How To Sell Sports Betting Picks
This is one legit question that I received today.
What are the sports betting picks monitoring sites?
A lot of times these sites are named as Sports Handicapper Monitors, Documented Picks Sites, Tipsters Monitoring Services, or something similar. The idea is to track and monitor sports handicappers’ picks, so they can show their honest results for potential subscribers.
How they operate and how they make money?
Verified New Jersey sports betting experts will now soon have the opportunity to sell their sports picks direct to their followers in their social media feeds following the launch of Bookit, a brand-new start-up that launched recently. Users of the Bookit Sports App will have the ability subscribe to handicappers to purchase their sports betting picks for a period of their choosing, ranging. Sports Betting is legalized in the United States (finally). Now this opens up a huge opportunity for the amateur sports bettor to make fast returns like those who invested early on in Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies. Now is the best time ever to invest in a company that sells sports betting information. This ‘capper was a testament to the fact that anyone can get lucky betting on sports, and that you need a big sample size to properly judge a ‘capper. The ‘Cappers Overall Record: Even with the one handicapper who picked correctly more often than not, these pick services dished out 73 wins and 70 losses, combined, resulting in resolutely. Buy, Sell, and Track Sports Picks Cover.bet is the easiest and most trusted platform to buy, sell, and track winning sports picks from honest and reliable sports handicappers. Should you buy sports betting picks? We highlight the different picks services providers on Odds Shark, and their unique product offering. When you sign up for a membership from any one of Doc’s Sports professional handicappers, as well as their handicapping service (Doc's Sports), they guarantee you a profit or they'll extend your service and work for free until they show you one, no.
These sites offer a spot for Sports Handicappers that want to monitor their picks and then they track them independently. Or at least this is how it should be.
Their records are shown on their sites and they also usually offer picks subscriptions directly on their sites.
Are these sites FREE?
No. Nothing is FREE and free business models can not sustain in the long run. Once you compete in the market, where the competition is huge, there must be some sort of return. These sites must hire developers, expert marketers, etc… and they must be paid.
These sites make money in three different ways:
- They sell subscriptions and then they share profits with sports handicappers or tipsters
- They are paid by bookmakers. Either by fixed price or sharing profits from losing bettors.
- They charge sports handicappers.
Why I don’t use any sports betting picks monitoring sites?
- First of all, I don’t sell any sports betting tips and I don’t believe in following. My whole work is focused on how to help sports bettors to become independent and successful handicappers. 98% of the content on my site is completely FREE and I share my picks every day on my youtube channel, FB group, Twitter, or in our secret discord chat group for members.
- Secondly, picks monitoring sites simply don’t track the statistics that I want to see. Most pick monitoring sites don’t even track closing line value and there were some tries, but they don’t track it correctly. I also track both CLV and xCLV (no vig vs Pinnacle odds). I use my betting tracker.
- Thirdly, I am very skeptical about monitoring sites.
Why I am very skeptical about picks monitoring sites?
All these sites are doing a service and if they want to survive, they must make money. Part of this money is made by bookmakers, which is nothing wrong, but the problem is when they start manipulating with the odds and forcing scam bookmakers that pay them more.
They charge sports handicappers, and those sports handicappers, who pay them “premium” service will be at the top of the page to get more exposure and potentially more subscriptions. So we have a problem here, because not necessarily the best sports handicappers are promoted, but those who pay them. When the money is involved and with that also survival from such sites, then they can also manipulate the results. There were some well-known incidents in the past with picks monitoring sites.
ALERT: Some Sports Handicappers monitoring sites constantly reveal your identity
For more than 4 years I constantly get emails from more betting portals and monitoring sites and here is an example from one of the biggest US Sports Betting Monitoring Site, which wants to sell me their leads (emails, phone numbers,…), their customers. These are the real sports bettors, that signed up with them, trusted them and now they are selling their identities. This can be you.
- Here is the email from 2020, where they want to sell me the emails, phone numbers from more than +2500 leads of active sports bettors.
- Here is the email from 2018 and they are constantly selling your emails to sports betting sites.
The idea of documented sports betting picks…
The idea of independent sports picks documenting site looks ok, but it will always come with the problem because nothing can be free. The free business model doesn’t work and anyone who is successful understands that the time must be compensated somehow with the money. If they want to survive, they must compete against such (above) aggressive sports betting monitoring sites.
