How do you keep track of your bets?

TheWolf · Jan 1, 2008

I am going to keep track of everything this entire year, but I still dont know how.

By day?

or By sport?

I have one of those block calendars Ive always used and just jot down my daily totals after each day. Good way to keep track of my +/- units.

I want to be more detailed & organized though & write down why I made each play, etc...... What do you guys do? Do any of you have an excel sheet youd care to share?

TheWolf · Jan 1, 2008

Well, I suppose many of you dont keep track.

dougstewart · Jan 1, 2008

I send money to my offshore sportsbook....they keep track of my losing bets...when I reach zero, I send some more.

Woody0 · Jan 1, 2008

I use db3, its a DOS command line database first released in the 1980's. I know how to use it and program it and never really learned any of the new fangled SQL stuff. It also provides more flexibility for queries than Excel spreadsheets, which are better than nothing.

TomBrady#1 · Jan 1, 2008

Definitely by sport. You need to know EXACTLY how you are doing in each sport. By day is also important so you can see the financial fluctuations. You can do both. Excel online or a regular notebook to write in will do. G/L

TheWolf · Jan 1, 2008

Thanks TB.

HinesWard86 · Jan 1, 2008

Woody0 said:
I use db3, its a DOS command line database first released in the 1980's. I know how to use it and program it and never really learned any of the new fangled SQL stuff. It also provides more flexibility for queries than Excel spreadsheets, which are better than nothing.

What is all this? Is this free?

MIMS · Jan 1, 2008

I laminate the newspaper after I throw painted darts at it

MIMS · Jan 1, 2008

HinesWard86 said:
What is all this? Is this free?

Dear god, don't go out of your way to learn a command line program

punter · Jan 2, 2008

I measure the bulge in my right front pocket.

Woody0 · Jan 2, 2008

HinesWard86 said:
What is all this? Is this free?

I replied that I'm still living in the stone age of computing, using a obsolete command line database that predates Windows, mainly because I'm too lazy to learn something new.

If you want to go the database route then Open Office includes BASE, a database that allows you to output to Word type text documents and tables. Its free and can be used for simple or complex queries and meshes with a spreadsheet.

http://www.openoffice.org/product/base.html