Bloomberg posted an article yesterday about the rapid rise of “in running” sports betting in the online world. In running wagering allows for betting after a game has started – whether it be on an individual play, a quarter, or the remainder of a game. The growth of this form of sports betting [...]

In addition to sports betting, I occasionally like to play backgammon and blackjack online. Recently I noticed that more and more “celebrities” were appearing at the table – names such as Tom Cruise, Jon Stewart, and even Howard Stern. Looking for answers, I found this blackjack site that explained the phenomenon to me. [...]

The U.S. Government is at it again. This time they’re going after the evil “casinos” within the virtual world of Second Life. These players are betting in the virtual currency of the Second Life world called “Linden Dollars”. The U.S. apparently thinks that this is a real threat to our security and [...]

One cool thing about the internet is that it’s breaking the oligopoly held by the major TV networks with regard to programming. With the low-cost software, hosting and distribution channels available out there, more and more people can bring a creative idea for a television show to fruition. These sports bettors out of Vegas [...]

Box Scores – web 1.0? Thats’s the case according to this recent Fortune Magazine article.
The replacement is the Winning Probabilty Added graph or WPA. From the Kansas City Star:
The concept of WPA has been around for almost 40 years. But the stat caught fire on the Web after the publication of last year’s [...]

A new trend I’m seeing these days are public gambling sites offering “Sure Thing” bets based on the principles of arbitrage, once reserved for hedge funds and financial markets.
Sure thing bets are a lot different than the “guaranteed” picks of the old days. In the old days a handicapper simply would promise that their [...]

A new season of baseball is upon us and in it’s honor I’ve rounded up a list of some nice sites to help you to win more of your baseball wagers.

Sportscapperisland.com offers 5 reasons to bet on baseball. From my experience #3 is right on the money:
3. Out of all sports, baseball is [...]

“When the sports statistic freaks find us, that will be nuts…and very cool.”
–Matt McKeon, developer, Many Eyes
News.com has an interesting article about the IBM “Many Eyes” project. Basically, it’s a way that anyone can upload data and create visualizations of the data using various templates created by the folks at IBM. The [...]