BOB AKMENS SPORTS

ALL-SPORTS

 361 #1-FINISHES

IN DOCUMENTED, NATIONAL HANDICAPPING CONTESTS, BY CATEGORY

*PLEASE READ THE IMPORTANT NOTES AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS LIST - THEY WILL CLARIFY SOME THINGS FOR YOU

ALL-SPORTS

361 #1-FINISHES

NOTES TO THIS TABLE:

#-1 RANKINGS:

Just like a baseball player can lead his league in different categories at the same time (batting average, homers, RBI's, etc.), so too can a sports service claim to be #1 in the nation by virtue of having finished tops in a given category with a given sports monitor.

AN UNPRECEDENTED ACHIEVEMENT:

It's believed this is the first-time something like this has ever happened in the history of the sports-service industry.

THE SPORTS MONITORS LISTED:

SportsWatch Monitor (SWM) is in Las Vegas; their website is www.sportswatchmonitor.com

The Sports Monitor (TSM) is run by Ruth Glasgow in Oklahoma City; their website is www.thesportsmonitor.com.

Her category of "1-star compare" is unique, to my knowledge. It's a very useful category in that it equalizes the ratings any service puts on a game to a flat 1* (which equals a play to win a flat $100 per play). This prohibits a service from claiming they had great results when, in fact, a few very high-rated games won, but many more low-rated ones lost. Under 1-star compare, all plays are played equally.

The Sports Eye is run by John at www.thesportseye.com. He runs a very good and useful site.

The original, first monitor of sports services, founded by Marty Mendelsohn and then run by John Hodges, was the AADSS: The American Association of Documented Sports Services. The very first-ever contest for sports services was the 1980 MLB Contest - which, I am privileged to say, I won. And I vividly remember starting that contest with 44 wins and only 11 losses!

The AADSS also ran the first-ever contest for services for hockey in 1994. Again, it was my privilege to not only win that, but to do so spectacularly. Each service began that contest with a $10,000 bankroll. By the time that contest ended, I had increased my bankroll by more than a factor of 14 times - to past $140,000! At the time, it was the largest increase in the 15-year history of any AADSS sports-service contest. It gave me probably my biggest kick ever in this business to do that.

That is, until just recently, when I finished #1 in at least one category of 8 straight NHL handicapping contests. That is so astonishing an accomplishment that it boggles the mind. Consider how hard it is to have anywhere from dozens to hundreds of other services competing against you, day-after-day. Now consider how hard it is to end any given week on top against all those other competitors - many services never, ever even do that. Then, appreciate how amazingly difficult it is to end a one-half-year-long contest on top - beating out 10 times the number of opponents that any sports team needs to beat to finish on top in any given year. And then...to do that for 8 contests in a row? You could live to be a 100 and not see anything like that again in your lifetime.

In 2008, we started being tracked by the Las Vegas Sports Monitor.  Patrick Everson ran this top-flight entrant to the field at www.lasvegassportsmonitor.com.

WHAT "FULL SEASON" MEANS & OTHER MONITORING CONVENTIONS:

"Full season" means an entire sports season: pre-season, regular-season & post-season.

I have kept the naming-conventions of each monitor as well as I could; while The Sports Monitor keeps track of "most net profit," The Sports Eye calls it "most bankroll won," etc.

In past years, monitors may have credited a service differently than they do now for an accomplishment; for instance, some monitors credited a first-half or second-half of a long season with an All-Star break in the middle as a completed, separate event.

I STAND BY THE ACCURACY & VERACITY OF MY RECORD:

Had I chosen to be monitored by more places, I suppose I would have had many more titles than I have.

Yet, having done this since 1978, I very much doubt if there are many other services out there that can match this documented record.

And I stand by the veracity of every single one of these listings - they are accurate and true. That is what occurred in that category of that sport with that monitor that year. I may actually have omitted some other #1-categories along the way.

NOTES TO THIS TABLE:

#-1 RANKINGS:

Just like a baseball player can lead his league in different categories at the same time (batting average, homers, RBI's, etc.), so too can a sports service claim to be #1 in the nation by virtue of having finished tops in a given category with a given sports monitor.

