Browsing the Newsletters

If it’s Thursday it must be time to check out the newsletters over at SBR forum in the college football forum. If you are a really good capper already maybe you can’t benefit from their input but 98% of us can. It’s a lot of information and it can be overwhelming and confusing at first but I’ll tell you how to make it useful to you. Make a beeline to Powers Picks not because they are the best Newsletter but because they keep track of all the newsletters top picks for the year. Then go straight to those newsletters highest rated picks that have a winning record for the year. Consider those picks, DO NOT blindly take them. Let the best newsletters influence which games you bet on. 

I skim read them all and take special note of the games where multiple newsletters pick the same game. I’ll come back to this thread with their top picks.

  And get them stinkin greedy books. 

Thank you Lordzud, I like the way you expressed yourself on this one. 

Good Luck with all your plays this week.

First on the list is Power Plays which is 17-8 on the year with 4.5 star plays. They have 3 this week. Utah, Notre Dame, and Utah State. 

Second on the list is Playbook which is 65% at 21-11.  To Mark Lawrence who puts Playbook out. He’s a tout here so I’m going to not mention him further because I’m not looking to get banned. Third through something like twelve are a bunch of coin flippers that are all right about 50 percent. Phuck em, who gives a shite what they think if their best picks have a 50 percent chance of winning. However some weeks a whole bunch of newsletters pick the same team, and I’ve found those those picks to be bankroll builders over the long run. No such luck this week as no team was picked more than twice by all these newsletters. Last week a bunch of newsletters were on East Carolina and it cashed easily. Well that’s it for this week. 

I like Marc Lawrence's stuff..

used to like GoldSheet. I really like their "system" type screens/ideas. but not sure I see them any longer.

teams like EC are perfect for services... very under-the-radar.

saw a bunch of repeat teams as picks....... not very scientific but here's what I'd put out as popular picks.

alabama

illinois

Iowa state

Louisville

michigan

minnesota

Utah state

one game I noticed big difference of opinion on is Utah-oregon 

What these newsletters do very effectively is draw my eyes to teams and situations I would not otherwise consider. There are so many games out there with teams playing in lesser conferences that the average bettor doesn’t know much about and would not bet on. But the big games draw more scrutiny from the line makers and the lines are tighter. I like these newsletters for drawing my eye to games where maybe the line is off. They also push me off of some bets I like a lot but really are not that good. So I delay my bets till Thursday after I have studied the Newsletters and it’s made me a better capper.

Minnesota looks like a good bet this week. -7 at Indiana. That Indiana team was rated in the top 20 at the beginning of the season and in Big Ten play are 0-7 losing by an average of 18 points. These newsletters alert me to teams worth fading, like Indiana, like Southern Mississippi, it’s one thing they do well. Some of them have better information than picks like Powers Picks. 

@lordzud

 Where are these News Letters you refer to?  I know the site, but I am not aware of what your talking about.  They have a News Link, but what is a News Letter?  Thanks!

The college football forum over at SBR forum has a thread titled newsletters. There is a second source  at the RX forum in the rubber room with the same thread title Newsletters. 

@lordzud

 Thank you!!!

Over the years, I've found Power Plays to be a very effective tool. the projected yardages for the prospective plays is useful, along with the special teams rankings. the 2 and 3 star picks can help highlight certain matchups in the lesser conferences, and those lines are more frequently off--especially early in the season.

HOW ..... in TF does SBR allow this ........

It's like a trip into the dark web, whatever that is ha - free newsletters, my man BIG DADDY issuing death threats with every post ......

I'd like to stress what LZ pointed out - DON'T BLINDLY TAIL THE F'IN PICKS 

    >> use the research as a HUGE timer saver ..... or if you don't know much, cross reference the IDEAS most seem to like .....along with guys here. Man that VSIN is like 100 pages - great read. I started reading the Gold Sheet back in early 70's yikes (research at gun point for my crazy old man)

BOL this week LZ ..................

