handicapping books

blimes · Sep 17, 2003

What are some good books or websites that can teach a newbie how to handicap college and professional football and basketball?

thank you

TheGeneral+ · Sep 18, 2003

http://www.jflines.com/Pages/

and www.statfox.com are both good sites for info.

BigGamesOnly · Sep 18, 2003

I like that statfox site. Thanks General.

drunkguy · Sep 18, 2003

only good handicapping book I've read is "Sharp Sports Betting" by Stanford Wong. It won't give you any magic formulas, but it will teach you how to look at handicapping the right way

good luck

TheGeneral+ · Sep 19, 2003

Yeah Biggames. If I ever get back into capping seriously, I would start there.

OccamsRazor · Sep 19, 2003

JR Miller's site has no nonsense newbie articles Professionalgambler.com. Very informative. You'll know what you are up against.

bblight · Sep 19, 2003

Check out the gamblrers bookstore:
www.gamblersbookstore.com

For football, I recommend both of O'Neills books, as well as Dan Gordon's; Stanford Wong is OK, JR Miller has a desent book as does Feist/Sturgeon.
For stats, Al O'Donnell's "Pointspread Playbook is about the best there is for the NFL, and The NorthCoast "Football Scorebook" for both pro and college are excellent.
For weekly news, et al, I prefer "The Max" by Kevin O'Neill - he goes just that little bit farther with his support.

Good luck!

BigGamesOnly · Sep 19, 2003

I saw Stanford Wong on the Discovery Channel talking about which games give you the best advantage. It sounded like he knew what he was talking about.

Wong's book contains things like what constitutes a trend.

bhg · Sep 23, 2003

I have read "Beat the Sportsbook" by Dan Gordon. Its a decent read, shows you how he comes up with his power rankings - and then shows a week by week analysis of how he capped the games and why he played certain ones. Not a bad book