AN UNPRECEDENTED ACHIEVEMENT:

It's believed this is the first-time something like this has ever happened in the history of the sports-service industry.

THE SPORTS MONITORS LISTED:

The Sports Monitor (TSM) is run by Ruth Glasgow in Oklahoma City; their website is www.thesportsmonitor.com.

Her category of "1-star compare" is unique, to my knowledge. It's a very useful category in that it equalizes the ratings any service puts on a game to a flat 1* (which equals a play to win a flat $100 per play). This prohibits a service from claiming they had great results when, in fact, a few very high-rated games won, but many more low-rated ones lost. Under 1-star compare, all plays are played equally.

The Sports Eye is run by John at www.thesportseye.com. He runs a very good and useful site.

The original, first monitor of sports services, founded by Marty Mendelsohn and then run by John Hodges, was the AADSS: The American Association of Documented Sports Services. The very first-ever contest for sports services was the 1980 MLB Contest - which, I am privileged to say, I won. And I vividly remember starting that contest with 44 wins and only 11 losses!

The AADSS also ran the first-ever contest for services for hockey in 1994. Again, it was my privilege to not only win that, but to do so spectacularly. Each service began that contest with a $10,000 bankroll. By the time that contest ended, I had increased my bankroll by more than a factor of 14 times - to past $140,000! At the time, it was the largest increase in the 15-year history of any AADSS sports-service contest. It gave me probably my biggest kick ever in this business to do that.

That is, until just recently, when I finished #1 in at least one category of 8 straight NHL handicapping contests. That is so astonishing an accomplishment that it boggles the mind. Consider how hard it is to have anywhere from dozens to hundreds of other services competing against you, day-after-day. Now consider how hard it is to end any given week on top against all those other competitors - many services never, ever even do that. Then, appreciate how amazingly difficult it is to end a one-half-year-long contest on top - beating out 10 times the number of opponents that any sports team needs to beat to finish on top in any given year. And then...to do that for 8 contests in a row? You could live to be a 100 and not see anything like that again in your lifetime.

In 2008, we started being tracked by the Las Vegas Sports Monitor.  Patrick Everson ran this top-flight entrant to the field at www.lasvegassportsmonitor.com.

WHAT "FULL SEASON" MEANS & OTHER MONITORING CONVENTIONS:

"Full season" means an entire sports season: pre-season, regular-season & post-season.

I have kept the naming-conventions of each monitor as well as I could; while The Sports Monitor keeps track of "most net profit," The Sports Eye calls it "most bankroll won," etc.

In past years, monitors may have credited a service differently than they do now for an accomplishment; for instance, some monitors credited a first-half or second-half of a long season with an All-Star break in the middle as a completed, separate event.

I STAND BY THE ACCURACY & VERACITY OF MY RECORD:

Had I chosen to be monitored by more places, I suppose I would have had many more titles than I have.

Yet, having done this since 1978, I very much doubt if there are many other services out there that can match this documented record.

And I stand by the veracity of every single one of these listings - they are accurate and true. That is what occurred in that category of that sport with that monitor that year. I may actually have omitted some other #1-categories along the way.

NOTES TO THIS TABLE:

#-1 RANKINGS:

Just like a baseball player can lead his league in different categories at the same time (batting average, homers, RBI's, etc.), so too can a sports service claim to be #1 in the nation by virtue of having finished tops in a given category with a given sports monitor.

AN UNPRECEDENTED ACHIEVEMENT:

It's believed this is the first-time something like this has ever happened in the history of the sports-service industry.

THE SPORTS MONITORS LISTED:

The Sports Monitor (TSM) is run by Ruth Glasgow in Oklahoma City; their website is www.thesportsmonitor.com.

Her category of "1-star compare" is unique, to my knowledge. It's a very useful category in that it equalizes the ratings any service puts on a game to a flat 1* (which equals a play to win a flat $100 per play). This prohibits a service from claiming they had great results when, in fact, a few very high-rated games won, but many more low-rated ones lost. Under 1-star compare, all plays are played equally.

The Sports Eye is run by John at www.thesportseye.com. He runs a very good and useful site.