Their monetization comes from bookmakers, subscriptions, or charging and promoting sports handicappers. I have nothing against selling picks, promoting bookmakers sites, or even promoting sports handicappers.
Who am I to judge?
But there must still be some moral value and the line what is acceptable and what is not
The question is how they promote bookmakers and which odds they promote. Do they even track bets properly and honestly? Do they tell sports bettors, that picks following is completely wrong? Do they tell them that buying picks is not the most optimal way how to win at sports betting or it is just about generating a lot of leads, so they can pay tipsters, developers, sites, designers, marketers?
A lot of open questions about these betting sites…
There is a lot of open questions. I constantly receive emails from sports picks monitoring sites, where they want to sell the information about their customers. This is very very bad for the whole betting industry. This is something I never do.
I will not even reveal this site, I am not here to hate anyone. They will know who they are if they will reach this article. I just want to inform bettors.
My Betting Philosophy and Ethical Betting
I have my own betting philosophy and my own ethical values (not good or bad, but mine). I believe in helping bettors to become winning bettors, instead of selling them picks. Anyone who understands the betting market, odds movement, closing line value, and especially the mindset of an average bettor, will agree with me, that buying sports picks is not the most optimal way how to win at sports betting.
I believe in knowledge, and I do my best to stay honest, fair, and kind (not necessarily most attractive or very nice). I didn’t get that same feeling about many picks monitoring sites, or other bigger big betting portals, that must generate enough money to survive.
Which I also understand. They don’t make money by actual betting, so they must run aggressive marketing and do what is necessary to make money.
Once you run such a site, you must generate money, no matter how.
The idea is not bad, but the realization is often bad. Selling and buying sports picks is not what I would recommend anyway, because of the betting market itself. Not to blame anyone.
Cheers,
MB
A question that often comes up on sports betting forums is “Should I purchase betting picks?”
Personally, I’ve always answered this question as no, because very few cappers selling picks are actually winners. The few that are winners often rely on line movement, multiple unit bets on small markets, buying hooks, etc. As a result, their records are often based on lines not available to all clients. While all of these are concerns, the bigger reason not to purchase picks is that there are far more cost effective methods to beat sports for larger profits than purchasing picks allows. I’ll cover these methods in this article, and then cover a marketing tactic used by pick sellers that you’ll want to be aware of.
Beat Sports Betting Without a Tout
Method #1: Our website provides numerous sports betting strategy articles. Read our article on teaser betting strategy where you’ll find enough information to profit immediately from football teasers. Next, read our article on NFL prop betting, and you’ll have the knowledge required to beat the “which team will score first?” prop. Once familiar with this data, you can learn new skills via books on sports betting.
1) Sharp Sports Betting by Stanford Wong
2) Weighing the Odds in Sports Betting by King Yao
These are great books to tune you to think more like a winning sports bettor, and less like a fan or recreational bettor. One thing I’ll warn, however, is that these books are slightly outdated. I strongly suggest that prior to reading these books, you also read our article on the current betting market. When you’ve mastered the information in the articles and books I’ve suggested, you might then want to dive into the book Conquering Risk: Attacking Vegas and Wall Street by Elihu D. Feustel.
To sum this up, the two articles I recommended are enough to get you on track winning as a sport bettor. When you’re ready to take it to the next levels, plenty of information exists. Spending a little time and effort on sports betting will make you far more profitable than purchasing picks will.
Method #2: Follow free picks on the internet. Here at TheSportsGeek.com, we run a picks blog, where you can get the same caliber betting picks that NFL expert pick sites sell. Why pay for picks when you can get picks for free?
Our picks blog is only one source of free picks. Bloggers, forum posters, twitter users, and others give out free picks daily. While I’m sure this will sound absurd to most readers, I actually know a guy who uses custom developed software to scour the internet and find picks. The software delivers to him via a feed where any detected picks are hyperlinked. To track the pick, he clicks the hyperlink, assigns it to a user and the software does the rest. He can then go back later and find all sorts of data about how forum posters, bloggers, and tweeters are doing. This helps him not only to follow picks, but to spot winners and start paying more attention to the info they share elsewhere. This is obviously way too advanced for most of us, but the point is that looking for winners and then tracking their picks going forward can help you greatly. Once again, I ask, why purchase picks, when you can get picks for free?
