I'll comment but the truth is this subject has been beat to death.
The bottom line is it is not good business practice to have long term records up. There are two reasons for this
1) There are people who sell here who are not long term winners. People would see they are not long term winners and they would not buy from them. Those people would get pissed because they aren't making money, and Pregame would in tern make less money
2) People who buy picks have an unrealistic expectation of what long term success is. 54% and up long term is terrific, but most unsophisticated bettors do not realize that. Most of the people who purchase picks are not sophisticated bettors because if they were, they wouldn't have to purchase picks.
I remember 7 years ago when I started betting, the first tout site I stumbled on was Who2beton. Back then, they had the long term records for every capper, sectioned off by individual sport. In 5 seconds you could figure out if a guy was a long term winner or loser. But as a newbie back then, I remember looking at some guys who hit 53-54% and thinking "These guys are PRO'S, and they can't do any better than 54%?" This is the mindset of the vast majority of people who purchase picks.
I have absolutely no problem with people selling picks...
I have no problem with long term records not being shown...
I don't have any problem with streaks being promoted because you are selling a product, and that product needs to be marketed
Where I think the line is crossed from necessity in making a business profitable, to failing to provide what is portrayed to the consumer, is when a pro is marketed as a winning player, yet the opposite is the truth.
For example:
Tom Smith is hitting 54% in CBB over the past 3 years and has won 54 units. He doesn't think this will help him sell daily packages so he writes....
"ACC BLOWOUT game of the week! Top rated 3* goes tonight as we go for 8 out of 9"
I think that's perfectly fine because he is marketing his QUALITY product. Put your tout hat on and scream to the moon as long as what you're screaming about is a quality product.
If you had the exact same advertisement on someone who was down 54 units in CBB over the past 3 years, I think that's deceitful and wrong.
It may seem as though everything is fine because 3*, regardless of who they're from, continue to sell at 10 times the rate of any other kind of play. But I think at some point it's incumbent upon the person providing the service to knowingly give a quality product, even if the uninformed, unrealistic customer doesn't understand a good product from a bad one.
Everyone clamoring for long term records has to realize it's not going to happen, and honestly, I don't blame them.