An omnibus bill currently being voted on in Congress, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. (H.R. 1), poses what is likely to be an existential threat to the livelihoods of professional gamblers. A provision in the bill would change the tax code to only allow bettors to deduct only 90% of gambling losses against their… Continue reading Contact Your Representative About the Big Beautiful Bill’s Gambling Tax Provision

I often say that the single sharpest thing you can do as a sports bettor is to shop lines. Get the best price. Hopefully, most of the audience that reads this article already knows this. That’s why they find value in Unabated. For years, I’ve hoped more people would realize this and begin their… Continue reading Why I’m Finally Starting to Believe in Evolution

The object is still to get the ball across the goal line. But the Canadian Football League isn’t just the NFL with a Rush soundtrack. If you want to learn how to bet the CFL, you need to learn a few key differences.  The first question might be: why bet the CFL? Like all… Continue reading How To Bet The CFL: A Primer

You got down early when it was -2.5 (-115) and the game had a closing price of -3 (-110). You did it. You found the Holy Grail. You caught the white whale. You got positive closing line value. Your work here is done, partner. You locked up the most important thing in sports betting. Maybe. … Continue reading Getting Precise About Closing Line Value

A new WNBA season starts May 14 and, if you haven’t noticed, women’s basketball is having a moment. There were record ratings for the NCAA women’s tournament. Caitlin Clark became a phenomenon. If you’re just starting to look at women’s hoops at the window, we’ve got tools to help you master WNBA betting using… Continue reading Five WNBA Betting Tips For NBA And College Bettors

You can’t not bet the Kentucky Derby. It would be, frankly, un-American. But if you don’t want to dive into past performances, race replays, pace, class, speed figures and all the rest, what’s the best way to play the Kentucky Derby for sports bettors? You don’t have to fully handicap a 20-horse field and… Continue reading  The Sports Bettor’s Guide To Betting The Kentucky Derby

We’re rolling deep into the fall now, with everything that entails: hoodies; increased weekend wing consumption; buying Halloween candy early “just to get ahead” and then buying all new candy two weeks later after you eat all the Twix. Oh, and MLB and WNBA playoffs. With playoffs come series bets and with series bets… Continue reading Intro to Data Science Extra: Build a Playoff Series Simulator

You see it flicker up on an odds screen. There’s a plus-EV price on a game, but it’s only available at an offshore out. You’ve been curious about betting offshore, but always held back because sports betting with crypto was never as easy as linking your bank account to the book and letting a… Continue reading A Step-By-Step Guide to Sports Betting With Crypto

Unabated has held multiple an Ask Me Anything sessions in our Discord with CPA Zak Zimbile, who specializes in filing taxes for gamblers, both professional and recreational. He answered wide-ranging questions from users about whether to file as a recreational or professional bettor; when you should form an S corporation or other entities; and… Continue reading Gambling Taxes FAQ

There are few joys in life quite like drifting off into a Jim Nantz-induced slumber on a quiet Sunday morning and waking up in time to catch the final few holes of The Masters. Bringing home a bomb price (hello, Trevor Immelman) might be up there. Before you pick your stable for the weekend,… Continue reading Mistakes to Avoid When Betting on The Masters

They’ve been playing The Masters for the better part of 90 years. There aren’t any surprises left at Augusta National. And if you’re learning how to bet golf, there’s a little upside to that.  Maybe you only bet one tournament a year. Or maybe you’re tempted by big numbers in the outright winner markets.… Continue reading How to Bet Golf: Analyzing the Course

Sports bettors evolve. They start with easy to understand bets. If a soccer team is -1, then a win by two is good and a win by one is the proverbial kissing your sister. A line of -1½ means the team would have to win by two. Eventually they come across a -1¼ spread and… Continue reading Dead Heat Rules and Asian Handicaps: Confusing Concepts in Sports Betting

March is Problem Gambling Awareness Month. The entire topic is very nuanced, and as usual when the discussion spills into public discourse, it’s easy for nuance to get lost. There have been voices questioning how much of an actual problem that problem gambling is. Some are directing their ire at politicians. Others at operators. The… Continue reading The Last Word on Problem Gambling and Sports Betting

Gambling regulations vary from state to state. Nowhere is that more evident than the rules around betting on college sports. Whether it is College Football odds or College Basketball odds, here’s a handy rundown of college betting by state: Arizona Fire on the Sun Devils until your heart’s content. Betting on game outcomes for… Continue reading College Betting Rules By State

One of the most pivotal days of the college basketball season is upon us, Selection Sunday. Spawning from the NCAA Selection Committee’s choices will be countless competitive matches, underdog stories, and life-changing moments — and that’s just describing the betting action. March Madness creates a plethora of opportunities to bet on how the rest… Continue reading March Madness Betting Strategies: -103 Odds & Other Approaches

March Madness creates a betting frenzy at sportsbooks everywhere. Along with the Super Bowl, it is the event that seemingly everyone has to have a bet on. Also like the Super Bowl, it is an event that creates a cornucopia of prop betting options. March Madness prop bets are typically tournament-long propositions. The time… Continue reading Solving March Madness Prop Bets

March Madness is nearly upon us. Whether you are entering a bracket contest with friends or getting into the weeds betting NCAA props and futures, you’ll want to be able to quantify each school’s chances of making it through each round. If you’re building NCAA basketball power rankings you can use those to fuel… Continue reading Building NCAA Basketball Power Rankings And A Bracket Simulator

MLB betting may start in earnest with Opening Day, but for the baseball bettor, it’s more like the first day of the first MLB season of the year.  That’s because the baseball calendar is best thought as three distinct seasons. Fortunately, every year the start of the year is the easiest “season” to beat. … Continue reading MLB Betting Is Three Seasons

At some point in your life, you may have considered the possibility and concluded with great certainty: “I’d like to invest a tiny bit of money and get back, in return, Scrooge McDuck money.” Maybe that led you to the stock market or Bitcoin or Powerball or fancy digital basketball cards or running Fyre… Continue reading The Good and Bad of Parlays

A futures bet is a wager placed on an event or outcome that will be decided in the future. This could be anything from who will win the Super Bowl, to which team will clinch a spot in the NBA Playoffs, to who will take home the gold in the next Olympic Games. These bets… Continue reading Futures Bets Have Great Risk And Reward

The Super Bowl is over. The Chiefs’ three-peat dreams are buried. The offseason is upon us. And if you’re going to keep things rolling, you need to know the difference between betting NFL vs. NBA props. No one wants to see an NFL season come to an end, but if you’ve been exclusively betting… Continue reading NFL Vs. NBA Props: Getting Ready For The Next Season

The NFL season is over. For many, you won’t think about the NFL again until late summer. However, before your football handicapping takes a long nap in the deep recesses of your brain. It will be worth your time to do a simple exercise that will give you a jump start on next NFL… Continue reading 5 Questions To Conduct Your NFL Betting Post-Mortem Analysis

The 2024 Super Bowl is upon us. Buffalo and Washington fell by the wayside in the Conference Championships, and now we’re down to it. Philadelphia and Kansas City for the second time in three years. One game left to last us until next fall. And so many bettors want to make this one count, with… Continue reading 2025 Super Bowl Prop Bets: A Primer For The Big Game

One of the more unique offerings during the busy Super Bowl prop season is the cross-sport prop. It allows the bettor to use their knowledge of another sport and tie it into the big game. Since the other major sports are wise enough not to schedule a game that conflicts with America’s most-watched sporting… Continue reading Attacking Cross-Sport Super Bowl Props

It’s the only menu out there that makes the Cheesecake Factory feel like a flash card. It’s the Super Bowl prop bet menu, and it’s your best friend for the next few days. Where do you even start with NFL player prop bets during the Super Bowl? With team-wide projections? With the players? With… Continue reading Pie For Dinner: Rufus Peabody’s NFL Player Prop Process

Once the lights went out on the Conference Championships, books hustled to the line to try to be the first to get their prop menus in order. The Super Bowl game props were some of the first ones posted. But is there value here? Maybe you’ve kicked the tires on “race to X points”… Continue reading When To Avoid, And When To Attack, Super Bowl Game Props

Editor’s Note: This story was written by Unabated user Bob R., who has spent the last two years hitting Super Bowl props along with his partners in the two-week leadup to the game.  Before Super Bowl LVIII, I shared details about my experiences working with a friend to track prop lines across as many… Continue reading Lessons From Super Bowl Props Past

The lead up to the big game on Feb. 9 can seem like an eternity. However, there are a lot of key moments you won’t want to miss between now and then. It may appear to be a full two weeks between games, but much of the value can be found at key points… Continue reading When To Bet — Your Super Bowl Betting Timeline

Editor’s Note: This story was written by Unabated user Bob R. about his experience last year spending two weeks doing Super Bowl prop betting, working alongside his betting partners in different parts of the country.   It’s minutes before the Eagles and Chiefs are about to play in Super Bowl LVII and I’m buried… Continue reading 2,500 Miles Of Super Bowl Prop Betting

Through 18 weeks from early September to early January, you had your routine. Betting the NFL involved checking early lines on Mondays and Tuesdays. Then reacting to injury information on Thursdays and Fridays. Hunting player props on Fridays and Saturdays. Then finishing up with teasers on Sunday mornings. You dabbled with some halftimes and… Continue reading NFL Playoff Betting Can Require A Different Approach

Eat better and lose weight? Bah. Finally learn French? Not this year. Keep your Jane Fonda workout tapes in the closet (no, really, you don’t even have a VCR anymore; why are you keeping those). Our entire plan for self-improvement is to make New Year’s resolutions for sports bettors. In 2025 let’s commit to something… Continue reading 5 New Year’s Resolutions for Sports Bettors

There’s something about poker that brings out the inner Tolstoy in that community. If you want to read about the intricacies of flop, turn and river play, you have hundreds of books to choose from. Right this second someone, somewhere probably just finished a 4,000-word chapter on ace-queen suited in the small blind. Sports… Continue reading Hit The Books: Sports Betting Books For Every Bettor

To an aspiring sharp sports bettor there’s nothing sweeter than winning money from the big regulated sportsbooks that dominate this industry. Likewise, there’s a sour taste left in their mouth when they find they’ve been cut down to $3.65 wager limits.  If you’re fortunate enough to be in a state with plenty of regulated… Continue reading Alternative Betting Options Beyond Regulated Sportsbooks

The 2023-24 college basketball season started Nov. 6. But if you were betting top-down early in the season, you may have found yourself on the variance roller coaster. Lousy coaster, too. It doesn’t even come with a free T-shirt for surviving the ride. And if you were riding it, you probably wanted to know… Continue reading When Does College Basketball Become More Efficient?

