Tony - Wow. The quicksand you are in is thick and deep.
Here are a few thoughts...in no particular order.......
Saw an interview with Bobby Knight a long time ago, the takeaway was one particular thing......."practice doesn't make you perfect, perfect practice makes you perfect". That quote seems to ring true in this instance.
You can run your business anyway you want, that's up to you. But know this, you can't be anything but 100% honest and transparent here at Pregame.
Is that not clear??
You can not be anything but 100% honest and transparent here at Pregame.
OK, your record (documented on another site and passed along to Tom) was 69-57-3 in college hoops. That's great. And yet, at the end of that season you were down 4.71 units here at Pregame. Did your customers here at Pregame not get all of your best picks? Were your unit sizes an issue?
Surely, a professional handicapper with 23 years of experience can explain those numbers to us. Right?
Tony, you seem to know some of your stats perfectly, especially the 72% over 42 plays in March Madness, the #1 NCAA post season and the #4 NBA post season, but when asked about the units won over that time you are especially hazy on those numbers but do claim to have won a "shitload".
Do you not see how ridiculous that is, especially for a professional handicapper with 23 years experience?
Here at Pregame, and at all of the highly respected sites, if you go 6-4 and lose 2.5 units......YOU HAD A LOSING WEEKEND. It just can't be any more clear than that.
I actually feel sorry for you Tony. It's a new time in professional handicapping. People are smart, tracking software is excellent, news travels fast, and those that don't keep up will be left in the dust.
My opinions are from a perspective of simplicity...
If you need assistance with tracking your numbers and your business is in the 10k+ a month range, please spend more than $100 a month to secure what might be the most important statistical analysis your business will ever need.
Guys like DubV might be annoying, wanna-be keyboard warriors........but that doesn't make them wrong. How you treat people, even the gutless passive-aggressive punks that populate chat rooms and forums, goes a long way towards establishing credibility and integrity. Like it or not, you are in a profession where credibility and integrity are cornerstones. Going after a guy like DubV is career suicide.
Best of luck with future endeavors -
Joe D