Best handicapper of all time?

[pat venditto]

Who is it? Is it willie bee?

[Chi_archie]

prob Dac or Jimmy The Greek

[Chi_archie]

but keep in my Brock Lander's rubber band plays are hitting at a documented 90% clip this season

[Fishhead]

The best handicappers were in the 70's and earlier.............why?


Because the numbers were much weaker and the game was much more easily beatable.


The money in this business today is best made by scalpers, middlers, contest players, forum owners, and touts..........not "handicappers".

[Chi_archie]

seems to me that the public has tons more info on games, conditions ect than in the 80's or earlier......

I would think the information gap between Vegas and the Public has decreased in a huge way.
the sharp guys in the 70's had phone networks and "inside guys" to supply last minute info, which brought them closer to have the knowledge of the head linesmen in Vegas.... but the rest of the public was in the dark, they may not even know about an injury that happened the night before a big game...

we have guys on this board that get text messages from inside the clubhouse of spring trainging MLB games.....

[Fishhead]

Make no mistake about it, pre-1980 was much, much easier for the handicapper to make money.


Sharps and wiseguys knew how to find info on games that 99.9% of the betting public had no idea about.

[pavyracer]

Grigori Perelman

[coloradobuff]

frank rosenthal

[Fishhead]

Taking all sports into consideration, I would be in the top ten all-time.

[13th Inning]

frank rosenthal

[Rio DiNero]

How about BW and the crew?

[13th Inning]

Here's another one, what about Pittsburgh Phil?
This guy was making MILLIONS back in the 1890s/1900s beating the bookmakers at the track.

They were writing about him in the papers and everything. Check out this article from 1894:

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9F05E5DF1730E033A25753C3A9609C94659ED7CF

[jjgold]

Fishhead is in the top 10 all time, won the Rio contest twice for 10k each.

[jgiun1]

Golden Jew...Sammy Rothstein

[Reload]

How about Biff when he had the sports almanac from the future?

[Stealinhome]

Yea I say Biff

[Stealinhome]

If you don't think it's Biff than you can "make like a tree and get out of here"

[mmike032]

Taking all sports into consideration, I would be in the top ten all-time.

your humble demeanor is refreshing.

[hoopster42]

Make no mistake about it, pre-1980 was much, much easier for the handicapper to make money.


Sharps and wiseguys knew how to find info on games that 99.9% of the betting public had no idea about.

yep. now that info is all over the internet so the playing field is basically completely level and the numbers sharp as all fukk

[obamaismyuncle]

Taking all sports into consideration, I would be in the top ten all-time.

Shit, top 3 of all time wouldn't you say?

[MendozaLine]

Floyd Mayweather

[Fishhead]

Shit, top 3 of all time wouldn't you say?

Nobody knows...........


Some people sell cars, some people work for the fire department, some people are nascar drivers............I'm a gambler.

[iceminers26]

Taking all sports into consideration, I would be in the top ten all-time.

Fish you seem like a good guy but no reason to tout yourself, JJ will give you plenty of loving here on the board, heck he's averaging about 8 FH posts daily what more could you ask for..

[ronjon619]

Art Schlichter

[MC PICKS]

How about Biff when he had the sports almanac from the future?

LOL

[The Seer]

Shoeless Joe Jackson and the 1919 Blacksox

[ronjon619]

i cant believe no one has mentioned Pete Rose

[ronjon619]

Tim Doneghey

[freeVICK]

tim donaghy