Hypothetical: You get a sports almanac from the future ala Biff Tannon

[bettingman6]

What would you do? Would you make a lot of parlays or would you just do regular bets? Would you purposely lose some bets so people wouldn’t get suspicious? Would you quit betting in the year after the almanac ended?

Personally, I’d win about 70% of my bets so that people wouldn’t get suspicious. I would quit betting after the almanac ended, so that way, people wouldn’t wonder why my win % fell from 70% to about 50%. I might do some parlays early on in order to build up my bankroll more quickly, but I’d just do regular bets after I’d built up my bankroll.

[RudyRuetigger]

well i wouldnt be starting with max bets,

so id let other people win, to build my roll

then 1 day id max bet parlays on one day of the year across every gambling country

[WvGambler]

Cmon betting no time for this nonsense. What’s your thoughts on the Cavs +10.5?

[bettingman6]

I’d be extremely careful not to do any 15 game NFL parlays. Since winning such a parlay would get on espn.con and get you attention you wouldn’t want. If I even did such a big parlay, I’d purposely lose.

I wouldn’t win any parlays bigger than 5 or 6 games. That way, you wouldn’t make everybody wonder WTF.

[Eddy Munny]

It'd be pretty easy to amass a fortune without calling attention to yourself unless you're just greedy beyond all reason. There are enough sportsbetting outlets to spread your bankroll around, and that'll only grow with other states now looking to legalize it.

Plus in the movie, Biff got a 2015 almanac in 1955 so you would literally have a lifetime of sure bets right there at your fingertips if you just pepper your history with enough losses so as not to look like a god. Then after your 60 years are up, you could "retire" and ride off into the sunset.

[bettingman6]

It'd be pretty easy to amass a fortune without calling attention to yourself unless you're just greedy beyond all reason. There are enough sportsbetting outlets to spread your bankroll around, and that'll only grow with other states now looking to legalize it.

Plus in the movie, Biff got a 2015 almanac in 1955 so you would literally have a lifetime of sure bets right there at your fingertips if you just pepper your history with enough losses so as not to look like a god. Then after your 60 years are up, you could "retire" and ride off into the sunset.

Actually the almanac only ran through 2000.

[Eddy Munny]

Actually the almanac only ran through 2000.

You're right, Part II was set in 2015 but the almanac was for 2000. Doesn't really change anything though, 45 years is more than enough time ensure your livelihood without raising suspicion if you play your cards right. Just like Biff did in the movie, I'd keep that thing in a fireproof, tornado-proof, end of the world proof vault, as it's worth more than a DaVinci original.

[pattymayo]

I probably wouldn't read too far ahead.. how boring would it be to know who the 2019 World Series winner would be or the 2020 Super Bowl winner.

I'd probably just make one or two big bets per month, guaranteed extra $10K a month income or so.

[Optional]

Have a series of madcap adventures trying to make the book wrong, to see if it breaks the universe.

[Booya711]

Fading Morino and seaweed accomplishes the same thing....no magic book needed

[grease lightnin]

Build a major network of beards

[7deuceoff$uit]

Become the greatest poster on sbr.

[Eddy Munny]

Become the greatest poster on sbr.

Except that's not conducive to laying low and keeping your cover. That's the kind of egotistical maneuver that would start to raise flags. Doling out an endless stream of winners on a web forum or Twitter etc. coupled with headline-grabbing, IRS-disturbing major strikes at casinos and doing it unabashedly would ultimately become your undoing. And honestly it wouldn't surprise me to see some people happen upon the Holy Grail and squander it because they couldn't keep their ego in check. It's why multimillionaire athletes go broke.

An almanac from the future would be the gift that keeps of giving, but if you just milk it without checks and balances, and boast of your exploits in a public arena, that's when you might get an unexpected visit from men in black in the middle of the night who help themselves to your vault and whisk you away to some government laboratory for questioning.

**Cue spooky music**

[Booya711]

Except that's not conducive to laying low and keeping your cover. That's the kind of egotistical maneuver that would start to raise flags. Doling out an endless stream of winners on a web forum or Twitter etc. coupled with headlining grabbing, IRS disturbing major strikes at casinos and doing it unabashedly would ultimately become your undoing. And honestly it wouldn't surprise me to see some people happen upon the Holy Grail and squander it because they couldn't keep their ego in check. It's why multimillionaire athletes go broke.

An almanac from the future would be the gift that keeps of giving, but if just milk it without checks and balances, and boast of your exploits in a public arena, that's when you might get an unexpected visit from men in black in the middle of the night who help themselves to your vault and whisk you away to some government laboratory for questioning.

