Re: Has Bucsfan67's reign as EOG's Best Baseball Handicapper come to an end?
He didn't turn it around. By "reeled it in," he meant Bucsfan quit. Bucsfan has been a small loser overall since the Shrink discovered him as the "best baseball handicapper on the internet."
Regardless of whether he's a nice guy, his methodology was very clearly flawed. I posted plenty examples of why his work was flawed in an RTP thread about him when some guy tried to trump him up as a big winner. He routinely bet at the last minute after the lines had moved against him pretty severely, i.e. line was -140 all day and he posts -157 shortly before gametime. He routinely posted bad RL conversions where the ML would have been a few percent better. He reacted strongly to short term wins and losses, and sometimes let his previous results influence his future posting, i.e. he said he would post more plays later if the early plays won, or would post more plays if the early plays were rained out. Those are not traits of a winning bettor.
He also had no problems being paid by forums who shilled for shit books, i.e. the RX has had him on the payroll for a while despite committing flat out fraud in the case of EZ Street, pumping shit books like that Synbet one, etc. so I don't really feel sorry for the guy. If you get a paycheck knowingly derived from theft, you aren't much better than the theives themselves.