Entries from July 2008

July 30, 2008

Underdog Theorem Forum

The Forum is up and can be reached via the FORUM button at the top of this page. I’ve included within the Forum sample data from five Underdog Theorem seasons, which you can use to illustrate your critiques of or suggested improvements to the strategy. See you in there!

July 24, 2008

CentSports.com

If you live outside the U.S. then CentSports.com might seem a little ridiculous. Really it’s the U.S. government’s ban on sports betting that is ridiculous. CentSports.com brilliantly works around the absurd law. I hope the site is an enormous success and that it brings sports betting out of the shadows and into [...]

July 13, 2008

Founding Gambler

“With this huge gamble, Hamilton laid the foundations for America’s future financial preeminence.” (Alexander Hamilton, by Ron Chernow, page 298.) This sentence jumped out at me. Chernow’s appropriate use of ‘gamble’ is in line with the point of my book’s opening chapter, “The Joy of Bets“.
Gambling, whether financial or not, is [...]

July 10, 2008

How I Spent My Immoral Sunday

This is a repost of an entry I originally made on my old blog (see ‘OLD BLOG’ tab at the top of the page) on 9/20/06. I hope to be back to new posts this weekend.

Whenever I start to think I’m overreacting about the government’s burgeoning crackdown on Internet gambling, I remind myself that [...]