Forum: Sports Betting
08-03-2005, 07:26 PM
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Replies: 31
Views: 916
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Forum: Sports Betting
08-03-2005, 07:06 PM
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Replies: 31
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Attempted Answer of My own Question
-124 means that:
x(100)-[(1-x)(124)]= 0
100x-(124-124x)=0
224x=124
x=.55357
So, this means that this is a good buy if you think the Braves will win this game about 55% of the time?
Also -...
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Forum: Sports Betting
08-03-2005, 06:53 PM
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Replies: 31
Views: 916
Re: Suggestions for Sports Betting Forum FAQ
I'll use this as an opportunity to ask a newbie question that I've wanted to ask for a while. I've looked through the posts in this forum and even the faq on major wager and not seen anything...
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Forum: Politics
07-28-2005, 03:04 PM
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Replies: 45
Views: 295
Re: Ayn Rand?
In response to the original question -
1) I am a big fan of Ayn Rand's work
2) I think that her work is more valuable if you consider it to be literature rather than a philosophy text. The...
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Forum: Other Gambling Games
07-22-2005, 12:16 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 173
Re: The lottery, The odds, and You
I think a princeton mathematician took a look at this in a slate column once - http://slate.msn.com/id/114577
Kind of neat to take a look at
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Forum: Sports Betting
07-21-2005, 02:40 PM
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Replies: 44
Views: 276
Re: sabermetrics
That's ironic because that was exactly the article that I read when I started thinking about using this type of research to bet baseball.
2 other quick points:
1) I think I heard somewhere...
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Forum: Sports Betting
07-20-2005, 11:05 AM
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Replies: 44
Views: 276
Re: sabermetrics
Sorry for the ambiguous post -
I was just wondering if anyone uses any of the statistics that they've developed. They're doing some pretty interesting stuff. The goal is to take everything that...
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Forum: Sports Betting
07-19-2005, 06:26 PM
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Replies: 44
Views: 276
Re: sabermetrics
whoops - I obviously meant betting basebally instead of voting baseball
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Forum: Sports Betting
07-19-2005, 03:53 PM
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Replies: 44
Views: 276
sabermetrics
Just wondering if anyone makes extensive use of sabermetrics in voting baseball? I've been getting into sabermetrics and some of this stuff seems like it would be pretty useful in betting baseball...
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Forum: The Stock Market
04-28-2005, 09:48 PM
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Replies: 43
Views: 187
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Forum: Software
04-27-2005, 05:48 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 66
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Forum: The Stock Market
04-25-2005, 05:11 PM
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Replies: 43
Views: 187
Re: Wall Street Vs. Law School Vs. Graduate School
I would echo what others have said about do what you like. With that said, though, I'm a 3rd year law student at a top-10 school (which seems like what you're looking at) so maybe I can offer some...
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