Introduction by Jack Andrews: Finding your own unique path is how you can achieve your goals in sports betting. Sometimes it can be very useful to read about another bettor’s journey to help shape your own. I was impressed by the journey Tomas outlined on his Twitter account. I’ve asked him to expand on… Continue reading NBA Betting: Finding Your Path To Profitability

Retail sportsbooks have massive menus filled with deep lineups in small-market sports that are ripe with opportunity to hunt out inefficient lines rich with expected value. WNBA props bettors are well aware of just how rich.  These shouldn’t be construed as WNBA picks. This isn’t “the best Caitlin Clark plays today” or daily WNBA… Continue reading How Unabated’s WNBA Player Props Projections Perform

Positive EV wagers are what separates the serious, playing-to-win sports bettor from the casual gambler. Unabated provides you with a wide array of tools and resources to help you become a more intelligent sports bettor. These tools come with a slight learning curve and some of them require a Premium Subscription. However, we believe… Continue reading Tools and Strategies for Positive EV Wagers

 The popularity of betting the NFL is undeniable. But are you getting your money down in the best possible situation each week? I’m going to give you five types of bets you should look for each week to profit more when betting the NFL.  Hi I’m Jack from Unabated. I’ve been a professional… Continue reading Betting The NFL: Are You Placing The Right Wagers?

Betting college football, like college basketball, runs on those two magic words: surface area. With more than 250 FBS and FCS college football teams programs, it’s a significant amount of information for books to properly track and defend. And when there’s a wide surface area that’s lightly defended, that means tons of opportunities for… Continue reading User’s Guide: Betting On College Football Using Unabated

It’s five minutes until kickoff on Sunday. All your pregame action for the early slate is locked. Nothing to do but kick back and watch it all play out. For about a minute or two. Then it’s time to start planning your day-by-day NFL betting strategy. Not all bets are created equal, and neither… Continue reading Football Sunday To Sunday: A Day-By-Day NFL Betting Strategy Guide

When it comes to sports betting, the NFL is king. More people bet the NFL than any other sport in the U.S. Sides, totals, moneylines, parlays, props, same game parlays – there are many different ways to carve up the NFL. But there’s one way to bet that could turn your small investment into… Continue reading How To Win Millions In NFL Pick’em And Survivor Contests

The 2024 NFL season is fast approaching. Leveraging breaking news and injury updates is a secret weapon that sharp bettors have used for years. X (or, yes, we still call it Twitter) has revolutionized the dissemination of this news. The trick is to find the signal in all the noise. We’ve compiled this list… Continue reading Best NFL X/Twitter Accounts for News and Rumors

Who’s going to make the expanded College Football Playoff? What’s the best price on the national championship? Now you can start to answer those questions with Unabated’s College Football Futures Simulator.  Designed by Rufus Peabody and Cade Massey – the duo behind the Massey-Peabody ratings – along with the Unabated data science and engineering teams,… Continue reading Introducing The College Football Futures Simulator

The NFL is the king of American sports and betting on the NFL is the king of the American sportsbook. But it’s also the biggest, baddest market out there.  There’s a ton of liquidity, which means high limits. Which attracts the sharpest bettors. Which means markets get more efficient, more quickly. And those big, sharp… Continue reading User’s Guide: Betting On The NFL Using Unabated

 The most popular sport to bet on in the United States is the NFL. Nearly $100 billion dollars was wagered on the NFL this season alone. Everywhere you turn there are pundits and prognosticators telling you who you should bet and why. Meanwhile true sharp bettors will also tell you that the toughest… Continue reading Why Bet The NFL?

Few wagers in a sportsbook give you the value that season-long NFL contests can give you. They appeal to public bettors as well as sharp bettors. Sportsbooks love them as well. It’s a rare win/win/win for all involved. Maybe you’ve read our advice or watched our video on playing these season-long NFL contests in… Continue reading NFL Contests Offer Great Season-Long Value

The Unabated NFL Simulator is a powerful tool designed to assist you in projecting the rest of the NFL season. At first glance, the NFL Simulator may seem a bit intimidating. We’ll show you how the NFL Simulator works and how you can get the most out of it. About the Unabated NFL Simulator … Continue reading How The Unabated NFL Simulator Works

For many bettors, an NFL week isn’t complete without a healthy dose of prop bets. Betting on player performances has replaced betting on their favorite teams for many American bettors. Betting NFL player props may seem straightforward. On the surface, it appears beatable. Indeed, there is a lot of profit potential in betting player… Continue reading The Biggest Mistake You’re Making When Betting NFL Player Props

Welcome to our NFL Simulator at Unabated. We believe this will be the best-in-class application for simulating out the rest of the NFL season. In this brief on-boarding video, I’m going to give you a quick tour of how you can utilize the simulator. Let’s get started… If you’ve never used the simulator before, your… Continue reading Quick Guide To The NFL Simulator

NFL Teaser bets have been a known sharp play for the last 20 years. However, as markets tend towards efficiency they have become increasingly harder to beat. In this article, we’ll recap why NFL teasers are beatable, how you can beat NFL teaser bets, some teaser pitfalls to avoid, and also some new ways to… Continue reading How To Build Profitable NFL Teaser Bets

We previously looked at NFL handicapping contests for 2024. Now we’ll update your NFL survivor contest strategy for 2024. Survivor contests take NFL season-long contests to a whole other level with their simplicity. Pick one game each week. If your teams wins, you move on. If your team loses, you are eliminated. Oh, and… Continue reading Your 2024 NFL Survivor Contest Strategy

Four years ago on a sweltering summer night in Jersey City, Bet Bash was brought into the world. It was born of one man’s vision to have a networking event that would be for bettors, by bettors. That man, of course, is Spanky. Since then the event has grown and we’re now on the… Continue reading Get The Most Out Of Your Bet Bash Experience

Our Props+ tier is geared toward prop players looking to get an edge in these beatable markets, but it doesn’t stop with props.  Not only do you get resources to beat popular pick’em and survivor pools, but you also gain several features that will help you with betting sides and totals, too.  Props+ members get… Continue reading How To Get The Most Out Of Your Props+ Membership

Whether you’re stepping up from the Props+ tier or jumping straight in, our Premium tier lets you put your hands on every tool and resource that Unabated has to offer.  With these tools you’re equipped to effectively analyze the market; find outlier lines that create plus-EV opportunities; easily compare alternate lines and derivatives to… Continue reading How To Get The Most Out Of Your Premium Membership

 The next big thing in sports betting is about to hit us. If you haven’t heard of sweepstakes betting yet, you soon will. It’s poised to massively expand the number of people in the U.S. who can access sports betting. Is it legal? Is it safe? Should you should try it?  One of… Continue reading What Is Sweepstakes Betting?

If you’re just getting started with Unabated, there’s a lot to take in. Choose your shopworn metaphor: it’s like being a kid in the candy store; or it’s like drinking from the firehose.   Hopefully, you’ve already taken one of our free one-on-one demos to get familiar with the product. If you haven’t, we recommend… Continue reading Get Started Using Unabated

By now you should have some basic familiarity with the tools at Unabated. Now it gets really fun. Whether you already took a one-on-one demo or you read through our guide to getting started with Unabated, it’s time to explore some of the more robust features we have to offer.  Unabated membership has four… Continue reading Your Next Steps With Unabated

With thousands of mens and womens’ matches year round, there’s no shortage of opportunity to bet on tennis. But volume peaks with fan engagement during the four majors – the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, and US Open – and sportsbooks expand their menus throughout these tournaments to include various props and derivatives.  Smaller… Continue reading How to Bet Wimbledon: A Guide to Tennis Majors

 Sports betting isn’t easy. There’s so much to keep up with and factor into your betting and everywhere you turn, someone is trying to sell you something. To help you out, I have five completely free sports betting shortcuts you should be using in your journey.  I’ve been a professional gambler for over… Continue reading 5 Sports Betting Shortcuts Sharp Bettors Know

 It’s inevitable! A sportsbook makes a mistake in grading a wager and it’s important that you know what to do when it happens. What are your rights? Who do you contact? And what happens if the sportsbook won’t budge? Let’s look at how to resolve a sportsbook dispute. I’ve been a professional gambler… Continue reading How To Fight A Sportsbook Dispute

Editors Note: For major tournaments on the golf circuit, we’re fortunate to have Tom Peabody, Rufus’s brother, to give us a glimpse inside their process as they prepare for the event. In 2022, the US Open was at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts. Here, Tom explores how he and Rufus planned to distribute… Continue reading Betting the US Open: Inside the Process

It finally happened. After months, years, or thousands of bets, you have beef with a sportsbook. To quote the philosopher-poet John McClane: Welcome to the party, pal. Maybe they didn’t grade a bet correctly. Maybe they’re dragging their heels on cashing out your account. Whatever the issue is, how do you resolve a sportsbook… Continue reading What Can You Do When You Have A Sportsbook Dispute?