The original, first monitor of sports services, founded by Marty Mendelsohn and then run by John Hodges, was the AADSS: The American Association of Documented Sports Services. The very first-ever contest for sports services was the 1980 MLB Contest - which, I am privileged to say, I won. And I vividly remember starting that contest with 44 wins and only 11 losses!

The AADSS also ran the first-ever contest for services for hockey in 1994. Again, it was my privilege to not only win that, but to do so spectacularly. Each service began that contest with a $10,000 bankroll. By the time that contest ended, I had increased my bankroll by more than a factor of 14 times - to past $140,000! At the time, it was the largest increase in the 15-year history of any AADSS sports-service contest. It gave me probably my biggest kick ever in this business to do that.

That is, until just recently, when I finished #1 in at least one category of 8 straight NHL handicapping contests. That is so astonishing an accomplishment that it boggles the mind. Consider how hard it is to have anywhere from dozens to hundreds of other services competing against you, day-after-day. Now consider how hard it is to end any given week on top against all those other competitors - many services never, ever even do that. Then, appreciate how amazingly difficult it is to end a one-half-year-long contest on top - beating out 10 times the number of opponents that any sports team needs to beat to finish on top in any given year. And then...to do that for 8 contests in a row? You could live to be a 100 and not see anything like that again in your lifetime.

In 2008, we started being tracked by the Las Vegas Sports Monitor. Patrick Everson ran this top-flight entrant to the field at www.lasvegassportsmonitor.com.

WHAT "FULL SEASON" MEANS & OTHER MONITORING CONVENTIONS:

"Full season" means an entire sports season: pre-season, regular-season & post-season.

I have kept the naming-conventions of each monitor as well as I could; while The Sports Monitor keeps track of "most net profit," The Sports Eye calls it "most bankroll won," etc.

In past years, monitors may have credited a service differently than they do now for an accomplishment; for instance, some monitors credited a first-half or second-half of a long season with an All-Star break in the middle as a completed, separate event.

I STAND BY THE ACCURACY & VERACITY OF MY RECORD:

Had I chosen to be monitored by more places, I suppose I would have had many more titles than I have.

Yet, having done this since 1978, I very much doubt if there are many other services out there that can match this documented record.

And I stand by the veracity of every single one of these listings - they are accurate and true. That is what occurred in that category of that sport with that monitor that year. I may actually have omitted some other #1-categories along the way.

NOTES TO THIS TABLE:

#-1 RANKINGS:

Just like a baseball player can lead his league in different categories at the same time (batting average, homers, RBI's, etc.), so too can a sports service claim to be #1 in the nation by virtue of having finished tops in a given category with a given sports monitor.

AN UNPRECEDENTED ACHIEVEMENT:

It's believed this is the first-time something like this has ever happened in the history of the sports-service industry.

THE SPORTS MONITORS LISTED:

The Sports Monitor (TSM) is run by Ruth Glasgow in Oklahoma City; their website is www.thesportsmonitor.com.

Her category of "1-star compare" is unique, to my knowledge. It's a very useful category in that it equalizes the ratings any service puts on a game to a flat 1* (which equals a play to win a flat $100 per play). This prohibits a service from claiming they had great results when, in fact, a few very high-rated games won, but many more low-rated ones lost. Under 1-star compare, all plays are played equally.

The Sports Eye is run by John at www.thesportseye.com. He runs a very good and useful site.

The original, first monitor of sports services, founded by Marty Mendelsohn and then run by John Hodges, was the AADSS: The American Association of Documented Sports Services. The very first-ever contest for sports services was the 1980 MLB Contest - which, I am privileged to say, I won. And I vividly remember starting that contest with 44 wins and only 11 losses!

The AADSS also ran the first-ever contest for services for hockey in 1994. Again, it was my privilege to not only win that, but to do so spectacularly. Each service began that contest with a $10,000 bankroll. By the time that contest ended, I had increased my bankroll by more than a factor of 14 times - to past $140,000! At the time, it was the largest increase in the 15-year history of any AADSS sports-service contest. It gave me probably my biggest kick ever in this business to do that.

