Are you a bettor handicapper or bettor?

Iceman · Apr 9, 2006

I know that both are somewhat the same but here are my examples:

A Handicapper crunches numbers and puts value (a price) on each team based on statistics and opinions.

A Bettor shops for small edges and pulls the trigger when he gets the best line and doesn't really have a strong opinion on a game but will still make the bet.

I beleive that to be great at this you must have a little of both and with baseball I am learning to be a better handicapper but right now if someone shows me a line that is 1 pt off in a hoops game i will pull the trigger every time.

So I guess that makes me a bettor bettor. I have tried the whole handicapping thing in the past (numbers cruncher) and haven't been very succesfull, but still working on it.

CoachLT · Apr 9, 2006

ice man said:
I know that both are somewhat the same but here are my examples:

A Handicapper crunches numbers and puts value (a price) on each team based on statistics and opinions.

A Bettor shops for small edges and pulls the trigger when he gets the best line and doesn't really have a strong opinion on a game but will still make the bet.

I beleive that to be great at this you must have a little of both and with baseball I am learning to be a better handicapper but right now if someone shows me a line that is 1 pt off in a hoops game i will pull the trigger every time.

So I guess that makes me a bettor bettor. I have tried the whole handicapping thing in the past (numbers cruncher) and haven't been very succesfull, but still working on it.

First and foremost, I am a Handicapper Bettor. Very Very seldom will I make a play in the blind without any knowledge what so ever. I LOVE College Football so that takes the majority of my effort. Next would be College Basketball. I HATE pro sports and have NO serious betting interest. A little NFL and CFL and that is it. That is my quirk and I am to old to change. I believe if you are a bettor without your own opinion, then you are like a ship without a rudder. It takes a lot of money and experience to get a PhD in this endeavor. As for having to follow others opinions all the time it reminds me of this Chinese proverb (not word for word)"Give a man a fish and you have fed him for a day, Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime" LT :103631605

levistep · Apr 9, 2006

What about the guy who just follows the money and goes against it?

FairWarning · Apr 9, 2006

levistep said:
What about the guy who just follows the money and goes against it?

Those people that drive me nuts. Takes the other side just to be different.

levistep · Apr 9, 2006

FairWarning said:
Those people that drive me nuts. Takes the other side just to be different.

Some do it because it makes good money.

Bluemyboy · Apr 9, 2006

FairWarning said:
Those people that drive me nuts. Takes the other side just to be different.

just to be different? nope, actually to make money. Fading the public money is what I have found is the easies way to make money betting. If you think we do it just to be different you are very mistaken.