Danny Sheridan's Tips for Winning

A unique guide to beating the office football pool shows how to outsmart the point spread through basic rules-of-thumb useful for judging track records, comparative odds, and team trends, and offers guidance for organizing a pool. Original.

Forty million people wager on football every weekend, and how do they do most of their betting? Not with a bookie, but in their school or office football pool, and Danny Sheridan's Guide To Winning Your Football Pool is the only book available that tells how to outsmart the point spread and win a NFL or college football pool. World-renowned football analyst Danny Sheridan gives readers the insights and information needed to gain a competitive edge in whatever type of football pool they're playing. The guidance Sheridan offers is based on trends, track records, comparative odds, and other rock-solid handicapping principles whose validity has withstood the test of time. Which teams play better on the road than at home? Which teams are more likely to fulfill expectations when they're the favorite or the underdog? Do domes automatically spell doom? How mad is Monday Night Madness? When does weather make a difference? By following these basic rules-of-thumb, everyone now has a chance to beat the pool sharks that seem to win every year.

But the author doesn't stop there. For anyone organizing a football pool in the office, workplace, or school, Sheridan shows how to manage all the details so the process doesn't become overwhelming. And there's just the right amount of fun history to make this book an enjoyable reading experience for anyone who gets pumped up every Sunday afternoon during NFL season. So whether it's Dallas against San Francisco, or Miami against New England, Danny Sheridan gives readers the edge, and shows them how to make their picks with more knowledge, confidence, and success than ever before.