Some of the most beatable lines that a sportsbook puts out are on player prop bets. However, there is one major mistake that most bettors make when betting props. I’ll show you step-by-step how to beat player props and how to avoid that mistake in this video. Hi, I’m Jack from Unabated. When I was… Continue reading Profitable Prop Betting In 3 Easy Steps

In this video, Jack will walk you through a simple way that you can generate your own power ratings.

Spring practices for college football teams have ended, with every team finishing up by the first week in May. The spring transfer portal window closed on April 30, although players already in the portal can commit after that date. Even though practices have ended, the CFB offseason news cycle remains in full swing, and we’re… Continue reading CFB Offseason News: UCF Grabbing Portal Talent

There were record eyeballs on the NCAA women’s tournament and record handle on women’s college hoops at the betting window. Ticket sales are reportedly through the roof and the league just announced expansion. Caitlin Clark turned pro and the ink’s already dry on her Nike deal. So with all this added attention, what can… Continue reading More Liquid Markets And Caitlin Clark: Four Tips For Tackling WNBA Props In 2024

 Sportsbooks like to force you into difficult decisions. Like should you let your bet ride or should you take a cash out offer? I’m going to explore how bad those cash offers really are – but also clue you into when they can actually be really good.  Hi, I’m Jack from Unabated. I’ve… Continue reading When Should You Cash Out Of A Bet?

The spring transfer portal window opened April 16 and remains open until April 30. Spring practices for many college football teams have recently ended, with almost every team set to finish by the end of April. The college football offseason news cycle is in full swing, and we’re rounding up the most notable player… Continue reading ASU Loses Rashada, Badger; More From The Spring Transfer Portal

So you’ve found a trove of data. And you’ve found a couple of correlations. What do you do with it all when you’re trying to build a sports betting model? It’s time to apply a linear or logistic regression. First, let’s take a quick look back at how we got here: In Part 1… Continue reading Intro To Data Science Part 5: Linear And Logistic Regression

Spring practices for most college football teams are currently ongoing or have just recently completed. The spring transfer portal window opens from April 16-30, although some players have already declared their intent to enter, while grad transfers can enter at any time. The college football offseason news cycle is in full swing, and we’re… Continue reading College Football Offseason News: Arkansas QB Green On Track To Be Starter

When you visit a casino or a sportsbook, there’s not a lot of innovations developed in the 1700s that are still being used today. Save for one. It’s the Martingale betting Ssystem and it’s guaranteed to be profitable – until it isn’t.  Hi, I’m Jack from Unabated. In my 20-plus years of being a professional… Continue reading Why Martingale Betting Works – Until It Doesn’t

For some of you, this appears to be an article meant for someone else. You’re not losing betting baseball this year. You’re confident in your hardball handicapping and you’re banking on a summer of bountiful betting profit. Feel free to bail out now. However, remember this article. You may want to circle back later this… Continue reading Why You Are Losing Betting Baseball

The lifespan of an edge is fragile, like holding an Under 8.5 ticket in a 6-2 game that Kyle Finnegan is trying to close out. Some of them can be measured in just months. Some, maybe mere days. But sometimes you get hold of one that can carry you for years before the world… Continue reading Angle Autopsies: The Ups And Downs Of Betting Barometric Pressure

Spring practices for many college football teams are already ongoing or starting soon. The spring transfer portal window opens in mid-April. The college football offseason news cycle is in full swing, and we’re rounding up the most notable player updates here. We’ll have updates from spring games. We’ll also check in when some teams… Continue reading College Football Offseason News: Ole Miss RB Diggs, TCU QB Hoover To Miss Spring Practice

The fantasy and the reality of being a professional gambler are two divergent things. Anyone who has ever gambled and won any small amount of money has immediately had the vision of being able to do it as a source of income. Some especially fool-hearted folks, such as myself, have even gone so far as… Continue reading How To Be A Professional Gambler – Mentality

Have you ever seen betting splits? A sportsbook is telling you that 52 percent of the bets are on one team but 66 percent of the money is on their opponent. Can you use this information to your advantage or are they just trying to trick you into wagering more? I’m going to break… Continue reading The Truth About Betting Splits

 To many, being a professional gambler might seem like the coolest job ever. However, what’s it really like to make a living betting on sports? I’m going to give you an inside look at how a professional sports bettor thinks. And you can decide if you have what it takes to do the… Continue reading Think Like A Pro Bettor

 The video requests I get most frequently are all bankroll related. How to build a sports betting bankroll, how much bankroll do I need, how much should I be betting? Well get ready, because I’m going to answer all of them. Hi, I’m Jack from Unabated. I’ve been a professional gambler for over 20… Continue reading How To Build A Sports Betting Bankroll

With March Madness around the corner, some of you may be gearing up for your own springtime Calcutta betting auctions. A Calcutta auction provides bettors with the ability to gamble and match wits against their friends or peers in a challenging format. Perhaps you’ve heard about various Calcutta betting auctions but have been afraid… Continue reading A Guide To Calcutta Betting Auction Strategy

 What does it take to beat sports betting using your own handicapping skills? We call this method bottom-up betting, or originating. But how do originators do it? How do they come up with their numbers? How could you get started doing it as well if you don’t have a background in computer programming?… Continue reading Learn The Basics Of Bottom-Up Betting, Or Originating

After price, good projections are everything. Whether you’re making your own or using projections from any of the myriad providers out there, sooner or later every prop bettor has to answer that one burning question: Is an off-market number a great bet, or is something off with the model? Now you have a powerful… Continue reading Introducing Market-Based Prop Projections

Major League Soccer kicks off its season this weekend, and with it comes MLS betting. We’ve heard from one or two or 50 people who swear up and down that baseball is too fickle and they’re not going anywhere near the diamond. (We get it. You can only suffer through so many closer meltdowns in… Continue reading The Beginner’s Guide To MLS Betting

When we evaluate our past bets, most thoughtful bettors are looking at some combination of their actual results and their closing line value.  CLV is useful because it stabilizes much more quickly than actual results. Return on investment is what we’re all playing for, but how can we strip the luck out of actual… Continue reading Beyond CLV And ROI: Analyze Bet Results Using Expected ROI

 You want to win at sports betting but you just can’t devote the time necessary to do it well. What if I told you that you could win at sports betting in 1 hour per day? It’s true, I’ll show you how and how much you could make doing this.. Hi, I’m Jack… Continue reading Win At Sports Betting In 1 Hour Per Day

 Sports betting isn’t about picking winners. If you’re doing that you’re trying to predict the future. And predicting the future is hard. Learning how to win at sports betting is about process, probability, and pricing. Let’s put you on the path to winning.  Hi, I’m Jack from Unabated. I’ve been a pro bettor… Continue reading How To Win At Sports Betting

 What if you could bet on sports without risking anything? Some people do just that. They make money betting both sides of a game. In this video we’ll explore how arbitrage betting works. I’ll show you where to look for these opportunities and how to avoid the common mistakes bettors make doing this. … Continue reading What Is Arbitrage Betting And How Do You Do It?

 It’s a common misconception that the way you beat sports betting is to merely pick more winners than losers. What if I told you that most sharp sports bettors don’t work that way? Furthermore, I’ll tell you exactly how most sharp bettors do it using a method called top-down betting – and how… Continue reading How Do Sharps Win At Sports Betting?

In a previous video, I outlined five of the worst bets you could make in any given sportsbook. But if there’s a five worst, then there must be a five best. In this video, I’m counting down five of the best bets you can make if you’re in a sportsbook and looking to place… Continue reading The Five Best Bets In A Sportsbook

 When it comes to sports betting not all bets are created equal. In fact there are some really bad bets you can make in a sportsbook. I’m going to count down the top five worst bets you can make in a sportsbook in that sportsbook app on your phone. I’ve been a professional… Continue reading The Five Worst Bets You Can Make In A Sportsbook

Editor’s Note: Unabated NBA is currently on sale. Right now you can get it through the end of the 2024-25 playoffs for just $499. Last season, the NBA instituted a new player participation policy. Strict rules now dictate how teams report injuries and when teams can rest players. If it was enough of a… Continue reading Fine Tune Your NBA Prop Betting Strategy Using Unabated NBA

NASCAR made a surprising bet a couple years ago, staging its annual Busch Light Clash preseason exhibition race outside of the sport’s spiritual home of Daytona for the first time since the race’s inception in 1979. The new venue: the storied Los Angeles Coliseum, notable for hosting a century of college football, two Olympic Games,… Continue reading How To Avoid Going Around In Circles Betting NASCAR

“Hedging a bet” refers to a betting strategy used to reduce risk or guarantee a profit regardless of the outcome of an event. Essentially, it involves placing a second bet against the original bet that you made, thereby ensuring that you will either minimize your loss or lock in a profit. Here’s how it works:… Continue reading Should I Hedge My Bet?

