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The sports gambling book you can bet on Sports betting combines America's national pastime (sports) with its national passion (gambling). In the U. S. , more than a third of the population bets on at least one sporting event every year. With the recent lifting of the federal ban on sports gambling, states are pushing legislation to take advantage of the new potential source of revenue. The best sports betting books are data driven, statistically honest, and offer ways to take action.
Sports Betting For Dummies will cover the basics, as well as delving into more nuanced topics. You’ll find all the need-to-know information on types of bets, statistics, handicapping fundamentals, and more. Betting on football, basketball, baseball, and other sports Betting on special events, such as the Superbowl or the Olympics Money management Betting on the internet With handy tips, tricks, and tools, Sports Betting For Dummies shows you how to place the right bet at the right time—to get the right payoff.
Annað
- Höfundur: Swain Scheps
- Útgáfa:1
- Útgáfudagur: 2020-06-16
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- Format:ePub
- ISBN 13: 9781119748625
- Print ISBN: 9781119654384
- ISBN 10: 1119748623
Efnisyfirlit
- Cover
- Foreword
- Introduction
- About This Book
- Before You Go Any Further
- Foolish Assumptions
- Icons Used in This Book
- Beyond the Book
- Where to Go from Here
- Part 1: Sports Betting Basics
- Chapter 1: Betting Sports for Fun and Profit
- Eight Days in October
- Do Sports Bettors Win?
- The Wagers of Sin
- Fans and Bettors: Better Fans
- Why 50 Percent Doesn’t Cut It
- What Kind of Sports Bettor Are You?
- The Legal Landscape of Sports Betting
- What Can’t I Bet On?
- Setting Some Goals (and Limits)
- This Is Your Brain on Gambling
- Chapter 2: The Basic Bets
- The Betting Contract
- Betting against a Bookmaker
- Point Spreads: Thumb on the Scale
- Over/Under Betting
- Multi-Bet Wagers
- Variations on a Theme
- Chapter 3: The House
- The Sports Betting Business
- In-Person Betting
- Online Betting
- I Got a Guy: Private Bookmakers
- State Lotteries
- Chapter 1: Betting Sports for Fun and Profit
- Chapter 4: Beating the Odds
- A Tale of Two Numbers
- Positive EV, No Instructions Included
- Bookmakers and Odds
- Balancing the Books
- Bookmaking Business Models
- Chapter 5: The Best Bettor Habits
- Winning Habits: A Quick Review
- Betting Approaches
- The Importance of Record-Keeping
- Bankrolling
- Metric Superiority: Winning Percentage versus ROI versus Profit
- Chapter 6: Full Frontal Nudity (and Some Statistics and Probability)
- Thanks for Nothing, Ancestors
- Probabilities and Single-Outcome Events
- Overdue: The Gambler’s Fallacy
- How Randomness Masquerades as Non-Randomness
- The Matter of Sample Size
- The Wonderful, Life-Changing Beauty of the Amazing Gambler’s Z-Score
- Chapter 7: Handicapping the Fundamentals
- The Challenges of Fundamental Analysis
- Outside the Lines, between the Ears
- Universal Fundamentals Concepts
- Team Sports Factors
- External Factors
- Measuring Performance Variance
- Chapter 8: Technical Analysis and Modeling
- Like Math, but Fancier
- Systems and Angles
- The Benefits of Data-Driven Analysis
- What Gets Lost in the Numbers
- Complexity and the Scourge of P-Hacking
- Characteristics of a Good System or Angle
- A First Look at Trend-Spotting Tools
- Chapter 9: Power Ratings
- Ranking, Rating? What’s the Difference?
- Developing a Power Rating of Your Own
- Chapter 10: Betting to Win on the NFL
- Today’s NFL Game
- The Evolution of NFL Spreads and Totals
- Common NFL Bets
- Betting the NFL Preseason
- NFL Fundamentals
- NFL Systems and Angles
- Chapter 11: Betting to Win on College Football
- The College Football Schedule
- Scoring Overview
- College Football Bets
- Offseason Evaluation and Betting
- Regular Season Betting
- Betting the Post Season
- More College Football Systems
- Chapter 12: Betting to Win on NBA Basketball
- Betting the Offensive Explosion
- One and a Half Curses
- The NBA Betting Market
- Common NBA Bets
- NBA Systems and Angles
- Chapter 13: Betting to Win on College Basketball
- The Basics of College Basketball
- The College Basketball Betting Cycle
- Betting on Games
- NCAA Basketball Teasers
- College Basketball Angles
- Betting the NCAA Tournament
- Chapter 14: Betting to Win on Major League Baseball
- The Basics of Major League Baseball
- Baseball Bets and Odds
- Baseball Scoring Patterns
- Starting Pitching and MLB Odds
- The Park Factor
- Weather
- Betting against the Public
- MLB Systems and Angles
- Chapter 15: You versus You
- Who Actually Wins at Sports Betting?
- Decision-Making and Judgment
- Heuristics
- More Cognitive Biases
- Chapter 16: The Sports Bettors’ Essential Excel Toolkit
- Excel Stuff Even Non-Bettors Should Know
- Essential Gambler’s Formulas
- Chapter 17: Ten Betting Mistakes You Should Avoid
- Chasing the Late-Night Slumpbuster
- Spinning Your Records
- Limiting Your Options
- Realism: It’s Not Just for Pre-Raphaelite Artists
- Thinking Yesterday’s Game = Today’s Game
- Passing on Passing
- Paying for Picks
- Falling for the Five Star Fallacy
- Listening to “Experts”
- Being Too Focused on Averages
- Chapter 18: 10 (or so) Books You Should Devour to Make Yourself a Better Sports Bettor
- The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver
- SuperForecasting by Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner
- Confidence by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
- Superbookie by Art Manteris
- Failure by Stuart Firestein
- Scorecasting by Tobias Moskowitz
- How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff
- Sharper by Poker Joe
- The Big Short by Michael Lewis
- The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- Appendix A: The Best Online Resources for Sports Bettors
- Sports Betting Databases and Data Sources
- Bet Tracking Apps
- NFL and College Football
- NBA Basketball
- NCAA Basketball
- Major League Baseball
- Best Gambling Podcasts
- Best Twitter Follows
- Appendix B: Online Sports Book Comparison
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- Höfundur : 16094
- Útgáfuár : 2020
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