That is, until just recently, when I finished #1 in at least one category of 8 straight NHL handicapping contests. That is so astonishing an accomplishment that it boggles the mind. Consider how hard it is to have anywhere from dozens to hundreds of other services competing against you, day-after-day. Now consider how hard it is to end any given week on top against all those other competitors - many services never, ever even do that. Then, appreciate how amazingly difficult it is to end a one-half-year-long contest on top - beating out 10 times the number of opponents that any sports team needs to beat to finish on top in any given year. And then...to do that for 8 contests in a row? You could live to be a 100 and not see anything like that again in your lifetime.

In 2008, we started being tracked by the Las Vegas Sports Monitor.  Patrick Everson ran this top-flight entrant to the field at www.lasvegassportsmonitor.com.

WHAT "FULL SEASON" MEANS & OTHER MONITORING CONVENTIONS:

"Full season" means an entire sports season: pre-season, regular-season & post-season.

I have kept the naming-conventions of each monitor as well as I could; while The Sports Monitor keeps track of "most net profit," The Sports Eye calls it "most bankroll won," etc.

In past years, monitors may have credited a service differently than they do now for an accomplishment; for instance, some monitors credited a first-half or second-half of a long season with an All-Star break in the middle as a completed, separate event.

I STAND BY THE ACCURACY & VERACITY OF MY RECORD:

As can be noted, I chose to limit who monitored my service. For a time at the beginning, only the AADSS and Sports Watch (for a couple of years) tracked my progress. When The Sports Monitor became known to me, Ruth Glasgow exclusively tracked my plays until a few years ago when John of The Sports Eye also started to do so.  As noted above, the Las Vegas Sports Monitor started tracking us in 2008.

Had I chosen to be monitored by more places, I suppose I would have had many more titles than I have.

Yet, having done this since 1978, I very much doubt if there are many other services out there that can match this documented record.

And I stand by the veracity of every single one of these listings - they are accurate and true. That is what occurred in that category of that sport with that monitor that year. I may actually have omitted some other #1-categories along the way.

NOTES TO THIS TABLE:

#-1 RANKINGS:

Just like a baseball player can lead his league in different categories at the same time (batting average, homers, RBI's, etc.), so too can a sports service claim to be #1 in the nation by virtue of having finished tops in a given category with a given sports monitor.

AN UNPRECEDENTED ACHIEVEMENT:

It's believed this is the first-time something like this has ever happened in the history of the sports-service industry.

THE SPORTS MONITORS LISTED:

The Sports Monitor (TSM) is run by Ruth Glasgow in Oklahoma City; their website is www.thesportsmonitor.com.

Her category of "1-star compare" is unique, to my knowledge. It's a very useful category in that it equalizes the ratings any service puts on a game to a flat 1* (which equals a play to win a flat $100 per play). This prohibits a service from claiming they had great results when, in fact, a few very high-rated games won, but many more low-rated ones lost. Under 1-star compare, all plays are played equally.

The Sports Eye is run by John at www.thesportseye.com. He runs a very good and useful site.

The original, first monitor of sports services, founded by Marty Mendelsohn and then run by John Hodges, was the AADSS: The American Association of Documented Sports Services. The very first-ever contest for sports services was the 1980 MLB Contest - which, I am privileged to say, I won. And I vividly remember starting that contest with 44 wins and only 11 losses!

The AADSS also ran the first-ever contest for services for hockey in 1994. Again, it was my privilege to not only win that, but to do so spectacularly. Each service began that contest with a $10,000 bankroll. By the time that contest ended, I had increased my bankroll by more than a factor of 14 times - to past $140,000! At the time, it was the largest increase in the 15-year history of any AADSS sports-service contest. It gave me probably my biggest kick ever in this business to do that.

That is, until just recently, when I finished #1 in at least one category of 8 straight NHL handicapping contests. That is so astonishing an accomplishment that it boggles the mind. Consider how hard it is to have anywhere from dozens to hundreds of other services competing against you, day-after-day. Now consider how hard it is to end any given week on top against all those other competitors - many services never, ever even do that. Then, appreciate how amazingly difficult it is to end a one-half-year-long contest on top - beating out 10 times the number of opponents that any sports team needs to beat to finish on top in any given year. And then...to do that for 8 contests in a row? You could live to be a 100 and not see anything like that again in your lifetime.

