Let’s look at how the artisan predictive analytics of The Power Rank can help your sports betting journey.
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You’re looking to win more bets, but you don’t want to slog through endless content every week. It would also help to get entertained instead of bored.
Valuable. Concise. Entertaining. These are the goals with every edition of The Power Rank’s free newsletter. There are two types of newsletters.
First, 5-Nugget Saturday is a curated list of sports betting tips, analytics and humor. While some of the bets come from The Power Rank, others originate from outside experts in the sports betting world. If you’re looking for action on any given weekend throughout the year, this is the free service for you.
Second, the football newsletters contain analysis of bets based on predictions usually saved for paying members of The Power Rank. This newsletter on Green Bay at Dallas in the Wild Card Playoff for the 2023 season shows the nuance in applying the analytics.
While you can check out past newsletters on the site, you can get them all delivered to your inbox by entering your best email and clicking on “Sign up now!”
Predictions
The Power Rank started with an algorithm that makes accurate adjustments for strength of schedule. In its first form, the algorithm took the margin of victory in games and produced team rankings (for example, check out the NFL team rankings).
Every week during football season, I post points based predictions from this algorithm for the NFL and college football. While not as accurate as the predictions saved for members of The Power Rank, these numbers show the power in using analytics.
During March Madness, I take these predictions for college basketball and calculate the round by round win probabilities for the NCAA tournament. This interactive data visualization shows the results.
Long form content
Beyond the bets and predictions, The Power Rank harnesses content to remove the mystery from quantitative sports betting. This takes two forms.
First, The Football Analytics Show podcast has interviews with experts in the analytics and betting world. Evan Silva, fantasy football expert at Establish the Run, said the following about my podcast as a guest:
I’ve listened to a bunch of your podcasts over the last year since I started following you. I’ve learned a lot from the guests that you have.
Check out The Football Analytics Show wherever you get your podcasts (I recommend Spotify) and also at The Power Rank.
Second, my longer articles dig deeper into the process behind analytics and betting. While the Popular Articles menu contains the full list, let me highlight two examples:
- How to predict NFL interceptions. This article explains my research into bad ball rate, the basis of my interception bets that were +22.99 units for the 2023 season (51-39).
- The Craft of Sports Betting Professionals. This article looks at the quantitative process of four professional bettors.