When Should I Buy Picks?
When purchasing picks you need to find services that are either low cost, proven and tracked with high win rate, or of course best of all – both. The more money you spend on a picks service the higher winning percentage the handicapper will need to hit in order for you to make a profit. Check out our sports betting systems page for a list of handicappers and systems that are affordable.
Starting Off Small
For recreational gamblers, sport betting is meant to be fun. There are tons of contests on the internet that you can enter for either free or low stakes. During the football season, anyone who wins a $5 staked 10-team parlay at Bovada.lv also receives a share of the $10,000 weekly jackpot which is split with all winners. If there is no winner, the jackpot rolls over to the next week. Meanwhile, an old sportsbook previously offered $100,000 free to anyone who picks a perfect parlay card. While these are long shots, there are also picks pools, survivor pools, etc. available at the start of the season. Starting in late August, begin Google searches for NFL contests, and starting in late February, search for March Madness contests and bracket buster challenges. This type of betting can be a lot more fun that purchasing picks, and it can help you grow a bankroll while learning.
Now, if you’re a serious sports bettor looking to do this as an investment, purchasing picks is not the way to go. Once you win enough, your opportunities to wager become less, as no one wants to take your bets. Getting around this requires creativity, and the more knowledge you actually have about sports betting, the more creative you can get.
How To Do Sports Betting
Reason to Avoid Touts
Having already presented a solid argument on reasons not to purchase picks without attacking the pick selling industry, it’s time now to get a little more dirty. The first thing to understand is that the tout industry is based off hype and marketing that plays on desperate gamblers. In sports betting, there are a lot of degenerate gamblers absolutely buried in debt looking for a way out. Also in this group, you’ll find a lot of extremely naïve people, which is easily explained by the fact that this is the group who feels they can make a profit randomly picking, despite the bookies 4.55% house edge. While most bet responsibly and use sports betting for entertainment, many are much deeper than that, and this is who the touts target.
To give an example of an ad that plays on the naïve, I’ll share the details of a newsletter I recently got from one of the largest and most reputable expert picks site. The header is a large advertisement with a photo of one of the cappers, and the impressive text states “Going back to last year he is riding a STAGGERING 13-5 ATS (72.2%)”, and reading further into the text, this relates to his picks on Fridays – yes, only Fridays. Below this, to the side of the newsletter’s main content, there are three smaller ads which each have a photo of a capper. The first capper is 13-4 on NFL games this month, the second has 27 years in business and wants to sell me a pick (no stats), where the third won last night and thinks he’ll do the same tonight.
I’ve played down what the ads say a little, and the ad copy is great with many claims sure to get a casual sports bettor interested. However, as a professional gambler and someone who uses statistics on a daily basis, I have a much different opinion. The first thing that jumps out at me is the opening ad, and I say, “what the heck makes Friday special?” If this capper is winning long term, wouldn’t his overall record be much more relevant than some obscure stat. What are his records on other days of the week? Now don’t get me wrong; maybe he has a winning record all 7 days of the week, I have no idea, what I’m simply saying is that they dived into a huge pool of stats to come up with whichever statistic looked best. He could in fact be a massive career loser and have a stat run like this on “Fridays dating back to last season”.
I had similar feelings about the 13-4 in October advertisement. Out of curiosity, I went and checked this company’s main website and found they have 15 cappers marketed as NFL experts selling picks. Having some knowledge of statics, I ran the math. If 15 people flip a coin heads or tails a total of 17 times each, there is a 73% chance one of them hits heads at least 13 times. More or less, if I had 15 monkeys picking teams at random, I’d have a similar stat to share.
Expert pick sites are great marketers, I’ll give them that. However, these ads are rather deceiving, as most are just cherry picked ripples of variance. It’s good marketing and the company might be legit; I just encourage you to keep a level head and not to get drawn into purchasing picks based on tout marketing hype. These guys have tons and tons of data that they can pick from, and they can market their results in such a way that desperate gamblers want to buy.
How To Sell Sports Betting Picks Nfl Week 11
Once again, rather than pay for picks, why not get them for free at a free picks blog such as our sports betting picks blog that provides winners weekly at no cost. Ultimately, though, buy betting picks or don’t buy betting picks. It’s your choice. Whatever you decide, we wish you the best of luck.