{"id":1537,"date":"2008-12-01T19:11:15","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T00:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/why-scouting-services-have-some-bettors-winning-and-other-gamblers-losing-more-than-ever\/"},"modified":"2008-12-01T19:11:15","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T00:11:15","slug":"why-scouting-services-have-some-bettors-winning-and-other-gamblers-losing-more-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/why-scouting-services-have-some-bettors-winning-and-other-gamblers-losing-more-than-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Scouting Services Have Some Bettors Winning and Other Gamblers Losing More Than Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='tab-interval:.5in'><\/p>\n<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>A preeminent offshore <span class=SpellE>oddsmaker<\/span><br \/>\nstated that the schism between the sharp player and square bettor has never<br \/>\nbeen larger. \u201cProfessional bettors are winning at a higher rate than ever<br \/>\nbefore, but luckily (for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linetrackers.com\/\">sportsbooks<\/a>)<br \/>\nthere are more losing bettors,\u201d this offshore betting pioneer asserted.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>This gap is widest in NFL betting. The oddsmakers and<br \/>\nsharp players continue to advance, but the square gets suckered more than<br \/>\nanytime in history. The reasons are quite elementary. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Extensive prognostication ammo is readily available. Usage<br \/>\nof the thoroughgoing volume though is so time-consuming its complete deployment<br \/>\nis confined to the <span class=SpellE>oddsmaker<\/span>, learned full-time<br \/>\nhandicappers and the professional gambler. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>About 20 years ago, the boiler room sales pitches from the<br \/>\ntoll-free blowhard touts included cookie cutter boasts about having scouts \u201call<br \/>\nover the country\u201d work for them and crowing about \u201cinside information\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Now, with small monetary investments and enormous time<br \/>\nexpenditure, bettors can have \u201cscouts\u201d working for them, especially in NFL predictions.<br \/>\nYes, this means employing intuitiveness from former NFL players who scrutinize<br \/>\ngame film for hours.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Who knew how<br \/>\nprophetic the snake oil touts really were when they alleged scouts labored for<br \/>\nthem?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>As much flack as I often take for giving props to the<br \/>\nfour-letter evil empire, ESPN Insider continues to be one of our beloved<br \/>\nsources for betting <span class=SpellE><span class=GramE>intel<\/span><\/span>. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Via their Scouts Inc, which is led by Jeremy Green the son<br \/>\nof former NFL and college coach Dennis Green, sports investors get first-rate<br \/>\nscouting reports from film room junkies. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Former NFL players Ron <span class=SpellE>Jaworski<\/span><br \/>\nand Merrill <span class=SpellE>Hoge<\/span> also give valuable game film<br \/>\ninsight. <span class=SpellE>Jaworski<\/span> has been known to camp at NFL Films<br \/>\nand one can bet (so to speak) that he does have a tremendous point of observation\n<\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Speaking of NFL Films, their Senior Producer Greg <span\nclass=SpellE>Cosell<\/span> has his \u201cFilm Room <span class=SpellE>Blog<\/span>\u201d<br \/>\non FantasyGuru.com, one of the best sites for fantasy football with overlapping<br \/>\nhandicapping vantage points. In includes <span class=SpellE>Cosell\u2019s<\/span><br \/>\nnotes from \u201cwatching coach\u2019s tapes\u201d. Considering his status and employer, he\u2019s<br \/>\nnot blowing smoke. His reports are comprehensive, profound, and invaluable for<br \/>\nmy NFL handicapping. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Sports <span class=SpellE>Xchange<\/span>, touted by <span\nclass=SpellE>Howie<\/span> Long and John Madden, is consumed by sundry media<br \/>\noutlets and by yours truly in the NFL and MLB. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>How about college sports? Scout.com is the centralized<br \/>\nportal for Internet and hard copy team specific sites, that in their words,<br \/>\n\u201cpublish inside and exclusive content\u201d on many of the teams. The caliber of<br \/>\nintuition varies greatly from team to team, but sifting through the filler<br \/>\ncontent often uncovers handicapping wisdom. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>The next time you hear a handicapper claiming to have<br \/>\nscouts with inside information, he may actually be telling the truth. There is<br \/>\none certainty, the oddsmakers have the skinny and the gambler is in serious hardship<br \/>\nwithout it. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>The more advantages the bettors\u2019 opponent has the less<br \/>\nleverage for the gambler. Make no mistake, the <span class=SpellE>oddsmaker<\/span><br \/>\nis the enemy. The cost of not having a scout\u2019s angle has never been greater. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>The only way to counteract the munitions that the <span\nclass=SpellE>linesmaker<\/span> has is to use that same artillery against him.<br \/>\nLuckily the bookmaker has to post odds long before the investor needs to<br \/>\nfinalize his picks, allowing the gamester to empower superior real-time<br \/>\ninformation.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>The Information Age continues to be great news for both<br \/>\nthe oddsmakers and professional speculator, while the hunch bettor underwrites<br \/>\nat an accelerated rate. To that we are forever grateful. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>The author, Joe Duffy is CEO of <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:\nnormal'><span style='color:blue'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\">OffshoreInsiders.com<\/a><\/span><\/b><br \/>\nwhere you can opt to be part of the elite club of winning bettors, or chose to<br \/>\nfinance those who are.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/body><br \/>\n<\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A preeminent offshore oddsmaker stated that the schism between the sharp player and square bettor has never been larger. \u201cProfessional bettors are winning at a higher rate than ever before, but luckily (for sportsbooks) there are more losing bettors,\u201d this offshore betting pioneer asserted. This gap is widest in NFL betting. The oddsmakers and sharp &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/why-scouting-services-have-some-bettors-winning-and-other-gamblers-losing-more-than-ever\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Scouting Services Have Some Bettors Winning and Other Gamblers Losing More Than Ever<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports_gambling_strategy_articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}