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So, let’s tell you about BASports.com, how we operate, and why we deserve your trust as your sports betting advisors. 

Our resident guru, Dr. Bob Akmens, started our company back in 1978, when hardly anyone sold sports betting picks. 

Dr. Bob has an Ivy-league PhD and wanted to do things differently. Using very costly time on a mainframe IBM computer [it was still 3 years before the first IBM PC would come out], Dr. Bob hired a team run by an M.I.T. PhD to write what may have been the first predictive computer algorithms used in sports betting. 

In 1981, we entered our first contest ever – because it was just that – the first contest ever for sports service handicappers!

It was an MLB Baseball contest run by the Stardust Race & Sports Book, legendary in their time as one of the sharpest sports books in Vegas.

We started that contest with a 44-11 record…and kept the pedal to the metal the whole season…winning Contest #1 for us.

We were flown out to Vegas for an award presentation, did one sports talk-radio spot after another, and a bunch of cable TV shows…and Dr. Bob made his first million bucks in this business that year. Which, adjusted for inflation, is actually about $3.5 million today.

Here’s what you need to look for when you pay someone for sports picks:

1) INTEGRITY: you want to do business with a service that makes its record public – someone that is constantly monitored by impartial, reputable, sports monitors. Don’t believe anyone’s claims to be great who can’t show you documented proof they did something great.

2) A GOOD DOCUMENTED LONG-TERM RECORD:  It’s much more important that a service have a consistent long-term track-record than be just a “hot” performer one month and a has-been the next.  We’ve seen an endless number of services who’ve been hot for a while – and then didn’t just go ice-cold, but plain disappeared off the face of the earth. 

Because there’s a great truth in this industry: services that are monitored and consistently lose go out of business – they don’t last for decades. 

Contest Win # 1 for us was back in 1981.

Contest Win # 394 is what we’re up to today.

We’ve finished # 1 in a national handicapping contest in every single sport we cover, with dozens and dozens of contest wins in each of the major sports.

The biggest contest any sports service can win is the Las Vegas Sports Handicapper of the Year Contest. This is a bear of a contest. You have to submit every pick you release to your clients; in every sport you cover; every single day; for 365 days. And you compete, usually, against 200 or so other hungry guys.

We won this the first year it was run, in 2016.

And then in 2022, we did what no one else has ever done…we won it again.

But we didn’t just win it. We had $135,970 in Net Profit Won. And the runner-up had $37,630.

This turned the sports betting world upside down.

We had 3.6 times the Net Profit Won of anybody else. For a huge sample of picks, in all sports. For a whole year.

And we were now the only 2-time Vegas Handicapper of the Year in sports betting history.

We’re also the GOAT of Sports Handicapping.

Tom Brady is the GOAT in the NFL.

Dr. Bob Akmens and his BASports.com team are the GOAT in Sports Handicapping.

GOAT = Greatest Of All Time.

The GOAT of Sports Handicapping

Tom Brady is the GOAT in the NFL

The Greatest Of All Time.

Dr. Bob Akmens & BASports.com are the GOAT in sports handicapping.

Big words?
No, just verifiable facts.
Here’s what you get when you search for
“Who’s the Best Sports Handicapper of all time?“

On Google…Google AI [Artificial Intelligence] gives you this
answer, right at the top of the page.

Google’s $100 billion AI program, created by their DeepMind Lab, analyzes all the content of billions of websites to come up with its answers to your search questions.

Any search engine’s regular search is “dumb” AI because it just
spits out what’s on those websites it finds.

Google AI is now the gold-standard in search because it analyzes the raw data, just like a superhuman being might do, and comes up with the best answer that has the greatest relevance to the search term you asked. 

Most importantly, it assesses truth or lies when it comes to what’s on the Internet. And gives you the real-deal answer to your search term. Not what some paid ad bogusly claims.

We really are the GOAT…The Greatest Of All Time…in sports handicapping…and, that covers all the major sports…and that’s why the #1 trusted Internet brand, Google, tells you that fact.

On what authority do we claim this?

On the work of Google AI, a $100 Billion project created by their DeepMind Lab, which uses artificial neural networks to replicate human thought processes.

When you use regular Google search, you’re using “Dumb” Intelligence. Here’s how that works: Google has a crawler program called Google Spider. This searches every single available page on every website in existence.

This is estimated to be somewhere between 5-10 Billion pages. Google Spider then indexes key words on that page and sends that info back to Google’s vast supercomputer array.

And it’s stored there. Until someone enters a search term that’s on that page – and maybe an endless many more like it. That’s how Google gives you your answer in 1-2 seconds: the info was already on Google’s own computers.

Google AI is entirely different. When you use “AI Mode” in Google search, Google accesses the most trusted websites your search term appears on, usually less than 100 sites. Google doesn’t care what some low-traffic, insignificant site says – they want to tell you what the giants of the Internet tell you about your search term.

Google AI learns what those sites say. It then cross-references with the other trusted sites to look for evidence to confirm or deny what any one site says. And in superhuman fashion, it presents its answer to you on the top of the Google search page as “AI Overview.”

Google rules the Internet with 90% of the search business.

And studies have shown that Google is the most trusted info tech company in existence.

When Google AI says something is true…You better believe it.

