Gambling is fun. Wouldn’t it be even more fun if you could actually be good at it? That’s where this story begins as we attempt to go from novice square to seasoned sharp.

Background

As a life long sports enthusiast and 14-year engineer, it seemed like a fun idea to try and combine two of the things I spend most of my time on during the week: math and sports. These two things have never been more intertwined than they are now, and the data available to the average fan was more than enough to get me started.

After being in an NFL pick’em league for several years, I was tired of losing to all my friends. My picks were historically bad and my friends couldn’t help but remind me of it every chance they got. I really don’t enjoy losing…I mean, who does? It was at that point that I made a decision to try and build a model to help me make picks for the upcoming 2017 season. After a rise from last place to the top of the leaderboard in 2017 and 2018, I knew I had something that could potentially be useful if I wanted to start betting real money rather than the simple pick’em league buy-in.

So here we are now, the 2019 season is almost upon us, and it’s time to see how we can do when real money is on the line! I’m looking forward to the journey and excitement of trying to continue on the rise from average square to betting sharp. Away we go!