Daily fantasy sports pick’em is white-hot and it was only a matter of time before traditional DFS sites got on board. DraftKings Pick6 brings the pick’em phenomenon to one of the daily fantasy OGs, with a little bit of a wrinkle in how the contests work and pay out. Right now, Unabated is rolling… Continue reading How to Play DraftKings Pick6 Using Unabated

After 18 weeks, 20 picks and two competitors bringing their entries home earlier in the day, the final sweat in Circa Survivor V wasn’t much of a sweat after all. Four entries made it to the final week of the season-long contest. The prize pool was $9.3 million and two entries, JAX JAGS-1 and… Continue reading Circa Survivor LAJONESER Outlasts Misclicks, Near-Misses and 9,263 Competitors

Here it is. Win or go home. It’s time to put the finishing touch on your season with the NFL Week 18 pick’em contest edges.  (Some of our finishing touches need a little more attention than others. Like if, say, you were Top 3 in the Circa Millions.) The Pick’em Edge Tool is ready… Continue reading NFL Week 18 Pick’em Contest Edges

We’re winding down pick’em season. Hopefully you’re in the catbird seat in your contest with a commanding lead. But if it’s close, let’s take a look at the NFL Week 17 pick’em contest edges. The Pick’em Edge Tool is tuned up and ready to take you home over the final two weeks. Starting with… Continue reading NFL Week 17 Pick’em Contest Edges

Here we are with four weeks left in the season and the division races are largely decided. Except for the NFC South where they’re apparently scrapping to see who can be the first 7-10 division winner in NFL history. Hopefully your pools aren’t so dire. If you’re still alive, let’s see where the NFL… Continue reading NFL Week 15 Pick’em And Survivor Contest Edges

Welcome to the 2023 college football bowl game opt-out and injury tracker! This post will feature the bowl games nearest in the schedule, and will be continually updated with breaking news as well as games being added as their dates become closer. Included are updates on impactful injuries, NFL Draft opt-outs, transfer portal entries, and… Continue reading College Football Bowl Game Opt-Out And Injury Tracker

Many of you already get the gist behind top-down betting, (sometimes called, somewhat pejoratively, “steam chasing”). You use a “source of truth” from sharp sportsbooks to punish slower, more square books by taking a better price on a bet than where the market appears headed. We created the Unabated Line to be an overall… Continue reading What Is The Unabated Line?

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”  – Richard Feynman   Clear, dispassionate thinking and the analysis that flows from it are crucial to all speculative endeavors. It is essential that we embrace ambiguity and sit comfortably with it in order to make… Continue reading To Find Edge, Question Certainty

We’ve got a NFC Championship rematch/potential 2024 preview this weekend. Is it the Sunday night or Monday night game? Of course not. Who in the NFL offices could have known that the Eagles and Niners would be a compelling matchup in 2023? Well, regardless, it’s compelling in your NFL Week 13 pick’em pools. The… Continue reading NFL Week 13 Pick’em And Survivor Contest Edges

I’ve been an Advantage Player for over 20 years — far longer than I ever expected to be. The secret to my success and longevity is simple: Always have many arrows in your quiver when you plan your attack. You always need to have multiple ways to find an edge or else you’re easily… Continue reading Ten Ways To Win At Sports Betting With Unabated

Week 14 is conference championship week, featuring 10 championship games across Friday evening and Saturday. The reduced slate means there is less college football injury news than usual, but the biggest news involving games this week includes SMU losing their starting quarterback for the season, Florida State has uncertainty for its starting QB, and… Continue reading Week 14 College Football Injury News And Player Updates

The Edge Tool is one of the simplest, most intuitive features of Unabated – and also one of the most powerful. It’s how you can find a betting edge at a glance and zero in on targets in the hunt for plus-EV wagers. At its core, the Edge Tool looks for the best available… Continue reading How to Quickly Calculate Your Sports Betting Edge

Concierge Tier members already are able to get the fastest, most comprehensive collection of edges all in one spot with Edge Rusher. Now prop players can get in on the fun, too, with Prop Rusher. Prop Rusher is a tool unlike any other for quickly identifying the biggest edges and best prop bets across all… Continue reading Introducing Prop Rusher

Every so often in these pick’em contests you get a line that’s an absolute gift. The NFL Week 11 pick’em pools are one of those times, if you’re playing at RunYourPool. Injury news makes the Pick’em Edge Tool go ‘round sometimes. Let’s take a look at what we’re dealing with.   Pick’em Pools  … Continue reading NFL Week 11 Pick’em And Survivor Contest Edges

Have we all recovered from that Thursday Night Football barnburner? The prime time football gods have not been smiling on us this year. Maybe the NFL Week 10 pick’em gods will be a little more forgiving. Let’s take the Pick’em Edge Tool off the shelf and see where the edges are this week.  … Continue reading NFL Week 10 Pick’em And Survivor Contest Edges

By now you’ve read the book Interception from Ed Miller and Matt Davidow. (And if you haven’t, you should mash buttons on Amazon to get it.) In the book, Miller and Davidow include 12 betting angles you can add to your playbook right now.  They range in scope and type. Some of these angles… Continue reading Betting Angles From “Interception” Using Unabated

Arbitrage betting is a betting strategy that involves taking advantage of differences in odds among different bookmakers to make a profit regardless of the outcome of an event. The idea behind arbitrage betting is to place bets on all multiple outcomes of an event at different bookmakers, in such a way that the combined payouts… Continue reading Arbitrage Betting Guide: Risk Free Riches Or A Mirage?

If you got the Steelers -2.5 in your contest plays this week, you already banked some exceptional value that paid off last night. But for everyone else, it’s time to comb through the NFL Week 9 pick’em entries and see if we can squeeze out just a little more. As always, we’re using the… Continue reading NFL Week 9 Pick’em And Survivor Contest Edges

Professional gamblers live by two letters: EV. The goal of any aspiring professional is to maximize your expected value. Focusing solely on wagers which have positive expected value should produce profits that converge to meet those expectations. A disciplined bettor thinks in terms of EV and trusts the actual value isn’t far behind. However,… Continue reading When Maximizing EV Don’t Be Fooled By PV

We’ve talked a little bit about what to do if you’re way ahead in your pick’em contests (keep taking chalk) or way behind (go contrarian). What do you do if you’re mid-pack halfway through the season? Your NFL Week 8 pick’em plays need to find select spots where you can make up some ground.… Continue reading NFL Week 8 Pick’em And Survivor Contest Edges

Simulators are a crucial resource for any serious prop bettor. The tools at Unabated sim player performance 10,000 times to generate a distribution of outcomes. You can use these to make sharper, more informed bets.  But as we’ve said repeatedly, simulations are only as good as their inputs. To get sharp edges, you need… Continue reading Introducing Run the Sims and BLITZ NFL Player Prop Projections Integration

Last week the Niners came in with a massive edge in a few different pools and then went out and lost outright to the Browns. (To say nothing of the Eagles tanking survivor entries up and down the dial with their loss to the Jets.) If we could have a semi-normal week for our… Continue reading NFL Week 7 Pick’em And Survivor Contest Edges

It’s Week 6. The injury reports are starting to look like a CVS receipt. Taylor Swift hasn’t eaten anything but stale hot dogs and heat-lamp barbecue from Chiefs catering in a month. And your NFL Week 6 pick’em contests might be in a state of transition depending on how you’re moving up and down… Continue reading NFL Week 6 Pick’em And Survivor Contest Edges

The following is an excerpt from the Ed Miller and Matthew Davidow book Interception: The Secrets of Modern Sports Betting, from a section on practical angles bettors can use when they take on the extensive betting menus offered at most modern books. Misalignment Between a Sport’s Rules and the Model’s Rules This category is somewhat… Continue reading “Interception” Excerpt: When Rules And Models Aren’t Aligned

With their new book Interception: The Secrets Of Modern Sports Betting, Ed Miller and Matthew Davidow fill a gap in sports betting education that I did not know existed. The modern sportsbook, Miller and Davidow say, pursue a policy of “betting menu maximizing.” Although the authors openly express sympathy for the modern sportsbooks’ impossible… Continue reading Review: “Interception” Book A Practical Guide To Probing Sportsbooks’ Weaknesses

In a recent poll, we asked our users what sports betting was to them. 54.4 percent replied that sports betting is a side hustle. In other words, they have other things in their life that probably take precedence over sports betting. Job commitments, family responsibilities, or maybe they’re just not that into the sports… Continue reading Sports Betting As A Side Hustle: Winning In An Hour A Day

Parlay cards were printed.  That seems obvious. “Card” is right there in the name. But when you’ve spent the last few years in the fast-twitch world of online sports betting, stop and think about what it means to have lines set in ink and paper. Might as well be chisel and stone. Now think… Continue reading Angle Autopsies: Parlay Cards

Is the Bears offense suddenly feisty? Sure, the Broncos and Commanders have two of the worst defenses in the NFL (outside of Chicago), but all of a sudden the Bears looked professional. If you had them in your NFL Week 5 pick’em pools, you’re comfortably up one. We weren’t so comfortable with the game,… Continue reading NFL Week 5 Pick’em And Survivor Contest Edges

RIP to your survivor entries if you’re one of the many who landed on Jacksonville or Dallas last week. The Circa Survivor has about a third of its starting entrants remaining after that. The good news is that means lots of players can spend more time focusing on their NFL Week 4 pick’em pools.… Continue reading NFL Week 4 Pick’em And Survivor Contest Edges

Last week, we benefited from some big line moves to help us find solid edges in our NFL Week 3 pick’em pools. And hey, maybe you’re already a leg up with a play on the Niners laying that big 10.5 against a Giants team playing back-to-back West Coast road games (and still suffering under… Continue reading NFL Week 3 Pick’em And Survivor Contest Edges

Building or sourcing NFL projections accurate enough to beat props with is an ongoing quest for any bettor. Accurate projections are the Holy Grail, but to get them in fighting shape, it requires constant maintenance and careful attention to weekly shifts in playing time, target share, weather and more. John Paulsen, the projections guru… Continue reading Rookie QBs And Other NFL Projection Tips With John Paulsen

