Andy Iskoe is the owner of Logical Approach, a company he founded in 1982. Andy has provided handicapping information including newsletters, selections, databases and other materials for the past three decades with the goal of assisting bettors and other handicappers to make well-informed, intelligent decisions and wagers.
Andy is also an author, columnist and frequent contributor to local, regional and national sports-related radio shows. He was featured as a co-host of the legendary Saturday night Stardust Line for many years until the show ended in 2006.
A native of New York, Andy Iskoe was educated at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, earning degrees in Accounting and Marketing. Andy worked in the financial industry for a dozen years after graduating. During his dozen years, growing as a financial analyst, Andy began to combine his love of sports and his fascination probabilities. In 1991, Andy decided to devote his full-time energies to the handicapping profession and he moved to Las Vegas—he has resided in L.V. ever since.
Iskoe’s handicapping style can best be described as a mixture of statistical and situational handicapping. He has long advocated the belief that handicapping is “both an art and a science” with the “science” being the underlying data and other historical information and the “art” being the interpretation and application of the data and other factors, including intangibles, to the matchups or contests at hand.
Andy has been a long-time user of computers and long ago discovered how they would revolutionize sports handicapping. He has been using them since the dawn of the personal computer era in the early 1980's (his first computer, still working, is an ancient Apple II+). Consequently, much of his contributions to the literature of sports handicapping tend be more analytical and mathematical. He relies on Power Ratings, statistical analyses and comparisons in making his handicapping selections, recommendations and wagers.
Iskoe's money management style is more conservative than aggressive with an eye towards long-term success rather than short-term volatility. His “logical approach” is grounded in the principle that short-term cycles can happen at any time. However, sound handicapping, that relies on long-term fundamentals, is more likely to result in long-term profits. And that a more conservative money management strategy is better-suited to withstand short-term fluctuations.
Andy has cashed multiple times in the prestigious Las Vegas Hilton Super Contest, including a third place finish in 2002 and an eighth place finish in 2008. He has also cashed in college football handicapping contests sponsored by LeRoy’s, placing both second and third in 2006.
As a columnist for Gaming Today, Andy hit all 14 of his NFL Selections for the week of October 15-21, 2002. The odds of going 14 for 14 ATS are 16,383 to 1! A season earlier, Iskoe won the All-American Football Contest sponsored by Boyd Gaming by winning 17 of 17 picks!