June 27, 2010

PRE-SEASON FOOTBALL AND BASKETBALL SPECIALS

As most of you know, each year we run a special on Football Season Service where we take the first 15 customers who sign up for the season for $1,000. That's $1,500 off the normal Season Price, it's a great deal for you as a customer and it's good for me as well since I take the $15,000 that the special generates and I use it to fund my mailout and to help set up some of the radio guest spots I do as well as lining up new stations for the Saturday morning handicapping show. 

We've been running this special for several years now and many customers have caught on to the timing. They typically start calling me around the first of June to sign up for the Special to make sure they get a spot. As a result, as of today I have three spots of the first 15 left. So, here's what we're going to do. Starting today, I will take a total of 10 more at the $1,000 price for the entire 2010/2011 College & Pro football seasons. That's every play we make, College & Pro, thru the Super Bowl, Bowl games, Playoff Games- everything is included. Additionally, as part of the additional 10 spots we're taking at the $1,000 price, we are also offering the entire College & Pro Basketball Seasons- thru the NCAA Tournament and the NBA Finals- for an additional $500. 

I am REALLY looking forward to this season as we'll be ready with the fully computerized version of my algorithm that I developed towards the end of last season. I'm sure a lot of people know WHAT things to look at when you're handicapping a game- the type of surface, the styles of play, avg yds per carry and per pass, injuries, weather, etc., all those are common sense things that you would look at. Actually, over the years we've found that there are about THIRTY things to look at on each game and coming up with the list of 30 categories is the easy part. The problem is- and always has been- each category has a different level of importance. Nailing down those levels of importance- or weights- for each category AND being able to adjust those weights on a weekly basis as linesmakers make their own adjustments... well, that's been the Holy Grail of handicapping. And the really, really neat thing about the system is that it has been incredibly accurate in identifying games that we should stay away from. 

Our new Algorithm was very accurate at the end of last season. We were not in a position to use it to make plays because it had not been tested. That is not the case now. Since the end of the season, we've run every College and Pro game played since 1985. We have narrowed the spread ranges and increased the list of possible circumstances for each game. And we have found three different sets of spread ranges and circumstances that have produced over 70% winners, not only for the last year or two, but for 1 year, 5 year, 10, 15, 20 and 25 year periods. You can bet we are set to identify any of those six different sets of information, or combinations thereof, on the games this year. 

We haven't finished running everything on basketball, but the results about halfway thru are just as promising. We actually used the system this year for about 1/2 the season and we finished with a very nice 64.4% in College Basketball and 66.8% in the NBA. 

So, we're looking forward to a very exciting, profitable season! Those of you who were with us in '04 know what it's like to win over 70% of the games for the season. We did it that year, and as far as I know, it's the only time any legitimate service has broken 70% for the season! Be a part of it this year- take advantage of the Pre-Season Special!

I appreciate your business,

Rainman