Savage - I would venture to guess very few handicappers are signing up thousands of customers unless they are winning handicappers which is less than 5%or they are adept on social media just lying about their record and signing fish up for less than $100 a pop and running them into the ground. There has to be 20K to 30K selling picks part time now on social media so the pot is getting sliced up into so many small pieces. There's no Jim Feist or Wayne Root's out there anymore taking their Lion's Share.
RidgeRider-all valid and great points!!
As you probably know I go way back to the mid to late seventies when for
all intents and purposes sports services began.
It sounds like you go way back yourself!!
What I am driving at here is that before the internet came along and was prevalent in the early
2000's, if someone wanted to get picks from a sports service, he had to pay for them on his own
or split the cost with someone else.
As we all know, that all changed dramatically with the advent of the internet and sports services,
meaning that for the most part didn't have to pay for the picks and for that matter see the actual
records of these folks because in most cases they were posted for free at various gambling sites
As you also rightfully stated, along with this, lots of other folks decided to call themselves
handicappers and sell their wares.
In essence this means that the Roots, Feists, Stu Feiners Northcoast' of the world had lots of
competition to deal with as well as the reality that in most cases their own picks were being posted
for free!!
Rather than go on, suffice it to say that as you said in this day and age it is pretty hard if not
impossible for any one handicapper to get 500 to 1000 folks buying their picks on average
on a weekly basis and especially so with Lang, a horrible handicapper as well
as a pathological liar!!
