Originally Posted by redietz View Post
I have to say this. I have spent 40 years singing the praises of anyone who can win 53-55% of the time in the NFL. Reality is a harsh mistress.

This is one reason I have so little respect for Shackleford allowing MDawg to paint the town with nonsense at WoV. It debases people who have sweated out a living gambling. it makes a mockery of them, and it makes a mockery of WoV. It turns all of precise gambling into a kind of joke, and at a site that one would think would go out of its way to preserve some sense of mathematical reality.
You and I have talked about this before. Hitting 53% of picks over a season is an accomplishment and it takes time, work shopping lines and more. But some people are always looking for shortcut and easy money, and don’t use their head telling them it’s impossible. It’s why the guys in the 80’s and 90’s (and still today in some cases) got away with their 70% or better claims. And it’s why scum like Christopher Mitchell continues to find suckers to give him money.

As for MDawg, he has run out of readers to follow his nonsense and it has to be killing him. So the claims get larger and larger with little reaction. As he was never selling anything that we know of, it never made sense other than from the “look at me” standpoint. And Shack fell right for it and by reports it appears they hang out regularly now. Assuming everything is on MDawg’s dime in the classic example of a rich guy buying friends. And Shack was never one to pass up a free meal.