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Dan Gordon's NFL Handicapping Companion Description

Dan Gordon is widely regarded as one of the three best handicappers in the sports world and has a winning record as a professional sports bettor for over two decades. His sports betting columns have appeared in the New York Daily News, San Francisco Examiner, Boston Herald, Log Angeles Herald Examiner, College and Pro Football Weekly and other newspapers and magazines and he served as handicapping consultant to Pete Axthelm of NBC, ESPN and Inside Sports Magazine for seven years. His latest book Beat the Sports Books - An insider’s guide to betting the NFL is a seminal work in football betting.

Betting the NFL effectively requires a great deal of data and effort. Dan Gordon’s NFL Handicapping Companion (DG-NFL) is designed to greatly ease the process of collecting, maintaining and manipulating data and applying the many necessary calculations. The ability to experiment with changes to the calculations and assumptions is also provided with instant recalculation of the tables for the entire season. As a result, calculations will take far less time and will likely be more accurate.

Note: If you have not read Beat the Sports Books, the program can still be used. But, you will find it far easier and more valuable with the book.

A brief outline of DG-NFL:

Automatic weekly update to scores and handicapping data via the Internet. This includes phony wins, phony losses, sloppy wins, home advantage adjustments and mid-season team rankings.

Auto weekly download of Dan’s subjective adjustments.

Automatic calculation of number power ratings, letter power ratings, due ups/downs, projected lines and win percentages.

Automatically makes weekly adjustments according to 13 rules from Beat the Sports Book.

Enormous user configurability. User can create his own tables, adjust formulas, change power numbers, letters, grades, edges, selectively activate rules, modify the effect of rules, add adjustments and the entire season is instantly recalculated.