If you were a Jets believer last week, you got away with one. But we can’t imagine they’re going to be showing up as selections in a whole lot of NFL Week 2 pick’em pools.  Week 2 is Overreaction Week. But you aren’t going to make that mistake. You have to be measured. Logical.… Continue reading NFL Week 2 Pick’em And Survivor Contest Edges

You can’t run the table in your contests if you don’t start get it from the jump. Which is why we’re looking at NFL Week 1 pick’em edges. Because we’d hate to see you fall behind this early already. (And if you’re one of the unlucky ones who took the Chiefs in survivor, first… Continue reading NFL Week 1 Pick’em And Survivor Contest Edges

When working with regular gambling partners, each person often assumes unofficial non-gambling roles that fit with their character. One person might be in charge of travel – booking flights and hotels. Another might take the lead in accounting – confirming the numbers are correct at the end of each day. And if you’re me,… Continue reading When To Fight For Every Dollar, And When To Walk Away

Less than a year ago, I laid out Ten Ways to Win at Sports Betting With Unabated. In the introduction to that article I pointed out that the most successful advantage players I know have multiple ways to attack. I presented 10 viable ways to use Unabated to find plus-EV plays. But I was… Continue reading Ten MORE Ways to Win Betting Sports With Unabated

Back in March 2021, Unabated launched our website with some calculators and a promise to become your direct path to intelligent betting. In the months that followed we launched a revolutionary NFL Season Simulator and improved a limited set of ground-breaking calculators. Then toward the end of 2021, we launched our Odds Screen featuring… Continue reading Unabated Then & Now

Unless you’re Santa Claus or the NSA, you can’t see everything, everywhere, all at once.  Which is a problem for most sports bettors. Edges that flash across the screen can be snapped up in seconds. If you’re studiously combing college football sides, you might never see that juicy spot on a WNBA moneyline or… Continue reading Introducing Edge Rusher

Survivor pools can be a great way to get a season-long sweat going, or a phenomenal way to lose all your equity in Week 1 (thanks, Indianapolis-Houston, for that Week 1 tie last year). We’re introducing our NFL Survivor Pool Optimizer to help you avoid the early flame-out and find your best path forward.… Continue reading Introducing The NFL Survivor Pool Optimizer

The days are shortening up, Halloween candy has been on the shelves for weeks, and there’s a non-zero chance you’re sleeping on your old NFL sheets between now and kickoff Sept. 7.  With less than two weeks to go before the NFL returns it is, in short, futures season. Unabated’s NFL Season Simulator is… Continue reading When Futures Go Wild

In the latest episode from T, he’s exploring how to create user-friendly controls to blend projections for use in the Unabated Props Screen and NFL Simulator. He’ll show you how to move beyond just simple averaging to weighted averages. Key Concepts Why weighted averages can be powerful in making projections. Building sliders to control… Continue reading Blending Player Projections in Excel

Some students are just trying to crank out another paper on Shakespeare or the Civil War or photosynthesis to get through their senior thesis.  Derek Carty used his to create THE BAT baseball projection system. Best use of a college education we’ve ever heard of.  Carty devised The Bat to project player stats for season-long… Continue reading THE BAT X Projections Now Available On Unabated

Last season the New York Times invited me to take over as their NFL handicapper. I would have to pick every game of the season against the spread and write a couple of paragraphs previewing the game and explaining my pick. I also would be able to write a short column each week to… Continue reading How I Use Unabated – David Hill

Sportsbooks look to identify actions and patterns to identify sharp bettors, which are defined as the skilled sports bettors that win money over the long term. In poker, a mannerism that allows your opponent to gain knowledge of your hand’s strength is called a Tell. These sharp sports bettors are also susceptible to having betting tells… Continue reading Eliminate These Five Sharp Betting Tells From Your Game

Insurance: You have to get it for your car and you never take it in blackjack. But what do you do with it on Underdog Sports? If you’re coming to daily fantasy sports pick’em contests from a sports betting background, the terminology may be new but the concepts are fairly simple. Understanding how the… Continue reading Use Breakeven Percent To Fine Tune Your DFS Pick’em Strategy

Whether I’m talking to other parents, neighbors, or the blonde woman with the poodle at the dog park who seeks me out to discuss local news, I don’t ask people what they do for a living. I don’t want to face the question myself. If jobs come up and I admit that I gamble… Continue reading Card Counting Vs. Sports Betting

We’ve waited nearly six months to bet on NFL football again and now the preseason is upon us. Betting the NFL preseason is an exercise in contradiction. Over the next three weeks the NFL requires teams to play games that don’t count. Almost universally, the teams will tell you they’re not trying to win… Continue reading The Do’s & Don’ts Of Betting The NFL Preseason

In this episode, T is tying together the data gathering, bootstrapping, and weighting that we did in the first two episodes. He’ll be building a basic player prop model for the NFL that can be used to predict receptions, targets, and yardage. This example builds a project for Tight End receiving that takes into account… Continue reading How to Create NFL Player Projections For Player Props

When last we met, we had sourced a trove of batter data from the 2021 MLB season. We started to look at some basic correlations among variables for hitters. Now it’s time to introduce sports betting data to the mix. By doing so we can begin to answer the most crucial question of our… Continue reading Intro to Data Science Part 4: Testing Your Hypothesis

If Joe Milton goes down in practice three days before the Vols are headed into The Swamp to play Florida, you don’t have a lot of time before the lines go into overdrive. That’s assuming you’re on top of all the breaking college football news. If you aren’t, you might be left holding a… Continue reading Introducing Unabated College Football

Summer is drawing to a close. Schools are soon to be bustling, the echoes of children’s laughter from their season of freedom are still palpable, and the residual scent of backyard BBQs lingers in the air. These lingering signs of summer that tempt many to squeeze in one last outdoor adventure have an opposite effect… Continue reading College Football Betting Strategies In 2023

 Thomas Viola: Hello everyone and welcome on into the Unabated Podcast. I’m Thomas Viola and no Captain Jack today. Instead, joining me once again, of course, you definitely know him. You probably love him. Peter Jennings joining me here today because we have some exciting things to talk about. How are you doing?… Continue reading Using Unabated’s DFS Tools With Peter Jennings

Today marks a new chapter for Unabated and, we hope, a new chapter in your quest for positive expected value. We’re introducing a lineup optimizer to help take on daily fantasy sports pick’em contests. Our DFS pick’em entry builder will help maximize your edge when you’re playing these daily fantasy formats. It’s like having… Continue reading Introducing Unabated’s DFS Pick’em Lineup Optimizer for Underdog and PrizePicks

Welcome on in everyone. I am T and today I want to talk about the beta distribution. Now, a lot of people have been asking questions on Twitter and YouTube about what a beta distribution is and there’s been a lot of complicated answers out there. I’m hoping to explain this as simply as… Continue reading Using Beta Distribution

Finding a good betting partner is a lot like finding a good match on a dating app. I don’t actually know if that’s true but last night someone unmatched me on a dating app mid-conversation. I didn’t see it coming. It also just so happens I promised to deliver an article for Unabated. Using… Continue reading Using Dating Apps – Finding Betting Partners

Our favorite Excel/Google Sheets betting wizard is back! In this video, T shows you how to build a pitcher vs batter spreadsheet that can then power Monte Carlo Simulations to help you make better pitcher strikeout projections. As with his other videos, T isn’t giving you a ready to use model. He’s teaching how… Continue reading Building A Pitcher vs Batter Simulator

Another major weekend is upon us. California is the center of the golf universe, amateurs get their big shot, and Brooks Koepka is a short price on a big stage. But that’s not the biggest story in the game right now. The pending shakeup on the PGA Tour that will come with the infusion… Continue reading What Can Brooks Koepka Tell Us About The State Of Golf Betting?

Partial-game derivative baseball bettors, your life just got a whole lot better.  Today, Unabated is debuting its First 5 Innings betting tools to help you see the best numbers on these derivatives by comparing against an Unabated Line specific to the first 5, and price out alternate lines. Bullpens? Let those other guys worry… Continue reading Introducing Unabated’s First 5 Betting Tools

Everyone I’ve ever known in gambling has a leak. A flaw in their game.  Sometimes a betting leak can be annoying. Sometimes a betting leak can be paralyzing. I’ve yet to meet the flawless person who plays like a perfect, optimal robot. There’s always something somewhere that can be improved upon. I invite you… Continue reading Plugging Your Betting Leaks

Sports betting and poker are games of incomplete information. The skills required in each often rely on using the data that is available to predict future outcomes. Players best able to analyze past performance, and past conditions, are the ones most likely to succeed. But limited access to information is an obvious deterrent to… Continue reading Poker’s Past Hints At Future Of Sports Betting Training

On a recent episode of the Unabated Podcast, host Thomas Viola sat down with Unabated co-founder Peter Jennings to talk about how he bet on himself, was an early leader in the daily fantasy sports space, and how he’s balanced family life. The full video is available below, or you can subscribe and listen… Continue reading How Peter Jennings Bet On Himself And Won A Million

In the universe of parlays, teasers have their adherents, regular parlays are king, and the less said about single-game parlays the better. But we’re not here to talk about those plays. No, we’re here to talk about a wager that can sometimes be daunting to novices, but fills its own niche: the round robin… Continue reading The Round Robin Bet: The Variance-Reducing Parlay Play

In our last lesson, we learned some basic commands to fetch data and export it into .csv files that we could work with in a spreadsheet program like Excel or Google Sheets. Now that we’ve got all those beautiful columns and rows, what, exactly, do we do with it? We’ll start by exploring sports… Continue reading Intro to Data Science Pt. 3: Data and Basic Correlation

