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If you are new to sports betting I strongly recommend buying this book and King Yao's Weighing the Odds in Sports Betting. These are the two quintessential books for the beginning bettor. Reading the two books will take you from a total newb to an advanced beginner in the shortest time possible and will make you +EV in sports betting to a certain degree.
A very down to earth, start at the beginning of sports betting book.A good guideline for both the novice and professional.
This book is not a handicapping treatise. Most of the advice pertains to the NFL but I feel that just about anyone reading this book will get something out of it. Certain key research such as NFL pointspread and Total push percentages are in the book, which would help one decide whether or not they have an advantage betting a certain game.The information on using the poisson distribution is helpful, especially for one who finds an advantage betting on player props. For anyone new to betting, this book is a good primer, along with King Yao's "Weighing the Odds in Sports Betting"
This text does not tell you a whole lot if you know what you are doing already. However, if you are not familiar with the basics of probability, or how bookmakers have an edge, or what the sensible things to do are when looking for odds to be on a sporting event, then this book is not too bad a thing to have read. When punting, something that gives you one useful fact can of course be worth a lot of money.
wong is no doubt one of the most well known authority on this kind of stuff. if you just started out, it wouldn't hurt reading this
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