Suggested Improvements for LVASports?

KimLee - "Also, I suggest a policy requiring repeat posters to track their records. It's okay to make an occasional write-up favoring a team. But we don't want tons of posters every day cluttering the boards with posts like "I'm on the Jets, huge 1000-star lock play. See ya tomorrow." Basically if you don't think your bets are worth tracking, then I don't think your pick-posts are worth reading." I agree with this. The people here who are stating that "Records aren't important to me" are hypocritical - they are following Fezzik and Old School precisely due to their previous records. No one would've subscribed here if Fezzik wasn't posting. And they subscribed to get Fezzik's info because of his previous tracked record. No one would've subscribed here to get the random (and unexplained) picks of Schmezzik, Plezzik, and Mezzick. golfguru - "If you want to keep up with a record, do like I do and keep up with it yourself..." It's much easier for the poster himself to post his record. If "Poster A" tracks his own record, there is one person doing the tracking. If there are 250 subscribers to the board and each one is tracking the picks of "Poster A", then there are 250 people tracking the record, or 250 times the work being put in (unnecessarily).

Sorry, keeping and posting records was never something we claimed we were doing. As I've stated before, disputes over records cause more problems than almost anything else. Plus, the circumstances of the followers vary. If you want records, you'll have to compile them or rely on the poster.

[QUOTE=Jacques St. Mush;3953]KimLee - "Also, I suggest a policy requiring repeat posters to track their records. It's okay to make an occasional write-up favoring a team. But we don't want tons of posters every day cluttering the boards with posts like "I'm on the Jets, huge 1000-star lock play. See ya tomorrow." Basically if you don't think your bets are worth tracking, then I don't think your pick-posts are worth reading." I agree with this. The people here who are stating that "Records aren't important to me" are hypocritical - they are following Fezzik and Old School precisely due to their previous records. No one would've subscribed here if Fezzik wasn't posting. And they subscribed to get Fezzik's info because of his previous tracked record. No one would've subscribed here to get the random (and unexplained) picks of Schmezzik, Plezzik, and Mezzick. golfguru - "If you want to keep up with a record, do like I do and keep up with it yourself..." It's much easier for the poster himself to post his record. If "Poster A" tracks his own record, there is one person doing the tracking. If there are 250 subscribers to the board and each one is tracking the picks of "Poster A", then there are 250 people tracking the record, or 250 times the work being put in (unnecessarily).[/QUOTE] If you keep up with the records yourself, if you make an error, it is your fault, who says the person posting is keeping accurate records? Just a thought, it is not real hard to keep a record of someone who posts 5-10 plays a week!

I for one would like to see more of charliej's totals picks--I really don't care if they are winners or losers--I am trying to figure out a good method for making totals, and anything he posts is a big help.

I'm going to put in a vote for keeping records, too. Picks can have value in two ways: Long run proven success. Good info in the write ups, even without proven success. Because most picks here don't have any writeup with them, we need some long run success proof. The issue with WA lines is specious, to me. Of any given capper, any one of us can audit his action to see if he's posting whack lines, and if so, personally I'd see that as cause not to trust him at all. But occasionally auditing a capper is easier than tracking them. Not that I think of it, Wagerline would be a good servie for tracking. It's automated; it uses a WA line for the most part (maybe they're a tad slow on line changes, I don't know.) But at least they're independent. So, if people here want to be tracked, maybe they could just open a wagerline account in their user name and anyone here could check their account record over there. And no, I have no involvement in wagerline. I just think they'd do well as an independent proof of picking ability.

Whats so hard about clicking on NOTEPAD on your computer and typing the persons plays down you would like to follow? EXAMPLE ... Pachuca: 9-29-09 Nationals-105 (WIN) WOW! That took a whole 5 seconds!

Don't mean to sound like a douche. Point is, it takes very little time to track someone.

i likely in the minority i not aware that i've ever bet something because fezzik or o.s. or whomever posted it. it's a lousy $25 a month....i don't expect to be handed the keys to anything for that. i view the board as a very specific mens lounge (although women are welcome) that i like reading. to put it another way, it's like any industry "trade magazine" for sports bettors, but there is no "trade" for us, other than a few like this. you expect to pay $25 a month to get picks that will beat -110 or -105 , or whatever, posted for everyone to see and bet on ( and move lines), and have the guy show his record (which if you get your way, everyone knows is right) to what effect i don't know..........you want fezziks record--track it if he doesn't want to-----you want o.s.'s record----ask him, he tracks it all the time. some guy you don't "know" posts 5 plays and you don't know whether to bet them unless you see he's 17-10 ytd ?? what are you smoking? c'mon, wise up. i'm not sure someone would hand you the keys to the castle for $1000 a month, let alone $25. your expectations are out of line. unless you just want to "undress" someone in public, which also serves little purpose.

There is some understandable reluctance to track here. That's cool. Personally, I bet my own picks only, so it's an academic question only, to me. The only legit reason I can see for a modest winner to give out picks is to try and create enough steam to allow for buy-back middles. Although if Fezzik can pick up 5k/mo or whatever here, that's cool. If he and Anthony can make a no-bullshit forum, that's worth $25/mo to me. As someone else said, it hopefully will be something of a gambling-oriented men's club. But because I'm not personally going to chase steam, or even steam causers, the only thing I want from such info is the ability to anticipate some line moves. If, for example, I'm on the same side as Fezzik or Doc or Phil Steele or whomever, I want to bet early. If I'm opposite, I'll bet late. Otherwise, I don't care where they are. So, the tracking I'm most interested in is for finding the NEXT Fezzik or Doc or Phil Steele. Because to be the next one, you're going to have to prove yourself, and I'd think proving yourself to this sharp bunch would be the best way to do it, BY TRACKING YOURSELF. Because I'm personally not going to just randomly start tracking people. I don't have time, nor even belief that, of any random poster, that they'll "make" it. Sooooo, anyone who wants to make it, TRACK YOURSELF.

How about a thread that tracks line movement of 2+ points and offers up some possible explanations. Thread could also include any numbers with abnormal movement as well. For example, line has moved a point in Clemson's favor this week.