**DRAFT COMPASS** **• Get Draft-Ready Fast** **GAMBLING SCHOOL** **• 16 Traps of Football Betting** **TARGET TEST** **• Target Test = Fork in the Road** **DRAFT COMPASS MENU** **• 50 Chapters** **GAMBLING SCHOOL MENU** **• 37 Chapters** **OVERVIEW** -------------------------------- We are the first independent and ad-free site ever dedicated to both season-long fantasy football and football point spread betting education. As the two most popular formats of football betting, over 70 million North Americans are now either playing season-long fantasy football or betting on spreads annually with the lion's share participating in both. Unfortunately for the masses, the overwhelming majority of them lose because they don't have the proper education. Enter Draft Compass/Gambling School. We are the first, truly educational and multi-dimensional website of it's kind. Thanks to our extensive gambling journey, we've acquired a long list of tools in both fantasy football and point spread betting that can improve your results. Over 38 years and 750+ weeks of playing fantasy football and picking spreads have gone into building this curriculum for two specific reasons. In fantasy football, we obviously want to contend for a fantasy championship in every league we play in. There's no other reason to play. When it comes to betting on point spreads, we want to be in contention for making it to the plus side every year. In short, we want to be winners. Neither of these things happens by accident. Winners typically have plans for both while losers rarely have plans for either. We've spent years building this for you. The fantasy players and point spread bettors who love the thrill of the action but need education and tools to do better. It's not a secret how much losing is going on when it comes to betting on football, but who out there has ever offered anything truly educational to help? Until now, there's never been an all-inclusive advocate when it comes to the two most popular ways to bet on football. Because we're not affiliated to a parent company or tied to a casino, you don't ever need to worry if we're shooting straight or have an outlying agenda. Honesty is the gateway to improvement and we always strive for full transparency. That’s why our entire 38 year journey is here to see exactly who we are. At the end of the day, we're just like you. Intense competitors who love winning and despise losing. This is our passion. Let our experience work for you. We will always remain true to our goal of helping those who not only want to win but keep improving. That means a quality education that gives you real tools so you can save money and time. The best news is nobody says we can't get better and have some fun. We want this to be a place you enjoy. The best chance of achieving these goals is by educating you about common pitfalls and providing you ad-free content you can quickly process. After 38 years of doing this, naturally there have been lots of laughs along the way. We do our best to share those moments with you. Learning should be something you want to do, not something you have to do. After all, winners are students for life. **DRAFT COMPASS** --------------------------------------- **GET DRAFT-READY FAST** Draft Compass was made for highly competitive fantasy football players who want to contend for championships but don't always have the time to research and come up with league winning strategies. "Get Draft-Ready Fast" doesn't mean we've taken shortcuts. If anything, it's the opposite. There is plenty of content any time you want it. In an effort to save you time, we condensed the most important information so you could speed through it whenever necessary. The "Quick Minute" on the team pages is a great example. We quickly answer the five most pressing fantasy football questions for every team. By being able to summarize each team in roughly a minute, you can have a foundation for the entire league in about a half hour. Now if you can spend five minutes each on the four most important positions and ten minutes on draft plans, you'll be draft-ready in about an hour. The way we've condensed everything from the 32 team pages to the player inventory not only makes it quicker to study, it also gives you the best perspective to put together draft plans. Player inventory is where every fantasy championship starts. Once you can begin to incorporate inventory knowledge into the three distinct phases of your draft, you'll take a leap forward in your draft results. That's just the beginning. Those who can also incorporate player inventory into the four legs of a fantasy season will be the most dangerous in their league. Simply put, Draft Compass will put you at a different competitive level than your opponents. **GAMBLING SCHOOL** ---------------------------------------------------------------- **16 TRAPS OF FOOTBALL BETTING** We built Gambling School based around the 16 traps of football betting because there's been a strong need for education ever since the widespread legalization of sports betting happened in 2018. Nevada suddenly had some serious company as 35 states essentially dropped a sportsbook into everyone's pocket. What initially seemed like a dream come true for many, quickly turned into a nightmare. By 2019, we had essentially turned into a national sportsbook. As we watched the second football season unfold, it seemed like half of North America had developed a sports gambling problem. Once the early betting results started to trickle in, the writing was on the wall. You immediately saw big losing numbers from the public. It felt like everyone was betting and most were losing at alarming rates. If you thought the fortunes of the public would improve after a few years of legalized sports betting, that certainly didn't turn out to be the case. Even as we moved into the 2020s, public and inexperienced bettors just continued to lose. Not only were they losing, but their betting habits seemed to keep getting worse. It felt like every ticket you saw or heard somebody talking about was either a parlay, teaser or prop. At that point, it was getting hard to watch. Those who were wondering why there were so many parlay commercials and what kind of impact they would have on the public certainly didn't have to wait long. Vegas and their celebrities came out of the gate pushing parlays as hard as they possibly could for a very good reason. Parlays are unequivocally