Some Recommended Sports Handicapping Books

Do you want to learn more about sports handicapping strategies or about sports handicapping in general?  Maybe you are going on a vacation and looking for a solid book to thumb through.  Or maybe you have a long flight ahead of you and need a better way to waste your time while sitting in the terminal.  Perhaps you just want to get some new ideas to expand your sports handicapping know-how.  Regardless, below are some highly recommended sports handicapping books available.

Book 1: The Everything Guide to Sports Betting: From Pro Football to College Basketball, Systems and Strategies for Winning Money

By: Josh Appelbaum

The Everything Guide to Sports Betting is filled with tips, tricks and tactics.  Inside this book, you will learn about the various types of bets you can make and how to pinpoint the profitable wagers.  You will learn about the importance of bankroll management.  Strategies on how to bet on major sports are also covered, including baseball, the NFL, college football, the NBA and college basketball.  Fantasy sports are also included how to bet on fantasy MLB, NFL and NBA.

Book 2: Sharper: A Guide to Modern Sports Betting

By: True PokerJoe

Yes, I am assuming the author is using a pen name or pseudonym here.  However, the book itself is a fairly quick read (no fluff).  Inside Sharper: A Guide to Modern Sports Betting, you will learn strategies to better your success.  You will learn more about money management (Kelly Criterion), how to handicap better, player ratings, and injury impacts.

Book 3: Baseball Betting for Profit

By: Eric Strasser

Baseball Betting for Profit is a Major League Baseball focused book devoted to betting and winning, Baseball Betting for Profit was once touted by the head of the Mirage Sports Book as the best textbook on handicapping baseball ever written.

Book 4: Trading Bases: How a Wall Street Trader Made a Fortune Betting on Baseball

By: Joe Peta

The author of this book once turned his back on his Wall Street trading career to pursue an ingenious – and incredibly risky – dream.  He would apply his risk-analysis skills to Major League Baseball, and treat the sport like the S&P 500.  The author describes his approach as cluster luck. And relays his knowledge to others.

Book 5: The Staking Plans Book The Complete Guide to Staking for Sports Betting Systems: Money Management Methods to Make More Profit from Winning Strategies with an Innovative Research Methodology 

By: Tom Whitaker

This book analyzes and ranks 32 sports handicapping staking plans.  The flat-betting, variable-betting and Kelly Criterion’s staking plans are just a few analyzed.  Definitely, a worthwhile read if you are interested in learning more about the subject.

Book 6: Squares and Sharps, Suckers and Sharks: The Science, Psychology & Philosophy of Gambling

By: Joseph Buchdahl

Squares and Sharps, Suckers and Sharks: The Science, Psychology & Philosophy of Gambling is a book that takes a hard look into sports betting.  Should you be sports handicapping in the first place?  While the book is a little different than the typical how to handicap sporting events book.  It will undoubtedly force you to evaluate your iron clad handicapping systems more thoroughly and truly question your specific strategy in acquiring profitable sports bets.  Along the way, this particular book analyzes the science of probability and uncertainty, of luck and skill.

Book 7: Fixed Odds Sports Betting: Statistical Forecasting and Risk Management

By: Joseph Buchdahl

The author makes his second appearance on our list here with his book entitled Fixed Odds Sports Betting: Statistical Forecasting and Risk Management.  In this essential guide, the author examines risk management to protect profits and attempts to evaluate wagering into a low-risk form of investing.

Book 8: Enemy Number One: The Secrets of the UK’s Most Feared Professional Punter

By: Patrick Veitch

Enemy Number One: The Secrets of the UK’s Most Feared Professional Punter is an autobiography of a professional sports handicapper named Patrick Veitch.  While other sports handicapping books on this list, dive more directly into the process and strategies involved.  This book does not.  It is the story of how the author beat the bookmakers for millions in the span of eight years.  It discusses how the author once became a target for extortion from a dangerous criminal who eventually would go on to be tried for murder.  Although the author does not reveal any particular betting strategy, it is a very interesting read (especially in the horse racing genre).

Book 9: Mathletics: How Gamblers, Managers, and Sports Enthusiasts Use Mathematics in Baseball, Basketball, and Football

By: Wayne L. Winston

Hey, the author has “win” in his name.  Wayne L. Winston also takes mathematical concepts and implements them directly into sports handicapping.  That is something I can definitely get into.  Mathletics: How Gamblers, Managers, and Sports Enthusiasts Use Mathematics in Baseball, Basketball, and Football has chapters of the book dedicated forecasting future pitching performances, evaluating fielders, NBA lineup analysis, and much more.

Book 10: The Complete Guide to Sports Betting: The six key betting principles that professional bettors use to ensure profit at the sports book

By: Kevin Dolan

The Complete Guide to Sports Betting instructs individuals to better evaluate patterns and trends.  The author examines the value of analyzing both early and late line movements and dives more into the principles of when to bet on the game and when to stay clear.  It is a fairly quick read but one that may be worthwhile.

In Conclusion

Above are only some of the great sports handicapping books available.  I will be adding more as time goes on.  I hope you find these books useful.  Enjoy and be well.

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