A lot of bettors in the US would be surprised to hear that tennis is one of the most popular sports to bet on worldwide. While tennis betting may not have hit its stride in the US legalized market, its popularity is certainly on the upswing among online sportsbooks. Behind soccer and football, tennis also… Continue reading How To Approach Tennis Betting – A Beginner’s Guide

If you haven’t heard of Microbetting, you soon will. Move over Same Game Parlay and Pointsbetting, there’s a new buzzword technology sportsbooks will soon be leveraging in the US. Microbetting is a type of sports betting where you can place wagers on highly specific events within a game or match, rather than on the overall outcome.… Continue reading What Is Microbetting? Understanding In-Play Betting

We’re about 16 weeks away from the start of the NFL season. We have a draft class, we have a schedule and we have Week 1 lines. Crate dive into the ‘90s bin and fire up some Mark Morrison, because it’s the return of the mack NFL Season Simulator. For those of you who… Continue reading The Unabated NFL Season Simulator Returns For 2023

Sports betting has become inescapable. If you ever so much as walk past a TV showing a sporting event, you’ll see talking heads jabbering about game odds and a slew of ads in-between the game action. Even staid old TVG has rebranded as FanDuel TV. If you’re already into horse betting and have considered… Continue reading Transitioning From Horse Betting To Sports Betting

I’ve never been one to publicly champion women. Not because I don’t know that we’ve been marginalized since the beginning of time, but because I know that we are capable of excelling to the same heights as men in all intellectual endeavors.  Women’s abilities in math, science and law are equal to those of… Continue reading Betting On Women

Before we can settle down and get to the business of analyzing data, first we need some data. You probably already figured that part out. There’s a crush of sports betting data out there; all we have to do is go get it.  While we can’t provide an exhaustive list on places to source… Continue reading Intro to Data Science Part 2: Sports Betting Data Basics

In 2003, an unknown poker player named Chris Moneymaker won the World Series of Poker Main Event for $2.5 million. Moneymaker qualified for his $10,000 Main Event seat by winning smaller satellite tournaments online at PokerStars. He spent $86 to get in. To simply say Chris Moneymaker’s victory made headlines would be a crime. He… Continue reading Poker And Sports Betting: Lessons From The Boom

Things are going well. Your team is leading. The clock is winding down. But then the heavy favorite starts mounting a rally. The button is right there. You could lock in a win. You start to wonder: Should I cash out my bet?  The short answer is “no.” The long answer is “almost always… Continue reading Is It Ever Right To Cash Out A Bet?

If building sports betting models to beat the NFL or NBA were easy … well, you’d already be part of a large group of sophisticated bettors who move markets with every wager.  If you’re not in the fold with other market-moving quants but you want to explore the concepts behind them, you might be… Continue reading Intro to Data Science: The Road to Sports Betting Models

We recently introduced in-line simulation to the MLB Prop Odds Screen for home runs, hits and strikeouts. This is an incredibly powerful tool for bettors who are attacking MLB player props. If you were just waiting for baseball season to roll around and didn’t check out in-line simulation during the NFL or NBA seasons, the… Continue reading Introducing the MLB Player Props Simulator

I ended 2022 with a round-up of my sports betting results exclusively using the Unabated Odds Screen. To recap – I won a lot of units without a lot of volume. With 114 bets and an average bet size of $167, I made just shy of $3,000. In that same department, 2023 hasn’t gone… Continue reading Scoreboard Check: My First Quarter 2023 Sports Betting Results

The madness of March has subsided. A national champion in college basketball has been crowned. For many bettors, this was their best college basketball season yet. For others, it’s the end of a long grind of college sports that begins at the end of August and extends to the first Monday in April. Either way,… Continue reading Life After College Basketball – Your Summer Betting Options

The (British) Open, like the other three majors, is one of the biggest weeks of the year for our betting operation, and this past week was no different. We had one of our highest volume weeks of the year, though not quite as high as the other majors. As the dust settles in the wake… Continue reading Inside The Process: Betting The Open With Tom & Rufus Peabody

As a sports bettor, your life is your bankroll. If you want to squander it then betting golf is the perfect market to suffer a “death by 1000 cuts.” Your bankroll will inevitably suffer that fate if you allow it. The allure of 10:1, 50:1, even 200:1 odds is undeniable. Just remember that Sportsbooks are… Continue reading Golf Betting Offers Many Different Types Of Bets

Binomial distribution A type of distribution that measures the likelihood of two possible, but mutually exclusive, outcomes. In other words, a success or failure.  Binomial distributions are used when you have a set amount of trials and the probability of success is the same for all trials. It is running X trials and recording… Continue reading Intro to Data Science: Glossary

When Caesars Sportsbook (née William Hill) unexpectedly shut down during this year’s Super Bowl it highlighted one way Las Vegas sportsbooks are behind the times compared to offshore betting and domestic competitors. Less than halfway through the big game, Nevada’s Caesars outpost couldn’t take bets. Nor make pay-outs on their app or in person. The… Continue reading Domestic? Vegas? Offshore Betting? Oh The Places You’ll Go

With the Association back in action tonight after a … thrilling All-Star game, it’s a good time to walk through NBA props and see how we can use all the Unabated tools available to analyze a play. LeBron James is listed as probable and on the road against Golden State tonight. Let’s see how his… Continue reading NBA Props Walkthrough: LeBron James vs. Golden State

Sure, you could just sit on your dozens of sides, totals, partial game plays, alt lines and dump truck full of props once the game kicks off on Sunday. But we all know that’s not going to happen. Still, the live betting that’s going to be available to you this weekend isn’t the live… Continue reading Peek Into The Future Of Live Betting

After 18 grueling weeks of the regular season with all its twists and turns and rises and falls, and three hard-fought rounds of the playoffs here we are with the … No. 1 seeds in the AFC and NFC. Oh. The system works. Nothing left to do but look at Super Bowl LVII through… Continue reading Super Bowl LVII By The Massey-Peabody Numbers

I’ve made a few posts and videos with Unabated over the last couple of months and I’ve seen the question “Who is she?” come up a handful of times. What is an rxgamble, anyway? Who Is rxgamble? An Advantage Player “rxgamble” is the name someone chooses for their virtual self when they have no marketing… Continue reading Who Are You And What Are You Doing Here?

This is the last Sunday with more than one football game until the fall. Cherish it. But more importantly, profit from it. Let’s take a peek at the Conference Championships by the Massey-Peabody numbers. Planning out your action for the Conference Championships means playing amateur doctor when it comes to Patrick Mahomes’ ankle. But that… Continue reading The NFC and AFC Conference Championships by the Massey-Peabody Numbers

We’ve talked before about how you can set your own prices on betting exchanges, in effect, setting yourself up as the house. You can create and offer your own two-way markets at prices you set that ensure you’re getting the best of it, no matter what. Gina Fiore and Sarah Tolagson of Prophet Exchange show… Continue reading Set Your Own Prices On Betting Exchanges

Wild Card Weekend is behind us. The Bills survived Skylar Thompson. The Bengals got a gift from the longest goal-line leap anyone’s ever attempted. The Chargers did Charger things. But we’re on to the next round, and it’s time to take a look at the AFC Divisional Round by the Massey-Peabody numbers. If you… Continue reading The AFC Divisional Round by Massey-Peabody Ratings

Is it the Divisional, or is it the NFC East round robin? Either way, we’re taking a look at the NFC Divisional Round by the Massey-Peabody numbers. The AFC contenders are rated the Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 8 teams in the league. The NFC is playing catch-up across the board with Nos. 4, 5… Continue reading The NFC Divisional Round By Massey-Peabody Ratings

I don’t spend a lot of time writing and speaking about sports betting bankroll management. The reason is simple: it shouldn’t require much brain power. Bankroll management isn’t some secret alchemy to turn a lousy sports bettor into a golden child. In fact, it’s fairly straightforward. Many bettors make some simple mistakes with their bet… Continue reading Sports Betting Bankroll Management: Five Misconceptions

After looking at this weekend’s schedule in the AFC, let’s take a look at what we’ve got on the other side of the bracket and see what the Massey-Peabody ratings have to say about the NFC Wild Card round.  Fortunately for the NFC hopefuls, no one is laboring under their third-string quarterback except for the… Continue reading The NFC Wild Card Round By Massey-Peabody Ratings

With 18 weeks of data in the books we can say conclusively, without any trace of uncertainty: The Indianapolis Colts will not be winning the Super Bowl. Other than that, the questions that remain are a bit more unsettled.  The final regular season Massey-Peabody ratings were released Tuesday, and here’s what else we know: the… Continue reading The AFC Wild Card Round By Massey-Peabody Ratings

Well here we are at the end. Another regular season draws to a close. Matt Ruhle, Frank Reich and Nathaniel Hackett couldn’t make it this far, but we hope you did. Hopefully you’re still in the hunt and ready for one more push with your Week 18 pick’em contest selections. Time to lock up a… Continue reading NFL Week 18 Pick’em Contest Edges

Since we started formulating Unabated in late 2020 a lot has changed in sports betting. Similarly, since we started I’ve rediscovered a lot about sports betting. For instance, before Unabated, I used to preach that futures were inherently poor wagers. The house edge is too high. The money is tied up too long. Then came… Continue reading Sporttrade Transforms In-Game Sports Betting

The promise of easy money is what lures many to sports betting. What easier way to make money than to buy sports picks from Vegas Dave or Fezzik or any of the other services promising to pave your way down Easy Street? For new bettors, paying for handicapping advice seems like a quick shortcut. However,… Continue reading Is There Ever a Good Reason To Buy Sports Picks?