what's best for Vegas because they basically can't lose. As we searched far and wide to see what was out there, one thing had become abundantly clear: there didn't seem to be much real education available to stem the tide of so much poor fundamental sports betting. **TARGET TEST** ----------------------------------------------------------- **TARGET TEST = FORK IN THE ROAD** Many things in life can move into grey areas but bettors can only be one of two things. You're either a winner or a loser. It may seem harsh but it's just that simple. No matter how hard we try to justify losses in our mind as to why they happened, we're 100% responsible for them. Regardless of how much fun you had hanging out at the sports bar all weekend with your buddies, you're still losing money that could be going towards other things in your life. Unless you happen to be independently wealthy, the money for those sports betting losses has to come from somewhere. Do you really want to be skipping a round of golf or cancelling a dinner reservation because you keep losing on football games? The harsh reality is roughly 2/3 of sports bettors are college educated yet over 95% lose. The question can feel like the elephant in the room but it absolutely must be asked. How can the most educated people continue to lose so much when it comes to betting on sports? Short answer: we were all targets from the start. In order to help sports bettors see exactly what Vegas is looking for in their customers, we developed a test to see how big of a potential target you really are. The test looks at 11 key traits that Vegas would love for you to be. After you finish taking it, you'll no longer be unaware of who's been patiently waiting for you. Regardless of what you might think of your results, this is actually great news because you've finally arrived at your fork in the road. Now it's going to be up to you. There are two different ways this will normally go. The first - and far more frequent - result is that you remain content with your own handicapping abilities and keep losing your own way. For those who choose to continue on this path, losing is going to be the norm. But for those who can admit they might not have known as much as they originally thought, this is their chance to get on the better road. Honesty is the only way to calm down your ego, which is a must because it's the only way you'll ever become open to new ideas. Self evaluation is where the better road begins. **TARGET TEST** ----------------------------------- **HOW BIG OF A TARGET ARE YOU?** We're going to play a quick and easy game that we call the Target Test. Give yourself a point for each one of these 11 traits with which you identify. **• YOUNG ADULT** **• FORMER HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETE** **• COLLEGE EDUCATED** **• MONEY TO BET** **• ULTRA COMPETITIVE** **• VERY CONFIDENT** **• LIKES TO DRINK** **• INFLUENCED BY MEDIA/PEERS** **• BETS 80%+ FAVORITES** **• BETS 80%+ BETTER QB** **• THINK YOU HAVE ADVANTAGE BECAUSE YOU PLAYED SPORTS** **TEST RESULTS** ----------------------------------- **• 8-11 HUGE TARGET** **GLASS IS HALF EMPTY** Welcome to Vegas! They've been waiting for you. Nobody said this was going to be an easy test. If nearly everything on that list sounds like either something you'd put on your resume or something you did last weekend, it's safe to say you are a target. As somebody who never left this problematic neighborhood for seven years, I'm sorry to break the bad news to you. Unfortunately, you were most likely in a sizeable mental hole before you even got started. If you identified with eight to 11 of these traits, the reality is they keep building sportsbooks for the sole reason of taking money from people just like us. If that doesn't sound bad enough, there's almost nobody in the world who's better at their job than Vegas is. That leaves us in the predicament that they saw us before we saw them and now we have to try and escape. It's no wonder less than 5% win. **GLASS IS HALF FULL** You can absolutely do this and have fun as you improve; that's why we're here. Just know that if you want to make a legitimate run at being on the plus side, you'll have to be open minded and put in some work. If that's why you're here and that's what you're prepared to do, your glass is more than half full. **• 5-7 BIG TARGET** We have a full breakdown of the Target Test in the Preface but for now, it's important to remember that this wasn't your fault. It's not easy to comprehend but the same traits that have helped us succeed in most areas of life are actually used against us when it comes to sports betting. Have you ever wondered why you seem to win at everything in life besides sports betting? There are many reasons for that and we cover them all including the headlines below. Once we understand that Vegas had us lined up as targets from the start because of these traits, that gives us an opportunity to self evaluate and improve. **DON"T BE DISCOURAGED/NO WAY TO KNOW** **NOT AN ACCIDENT/VEGAS WAS WAITING** **EX-ATHLETES = BIGGEST TARGETS** **HOW COULD 8 GOOD THINGS BE A TRAP?** **VEGAS HITS YOU LIKE LONG ISLAND ICED TEA** ..........(CONTINUE TO PREFACE BUTTON)................ **DRAFT COMPASS MENU** -------------------------------------------------- **FANTASY FOUNDATION** **• PHILOSOPHY (11 Compass Commandments)** **• FUNDAMENTALS (4 Legs of Season)** **• FUNDAMENTALS (3 Distinct Stages of Draft)** **32 TEAM PAGES** **PLAYER RANKINGS** **• TOP 250, QB, RB, WR, TE, Kicker, Defense** **• TEAM TREE (Owner, GM, HC, QB, OL)** **DRAFT PLANS** **• 10 TEAM (Early, Middle, Late)** **• 12 TEAM (Early, Middle, Late)** **PLAYER INVENTORY (QB, RB, WR, TE, K, D)** **GAMBLING SCHOOL** ------------------------------------------------------ **TARGET TEST/PREFACE** **GAMBLING JOURNEY (38 Years)** **GLOSSARY** **16 TRAPS** **• MOST COMMON TRAPS** **• OTHER TRAPS** **• GAMBLING ABYSS** **• TRAP FOUNDATIONS** **• TRAP PAIRINGS** **• EDUCATIONAL CHARACTERS** **• TRAP FAMILY** **• 101 LOSERS** **• 7 FOUNDATIONAL CHARACTERS** **• Kapton Ego (Overconfidence)** **• Jonnie Quarterback (Over-Betting QBs)** **• Chuck Chalk (Over-Betting Favorites)** **• Mother Shipp (Media Influence)** **• Ken Fuzed (2.5, 3.5, 6.5, 7.5)** **• Yul Gobroke (Parlays)** **• Bette Weekly (Winner)** **• 300+ BONUS CHARACTERS (Fun)** **GAMBLING PLAN** **GAMBLING SCHEDULE** **4 GAMBLING MINDSETS** **COLLEGE & PRO PICKS**