Wall Street Journal - NFL Contrarian Betting Article

[SportsInsights]

The "Wall Street Journal" turned its attention from the financial markets to the NFL sports betting marketplace and wrote an article entitled, “ A Contrarian’s Guide to Football Betting .” In particular, TheWall Street Journal’s Jared Diamond interviewed SportsInsights President, Dan Fabrizio and analyzed years of NFL data to study a contrarian method that captures value.

Here is an online version of the article

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704774604576035652248983350.html?

The article also appears in today's WSJ, page D7.

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Dan

[ForgetWallStreet]

The "Wall Street Journal" turned its attention from the financial markets to the NFL sports betting marketplace and wrote an article entitled, “ A Contrarian’s Guide to Football Betting .” In particular, TheWall Street Journal’s Jared Diamond interviewed SportsInsights President, Dan Fabrizio and analyzed years of NFL data to study a contrarian method that captures value.

Here is an online version of the article

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704774604576035652248983350.html?

The article also appears in today's WSJ, page D7.

To celebrate another profitable football season and the WSJ article, we're giving away a free 7 day trial.

Happy Holiday!

Dan

What lines were these plays graded against, and at what clip do you expect the seemingly magical 20% or less subset to hit at going forward?

[Hareeba!]

so how does one figure out the % of bets placed on each team?

[Santo]

Part of the problem is everybody will have a different metric/source for that. I'm sure this article was based on the SI figure which is available from their (paid) line service.