In 2008, we started being tracked by the Las Vegas Sports Monitor.  Patrick Everson ran this top-flight entrant to the field at www.lasvegassportsmonitor.com.

WHAT "FULL SEASON" MEANS & OTHER MONITORING CONVENTIONS:

"Full season" means an entire sports season: pre-season, regular-season & post-season.

I have kept the naming-conventions of each monitor as well as I could; while The Sports Monitor keeps track of "most net profit," The Sports Eye calls it "most bankroll won," etc.

In past years, monitors may have credited a service differently than they do now for an accomplishment; for instance, some monitors credited a first-half or second-half of a long season with an All-Star break in the middle as a completed, separate event.

I STAND BY THE ACCURACY & VERACITY OF MY RECORD:

As can be noted, I chose to limit who monitored my service. For a time at the beginning, only the AADSS and Sports Watch (for a couple of years) tracked my progress. When The Sports Monitor became known to me, Ruth Glasgow exclusively tracked my plays until a few years ago when John of The Sports Eye also started to do so.  As noted above, the Las Vegas Sports Monitor started tracking us in 2008.

Had I chosen to be monitored by more places, I suppose I would have had many more titles than I have.

Yet, having done this since 1978, I very much doubt if there are many other services out there that can match this documented record.

And I stand by the veracity of every single one of these listings - they are accurate and true. That is what occurred in that category of that sport with that monitor that year. I may actually have omitted some other #1-categories along the way.

 

BOB AKMENS SPORTS

SPECIAL AWARDS

46  #1-FINISHES

IN DOCUMENTED, NATIONAL HANDICAPPING CONTESTS, BY CATEGORY

*PLEASE READ THE IMPORTANT NOTES AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS LIST - THEY WILL CLARIFY SOME THINGS FOR YOU

SUMMARY OF RESULTS:
46	SPECIAL AWARDS #1 FINISHES (NUMBER OF DIFFERENT CATEGORIES)

