For whatever reason, baseball remains the sport that amateur bettors are most reticent to play.  Host Gill Alexander’s yearly crusade is to combat that unsound thinking.  In this annual segment, Gill welcomes sabermetrician Basewinner to outline the basic tenets of MLB betting for the uninitiated, and to make the case for why the sport is the single most profitable and rational in which to immerse onself from a betting standpoint.  Then, fantasy baseball geeks, your time has come.  No one has written more extensively on starting pitching throughout MLB heading into your 2012 fantasy draft or auction than Paul Sporer.  He stops by to share his views on who some of the most overvalued and undervalued starters are in the majors, headed into Opening Day 2012, on Tuesday’s Betting Dork (March 20, 2012).

An authority on betting market analysis, Pregame Pro Vegas Runner checks in with Host Gill Alexander to explain what’s going on with Super Bowl betting line movement.  Then, Marc Meltzer of vegaschatter.com, part of the Conde Nast Digital Network, stops by to discuss the best Sportsbooks, places to play Blackjack, Steak Restaurants, Night Clubs, and Strip Clubs in Sin City.  It’s a man’s guide to las vegas, on Wednesday’s betting Dork (January 25, 2012).

There is no one that statistical handicappers hold in higher esteem than the renowned San Francisco-based Dr. Bob.  Judging by the length of this show, you can certainly count Host Gill Alexander among them.  Dr. Bob (Bob Stoll) joins Gill to examine his math-driven approach to capping college football, including the two-pronged nature of his situational/technical analysis and mathematical model.  Included in their chat: when might it make more sense for each approach, situational or mathematical, to take precedence over the other, and what type of situational analysis that cappers often cite as predictive actually never works. Then, it’s a full-fledged 2011 College Football Preview, with Dr. Bob citing specific teams that will be better or worse than public perception would have you believe in the coming season.  Plus, which member(s) of the national media might be the most consistently wrong when it comes to college football analysis, and an opening week lean or two, to boot.  It’s all on a can’t-miss Betting Dork (August 30, 2011).

Host Gill Alexander once again dips into the offshore well and welcomes the very open and generous BetOnline Sportsbook Brand Manager Dave Mason for a wide-ranging discussion centered on the perspective of the book itself.  How does BetOnline handle sharp bettors?  What sport have bettors taken advantage of and, as a result, given this particular shop the most fits in 2011?  The answer may very well surprise you.  What is March Madness 3-way betting?  What MLB and NFL teams create the most exposure for BetOnline?  What are the three components at play in setting their lines?  All of this and so much more on Thursday’s Betting Dork (August 11, 2011).

From the time the NBA betting scandal was first reported in mid-2007 through the late 2009 release of the book from the referee at the center of it all, the media and public were transfixed by all things Tim Donaghy. But until the publication of “Gaming the Game”, there had been no examination of the true architect of the entire real life drama.  Author Sean Patrick Griffin joins Host Gill Alexander for a wide-ranging exchange about the central figure of the scandal, Jimmy “Baba” Battista, the many questions pertaining to the NBA and Las Vegas sportsbooks that still surround the saga, and whether it’s likely that similar improprieties exist throughout the sports world. Plus, Donaghy claims are debunked, on an instant classic edition of the Betting Dork (June 23, 2011).

It doesn’t get much better than this.  A professional sports bettor and Managing Partner of Rogue Markets, Elihu Feustel has used statistical models to exploit sports betting markets to great success.  Today, he drops in to chat with Host Gill Alexander about an array of topics, including the specific sports he targets, debunking the John Morrison scam, and what offshore books are the most reliable.  But, that’s just the appetizer.  Feustel recounts riveting gambling stories, from getting a phone call from an offshore book requesting that he no longer make certain bets, to staring down a sportsbook operation and security at a Vegas casino property in order to cash thousands of dollars in winning tickets.  Plus, what does the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act have to do with abetting terrorist activity?  Yes, it goes there, on an instant classic edition of the Betting Dork

Host Gill Alexander welcomes legendary MIT blackjack team member and the inspiration for the main characters depicted in “Bringing Down the House” and “21”, Jeffrey Ma, to the show, resulting in a fascinating discussion on all that Ma has been up to in the years since, and the insights culled along the way. From dispelling blackjack’s biggest fallacy to his takes on Malcolm Gladwell, sports markets, and sports betting, Ma weaves compelling stories to illustrate his points. It’s an instant classic, on Thursday’sBetting Dork (April 28, 2011).