2% max recommended unless otherwise noted. 1% max recommended for soccer.
Here is where the sharps took action this week, based on counter-public line moves unexplained by other factors.
NFL
RAIDERS
SAINTS
LIONS
PACKERS
VIKINGS
BENGALS
BRONCOS
PANTHERS
TITANS
CARDINALS
NCAAF
TEXAS STATE
SOUTH ALABAMA
TULSA
FLORIDA
PITT
TULANE
PURDUE
EAST CAROLINA
UTAH STATE
WAKE FOREST
AIR FORCE
COLORADO STATE
KENTUCKY
SOUTH CAROLINA
BOSTON COLLEGE
TEMPLE
UAB
GEORGIA STATE
TOLEDO
TCU
NORTHERN IOWA
VIRGINIA
WYOMING
Betting Psychology and Risk Management
This post is partially motivated by the incoming surge in official picks we are going to have as well as the dismay here some have experienced with the downturn we've had over the past few weeks. Risk-based moneymaking is not an easy pursuit and the vast majority of people who try their hand at it fail. It is important that you arm yourselves with as may tools as possible so that you will be in the profitable minority. Most people find it difficult enough to look at their investment portfolios during a relatively mild downturn, and that's with professional hedge fund managers doing insulating them from the very real challenges of risking our money and making a profit from it. Anyone who is active here is choosing to take that risk into their own hands. There are big rewards for this but also very big risks. This post is about preventing you from being taken out by those risk.
The primary way that we mount our offence us through our edge. A statistical...