Dan Gordon's NFL Handicapping Companion

Pro Football Betting Software

Finally, serious NFL Football handicapping software.

Dan Gordon is widely regarded as one of the three best handicappers in the sports world and has a winning record as a professional sports bettor for over two decades. His sports betting columns have appeared in the New York Daily News, San Francisco Examiner, Boston Herald, Log Angeles Herald Examiner, College and Pro Football Weekly and other newspapers and magazines and he served as handicapping consultant to Pete Axthelm of NBC, ESPN and Inside Sports Magazine for seven years. His latest book Beat the Sports Books - An insider’s guide to betting the NFL is a seminal work in football betting.

Betting the NFL effectively requires a great deal of data and effort. Dan Gordon’s NFL Handicapping Companion (DG-NFL) is designed to greatly ease the process of collecting, maintaining and manipulating data and applying the many necessary calculations. The ability to experiment with changes to the calculations and assumptions is also provided with instant recalculation of the tables for the entire season. As a result, calculations will take far less time and will likely be more accurate. Sports betting programs generally look for patterns and streaks just like progression system players trying to beat casinos. This is easy but doesn't work. Every sport is different. DG-NFL weekly evaluates team performance and applies numerous emotional considerations to the next week's games. It then looks for errors in the book lines. This is how you find betting opportunities in pro football.

Note: If you have not read Beat the Sports Books, the betting program can still be used. But, you will find it far easier and more valuable with the book.

A brief outline of DG-NFL football betting software high points follows:

Automatic weekly update to 2007 scores and pro football handicapping data via the Internet. This includes phony wins, phony losses, sloppy wins, home advantage adjustments and mid-season team rankings.
Auto weekly download of Dan’s subjective adjustments.
Automatic calculation of number power ratings, letter power ratings, due ups/downs, projected lines and win percentages.
Automatically makes weekly adjustments according to 13 rules from Beat the Sports Book.
Automatic updates to schedules due to hurricanes, etc.
Enormous user configurability. User can create his own tables, adjust formulas, change power numbers, letters, grades, edges, selectively activate rules, modify the effect of rules, add adjustments and the entire season is instantly recalculated.
Windows Vista compliant.
This is a living product and you can expect free software updates to this program during the season. Send suggestions to support@qfit.com.

What you see

Basically, the software displays the current Las Vegas betting lines for each game and calculates what it believes the lines should be. When there exists a significant difference between the book lines and the projected lines; there may exist a betting opportunity.

Demo Download

But see for yourself. You can download a demo of the NFL football betting software below. If you have already downloaded and wish to update to the latest release, updates are at the bottom of the QFIT Downloads Page.

NFL Handicapper V3 Full Download (7MB) - Click to install the full product.

Update Status

2007 season status of automatic updates

Jul 25 - Version 3 available. Start of season power numbers, grades, home advantages, week 1 adjustments and week 1 book lines will be uploaded shortly before start of season.
Sep 3 - Start of season power numbers, grades, home advantages, week 1 adjustments and week 1 book lines uploaded.
Sep 11 - Week 2 data uploaded except for the Baltimore/Jets game as both quarterbacks are questionable. This data will be updated as soon as the QBs are known.
Sep 13 - Baltimore/Jets game data updated
Sep 18 - Week 3 data updated
Sep 25 - Week 4 data uploaded except for the Tampa game as the quarterback is unknown. This data will be updated as soon as the QB is known.
Sep 27 - Tampa line updated. Season is going very well thus far. But don't get overconfident.
Oct 2 - Week 5 data updated
Oct 9 - Week 6 data updated
Oct 16 - Week 7 data updated except for the Tennesse game as quarterback is unknown. This data will be updated as soon as the QB is known.
Oct 20 - Week 7 Tennessee updated. The QB is still unknown. An educated guess has been made that Vince Young will play.
Oct 23 - Week 8 data updated except for the San Diego game due to the fire situation. This data will be updated as soon as more information is known.
Oct 27 - Week 8 San Diego updated.
Oct 30 - Week 9 data updated
Nov 6 - Week 10 data updated except for the Kansas/Denver and Tennessee/Jacksonville games due to injuries. This data will be updated as soon the lines stabilize.
Nov 10 - Week 10 update complete
Nov 13 - Week 11 data updated
Nov 20 - Week 12 data updated
Nov 27 - Week 13 data updated except for the St. Louis/Atlanta game. This data will be updated as soon as the QB is known.
Dec 1 - Week 13 update complete
Dec 4 - Week 14 data updated except for the St. Louis/Cincinnati and San Diego/Tennessee games. This data will be updated as soon as the lines are set.
Dec 8 - Week 14 update complete
Dec 12 - Week 15 data updated
Dec 18 - Week 16 data updated except for the Baltimore/Seattle game which still has an open QB question.
Dec 23 - Week 16 update complete
Dec 26 - Week 17 data updated
Jan 2 - Week 18 games added with lines and handicapping. The power adjustment table has been adjusted to post season values and all power ratings have been recalculated for the entire season.
Jan 8 - Week 19 data updated
Jan 16 - Week 20data updated
Jan 24 - Super Bowl data updated

