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Betting Dork with Gill Alexander

Pregame.com Presents: BETTING DORK with Gill Alexander, helping sports bettors win with advanced Sabermetric stats, including free picks, odds, line moves, handicapping tips, big game previews, famous handicappers, sportsbook endorsements, and Las Vegas gambling stories. Discussing NFL, college football, NBA, college basketball, MLB baseball, and more - hosted by Gill Alexander, and featuring the most impressive collection of sports betting experts found anywhere. Available weekdays at 1 ET.

All Episodes

31:55

Betting Dork: Fantasy Football with Mike Clay, Pro...

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2012/08/29

Director/Managing Editor at ProFootballFocus.com and NFL Writer at NBC Rotoworld, Mike Clay joins Host Gill Alexander in an effort to maximize the impact and minimize mistakes in your mid- to late round fantasy football draft picks. It's all through the prism of advanced stats, on Tuesday's Betting Dork (August 28, 2012).

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01:10:19

Betting Dork: 2012 MLB 3rd Quarter Report with Joe Peta

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2012/08/21

It's the final regular season baseball podcast of 2012, but with 40 games left of betting value to exploit, author and baseball betting fund manager, Joe Peta, joins Host Gill Alexander and makes it his business to give you the 4th quarter's betting edge. The Orioles, Red Sox, Blue Jays, Royals, Athletics, Angels, Pirates, Dodgers, Giants, Diamondbacks, and Padres are all discussed. Plus, it's the pod's staple of exclusive MLB betting stats, including the best/worst money line (home/road splits),

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59:29

Betting Dork: NFL Betting Trends w Joe Fortenbaugh,...

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2012/08/07

It's that time of year. Writer of the "Vegas Hotline" column at The National Football Post, Joe Fortenbaugh joins Host Gill Alexander to kick off the football betting season with heavily researched trends designed to inform your 2012 NFL win totals and futures wagers. From 3 key metrics to the curse of the 10-win season to what both turnover differential and points per game fluctuations can tell us, if you haven't begun to think about the upcoming season yet, continuing to ignore these findings

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01:02:17

Betting Dork: The Fantasy and Betting ATM with Paul...

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2012/07/25

No one knows fantasy baseball better than Paul Sporer of Baseball Prospectus and PaulSporer.com, and inherent in that advice has come some of the most instantly convertable-to-cash betting advice this podcast has known. Today, Paul returns to chat with Host Gill Alexander about the implications of MLB's trade deadline moves and who the biggest candidates for improvement and drop-off are on the mound moving forward for the rest of this season. And from the man who gave us the Fade Derek Lowe ATM

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46:08

Betting Dork: The Baseball Betting Fund & 2012 MLB...

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2012/07/17

A pod favorite from the preseason and quarter mark of 2012 MLB, Joe Peta, author of the forthcoming book, "Trading Bases, A Story about Wall Street, Gambling, and Baseball* (*) Not necessarily in that order", drops back in on Host Gill Alexander just past the halfway point of the season, to give his unique perspective on some choice clubs. But first, Mark Cuban floated a sports betting hedge fund idea over 7 years ago and we've seen Centaur Galileo's Fund come and go since, but you might be very

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55:35

Betting Dork: Jonah Keri, Grantland.com & MLB Betting...

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2012/07/10

Grantland.com writer and podcast host Jonah Keri drops in on Host Gill Alexander at the All-Star Break to track his 2012 MLB spring training divisional picks and team win totals bets, and to discuss whether or not he beleives the Pirates and Nationals are for real. Then, as tradition dictates, Gill and Basewinner review midseason betting stats, including the best and worst money line (home/road splits) and run line clubs in baseball, the most reliable over/under umpires, the best/worst run

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58:02

Betting Dork: The Blackjack Experience with Vegas Runner

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2012/06/26

It's a follow-up conversation to last year's popular blackjack pod from Vegas Runner and Host Gill Alexander. This time, VR updates us on his organized team blackjack play, and then launches into specific useable information that anyone traveling to Vegas can apply at the tables, serving to reduce house edge, increase comps, and enhance overall experience, on Tuesday's Betting Dork (June 26, 2012).

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44:36

Betting Dork: Lee Phelps, Host, "The Punt", William...

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2012/06/11

This one is fun. Skyping across the pond with Euro 2012 in full swing, Host Gill Alexander welcomes William Hill Football Podcast Host Lee Phelps to discuss an array of mutual curiosities, including why the British have such low expectations of England's prospects on the international football stage, and the many differences in the gambling cultures of England and the United States. Plus, in a week dominated by both Euro 2012 and U.S. Open Golf, where might the betting value currently lie in both

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01:05:06

Betting Dork: Pacquiao/Bradley & 144th Belmont Stakes

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2012/06/07

With a big time prize fight and horse race slated for the weekend, who says one can only bet on baseball and basketball this time of year? First, Pregame Pro Vegas Runner drops in on Host Gill Alexander and, let's just say, the two don't tend to script things. From Electric Daisy to Twitter pics to nail appointments for men, VR and Gill eventually get around to discussing the merits of betting on the Pacquiao/Bradley fight and where the value might lie within, as well as engaging in a free flow on

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01:46:29

Betting Dork: MLB Triple Play: Interleague, Fantasy,...

