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Always Bet On The Butcher! 45 Years of Bookmaking - Chris Andrews

We continue our Before You Bet series with author, bookmaker Chris Andrews. Chris has 45 years experience in the sports betting industry and shares his insights and wisdom on: * What makes a Wise Guy? * Could Uncle Jack get the best of it today? * How does Chris make a number on a game? * How often does Chris take a position? * What impact Jimmy Vaccaro has made on his personal and professional life? * What's the future of the industry? * Chris as a modern-day Sisyphus * And of course, Storytime!

The Art of Handicapping with Pro Bettor Eddie Walls

Eddie Walls is a college football professional bettor with Right Angle Sports, and what comes through most in this conversation is how seriously he takes pressure-testing his own work. Above all, he values closing line value — for Eddie, CLV is the truest measure of whether a bet was good, separate from whether it won. Every week he goes back through the games he got wrong and uses CLV to audit himself: did the process hold up and the result just break the wrong way, or did the market move against him because he genuinely missed something? He talks about handicapping inside a betting group the same way — not as a pick-sharing exercise, but as a stress test, where having his reasoning challenged by other sharp bettors before he fires keeps his process honest. In this episode of Before You Bet, we get into both of those disciplines, how he builds his numbers team by team, how his read on a team shifts across the season, and why he trusts his process.

Why a Stanford PhD Doesn't Bet His Model Alone - Ed Feng

Dr. Ed Feng founded The Power Rank.com in 2008 after reading Google's PageRank paper and applying the same math to sports rankings. His public NFL spread predictions have hit 51.8% against the closing market over the last four seasons (396-369-21), and his college football model writes for Yahoo Sports. But here's the thing that surprised me most in this conversation: even with a Stanford PhD and a rigorous bottom-up model, Ed doesn't bet his numbers alone. The actual handicap is at the team-by-team level, still subjective, still leaning on context the model can't see. In this episode of Before You Bet, we get into why that's the case — what role the subjective layer is actually playing for him, where the limits of a quantitative model show up in college football specifically, how he thinks about wisdom of crowds in ratings sources, the bottom-up versus top-down framing Spanky coined on his podcast, prediction markets as a tool, and what 15+ years of doing rigorous analytical work in a domain most academic institutions dismiss has actually taught him about edge.Follow Ed Feng: @thepowerrank Follow the show: @CFB900

The Discipline Behind Long-Term Edge — Kyle Hunter

Kyle Hunter has been a public handicapper for 15+ years, with a specialty in totals across college football, the NFL, the NBA, MLB, and college basketball. He's known for deploying early in the week and for working trends and team-level data into a process that's produced profitability long term. In this episode of Before You Bet, we get into how he uses coaching trends as a roadmap for season win totals (anchored to his Maryland/Locksley read from last year), what makes CFB totals their own challenge compared to other sports, how he thinks about the tradeoff between betting into uncertainty early in the week versus waiting for better information, how the modeling era has changed the work over 15+ years, and how he's thinking about prediction markets as the landscape evolves. Before You Bet is CFB900's evergreen interview series with experienced college football handicappers — process, market structure, and the discipline behind real edge, with no filler. Follow Kyle Hunter: @Kylehunterpicks Follow CFB900: @CFB900

Maximizing Value and Conviction in College Football Betting — Josh Nunn (Duck)

Josh Nunn — known on X as Duck (@steponaduck) — is one of the sharpest bettors in college football on finding value where the broader market isn't paying attention. He covers college football for the Action Network. That shows up in his work across FCS and small conferences, in his live-market reads where algorithm-driven pricing leaves room to fire, in his offseason positions on Kalshi, and in his discipline around plays where his number is far off the market. In this special episode of CFB900's Before You Bet, we get into how he builds conviction in those spots, why he's willing to tie up capital on a six-month edge, and what he watches for in markets the modeling era hasn't fully reached.