2006 season status of automatic updates

Aug 5 - Version 2 is now available.
Sep 3 - Start of season power numbers, grades, home advantages, week 1 adjustments and week 1 book lines uploaded.
Sep 4 - The Steeler's Power Letter Rating and Dan's adjustment for the Steeler's week 1 game have been changed due to Roethlisberger's appendectomy
Sep 12 - Week 2 data has been uploaded.
Sep 19 - Week 3 data uploaded.
Sep 26 - Week 4 data uploaded.
Oct 3 - Week 5 data uploaded. New Power Numbers uploaded based on team performance for the first four weeks.
Oct 10 - Week 6 data uploaded.
Oct 17 - Week 7 data uploaded.
Oct 25 - Week 8 data uploaded.
Oct 28 - A new version of the software is available that notes whether past games were won/lost/tied on the main page. A free update is available.
Oct 31 - Week 9 data uploaded.
Nov 7 - Week 10 data uploaded.
Nov 14 - Data for Week 11 uploaded except for line on San Francisco vs Seattle delayed until additional info on players.
Nov 16 - SF vs Seattle line added.
Nov 21 - Week 12 data uploaded.
Nov 28 - Week 13 data uploaded.
Dec 5 - Week 13 data uploaded - interesting week.
Dec 12 - Data for Week 15 uploaded. Carolina/Pittsburgh book line is not yet set. It will be set when the Carolina quarterback is known.
Dec 16 - Book line and Dan's adjustments added for Carolina/Pittsburgh.
Dec 19 - Data for Week 16 uploaded. Carolina book line and handicapping are again delayed until the quarterback is known.
Dec 22 - Book line and Dan's adjustments added for Carolina.
Dec 26- Data for Week 17 uploaded except for Carolina.
Dec 27 - Book line and Dan's adjustments added for Carolina.
Dec 31 - Handicapping adjustments made in light of NY Giants result.
Jan 1 - Week 18 games added with lines and handicapping. The power adjustment table has been adjusted to post season values and all power ratings have been recalculated for the entire season.
Jan 8 - Week 19 games added with lines and handicapping.
Jan 15 - Week 20 games added.
Jan 22 - Super Bowl added.

Orders

The price is $90. Upgrades from Version 1 are $20. Order from the QFIT Catalog.

The Book

Gordon, Dan, Beat the Sports Books: An Insider's Guide to Betting the NFL 2001, revised Cardoza Publishing 2005

This football handicapping book uncovers for the first time the trade secrets of one of the best football handicappers in the world. Here he shares his inside tips and strategies on making big money betting NFL football. You’ll learn basic, advanced, and expert concepts on setting up betting models, using power ratings, and separating performance from perception. Gordon provides a step-by-step guide to odds, point spreads, and money lines, and shows how to bet underdogs, propositions, teasers, parlays, and more.

NFL Picks

If you are interested in Dan Gordon's picks, you can contact him at danlgordon@aol.com. His rates are Season: $600, Month: $200, Week: $60. Tell him QFIT sent you.