14 Sports Betting Resources You Need To Be Using

The Unemotional Football Bettor by Scott Kellen

The fact that this American Football book has been out of print many times and a copy is about as easy to find as the Royal Hunt Cup winner is a testament to its great popularity and value. The author presents 27 strategies with which to approach the NFL and NCAAF betting markets. There is also a chapter on quantifying the value of different situational handicapping systems, and another on using standard deviation to predict best and worst-case scenarios for your betting profit and loss. Although some of the angles have inevitably become over-bet within the market, or less relevant in the current high-scoring, passing-dominated NFL, many of Kellen’s ideas retain great value. This book is a must-read from one of the best NFL judges around.

Beat The Sports Books: An Insider’s Guide To Betting The NFL by Dan Gordon

Another NFL classic that has stood the test of time. This book contains numerous ideas for fundamental and situational techniques, as Gordon walks the reader through his handicapping methods, most of which were way ahead of their time. The author takes you through a full season of his NFL bets, giving the reader a feel for the practical application of his theories. Written in a lucid and highly accessible style, this book is odds-on to be one of the best US sports betting books you’ll ever read.

Conquering Risk: Attacking Vegas And Wall Street by Elihu D. Feustel and George S. Howard

If the first two volumes on this list centred upon more traditional handicapping techniques, this tome by Messrs Feustel and Howard takes bettors through the basic building blocks of Black-box Modeling and sports betting models in general. This is done in such a way that even if computer science wasn’t on your school’s curriculum, you’ll find it easy to follow. The book stands out as one of the very few to lift the lid on how to create such models, covers a variety of US sports and is well worth the investment.

RotoWire.com

Since its launch in 1997, the Roto family of websites and publications has stood for all that’s best in sports betting information. RotoWire provides in-depth real-time Fantasy Sports news as well as informative articles, depth charts and statistics. The name hails back to Rotisserie League Baseball, the original Fantasy Sports League, established by a group of New York journalists, almost three decades before the DFS explosion. Whether it’s key information for your Fantasy lineup or checking injury news before making a bet, this website has long been a wire-to-wire winner.

KillerSports.com

This is a great resource for checking how certain situational angles have played out across the major US sports leagues. Struggling to believe that the New England Patriots are 179-123-8 against the spread since 2003? Well, you can see it with your own eyes, via the KillerSports database. Sign up is free, though there is also the option to pay to have access to the stronger systems. Some knowledge of the correct SDQL (Sports Data Query Language) codes to enter is required, but it’s well worth taking the time to learn it.

Pinnacle.com’s betting articles (https://www.pinnacle.com/en/betting-resources/category/educational)

Curaçao-based Pinnacle has long been known as one of the sharpest sportsbooks in the world. What’s great is that they don’t keep all the knowledge they have acquired over the past 20+ years to themselves. There is a huge archive of articles on these pages covering general betting theory and sport-specific information and providing great insight for novice and experienced bettors alike.

Footballoutsiders.com

If this list has a bias towards US sports betting websites, it might just be that, by and large, the States is home to most of the best sports betting resources. Football Outsiders provides in-depth statistical insight and informative articles on all things American Football. Some of the proprietary metrics developed by Football Outsiders have long been light years ahead of the competition, with their famous DVOA Ratings, being a cornerstone of many a sharp handicapper’s methodologies. If you prefer your Gridiron content in paper form, the Football Outsiders Almanac, published annually, always has an array of new metrics and ideas to get you ready for each new season.

Thepredictiontracker.com

A website which collates dozens of different power ratings across American Football, Baseball and Basketball. It provides an average line from all these numbers which can be compared to sportsbooks’ lines, although this average has probably proved more insightful for College, rather than Pro Football. The functionality to be able to download historical NFL Point Spread data sets, which go back to 1999, is also a nice feature.

Tour-tips.com

This is a great website for those who don’t agree with the assertion, often wrongly attributed to Mark Twain, that Golf is ‘a good walk spoiled.’ Tour-Tips is a mine of information on the sport, with customisable Excel spreadsheets for all the major tours, produced every Monday to give subscribers time to evaluate them before the week’s tournaments tee off. For me, Tour-Tips main USP has always been the ability to pick any two players and view their head-to-head results in events they both played in, by tournament or by round. As the name suggests, there is also wagering advice for all the main worldwide tours. You can even access all the advanced statistical metrics for free through the first four weeks of the year. But if you're ready to take your Golf betting to the next level, the annual subscriber package is great value at £75.

Espnscrum.com

This is the American sports media company’s Rugby Union site. It is probably the best resource for Rugby Union team line-ups, which are displayed shortly after the teams are announced. The team-by-team results pages are also a helpful feature. Some of the links don’t always work but, in general, I’ve always found this to be one of the better Rugby Union websites.

SBRodds.com

For US sports this is a great free resource for real-time betting line moves. The functionality to select which bookmakers you want to display, the percentage of wagers made on each side at a specific sportsbook and being able to see timestamped line histories all make this the front-runner for US sports odds information. Of course, many similar features are available on UK-facing sites like Oddschecker.com and Oddsportal.com but for free US betting lines, SBRodds.com is the first overall pick.

Yr.no

No, (.no) I haven’t fallen asleep on my keyboard. You did read Yr.no correctly. And, yes, this is a weather site. In fact, without trying to sound like their fellow Scandinavians’ beer advert, it’s probably the best weather site in the world. Facing Norway’s harsh climate, you’d imagine that the Norwegians know a thing or two about meteorological matters. With highly accurate hour-by-hour forecasts and the ability to get the weather conditions in very specific locations, this site is a tremendously useful resource. So, if you want to find out if the wind is going to be blowing in or out at Wrigley Field, this is a website you need to be aware of. Not surprisingly, many bookmakers also use Yr.no to keep up to date with weather conditions across the sporting world.

NFLWeather.com

Rarely can a website have needed less explaining! It does exactly what it says on the tin. All the week’s Pro Football-related weather information on one screen, rather than having to track down the zip codes for Empower Field at Mile High or FirstEnergy Stadium. For NFL weather information this website is your best bet.

Bet The Board Podcast

Todd Fuhrman and PayneInsider are your hosts for this highly engaging and informative weekly podcast, which airs during the College and Pro Football seasons. The duo provides deep dives into all the week’s NFL matchups, as well as the key NCAA Football games. Fuhrman has ridden the wave of legalised sports betting to become a familiar face on shows like Fox Sports’ Lock It In and, along with Pro Sports Bettor Payne, provides copious amounts of useful Football information each week. Well worth a listen.