**Cue spooky music**

Good to see you back munny....been a minute

[Eddy Munny]

Good to see you back munny....been a minute

Yeah, I've been building a time machine, which, ironically, is time consuming.

That's why this thread hits close to home... I'll have me one of them almanacs. You'll see.

[Booya711]

Yeah, I've been building a time machine, which, ironically, is time consuming.

That's why this thread hits close to home... I'll have me one of them almanacs. You'll see.

Sweet...PM me the info

[SamsNCharge99]

Give me a month with the almanac and just hit all in 15 team parlay. Fukk it

[Eddy Munny]

Sweet...PM me the info

I would but I can't leave a digital trail.

I can only draw up the schematics with a stick on a sandy beach just before high tide.

[Slipknot26]

Fading Morino and seaweed accomplishes the same thing....no magic book needed

He just hasn't got around to this thready yet
Not that I care but
Fuk off

[bettingman6]

Build a major network of beards

lol

[Otters27]

If your bets were too big to cause line movement then you would change the future. Basically the alminac may no longer be accurate

[downsouth]

Would bankrupt every casino and sportsbook I could.

[Chi_archie]

Would bankrupt every casino and sportsbook I could.

do it strategically by building up a big enough bankroll and making a big enough parlay to bring a sportsbook to its knees, then you come in as your own identity to offer to bail out/buy the book.

do a few times over so that you also control a few offshore and/or domestic books.

now as a a bookie AND a gambler you could do some nice long term damage over the years.

[beefcake]

Just go make a max bet on Leceister at 5000-1.You only need that.Then retire.People would say youre the craziest and luckiest guy out there.

[TheMetsSuck]

I’d be extremely careful not to do any 15 game NFL parlays. Since winning such a parlay would get on espn.con and get you attention you wouldn’t want. If I even did such a big parlay, I’d purposely lose.

I wouldn’t win any parlays bigger than 5 or 6 games. That way, you wouldn’t make everybody wonder WTF.

I've won some big parlays in my day and refuse recognition. I hit a 15 team NFL parlay my frieshman year of college 7.50 to win 15k about 15 years ago. no one even cared back then. Social media changed everything.

[bettingman6]

If your bets were too big to cause line movement then you would change the future. Basically the alminac may no longer be accurate

It would only affect bettors after you if you move the line. It wouldn't affect you.

[bettingman6]

I've won some big parlays in my day and refuse recognition. I hit a 15 team NFL parlay my frieshman year of college 7.50 to win 15k about 15 years ago. no one even cared back then. Social media changed everything.

I don't believe you.

[Otters27]

It would only affect bettors after you if you move the line. It wouldn't affect you.

It all would eventually effect everything and as time went by the alminac would become less reliable

[Chi_archie]

It all would eventually effect everything and as time went by the alminac would become less reliable

I the Almanac would be a living active document. Think about the Poloroid the Marty had of his family, that would slowly show less family members as events changed in the past.

if you read page 599 about the year 1999 during the year 1980 it might list a different super bowl winner then if you open it in the year 1998.


the idea being for example.

[grease lightnin]

do it strategically by building up a big enough bankroll and making a big enough parlay to bring a sportsbook to its knees, then you come in as your own identity to offer to bail out/buy the book.

do a few times over so that you also control a few offshore and/or domestic books.

now as a a bookie AND a gambler you could do some nice long term damage over the years.

And this is what Biff Tannen did.

[DiggityDaggityDo]

I would publicly go on a tremendous run for a short-ish amount of time (a couple on months?). Lose one here or there just to make it look realistic. Be the best 95% caper ever to grace this green Earth.

Then go tout and make everybody else rich. Yeah, I would be that guy. But I would be a loved tout.

Also, imagine all the hot pussy you would bang every day.

[Eddy Munny]

If your bets were too big to cause line movement then you would change the future. Basically the alminac may no longer be accurate

The line moves wouldn't affect the outcome of the event on the field, so how would that alter the almanac's accuracy?

[grease lightnin]

The line moves wouldn't affect the outcome of the event on the field, so how would that alter the almanac's accuracy?

Maybe he is saying point shavers will adjust to the line movements you cause?

[Eddy Munny]

Build a major network of beards

[pavyracer]

I would use it to middle bets. Like if I knew a game will end 30-27 I would find books that have -2.5 during the week and books that have +3.5 later in the week and win both bets.