Mr. Jeff Sagarin is one of the top mathematicians in the world. His is an MIT grad who lives in Bloomington, Indiana and since nineteen-eighty-five he has been giving team ratings to the USA Today newspaper for NFL, NBA, NCAA, and NCAA basketball games.

Sagarin doesn’t make his picks the traditional way. Jeff’s sports betting strategy is to put point ratings on each side in each leage (NFL, NBA, NHL etc.) and when his two specific teams happen to be playing one another. Jeff develops a spread using the number between the point ratings between the 2 teams and a set number for the home team; this number is 3 if we’re talking about football.

Jeff’s point spreads are comparable against the real spreads from a game. This formula gives each sports team, a supposed fifty % winning percentage when playing against another team.

Even though Jeff doesn’t release the precise facets of his plan, the most important thing is that Jeff goes by totally rational mathematics requirements when rating teams. We could find it acceptable that his picks would do better for games where there is a big difference in points between his picks and the real line.

Let’s use an NFL game as an example. Say the Saints are playing the Bears. Mr. Sagarin’s mathematics say that the Saints would be the eight point fave, however they are only favored by three points at some casinos only because people just happen to adore the Chicago Bears. The sportsbook knows the line is thrown off here, but because they don’t want totally lopsided bets on the Bears, so if something like this happens, then the NO Saints are a good choice.

Although, I haven’t seen an actual report on how Jeff’s strategy carries out, but the Dallas Mavericks owner thought enough of his skills to hire him on as a consultant to tell the coaches which players should be on the floor and which ones shouldn’t be playing.

Would betting on Sagarin’s point ratings when they’re not in sync with the betting line, be better than gambling on The Sports Betting Professor system? Because we obviously don’t have his performance record, I can’t say, however the most important thing when picking games, is to select a system then stick with it.

I wanted to mention Sagarin because his methods appear to be non-biased and objective. Of course I fall back on my own sports betting system just because I know what it will do, but I want skilled and newbie sports bettors to know about other sources out there.

Rich Allen is an expert in Sports Betting Strategy and has worked for Las Vegas and Atlantic City books. His Sports Betting Professor Systems have sold over 250,000 units and cover all major sports. Download a FREE copy of The Sports Betting Insider’s Guide at: http://richallensports.com/sports-betting-strategy