The Library
A curated reading shelf for the Sports Lab: published guides, papers and official house rules, collected from sportsbooks, state regulators and universities. Every PDF is published by its own publisher and hosted on its site — none of these files is ours. Each link was opened and checked on November 10, 2026.
Beginner guides
How to Bet Guide — Sports Betting 101
State-lottery brochure covering straight bets, parlays, futures, props and teasers, with a glossary defining point spread, money line and total.
DraftKings Sports Betting Guide
Sportsbook primer on moneyline, point spreads, over/unders, parlays and same-game parlays, with a step-by-step betting walk-through and worked American-odds examples.
FanDuel Sports Betting 101
Beginner guide to reading odds, then the spread, moneyline, total, props, parlays and teasers, with betting-by-sport chapters that include the NFL (p.13) and the NBA (p.14).
How to Bet on Sports
Compact brochure teaching spread, moneyline and total with worked football and basketball examples, plus plain definitions of parlay, teaser, futures and round robin.
Tracking & bankroll
Read this shelf plainly: no sports-specific bet tracker — one with odds, stake and result columns — is published as a free PDF by a reputable source; the trackers that exist are spreadsheets. The four PDFs below are printable diary and money-management logs from gambling-help services. They record sessions and money, not betting performance.
Gambling Diary Template
A single printable diary sheet for recording each betting session, with prompts for before, during and after.
Gambling Diary
One-page printable table logging the date, the type of gambling, time spent, money spent, how much was won and how much was lost.
Changing Your Relationship With Gambling
Workbook with a printable gambling diary (p.10), an access, time and money worksheet (p.9) and a goal planner (p.8) for setting a gambling budget.
Gambling Behaviour: Self Study Workbook
Chapter 2 is a money-management template set — monthly income and expense sheets, a summary of your current money situation and a money action plan — and every chapter repeats a printable daily summary record.
Data & strategy — academic
Papers and theses from universities and journals: probability, expected value, market efficiency and arbitrage, with the staking mathematics (Kelly) that bankroll rules rest on.
Beating the House: Identifying Inefficiencies in Sports Betting Markets
Builds a non-parametric win-probability model and bets only positive-expected-value moneylines, testing market inefficiency across the NFL, NBA, NCAAF, NCAAB and WNBA.
Beating the Average: How to Generate Profit by Exploiting the Inefficiencies of Soccer Betting
Prices the German state-run TOTO pool with binomial and hypergeometric probability — a worked case study in finding where a fixed payout schedule misprices outcomes.
Analysing and Modeling Inefficiencies in the Sports Betting Market
The arbitrage study on the shelf: dedicated arbitrage chapters and an experiment in which 684 pre-match arbitrage bets returned 10.8%.
Testing Market Efficiency: Evidence from the NFL Sports Betting Market
Peer-reviewed probit test on 4,123 NFL games (1976–94): in-sample profitable rules existed, and documented inefficiencies such as home-underdog bias dissipate over time.
Efficiency in Micro-Behaviors and FL Bias
A pari-mutuel simulation in which bettors who maximise expected value themselves produce — and amplify — favourite-longshot bias.
Kelly Criterion Revisited: Optimal Bets
Kelly staking derived for bookmaker bets: sizing a positive-expectation wager to maximise expected log-wealth, and the limit large bettors run into.
Official house rules: NFL & NBA
Full sportsbook rulebooks, each with dedicated Football and Basketball settlement sections — the grading rules (minimum minutes played, overtime, voids) that decide how NFL and NBA bets settle.
DraftKings Massachusetts Sportsbook House Rules
Regulator-hosted rulebook: general settlement, voided bets, dead heats and cash-out, bet types and markets, then the sport-by-sport rules.
DraftKings Sportsbook at Boot Hill House Rules — Version 11
The retail edition of the same rulebook, filed under the Kansas Lottery and the Kansas Racing and Gaming Commission, dated 13 February 2026.
Island View Casino Resort House Rules
Concise house rules stating the minimum-play grading thresholds — 43 minutes for NBA basketball, 55 minutes for professional and college football — plus parlay, teaser and same-game parlay rules.
Sportsbook House Rules — June 16, 2026
General wagering and settlement rules with worked NBA and NFL examples: football is official after 55 minutes, basketball after 43, and overtime counts toward totals in both.
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