Frequently asked questions
Including the ones where the honest answer is "we do not do that" or "you cannot check that".
What is Sports Betting Prime?
A betting research and education site. We publish evergreen guides on how betting markets work, free calculators, sport-by-sport fundamentals, and dated analysis articles. We do not sell picks and we have nothing behind a paywall.
Do you sell picks or run a tout service?
No. Nothing on this site is for sale to you. We earn money from sportsbook affiliate links, which is disclosed on every page that carries one and in full on our affiliate disclosure page.
Do you publish live odds?
No. There is no odds feed behind this site and no page displays a live price. Any price quoted inside an article is the author's own record of what they took at the time, is stated as such, and cannot be substantiated afterwards. If you want live prices, get them from a sportsbook.
Do you publish consensus percentages or sharp-money data?
Not any more. We previously published consensus figures and "sharp action" notes. An audit in July 2026 found that a large amount of what the site was publishing under those headings was generated by a random number generator rather than sourced from anywhere. All of it has been removed and the code that produced it has been deleted.
Where do the statistics in your articles come from?
The MLB Stats API at statsapi.mlb.com, which is free and public. Every article states its data source and the date its figures were current as of, at the foot of the page. Where an article has been checked claim-by-claim against the feed, the full manifest is published alongside it.
What does "fact manifest" mean on an article?
It means every statistical claim in that article was re-queried against the source feed and the result recorded: what the article published, what the feed returned, which endpoint it came from, and the date it was current as of. Where the two disagreed, the article was corrected and the correction is listed on the page. The manifests are published as JSON so you can check them.
Are the odds and stake sizes in the articles checked?
No, and they cannot be. They come from the author's own betting card. There is no price feed behind them and no archived quote exists, so there is no way to substantiate them after the fact. Every article says this explicitly rather than leaving you to assume otherwise.
Why did you stop using the word "verified"?
Because it was attached to the wrong thing. The statistics in our articles are real and checked. The reads and prices the word was decorating are not checked by anything. Using one word for both was misleading, so we removed it except where a genuine checking trail exists — principally Trust My Record, where picks are timestamped before the game and graded automatically.
How often is the site updated?
Guides, tools and sport pages are evergreen and are updated when something is wrong or has changed, not on a schedule. Analysis articles are dated and are not edited after publication except to correct an error, which is then logged on the page. Nothing on this site publishes automatically without a human reviewing it.
What is your relationship with Trust My Record?
Trust My Record is operated by the same people as this site. That is a related-party relationship and you should weigh our recommendation of it accordingly. We link to it because handicapper records there are timestamped before the game starts and graded automatically against the result — but verify that yourself rather than taking our word for it. It is free to browse and needs no account to view records.
Can betting be beaten?
By a small minority of people, by a small margin, with a great deal of work — and most of the edge available to a recreational bettor is line shopping rather than handicapping. The overwhelming majority of bettors lose over the long run. Anyone telling you otherwise is selling something.
Do you guarantee anything?
No. No betting system, model, service or person can guarantee a winning bet, and any claim to the contrary is either a misunderstanding of probability or a lie.
Still want someone else's picks?
Then check the record first.
Trust My Record grades every pick automatically against the result, and the leaderboards are public. Free to browse, no account needed.
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