Category Archives: New Ideas

CentSports Screwup

CentSports did nothing wrong, they’re a good shop.  I forgot to place bets in my CentSports account last weekend, which cost me several dollars toward my goal of attempting to cash out of CentSports and getting an answer to the … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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. … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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