just so all you guys know what a great addition to this forum angelo will be, while he is a newcomer to our forum he is well known and documented in past years at various sites around the net. always picks alot of games, always grinds the man down with 55%+. he is obviously very good at playing his system against the line, and when his system generates a positive expectancy of return against the number he plays it, pick and choose be damned. a lot of the successful guys with knowlegeable stats backround play in this manner and it pays to pay attention to what they're telling you. as you may have noticed, a lot of ie's work is based upon generating his own number and looking for a threshold variance. i only have experiencence in handicapping college football and basketball, which is light-years in difference from professional baseball. i have been working for the past two years in developing my baseball capping skills and we've got a great crowd here to learn from and to use as a measuring stick to my own picks. thanks for dropping in angelo, nice to have you around.