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How To Beat the Pro Football Pointspread
A Comprehensive, No-Nonsense Guide to Picking NFL Winners
By Bobby Smith
Length: 20 Chapters, 180 pages
Size: 6'' x 9''
Published: New Release! October 1, 2008

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COMING TO BOOKSTORES NATIONWIDE! For big players, small players, medium-sized players, office-pool players, Las Vegas players, serious players, casual players and beginners, too! The author is Sports Reporter Editor Bobby Smith, who has combined with Skyhorse Publishing to create the long-overdue, definitive book on figuring out the NFL vs. the spread. Erase the mystique! Don’t buy the hype! How to Beat the Pro Football Pointspread de-mystifies the NFL and makes it easier to understand how to win vs. the spread. Start seeing things you haven't seen before. Gain confidence! Fine-tune your football forecasting skills by learning how to prioritize information. Oddmakers? Fakes. Football players' stats? Overrated. ATS Records? For the birds...

PART ONE: THE MINDSET
Chapter 1: Smarter Than the Average Fan
Chapter 2: NFL Infrastructure
Chapter 3: Understanding Statistics and Rankings
Chapter 4: Understanding the NFL Landscape
Chapter 5: Challenging the General Football Media
Chapter 6: Challenging the Football Handicapping Media
Chapter 7: Challenging the Oddsmakers and Bookmakers

PART TWO: THE PRACTICAL
Chapter 8: Change is Constant
Chapter 9: Understanding Schedules
Chapter 10: Identifying Team Styles, Strengths, and Weaknesses
Chapter 11: Sniffing out Blowouts
Chapter 12: Predicting Turnovers
Chapter 13: Positioning for Upsets
Chapter 14: The Great Value Debate

PART THREE: THE TACTICAL
Chapter 15: Let the Games Come to You
Chapter 16: The Coaching Network
Chapter 17: Totals: The Universe is Out of Alignment!
Chapter 18: Weather and Surface
Chapter 19: Money Management
Chapter 20: College Football, and the Future

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NOVEMBER, 2008 -- In a place with a reputation as the Lair of the Square – a Web site chock full of blithering wannabe wise-guys -- talk like the following in advance of last Sunday’s New England at Miami game was very amusing. It was like the old Stan Mack’s Real Life Funnies comic strip from New York’s Village Voice. All dialogue guaranteed overheard verbatim:... “This has to be my favorite game Sunday. Public all over New England here. I have been following the NFL closely this year and any time a team is giving up three points or less and is the non consensus favorite it is hitting almost 80 % of the time. I believe this is another set-up game and Miami will win this by at least 7 points. Comments and Opinions welcome.” … These are the kind of football bettors who will set unsuspecting folk back 15 years as football forecasters and wagerers. Nobody can afford to be set back by even one year in this. ''Another set-up game''? What is this guy talking about? What ''public''? Who would be setting up who? MORE