Entries Tagged as ‘New Ideas’

September 18, 2008

Latest CentSports Update

In past posts I’ve explained why I’m so supportive of CentSports.com.  In what I hope will be a mutually beneficial exercise, I am going to apply the Underdog Theorem to my CentSports bankroll this Underdog Theorem Season.
As all account holders do, I began with 10 cents in my account and was allowed to bet on [...]

August 14, 2008

Expected Better

Freakonomics is a favorite of mine. I somehow missed the fact that the authors maintain a blog to keep the Freako-ideas coming. I’ve added it to my Friends and Favorites section to the right, between Mark Cuban and Malcolm Gladwell.
Steven Levitt, the economist behind Freakonomics, wrote an article a while back touting a [...]

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!

June 24, 2008

Dinking a Little White Ball All By Himself

I’m a big fan of Michael Lewis. Liar’s Poker is still one of my favorite books. Both it and Moneyball took outsider views of American institutions — Wall Street and baseball. You can’t get more American than Wall Street and baseball. Lewis helped millions of readers view these institutions differently. [...]