SPECIAL AWARDS

46   #1-FINISHES

YEAR	MONTH	MONITOR	CATEGORY	SEASON	FINISH	CONTEST CATEGORY
2017	JAN	SPORTS WATCH MONITOR	2016 HANDICAPPER OF THE YEAR	ALL-SPORTS	#1	BEAT OUT 197 SPORTS SERVICES, MOST PROFIT, ALL PICKS, IN ALL SPORTS, FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR OF 2016. ALSO HIGHEST WIN % OF ANYONE ON THE ANNUAL LEADER BOARD
2011	FEB	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE WEEK AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-WEEK AWARD, 1/31/11 TO 2/6/11
2011	JAN	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE WEEK AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-WEEK AWARD, 1/17/11 TO 1/23/11
2010	DEC	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE WEEK AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-WEEK AWARD, 12/13/10 TO 12/19/10
2010	NOV	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE WEEK AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-WEEK AWARD, 11/15/10 TO 11/21/10
2010	OCT	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE WEEK AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-WEEK AWARD, 9/27/10 TO 10/3/10
2010	SEP	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE WEEK AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-WEEK AWARD, 8/30/10 TO 9/5/10, BACK-TO-BACK
2010	AUG	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE WEEK AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-WEEK AWARD, 8/23/10 TO 8/29/10
2010	JUN	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE WEEK AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-WEEK AWARD, 6/7/10 TO 6/13/10, 10 WEEKS IN A ROW - WE WOULD HAVE WON 11+ WEEKS IN A ROW, BUT LVSM DOESN'T DO MLB ANYMORE!
2010	JUN	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE MONTH AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-MONTH AWARD, MAY 2010, 3 MONTHS IN A ROW
2010	JUN	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE WEEK AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-WEEK AWARD, 5/31/10 TO 6/6/10, 9 WEEKS IN A ROW
2010	MAY	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE WEEK AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-WEEK AWARD, 5/24/10 TO 5/30/10, 8 WEEKS IN A ROW
2010	MAY	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE WEEK AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-WEEK AWARD, 5/17/10 TO 5/23/10, 7 WEEKS IN A ROW
2010	MAY	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE WEEK AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-WEEK AWARD, 5/10/10 TO 5/16/10, 6 WEEKS IN A ROW
2010	MAY	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE MONTH AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-MONTH AWARD, APRIL 2010
2010	MAY	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE WEEK AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-WEEK AWARD, 5/3/10 TO 5/9/10, 5 WEEKS IN A ROW
2010	MAY	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE WEEK AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-WEEK AWARD, 4/26/10 TO 5/2/10, 4 WEEKS IN A ROW
2010	APR	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE WEEK AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-WEEK AWARD, 4/19/10 TO 4/25/10, 3 WEEKS IN A ROW
2010	APR	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE WEEK AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-WEEK AWARD, 4/12/10 TO 4/18/10, BACK-TO-BACK
2010	APR	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE WEEK AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-WEEK AWARD, 4/5/10 TO 4/11/10
2010	APR	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE MONTH AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-MONTH AWARD, MARCH 2010
2010	MAR	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE WEEK AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-WEEK AWARD, 3/22/10 TO 3/28/10;  4 WEEKS IN A ROW
2010	MAR	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE WEEK AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-WEEK AWARD, 3/15/10 TO 3/21/10;  3 WEEKS IN A ROW
2010	MAR	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE WEEK AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-WEEK AWARD, 3/8/10 TO 3/14/10, BACK-TO-BACK
2010	MAR	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE WEEK AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-WEEK AWARD, 3/1/10 TO 3/7/10
2010	FEB	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE WEEK AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-WEEK AWARD, 2/1/10 TO 2/7/10
2010	JAN	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE WEEK AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-WEEK AWARD, 1/25/10 TO 1/31/10
2010	JAN	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE MONTH AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-MONTH AWARD, DECEMBER 2009
2009	DEC	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE WEEK AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-WEEK AWARD, 12/21/09 TO 12/21/09, 5TH IN 7 WEEKS!
2009	DEC	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE WEEK AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-WEEK AWARD, 12/7/09 TO 12/13/09, 4TH IN 5 WEEKS
2009	DEC	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE MONTH AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-MONTH AWARD, NOVEMBER 2009
2009	DEC	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE WEEK AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-WEEK AWARD, 11/23/09 TO 11/29/09, 3RD-IN-A-ROW
2009	NOV	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE WEEK AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-WEEK AWARD, 11/16/09 TO 11/22/09, BACK-TO-BACK AWARDS
2009	NOV	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE WEEK AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-WEEK AWARD, 11/9/09 TO 11/15/09
2009	OCT	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE WEEK AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-WEEK AWARD, 9/28/09 TO 10/4/09
2009	SEP	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE WEEK AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-WEEK AWARD, 9/21/09 TO 9/27/09
2009	SEP	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE WEEK AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-WEEK AWARD, 8/31/09 TO 9/6/09
2009	JUL	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE MONTH AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-MONTH AWARD, JUNE 2009
2009	JUN	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE WEEK AWARD (BACK-TO-BACK-AWARDS)	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-WEEK AWARD, 6/1/09 TO 6/7/09
2009	JUN	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE WEEK AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-WEEK AWARD, 5/25/09 TO 5/31/09
2009	MAY	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE WEEK AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-WEEK AWARD, 4/27/09 TO 5/3/09
2009	FEB	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE WEEK AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-WEEK AWARD, 2/1/09 TO 2/15/09
2009	FEB	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE WEEK AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-WEEK AWARD, 1/26/09 TO 2/1/09
2009	JAN	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE WEEK AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-WEEK AWARD, 12/22/08 TO 12/28/08
2008	DEC	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE WEEK AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-WEEK AWARD, 12/1/08 TO 12/7/08
2008	NOV	LAS VEGAS SPORTS MONITOR	HANDICAPPER OF THE WEEK AWARD	ALL-SPORTS	#1	INAUGURAL HANDICAPPER-OF-THE-WEEK AWARD, 10/27/08 TO 11/2/08

NOTES TO THIS TABLE:

#-1 RANKINGS:

Just like a baseball player can lead his league in different categories at the same time (batting average, homers, RBI's, etc.), so too can a sports service claim to be #1 in the nation by virtue of having finished tops in a given category with a given sports monitor.