And, you can see the evidence that Google AI says we’re also the GOAT in every single sport we cover by clicking on the GOAT button at the top of our home page.

So, how does the Sports Handicapping GOAT & 2-time Las Vegas Sports Handicapper of the Year pick their games?

Well, let’s tell you how most guys in this business pick their games. They either rely on just a few quantitative stats, meaning things that could be crunched with numbers, or some sort of qualitative analysis…in other words, what their gut tells them.

Rarely, do you even encounter pro sports handicappers who combine these two things together in any successful way.

By reading this, you just found out that we do precisely that, and we’ve had extraordinary success, long-term, with that very approach.

Let’s talk about quantitative analysis. Sounds fancy, but all it means is you’re looking at data that can be expressed in numbers: how one team does against another; how many average passing yards a quarterback gets per game, etc.

We’ve put together over the years probably the most extraordinary quantitatively-driven algorithmic approach to handicapping. Those fancy words mean that we have a computer model where we not only look at assorted variables, but we put weights of importance on those variables.

We constantly update this model, we tweak it this way, and we tweak it that way, especially to adjust for the changing nature of college & pro teams; trades & roster changes; what they did last year; what we’ll expect them to do this year, etc.

What we’re doing here is we’re crunching numbers.

And what our algos [“algorithms” are computer-coded formulas] spit out are picks that are based purely on statistical analysis. But sad to say for those who rely solely on statistics, you aren’t going to win that way if you disregard the human factor in sports.

And that’s where the second part of how we function as handicappers weighs heavily.

This is called qualitative analysis. And what that really means is that based on the experience we’ve had over decades of doing this, learning from our mistakes and strengthening our successes, we try to look into the hearts and minds of the people who actually play these games.

Over the years, we’ve nurtured a tremendous network of information sources. They might be lower-level employees of a given club; they might be the guy who wraps players ankles; they might be in the media as reporters or broadcasters. These are the people who know things that we don’t know. And if we don’t know it, the general public surely doesn’t know it.

For instance, let’s say that a star pitcher is starting tonight and it looks like he can’t lose. How about if earlier in the day he was in front of a judge in his own divorce case. And because the judge understood this was a celebrity, he allowed him to enter the courthouse from a basement entrance through a parking garage and had a closed courtroom [to avoid media attention]. But in that courtroom, the star pitcher’s wife, through her legal counsel, is accusing this guy of all sorts of bad things.

And he’s going to pitch tonight. Would you have your head screwed on straight if you went through that and had to pitch against major league hitters? The answer may very well be…no.

That’s the kind of stuff that’s qualitative information and enters into our decision whether we give out those picks that crunching the numbers came up with.

We’re always pleased when we get a review which says we’re the best. And we have many of those.

But now, we’re going to knock your socks off by giving you a splendid reason why after reading this you should tap on one of those BUY NOW buttons and get started with us today.

These computer models we’ve told you about? We have a separate model for everything. Each distinct model looks at different variables.

So, imagine that it’s the weekend of, say, November 5 and 6. What’s going on game- wise? Well, there’s a whole lot of shaking going on!

Because on that weekend, we may have Game 7 of the World Series. On that Saturday and Sunday, we’re going to have college basketball games, and we’ll have NBA games, and we’ll have NHL games, and we’ll have college football games, and NFL football games, and CFL football games, and we have soccer every day.

Every single sport we cover except for WNBA and UFL could be playing on those two days.

And to come up with those plays, we’re going to use a separate model for MLB sides [the team we think will win with the Money-Line]; and a separate model for Run-Line plays. As well as a separate model for Over-Under Totals in baseball…and in all the other sports we just mentioned we’re going to do the same thing: a separate model for Spread plays; a separate model for Money-Line picks; and a separate model for Totals.

We also have separate models for pre-season games in any sport we cover. And, we have separate models for post-season games in any sport we cover.

Is your head spinning yet?

We could have a dozen different models in play, just for that weekend’s games.

What do you think is the probability that all of our models are going to tank simultaneously? We’ll simply say, based on 47 years of experience doing this, it’s profoundly unlikely.

These facts, along with many others, are why a website with 1 billion hits a year said “No one can match Akmens in terms of winning consistently.”

Click the “We Got the Best Review Ever” button on our home page to see the full review. 

So, we hope this proof of our long-term success and our ability to perhaps make you more money than you’ve every dreamed of with our picks will convince you to join us today. 


PS – Dr. Bob, here.  Some years ago, we got a writeup in Parade, the weekly magazine which was part of most of the nation’s big newspapers.  Back then, it was the most-read print publication on earth, with about 53 million readers. 

 We were happy to get that publicity, because it drew in thousands of new clients. Then, ABC-TV followed up on that story and had this to say about me, below. 

From the time this Parade piece ran…and Parade insisted in my providing proof of income; for me it was my latest tax return, so I said “Sure, why not?,” and provided that to them… I’ve been taking what I consider a token $1 million a year salary out of our gross revenue, which is a great deal more. 

It would have been nice if in this ABC piece below, they would have compared my income to just about any other NFL star, instead of a dude who spent a couple of years in prison for promoting the vicious and cruel “sport” of dog fighting. You’ve got to wonder about a guy like that. Our income may have been close, but our beliefs of what’s right and what’s wrong were clearly in alternate universes. 

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