From my perspective the vast majority of my four decades of research has given me the answers that I was trying to define - the three factors (1) margin, (2) quality and (3) expectation. I am totally convinced there is nothing that is more powerful.
DAILY SPORTS FORECAST is my current effort, free of charge on my website, but what is in store for it in the future is a question that I cannot answer. In the current cyberspace handicapping mess there is no market for another forecasting publication, so why I keep doing it leaves me dumb founded or as my wife says, "Of all the things that you have lost through the years, I think you miss your mind the most." I have been trying to discard daily forecasting but it can be
habit forming.
The best advice that I can give a newcomer to sports betting is, "Learn to lose before you can learn to win."
Study the losers as you always learn more from failing than succeeding, and you are never as good as you think you are on one of those 7-1 days. There will be twice as many 1-7 days.
Can you make a full-time living off betting? Very, very doubtful. The line today is far too good with zillions of people coming up with roughly identical numbers. Winning two decades ago was, at times, like taking candy from a baby.
When one person was making the Las Vegas line it was possible to do quite well for an extended period of time but when the computer age exploded and early pioneers began to use it to find answers the game
changed directions and no longer produces the harvest it once did.
I am pleased that I was at least there for the beginning.
Author's note: Whenever people ask me to recommend books on sports betting, I always tell them to pick up anything they can find by Jim Barnes. It seems a shame that Journal of Handicapping is no longer being printed, but if you're a serious sports handicapper, you owe to yourself to try and hunt down them down.
Barnes isn't quite sure what the future holds in store, but if we're lucky, maybe he'll write another "Best of Jim Barnes" type of book. If that happens, I'll be the first in line to pick up a copy. If you bet on sports, you should be right behind me in line. His information is that good and his knowledge is unparalleled in the sports betting scene.
Be sure to visit Barnes' website at www.jimbarnes.com, where you'll find Jim's Daily Sports Forecast. It's worth checking out on a daily basis.