AN UNPRECEDENTED ACHIEVEMENT:

As of October 3rd, 2007, BOB AKMENS SPORTS was the number #1 sports-service in the nation (as tracked by either The Sports Monitor [TSM] or The Sports Eye [TSE]) in every major sport currently being played in America:

BOB AKMENS SPORTS was the defending national handicapping champion of the 2007 MLB regular-season (both TSM & TSE).

BOB AKMENS SPORTS had the highest win-percentage in football (college & NFL-combined) as tracked by TSM at 71%+.

BOB AKMENS SPORTS was the defending national handicapping champion of the 2006-2007 NHL regular-season (TSM: 1-star compare category).

BOB AKMENS SPORTS was the defending national handicapping champion of the 2006-2007 NHL post-season (TSM: #1 in 3 different categories).

It's believed this is the first-time something like this has ever happened in the history of the sports-service industry.

THE SPORTS MONITORS LISTED:

The Sports Monitor (TSM) is run by Ruth Glasgow in Oklahoma City; their website is www.thesportsmonitor.com.

Her category of "1-star compare" is unique, to my knowledge. It's a very useful category in that it equalizes the ratings any service puts on a game to a flat 1* (which equals a play to win a flat $100 per play). This prohibits a service from claiming they had great results when, in fact, a few very high-rated games won, but many more low-rated ones lost. Under 1-star compare, all plays are played equally.

The Sports Eye is run by John at www.thesportseye.com. He runs a very good and useful site.

The original, first monitor of sports services, founded by Marty Mendelsohn and then run by John Hodges, was the AADSS: The American Association of Documented Sports Services. The very first-ever contest for sports services was the 1980 MLB Contest - which, I am privileged to say, I won. And I vividly remember starting that contest with 44 wins and only 11 losses!

The AADSS also ran the first-ever contest for services for hockey in 1994. Again, it was my privilege to not only win that, but to do so spectacularly. Each service began that contest with a $10,000 bankroll. By the time that contest ended, I had increased my bankroll by more than a factor of 14 times - to past $140,000! At the time, it was the largest increase in the 15-year history of any AADSS sports-service contest. It gave me probably my biggest kick ever in this business to do that.

That is, until just recently, when I finished #1 in at least one category of 8 straight NHL handicapping contests. That is so astonishing an accomplishment that it boggles the mind. Consider how hard it is to have anywhere from dozens to hundreds of other services competing against you, day-after-day. Now consider how hard it is to end any given week on top against all those other competitors - many services never, ever even do that. Then, appreciate how amazingly difficult it is to end a one-half-year-long contest on top - beating out 10 times the number of opponents that any sports team needs to beat to finish on top in any given year. And then...to do that for 8 contests in a row? You could live to be a 100 and not see anything like that again in your lifetime.

In 2008, we started being tracked by the Las Vegas Sports Monitor.  Patrick Everson ran this top-flight entrant to the field at www.lasvegassportsmonitor.com.

WHAT "FULL SEASON" MEANS & OTHER MONITORING CONVENTIONS:

"Full season" means an entire sports season: pre-season, regular-season & post-season.

I have kept the naming-conventions of each monitor as well as I could; while The Sports Monitor keeps track of "most net profit," The Sports Eye calls it "most bankroll won," etc.

In past years, monitors may have credited a service differently than they do now for an accomplishment; for instance, some monitors credited a first-half or second-half of a long season with an All-Star break in the middle as a completed, separate event.

I STAND BY THE ACCURACY & VERACITY OF MY RECORD:

As can be noted, I chose to limit who monitored my service. For a time at the beginning, only the AADSS and Sports Watch (for a couple of years) tracked my progress. When The Sports Monitor became known to me, Ruth Glasgow exclusively tracked my plays until a few years ago when John of The Sports Eye also started to do so.  As noted above, the Las Vegas Sports Monitor started tracking us in 2008.

Had I chosen to be monitored by more places, I suppose I would have had many more titles than I have.

Yet, having done this since 1978, I very much doubt if there are many other services out there that can match this documented record.

And I stand by the veracity of every single one of these listings - they are accurate and true. That is what occurred in that category of that sport with that monitor that year. I may actually have omitted some other #1-categories along the way.

 

 

 

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