Employing (Using?) A Disabled Person to Pick Sports Bets
 

I am completely untroubled by the following idea but I've been told by those that I respect that it is suspect for a number of reasons I will articulate later once I receive some replies. Opinions:

I am a law student and currently support myself and family of four w/ a combination of scholarships, some light loans and about 30 hours a week of online poker. During exams, however, I work very little and focus mostly on studying. Since I'm nocturnal I'm at the law library during wierd hours (10pm to 6am).

To the point, there is a "special" person (I'm not sure his exact diagnosis but I'm think either autistic or some kind of extreme form of OCD w/ a personality disorder of some kind) who spends about 12 hours a day in the library pouring over the baseball encylopedia, reviewing detailed game logs, and filling a gigantic notebook full of notes, stats, lineups, etc for MLB.

My first thought is that I should check out how successfull he is at analysing matchup and employ him to assist me in finding baseball bets w/ good overlays.

I chat with him one day and though I have yet to confirm things (which I plan on doing by having him share his picks and evaluate pitching matchups for a while with no betting involved) I suspect he is quite talented at analysing baseball data; though communicating with him is difficult.

Now, assuming that I compensated him fairly, or tried to reach some kind of arrangement with any legal guardian he might have, do you see anything wrong with employing this guy as a handicapper (or more precisely, to assist me in handicapping as I don't expect him to understand/learn gambling concepts)?

Also, tell me if this wrong forum.

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Employing the handicapped as a handicapper. Priceless.

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Yes yes it is. But what would be even more priceless is cleaning up next season.

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i dont think you understand baseball betting.

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I am a law student

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Did anyone else see that coming?

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Fair enough.

Your thought about baseball betting on the other hand is false but understandable. I'm a pretty decent capper (thought not an expert by any means) though I just don't have the time it takes to put in the work to beat the oddsmakers. If I had a partner dedicated to analyzing baseball data and could answer very specific questions for me I could set my own lines with about half the work it would take to do it otherwise and greatly increase my chances of finding good overlays.

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Well, just to clarify my main concerns with pursuing this relationship are:

(1) Putting the stress of employment on someone who may not be able to handle it and aggravating a mental health condition that I don't understand (employing someone who is unemployable).

(2) Opening myself up to accusations of being a conman and taking advantage of a vulnerable person from guardians or even the state.

(3) If they are no legal guardians with whom to handle the financial aspect with, providing someone who is not capable of managing money in a healthy way with a paycheck.

(4) Criminal liability for operating a "gambling operation" (still researching the law w/r to running a handicapping team in my state).

After all, I am a law student (scum of the earth so I've been told).

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there is nothing wrong whatsoever in my mind in taking a disabled person with an extraordinary talent and putting it to practice.

if the guy truly can beat oddsmakers then he should be rewarded for it.

however, since you are the backer, it really comes down to you trusting his capability. in essence, you are making the bets and he is just your advisor.

there really is no way to be assured that he can beat oddsmakers. even if he does beat them over a pretty decent period it could all be variance, but of course you just have to use your best judgment.

either way, if you can make it happen then i say awesome for both parties.

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If I had a partner dedicated to analyzing baseball data and could answer very specific questions for me

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do you really think a retard is capable of this sort of thing? for all that data to actually mean something, youre gonna need a computer program.