Thought everyone might be interested in what Iskoe wrote to his sports service customers:
As you are well aware the 2003 football season has gotten off to a shockingly horrible start for us. In my more than 20 years of handicapping and playing football I cannot recall experiencing a more frustrating and painful period than over the past 4 weeks.
I play each and every selection I recommend so I feel the same frustration, anger, disappointment etc -- the full range of emotions -- as you feel. Even more so because of the many hours of work I put in every week to find what I consider to be the best opportunities on the schedule. No one works harder or puts in more hours than I do over the course of a season.
The first month or so of every season is filled with uncertainties and randomness as we learn about the college and pro teams and how they have changed since the previous season. The first month of this season has been most unusual -- witness the poor performance of Home Underdogs in the NFL -- 4-14 through the first five weeks of the season for what is historically a situation that hits at 55%.
I am not offering excuses as I search for explantions and increase the amount of time and energy I expent in turning this season around. It will take time to reverse what has happened over the first month of the season but I am confident that such a turnaround will occur. We've weathered rough periods in the past and shall do so again this time.
I am, by nature, conservative in my philosophy and tent to pull back when things are rough. Over the next few weeks as things turn around I expect that there will be fewer total plays and all shall be equally rated as Single Plays. I have been troubled by the overall performance of our Double Plays and especially our Totals -- long an area in which I have excelled over the years.
I am at a loss to explain why things have started out so poorly but I assure you that I am working virtually around the clock to correct and reverse what has happened over the past several weeks.
I have confidence that things will turn around and that by the end of the season we will be in a profitable position.
-- Andy Iskoe of Logical Approach
As you are well aware the 2003 football season has gotten off to a shockingly horrible start for us. In my more than 20 years of handicapping and playing football I cannot recall experiencing a more frustrating and painful period than over the past 4 weeks.
I play each and every selection I recommend so I feel the same frustration, anger, disappointment etc -- the full range of emotions -- as you feel. Even more so because of the many hours of work I put in every week to find what I consider to be the best opportunities on the schedule. No one works harder or puts in more hours than I do over the course of a season.
The first month or so of every season is filled with uncertainties and randomness as we learn about the college and pro teams and how they have changed since the previous season. The first month of this season has been most unusual -- witness the poor performance of Home Underdogs in the NFL -- 4-14 through the first five weeks of the season for what is historically a situation that hits at 55%.
I am not offering excuses as I search for explantions and increase the amount of time and energy I expent in turning this season around. It will take time to reverse what has happened over the first month of the season but I am confident that such a turnaround will occur. We've weathered rough periods in the past and shall do so again this time.
I am, by nature, conservative in my philosophy and tent to pull back when things are rough. Over the next few weeks as things turn around I expect that there will be fewer total plays and all shall be equally rated as Single Plays. I have been troubled by the overall performance of our Double Plays and especially our Totals -- long an area in which I have excelled over the years.
I am at a loss to explain why things have started out so poorly but I assure you that I am working virtually around the clock to correct and reverse what has happened over the past several weeks.
I have confidence that things will turn around and that by the end of the season we will be in a profitable position.
-- Andy Iskoe of Logical Approach
I never even realized he had a service, I thought all he did was write newsletters and do that endless supply of "books" that detailed all the trends he could find. He is a nice guy who I have talked to on occasion at local functions, but the few times I read anything where he was doing a prediction it just seemed to all be based on trends and systems so I didn't give it much credit.
