(Part 2) Top products from r/sportsbook

Trading Bases is a great book, however I wish he expanded more on his model.

I am currently reading a old copy of Betting Baseball by Michael Murray, http://www.amazon.com/Betting-Baseball-Michael-Murray/dp/0977878708. I wish I could find out more info on this guy, but it seems pretty scarce. He brings up an Offensive Rating formula, I don't have the book with me right now, but its something like X = AB OB% SLG * .975. It basically gives you how many runs that player is worth. So far its a great book.

Can You Win?: The Real Odds for Casino Gambling, Sports Betting, and Lotteries https://www.amazon.com/dp/0716721554/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_mHPnDbYXREPH5

The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic https://www.amazon.com/dp/032328275X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_cJPnDbWRATQ83

OP, there’s a good amount out there and you can go deep down the rabbit hole quickly. I recommend those two books as good starters. The first is friendlier.

My reference is always NCAA football; the intricacies of the NFL escape me.

Home field advantage is directly tied to officiating. Someone recently referenced the book Scorecasting in this sub and it can't be recommended enough to learn more about how to think creatively about sports matchups.

Officiating crews, in my opinion, are a large part of how a bettor may be able to uncover some value. Leagues have been moving in recent years to consolidate conference crews regionally, and any resources one can dig up on which crews are at what games can only help when it comes to betting.

OK so my first really interesting read has been Mathletics by Wayne Winston and Basketball on Paper by Dean Oliver.


What I have learnt so far is that it really comes down to knowing your statistics, knowing how to apply them and building a spreadsheet from there, identifying patterns along the way.

I loved these two horse-betting books:

https://www.amazon.com/Horseplayers-Life-Track-Ted-McClelland/dp/155652675X/ref=sr_1_36?ie=UTF8&qid=1541892366&sr=8-36&keywords=horse+racing+books

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https://www.amazon.com/Laughing-Hills-Bill-Barich/dp/1932910875/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1541892316&sr=8-2&keywords=laughing+in+the+hills

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There are books written about the bells and whistles casinos employ in slot machines to get people addicted. It’s quite interesting

https://www.amazon.com/Addiction-Design-Machine-Gambling-Vegas/dp/0691160880

Analytic Methods in Sports

Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won

Here are two that are sport specific (MLB) but really helped:

Betting Baseball by Richard Nichols

The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball by Tom Tango (I swear by this book, it's basically my bible)

trading bases

conquering risk

logic of sportsbetting

weighing the odds in sports betting

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Depends on what you want. I look at a lot of academic papers for more technical idea generation but these are some decent reads. Joe peta, author of trading bases just came out with a golf book that I haven't read yet

I would suggest reading Trading Bases by Joe Peta

http://www.amazon.com/Trading-Bases-Gambling-Baseball-Necessarily/dp/0525953647

https://www.amazon.com/Suicide-Prevention-Resources-Millennium-Bereavement/dp/0876309872