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A few words in my defense:
1.) This isn't the only place where you can get information. However, there are a few advantages to my system. First, every game is listed in excel, so you can sort everything however you wish. Carolina's ATS record since 1997, 2001 and 2005, respectively? Got it. Games on the road after the bye across the league? Sure. Are vegas lines on O/Us correlating more or less closely than a decade ago? Check it out for yourself. A sheet of info saying "Chicago went 7-9 against the spread last year" or "they are 25-32 in their past 67 games" or anything else is very limiting. Expand the search however you may wish. The database currently goes back to 1997, although I may add a couple of seasons from before that as well.
2.) Very few places have the preseason data, which is potentially more lucrative than regular season data, because it is not played by as many people.
3.) The places that do have this info on spread sheet often include a TON more information than mine does. That's good in some ways, obviously, but bad in two others. First, 90% of the info on the sheet is absolutely irrelevant and isn't going to help you. Who cares how many average yards per carry on third down team X had in a game in 1998? That's probably not going to help you make a decision about any one bet. Even if you knew that the team that has a higher average per carry on third down scores on average 1 point more per game, single season samples are so small that it won't help you in any individual game. And there's a ton of info you need to weed through in order to get to the stuff you want; it can be very unwieldy.
Second, because so much information is included, they are usually a lot more expensive than what I am asking. Why pay $100 for a bunch of crap you don't want when you can spend $25 on something that will actually help you. And I don't think you'll be at a loss for info with this database.
4.) This is a progressive system; once you buy the spreadsheet, it's very easy to continue the data from season to season. Pretty much, you just punch in team, week number, the score, the spread and the o/u and the rest is done for you. You don't need to buy the data over and over again from year to year. Part of the reason sites include so much info is to discourage you from doing it yourself. 5-10 minutes each sunday during the season will adequately update the database, now that I've got it started. Or, you could just let me do the work, too.
5.) The accounting spreadsheet is incredibly nifty, if I do say so myself. I used to hate recording all my bets; it took me forever, I was inaccurate all the time, figuring out career and season totals were a pain in the ass, etc. In this, you pick the league, punch in the size of your unit and the number of units, the price, and whether you won or lost, and the worksheet keeps track of everything for you and is fully sortable, so you can look at back at all your MLB over/unders, or NFL propositions, or boxing plays, or whatever.
6.) Spot a stupid trend when you see one touted. New Orleans is 6-1 against the spread at home after a double digit road loss in November? OK... how far back does that data go? Is that worthwhile, or are we talking about teams that have none of the current Saints players? Check your own data.
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