December was my first full month of sports betting relying only on information I obtained  this site. The start of the new year is as good a time as any to check into my results using Unabated. Between the holidays, family, work and watching Christmas movies, I could only dedicate 20 hours to finding and… Continue reading Scoreboard Check: My December Results Using Unabated

The Martingale System has been around for almost 300 years and is very simple to learn. In fact, this betting strategy can neatly be described in seven words…if you lose, double your wager size. If you keep doubling your wager amount, as soon as you win a bet you’ll be ahead as the amount of… Continue reading The Martingale System : The History And The Fallacy

Just two more weeks to go for most pick’ems. We’re running out of regular season, and running out of time to make a dent in our contests. And in the case of Circa, it’s a two-entry weekend. So let’s capture some serious edge in our NFL Week 16 pick’em plays. There’s plenty to be found… Continue reading NFL Week 16 Pick’em Contest Edges

Ohio sports betting falls into place on Jan. 1 as the Buckeye State joins the growing list of states with legalized online sports betting. Whether you reside in the state or not, I want to help you attack Ohio sports betting apps and sportsbooks on Day 1. If you’re sharp, new at hustling sportsbook promotions… Continue reading Buckeye Bonus Hunting: Preparing for Ohio Sports Betting

Another week out there in contestland, but be careful. We’ve even got Saturday games this week, so the window is tightening on getting in your Week 15 pick’em entries.   Fortunately, we’re here with the NFL Pick’em Edge Tool to help lighten the load. And the load this week is decidedly piled up on one squad. … Continue reading NFL Week 15 Pick’em Contest Edges

Still kind of hard to believe the regular season is down to its final four weeks, but here we are with our NFL Week 14 pick’em contests. And with most contests skipping Week 18, we’re really down to it. Feels like just yesterday we thought the Raiders weren’t a total mess, the Broncos would field… Continue reading NFL Week 14 Pick’em Contest Edges

In this episode, T shows you how you can create your own Monte Carlo Simulator in Excel. This is useful if you want to attempt to analyze a prop that Unabated doesn’t offer in our Player Prop Odds Screen. The concepts in this video work with situations where you have a Normal statistical distribution. However,… Continue reading How To Create A Monte Carlo Simulator

We’re getting into the championship rounds for NFL pick’em contests. Just five more rounds until, hopefully, some of you will be posing for Instagram pictures with sportsbook managers.  Make sure you wear something nice.  Justin Fields’ return has made the Bears the top choice across the board. DraftKings is right there with them with… Continue reading NFL Week 13 Pick’em Contest Edges

Week 13 is shaping up to be a potentially profitable one for NFL teaser bettors. There are plenty of games on the board at a touchdown or under. Which makes it a great time to debut our Teaser Shopper.  First, the basics: What is a teaser? They’re bets using multiple teams which all have their… Continue reading Introducing the NFL Teaser Shopper

Monday marked two months from the start of the playoffs. Those “to make the playoff” prices are getting long on some teams, and we’re getting down to it in NFL contest season. If you’re edge hunting this week, the Rams are a good place to start. It looks like Matt Stafford might be back in,… Continue reading NFL Week 11 Pick’em Contest Edges

In this episode, T walks you through populating your own player prop projections from either an outside source or your own model. Then he shows you how to upload them and use them in the Unabated Player Prop Odds Screen. The concepts in this video work with either the NFL Player Prop Odds Screen or… Continue reading Uploading Player Prop Projections

The house always wins, right? We’ve heard that once or twice. Our friends at Prophet Exchange recently overhauled the way they list games, and it got us thinking about how the savvy bettor can use betting exchanges to, in effect, become the house.  Initially, Prophet ran spreads solely at even money. Because they weren’t… Continue reading Using Betting Exchanges To Be Your Own Book

In just a few short days, the biggest sporting event on the planet returns from its four-year slumber. Eyeballs will be glued to screens from Hong Kong to Halifax. More importantly, an enormous amount of money will be in play at the window. The FIFA World Cup Final may be the first time some of… Continue reading How To Bet Soccer: A Beginner’s Guide To The World Cup

You’ve been hard at work on your NFL player props. You built out a model and learned what pitfalls to avoid.  Now what? We’ve introduced the ability to upload your own custom player projections to the NFL Player Props screen so you can easily use the simulator tool with your own numbers, right on… Continue reading Introducing Custom Projections for NFL Player Props

This deep into the NFL pick’em contests season, you’ve had to survive plenty: injuries, late-breaking news and unlucky bounces. This week will test even the most fleet-fingered newshounds though, because it’s a game of “Who’s actually on the sidelines?” Josh Allen’s elbow is the most-watched joint in the world. Matt Stafford is in concussion protocol.… Continue reading NFL Week 10 Pick’em Contest Edges

Halloween is behind us. We’re halfway through the football schedule. If you’re still hovering near the top of the leaderboard in your NFL pick’em contest selections, let’s make sure you hang tight.  And if you’re not, we’ll talk about that, too.  First, let’s head over to the NFL Pick’em Edge Tool and see what… Continue reading NFL Week 9 Pick’em Contest Edges

As a professional gambler, an undeniable and less-than-favorite pastime of mine is having anxiety over my options, or lack thereof.  If I can’t reinvent (or recycle) the wheel every year or so, I can’t continue to make a living. Just like winning poker is about adapting, so is winning at gambling in general. If you’re… Continue reading How I Use Unabated — Gina Fiore, @rxgamble

If you’re still live in your pick’em contest pools this far in the season, you’re doing something right. But you can always do it righterer. (Not even going to spellcheck that. Pretty sure it’s fine.) It’s time to line up the plays for your NFL Week 8 pick’em pools. The lines have opened, the consensus… Continue reading NFL Week 8 Pick’Em Contest Edges

When given the chance to learn about how the smartest people in sports betting think, I make sure to listen. That’s why I use Unabated. Depending on your goals and other skills, there are a few ways to use Unabated.  For me, Unabated’s content, tools, and community are a much needed source of motivation, validation,… Continue reading How I Use Unabated – Dr. Harry Crane

Recreational sportsbooks love to lure customers with the promise of full refunds on losing wagers. In fact, so-called “Risk-Free Bet” promotions are now the common first bet sign-up bonus among most books, replacing the once-popular deposit match and free-bet offers. The problem is the term “Risk-Free” is actually a bit of a misnomer, as bettors… Continue reading Risk-Free Bets Can Actually Be Quite Risky, And Quite Profitable

As sports betting evolves in the US, so do innovative ways to wager. For the first time, US residents have the ability to wager on sports via fully regulated betting exchanges. The first two highly anticipated betting exchanges opened recently. Already bettors are seeing why betting exchanges can become a valuable part of the betting… Continue reading Betting Exchanges Give You More Than Just A Low-Margin Wager

This is the revolutionary props simulator at Unabated. What this simulation tool allows you to do is enter your own projections for a player and then simulate that projected performance 10,000 times. Where this tool is most useful is in determining the relative value between different prop lines. Let’s walk through an example so you… Continue reading Learn About The Props Simulator

Regulated sports betting exchanges have reached US shores for bettors in New Jersey. Other states will follow in time. Whether you are familiar with how a sports betting exchange works or not, there are tangible benefits to both experienced and novice bettors. We feel we have tools of specific value to both exchange users… Continue reading How To Profit With Prophet Betting Exchange

Everyone has that movie they simply can’t turn off when they come across it on television. Mine is the 2001 version of Oceans 11. On the surface the movie is a classic heist film about a group of swindlers who come together to pull off a grand theft in Las Vegas. However, to me, it… Continue reading Building Your Oceans 11 Inspired Sports Betting Group

Every summer, I begin the arduous process of updating my college football and NFL models to prepare for the upcoming seasons. Invariably, I have to go through a bunch of code I’ve written years ago and try to remember what the hell I was doing. It would all be so much easier if I had… Continue reading Take Note! Comments Should Be Part Of Your Handicapping Process

Continuing to build the basic concepts for a Football Prop Model. T is back to explain how to gather multiple points of data and then weight them across seasons. The formula for using SUMPRODUCT to weight the data may seem a bit complex, so we’ve pinned an example Google Sheet of it in the… Continue reading Weighting NFL Player Data Across Seasons

On Friday, we updated our look at NFL handicapping contests for 2022. Today we’re going to update our take on NFL survivor contests. Survivor contests take NFL season-long contests to a whole other level with their simplicity. Pick one game each week. If your teams wins, you move on. If your team loses, you are… Continue reading NFL Survivor Contests: Outwit Outlast Outplay Your Opponents

When it comes to bang for your buck, few wagers in a sportsbook give you the value that an NFL Pickem Contest can give you. Both public bettors as well as sharp bettors love handicapping contests. Sportsbooks love them as well. It’s a rare win/win/win for all involved. Taking a few minutes to educate… Continue reading NFL Pickem Contest Strategy – Winning A Season Long Battle

It’s time to transition from building baseball models to building football models. In Part One of our Football Prop Model, T is showing step-by-step of one method to overcome the innate small sample sizes in NFL statistics. The process is called Bootstrapping. After this brief video, you’ll be familiar in how to use it in… Continue reading Overcome Small Sample Sizes With Bootstrapping

In Part Five of our Baseball Lineup Model, T is showing step-by-step how he used linear regression via the built-in Data Analysis Tools in Excel to project a pitcher strikeout percentage. This video builds on concepts covered in Part One, Part Two, Part Three, and Part Four. Key Concepts Using Regression Analysis To Build A… Continue reading Using Linear Regression In Your Modeling

