Mike Lee's "Betting the Bases"... still relevant?

Moneyline · #1 02-01-2005, 01:20 AM

Is Lee's book helpful to baseball bettors? I'm an experienced scalper but I know nothing about handicapping. Will Lee's book help me? More importantly, are there other books that will help me more?

craig r · #2 02-01-2005, 01:29 AM

I have heard nothing about it, I hope you get some feedback. I have heard good things about Betting Baseball, by Michael Murray.

craig

QuickLearner · #3 02-01-2005, 02:21 AM

"Betting the Bases" is all about following trends based on scheduling, travel, previous game performance, pitcher and team revenge matchups, etc. You end up with factors for or against a side. It's quite a bit of work to set up the schedules if you want to be faithful to it, but I found it valuable in conjunction with more stat-oriented handicapping. I'd be careful of his aggressive betting strategy. I'm much more of a flat bettor (read coward).

To answer your question, it will help you, if for no other reason than reminding you of these kinds of factors. It's about $10 and I would grab it. There are other books that will also help, like the Baseball Insights annuals. If you're really serious you'll subscribe to the Baseball Insight website which updates twice a week and has more info collected in one spot that you'd ever be able to ferret out on your own. It will cost you about $150.