Bookie Assassin is DA MAN. . You folks looking for resources to help you become a better capper, look no farther than our own Bookie Assassin. 

Power Plays has been very good. Even their lower starred picks are worth considerably WITH YOUR OWN RESEARCH. If you blindly follow their picks you won’t get very far. Like BA said it’s just a just a very good research tool.

@lordzud

 Thanks a lot for posting this info.  It will benefit lots of folks.

You welcome bluecompass, it helped me a lot when I learned how to use it.

I’m betting on UTSA, Minnesota, Oklahoma St, Notre Dame, Utah St, North Texas, and Utah this week, all heavily influenced by the Newsletters and UTSA came from Bridge and Bookie Assassin.  I am starting to either pull my money out or lock it up in Villanova to win the BIG EAST in basketball. I really don’t bet other sports but college football, that Villanova bet was the exception to the rule. It’s the time of year that books get their money back but they aren’t getting mine. 

 And plunder those greedy stinkin books

GA St needs a win to get bowl eligible over an Ark St team that stinks and has nothing to play for. At home on Senior Day. Tulsa in a similar situation vs a Temple team that appears to have quit and has the most inaccurate QB imaginable.

Thanks skipster I’ll check them out. 

The losing teams on the other side of Skipsters picks have been very good to me. I’ve faded Southern Mississippi and Temple a bunch of times. ATS those teams are both 2-8 against the spread. Other teams that have been cash cows to fade and I have done so repeatedly are Indiana, Kansas, Rice, and Missouri. 

The problem is it’s week twelve and the word is out that these teams stink. The lines are much higher and I choose to make them no plays now and save my money for next year. You have got to win 55% of the time to build a bankroll and it’s damned hard. Earlier in the season the sharper newsletters were fading these terrible teams a bunch of times and the lines were much lower because the word wasn’t out about just how bad these teams are this year. Next year it will be different teams that stink and I’ll be fading them again thanks to the newsletters pointing out who they are.

Scuse me, Southern Miss isn’t playing Georgia State, Arkansas State is. Another point utterly unrelated but important to cappers is home field advantage doesn’t mean nearly as much when it’s a couple of podunk teams playing in November and no one is in the stands. But the books still shade the line 3 points because of home field advantage. I bet against home dogs, a big no no among cappers, all the time. But only with teams that I know have little home field advantage because no one is in the stands. I played football, you play harder when you are winning. When you are losing all the time, everyone is going through the motions, teammates bicker with each other, back door covers are caused not by the players but the damn coaches who phuck up the offense by playing conservative. 

Lordzud...Always enjoy reading your posts! Big fan!!!!

Phil Steele’s newsletter Inside the Pressbox is always a good read but he is only available at the RX forum in the forum titled Rubber Room and then under Newsletters. 

He likes a handful of teams but the 3 I am following him on are Wisconsin, East Carolina, and North Texas. Go read the entire paragraph for his explanations.

Wisky is playing Nebraska who hasn’t lost by more than 9 points all year and the spread is 9.5. Some of our best cappers are on Nebraska so be cautious. But Steele says Wisconsin’s defense is comparable to Georgia’s and that is some high praise indeed. The Wisconsin QB has sorted out his early season problems but the Nebraska QB is going the other direction presumably because he isn’t 100%. The dude is playing with a broken jaw.

East Carolina has been an ATS cash machine the last five weeks and Steele always uses informative metrics to support his picks. He compares yards per game against conference foes and East Carolina is clearly better than Navy.

The last game I like he picked has a goofy soap opera going on in the background that sealed the deal for me. North Texas is not a good team but they are playing much better late in the season. FIU is horrible AND they just fired their coach in a completely classless manner. The fired coach rightfully badmouthed the program, their equipment is shabby, not fit for a high school program. This week the players found out their coach was fired because the University posted his job was vacant. Do you think the FIU players will be motivated this week?

Betting Resource is the only tout worth paying. Their site doesn't even load on mobile or look flashy like other touts but when it comes to pick and money management, its must follow.