Introduction by Captain Jack If you’re active on Twitter, you may have recently seen a tweet thread from our guest contributor who goes by the name, Telemachus. He outlined how he discovered a weakness in the way a sportsbook graded player prop wagers that enabled him to have a large advantage over the house. He… Continue reading Real Life Betting Angle: Turning The Tables On Caesars

In Part Four of our Baseball Lineup Model, T is building a basic pitcher strikeout model using data from baseball-reference.com. This video can be a key building block in building out a full game simulator as well as more complex models. This video builds on concepts covered in Part One, Part Two, and Part Three. Key… Continue reading Building A Pitcher Strikeout Model

In Part Three of our Baseball Lineup Model, T is using splits to help identify angles in his data. We’ll see how splits can create strong projections and how to deal with small sample sizes. This video builds on concepts covered in Part One and Part Two. Key Concepts Using Splits Identifying Which Splits Are… Continue reading VIDEO: Using Splits To Identify Key Data

The NBA Draft is looming and it is shaping up to be an unforgettable one with uncertainty across the board, including who will be the first overall pick. It is not only an exciting event to follow, but NBA Draft betting presents value at every turn even up to the very last minute. To prepare… Continue reading NBA Draft Betting : Profiting From Public Information

This is the first of a three-part series to help get you ready for the impending football seasons. Every football advantage player (AP) is different, and each has their own methods of attacking football lines. I will focus on my methods of preparing for the season, recognizing that other APs may be exploring totally different… Continue reading Offseason Rule Changes Can Mean Big Profit Opportunities

As the NBA and NHL postseasons each come to a close, bettors everywhere look for betting options beyond baseball to get through the summer. Profitable wagering leading into the NFL season is important and the WNBA has become a great option. With such ample opportunity to find value within the league, we discuss the how,… Continue reading WNBA Betting : Your Betting Bridge To Football

  In Part Two of our Baseball Lineup Model, T is back to expand on what we created in Part One. We’ll find a way to take a more educated approach to finding the team average and then compare that to the previous model’s output. Then we’ll explore adding in other statistics, such as wRC+,… Continue reading VIDEO : Expanding Your Baseball Lineup Model

With this video, we introduce T. He will provide some video building blocks for those who would like to find more quantitative ways to bet on sports. T’s videos use tools you are already familiar with, like Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets, to do powerful things in analyzing sports bets. In this first video, we’re… Continue reading VIDEO: Beginning A Baseball Lineup Model

The 2022 NFL Schedule has officially been released and plenty of storylines have already sprouted from the provided matchups and dates. International games, homecomings, and strength of schedule are just a few of the many discussions taking place surrounding the release of season’s slate. Here are a few of the biggest takeaways from the schedule… Continue reading The 2022 NFL Schedule Provides Plenty Of Quirks And Narratives

We are excited to begin a new chapter at Unabated. One that will enable us to grow and expand as a business. Unabated will continue to offer many basic tools and resources for free to those who sign up for our basic membership. However, many of the elite tools and resources will now be available… Continue reading Benefits Of Unabated Premium Membership

Recently, we unveiled a revolutionary new in-game betting tool that we think will unlock a lot of value for our users. Essentially, this betting tool allows you to accurately price lines while a match is in progress. We utilize what we know about the game and combine that with our real-time live betting feeds from… Continue reading Using The Unabated In-Game Betting Tool

Update: Feb 9th If you missed our big announcement, Peter Jennings has joined the Unabated team as an Advisor and member of our Board. He brings with him a ton of sports betting knowledge both in the form of DFS and well as traditional sports betting. He joined Rufus and Jack to talk about the… Continue reading Super Bowl 56 Props Betting Resource

Football fans are still trying to catch their breath after the divisional round of games. All four matchups ended in walk off fashion. It was a weekend of playoff football like we’ve never seen before. However, the markets don’t sleep. They don’t need to catch their breath. Before Travis Kelce’s game winning catch, lines were… Continue reading Finding Value On The NFL Conference Championship Games

Imagine if football had a 50 point touchdown option.  No matter the score (unless you’re the Lions) there would almost always be a chance you could win.  Even blowouts would be thrilling since there’s still hope to win, let alone cover. If that kind of variance sounds interesting (and/or terrifying), this beginners guide to UFC betting… Continue reading Betting UFC : A Beginners Guide

As you probably know by now, a gambling controversy was born ten minutes before the tip-off of the Cleveland/Golden State NBA game on Sunday, January 9th. That is precisely when the Golden State Warriors Public Relationstweeted: “Draymond Green will be on the court for the opening tip-off to honor Klay Thompson but will not participate… Continue reading Knowing The Limits Of Your Advantage: Both Bettors And Bookmakers

The NFL season is in the home stretch. For many teams there is still a lot of uncertainty where they will finish. Can they win their division? Will they make the playoffs? Is it time to audition some second-string players in an effort to secure a better draft spot? For many bettors they made their… Continue reading It’s Never Too Late To Bet Season Long Props

This is the anticipated Partial Game Derivatives Calculator at Unabated. What this sophisticated tool allows you to do is derive the proper pricing for first half lines in the NFL and CFB. This tool requires more input from the user than some of our other tools. Let’s walk through what you’ll need to know to… Continue reading Learn About The Partial Game Derivative Calculator

In Part One, we outlined the structure and rules for the DraftKings Sports Betting National Championship being held November 5-7, 2021. We also helped calculate your Expected Value (EV) for the tournament. More importantly, devising a strategy to win the DraftKings National Championship is a key component to realizing any +EV in your approach to… Continue reading Devising A Strategy To Win The DraftKings National Championship | Part 2

The DraftKings Sports Betting National Championship may be a mouthful to say, but for a few sports bettors it’s going to be a pocketful of riches. It has been 34 months since the last DraftKings Sports Betting National Championship (DKSBNC) and the infamous last minute controversy involving Unabated’s Rufus Peabody. In those 34 months, the… Continue reading DraftKings National Championship Presents Opportunity For Savvy Bettors | Part 1

Whether you are a professional sports bettor or you are just aspiring to be one, your method of finding angles is a never ending pursuit. Oddly, the best advice I ever picked up on finding angles came from renowned video poker expert, Bob Dancer. In his book “Million Dollar Video Poker,” Bob talks about a… Continue reading Being A Professional Sports Bettor And Using Grade School Education

While Unabated prides itself in helping bettors make more intelligent wagers we have noticed a disturbing trend. It’s very possible for Unabated to steer you in the wrong direction if you misuse our tools. We want Unabated to be your authentic source for sports betting information, but we also don’t want to see you put… Continue reading When Using Unabated’s Tools – Avoid These 5 Common Mistakes

Last week we established the allure of NFL handicapping contests for both the sportsbook as well as the bettor. NFL elimination contests take that to a whole other level with their simplicity. Pick one game each week. If your teams wins, you move on. If your team loses, you are eliminated. Oh, and you can’t… Continue reading NFL Elimination Contest Strategy – Surviving Isn’t Just Outlasting

When it comes to bang for your buck, few wagers in a sportsbook give you the value that an NFL Handicapping contest can give you. Both public bettors as well as sharp bettors love handicapping contests. Sportsbooks love them as well. It’s a rare win/win/win for all involved. Taking a few minutes to educate yourself… Continue reading NFL Handicapping Contest Strategy – Achieving Season Long Success

My favorite work for the past 15 years has been doing NFL preseason work.  Accurate season start projections for every team are crucial. I also get to run my full season NFL simulator and play against the market. This year I used the Unabated NFL Simulator. I am happy to share my work with… Continue reading Using The Unabated NFL Simulator To Find Bets

Simulating quarterback injuries and their effect is a key advantage of the Unabated NFL Simulator. With our ability to factor in QB Injury probability you can not only account for the randomness of injuries, but you can see the impact they would have on a team’s season. You can simulate to be prepared to… Continue reading Simulating Quarterback Injuries With The NFL Simulator

How much are you worth? No, not your net worth. How much are you worth to a sportsbook that wants to BUY your loyalty? Are you worth $50? $100? $500? More? Hopefully you have a high valuation for yourself, because most sportsbooks in states new to regulated sports betting have put a price on what… Continue reading How Much Are You Worth? Sportsbooks Want To Know

Price discovery is a big part of any efficient market. The price is hammered into place by both buyers and sellers transacting with each other. This is true in sports betting as well. However, in sports betting, like in many other forms of commodity or futures trading, the operators exist on a spectrum of sharpness.… Continue reading Who Sets The Betting Line? The Market Makers

For many bettors, tracking your Closing Line Value is an important component of gauging your edge in a market. To calculate your closing line value you take the implied probability of the closing line and subtract the implied probability of the line you bet and then divide that sum by your implied probability. This… Continue reading Learn about the CLV Calculator

 This is the Compare Lines Calculator at Unabated and what this allows you to do is find the better price between two lines that might be otherwise tough to compare. You can use this calculator for NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL. It works for both spreads and totals and you can input either American,… Continue reading Learn about the Compare Lines Calculator

This is the Unabated Derivatives Calculator focusing on Alternate Spreads & Totals. What this tool allows you to do is enter a starting point and produce the corresponding price for an alternate line. This calculator can accept input in American Odds, Decimal Odds or Fractional. It works with both sides and totals in the NFL,… Continue reading Learn about the Derivatives Calculator

This is the hold calculator where you can see how much theoretically a sportsbook may hold on any given wager. This is useful to you because it gives you an idea of how much the deck is stacked against you in a given market. Let’s walk through a couple examples.  What is the theoretical hold%… Continue reading Learn about the Hold Calculator