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2012/05/30

If it's baseball you like, there's something for everyone in this 3-in-1 pod. Author Joe Peta leads off and helps Host Gill Alexander put interleague play into proper perspective. Then Baseball Prospectus' Paul Sporer delivers the fantasy goods and isolates the pitchers and hitters (both major and minor leagues) that you should have on your radar moving forward in 2012 and which ballplayers might be due for a regression to the downside. Then, in what has been a staple of the podcast, Gill and

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58:11

Betting Dork: 2012 MLB Quarterly Report with Joe Peta

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2012/05/23

Author of the forthcoming book, "Trading Bases, A Story about Wall Street, Gambling, and Baseball* (*) Not necessarily in that order", Joe Peta joins Host Gill Alexander to shed light on baseball's biggest stories at the quarter pole of the 2012 season using underreported barometers like defensive efficiency and BABIP. What's really going on with the torrid starts of the Orioles and Dodgers, and are clubs like the Tigers, Nationals, and Blue Jays really what they appear to be? Plus, since they're

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42:51

Betting Dork: NBA Playoffs & 137th Preakness Stakes

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2012/05/17

With the second round of the NBA Playoffs in full swing, Marc Spears of Yahoo! Sports joins Host Gill Alexander live from Oklahoma City to discuss whether the Lakers, Sixers, or Clippers have any shot of advancing, and whether the Heat is really in trouble. Plus, with the second leg of Horse Racing's Triple Crown in front of us, Pregame Pro Marco D'Angelo and Pro Football Weekly's Horse Racing buff Mike Wilkening give their Preakness insights, on Thursday's Betting Dork (May 17, 2012).

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01:06:55

Betting Dork: 138th Kentucky Derby Preview and Picks

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2012/05/04

Horse Racing expert Marco D'Angelo (he who called the Derby win of 30-1 shot Animal Kingdom last year) and Pro Football Weekly racing aficionado Mike Wilkening drop in on Host Gill Alexander for this annual extensive Kentucky Derby preview. The many tenets of horse racing handicapping are examined, including weighting the significance of the three different types of horses entered, post position, jockeys, recent performance, and trainers, while isolating the horses in this year's Run for the Roses

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59:29

Betting Dork: The 2012 NFL Draft with Mike Wilkening,...

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2012/04/25

Typically, pro football scribes shy away from the verboten topic of betting. But there are exceptions, and Pro Football Weekly Senior Editor and Handicapping Writer Mike Wilkening is most certainly one of them. Mike joins Host Gill Alexander to offer up his three best 2012 NFL Draft proposition bets (# of QB's selected in the 1st Round, who will get picked with the #6 pick, when will Brandon Weeden will get selected) and what pitfalls you want to avoid along the way, on Wednesday's Betting Dork

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01:02:21

Betting Dork: Vegas Runner's 2012 MLB World Series...

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2012/04/17

The annual ritual is here. Sports betting market expert and Pregame pro Vegas Runner drops in on his old podcast stomping grounds and gives Host Gill Alexander an exclusive on his 2012 MLB World Series futures bets. Long shots, mid-range shots, and value-laden shorter shots are all included. Plus, Gill outlines early season 1st inning and first 5 inning statistics, and sabermetrician Basewinner drops in to offer up his best MLB bets of the day, on Tuesday's Betting Dork (April 17, 2012).

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Betting Dork: Bomani Jones, "Bomani & Jones",...

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2012/04/11

After a string of betting and fantasy focused baseball podcasts, Bomani Jones of SBNations's "Bomani & Jones" and ESPN's "Outside the Lines" hooks up with Host Gill Alexander for a freeflow on all sorts of modern day beefs and falls from grace. Bomani v Darren Rovell, Jalen Rose v Skip Bayless, Piers Morgan v Toure, Ozzie Guillen v His Own Mouth, and Bobby Petrino v Truth. It'll all make sense once you listen to Wednesday's Betting Dork (April 11, 2012).

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01:06:24

Betting Dork: Joe Peta, Part 2, Author, "Trading...

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2012/04/03

Author of the forthcoming book, "Trading Bases, A Story about Wall Street, Gambling, and Baseball* (*) Not necessarily in that order", Joe Peta drops back in on Host Gill Alexander for the second straight week to discuss the value of isolating non-repeatable occurrences in handicapping, why bullpens are not as predictive as other facets of baseball, and the impact of MLB scheduling. Plus, what started as a trickle of 2012 MLB team total thoughts last week turns into a torrential downpour, as fresh

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01:21:30

Betting Dork: Joe Peta, Author, "Trading Bases, A...

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2012/03/27

Author of the forthcoming book "Trading Bases, A Story about Wall Street, Gambling, and Baseball* (*) Not necessarily in that order", Joe Peta might just be the type of guy Host Gill Alexander would have tried creating from scratch if he had a lab and his last name were Frankenstein. That is, if Peta hadn't existed already. Ironically buoyed by an accident that turned his life upside down, Peta brings a fresh and inventive viewpoint to handicapping baseball and among other unique MLB revelations,

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01:08:42

Betting Dork: Baseball Betting 101 and 2012 Fantasy...

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2012/03/20

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

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01:13:33

Betting Dork: The 2012 NCAA Bracketology Special with...

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2012/03/13

No show on television or on-line breaks down the madness quite like this. Pregame Pros Vegas Runner and Dave Essler dissect all 32 second round 2012 NCAA Basketball Tournament matchups from an ATS standpoint, while Host Gill Alexander provides game theory you should consider for your office pools and advanced stats that will help you gain an edge. What are the 4 characteristics that all National Champions have shared since 2000, and what 7 teams in this year's field possess them? What 8-9 matchup

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