Baseball begins and ends with pitching. Because of the number of games and the length of the season, the sport lures as many investors as the others. The structure of odds… no point spread… and the nature of the game however, with the disproportionate emphasis on pitching, baseball must be treated in a different way.

The role the pitcher plays has been assessed at anywhere between 70 and 90 percent in contributing to the outcome of a game. Therefore, any student of the game begins his calculations with a study not only of the starting pitchers but key relievers as well.