulates in his sports databases. Since this is so crucial to his methodology, one chapter I would have like to have seen included would have some discussion about how one sets up and maintains these repositories. What information does the author consider important? Is it necessary to automate this process, and if so, how can one do that? How does one prevent errors and typos from creeping into one's records? These are all issues that would have made a nice preview to many of the topics in this book. It's too bad that they're not mentioned, although Yao's book is still exceptionally valuable without this information.
Weighing the Odds in Sports Betting is a very strong reference for those interested in beating the books. It is also the first book on the topic I've read that provides strategies that I'm certain comprise a winning methodology by themselves. Everyone interested in this topic should definitely check out this book as it's one of the very best books on sports betting I've read. More than any other, this book along with a great deal of diligent work can transform someone with an interest in sports betting into a long-term winner. It doesn't contain everything one needs to achieve these goals, but it represents several giant steps along the path. I recommend it highly.