Comments on: PicksPal Could Disrupt Sports Betting Markets

By: SocialPicks Opens To Public

SocialPicks Opens To Public — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:15:28 +0000

[...] also hope to generate revenue the stock picking data of top users, PicksPal style. The company has started with a contest for $1,000 to attract some top pickers. Their new [...]

By: BracketBrains Giving Sports Betters An Edge

BracketBrains Giving Sports Betters An Edge — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:15:42 +0000

[...] tournament to join, check out sports competition site Pickspal (check out our earlier coverage here). CrunchBase Information PicksPal Information provided by [...]

By: LordsofOdds - Virtual Betting market for India | StartupDunia focuses on Indian startups, Web 2.0, Indian Internet industry and entrepreneurship in India

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:36:24 +0000

[...] predictions) get bragging rights. I wont be surprised if they follow a business model similar to PicksPal, where for a small fee, users get access to the collective wisdom of the top users of the site. But [...]

By: TechCrunch en français » [fr] MyPronostic va faire bouger les parieurs, surtout les bons

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:31:30 +0000

[...] astucieuse. Elle n’est pas complètement nouvelle: une startup américaine du nom de PicksPal pour le sport (décliné en PicksPop pour les célébrités) utilise le même principe. Amazon a [...]

By: techcrunch » Blog Archive » PicksPop - Bet on Pop Culture Stuff

techcrunch » Blog Archive » PicksPop - Bet on Pop Culture Stuff — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:07:46 +0000

[...] betting sites like Gottabet and PicksPal, which combine social networking with betting, are gaining [...]

By: March Madness Office Pool, Web 2.0 Style

March Madness Office Pool, Web 2.0 Style — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:33:07 +0000

[...] a fantasy sports betting site, is launching a March Madness game this [...]

By: PicksPal Is Beating Vegas Sports Betting Odds

PicksPal Is Beating Vegas Sports Betting Odds — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:52:37 +0000

[...] year I wrote about PicksPal, a fantasy sports betting site where well over 100,000 members bet their friends and coworkers on [...]

By: Ram

Ram — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:33:04 +0000

there is a similar kind of website for Cricket buffs at
http://cric.13links.com

its based on the Rails like framework for PHP, CakePHP

http://cakephp.org

By: TechCrunch en français » Amazon investit dans un site de pronostics du cinéma

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 06:48:23 +0000

[...] services. De nombreuses entreprises essaient d’intégrer le marché des ligues virtuelles - PicksPal a une ligue virtuelle de pari sportif (vous choisissez les matchs et les vainqueurs; gagnez des [...]

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Sun, 18 Feb 2007 22:57:37 +0000

[...] fees and other services. Many companies are trying to get in on the fantasy league dollars — PicksPal has a fantasy league for sports betting (you use the lines on the games and pick your winners; earn [...]

By: Healtheee.com, a truly fantastic experiment » Blog Archive » Episode 12: Featuring Om Malik, Robert Scoble and Michael Arrington

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 05:48:14 +0000

[...] Companies mentioned include Digg, Facebook, Myspace, Skype, PicksPal, TechMeme, Jajah, PersonalBee, Scrapblog, Rebtel, Hullo and GrandCentral. [...]

By: Bechs Webbrok » Archive » Pickspal forudsiger sportsresultater

Bechs Webbrok » Archive » Pickspal forudsiger sportsresultater — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:35:55 +0000

[...] PicksPal er et gratis sports site, hvor folk kan gætte på resultatet af kommende kampe, og nu er PicksPal begyndt at køre heftig data mining på gætterierne. Det kan nok vise sig at få indflydelse på bookmakernes forretning. Imponerende, hvad data mining kan bruges til. Læs mere på TechCrunch. [...]

By: wisdom of the few versus randomness « orgtheory.net

wisdom of the few versus randomness « orgtheory.net — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 05:59:09 +0000

[...] There’s some chatter and excitement on the web about the “wisdom of the few” (e.g., see this TechCrunch post). In short, while crowds may indeed get it right, weeding out all those that are wrong and focusing on the winners seems like an efficient heuristic. Here’s a Washington Post piece on the matter, which includes some healthy scepticism from academics. Online companies such as PicksPal.com (and Marketocracy) are trying to capitalize on the wisdom of the few. [...]

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By: CAPS Takes “Wisdom of the Few” To Stock Picking » JenIT

CAPS Takes “Wisdom of the Few” To Stock Picking » JenIT — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:01:59 +0000

[...] We wrote about a distilled version of the Wisdom of the Crowds idea a couple of weeks ago when profiling PicksPal, a fantasy sports betting site. PicksPal’s new product takes the best fantasy sports pickers and (without them knowing) repackages their advice as a paid service to sports gamblers. It’s done remarkably well after the first couple of weeks. The idea is that if you can take the true experts from the crowd and average their opinions, you can get to really stunning results. [...]

By: FreshBooks invoicing reports how you stack up » JenIT

FreshBooks invoicing reports how you stack up » JenIT — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:53:48 +0000

[...] From gambling site PicksPal to the talent hunt that viral video is becoming - leveraging the value offered by top users of any system is becoming an important trend. [...]

By: Greg Bell Design » The Wisdom of Smart Crowds

Greg Bell Design » The Wisdom of Smart Crowds — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 16:15:36 +0000

[...] “… the PicksPal team noticed that a very small percentage of users tend to be correct in their picks significantly more often that they should be statistically. When they grouped these special users they found them to be a powerful predictive force.” from TechCrunch [...]

By: Techcrunch » Blog Archive » CAPS Takes “Wisdom of the Few” To Stock Picking

Fri, 06 Oct 2006 06:19:47 +0000

By: Techcrunch » Blog Archive » FreshBooks invoicing reports how you stack up

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 16:46:17 +0000

[...] From gambling site PicksPal to the talent hunt that viral video is becoming - leveraging the value offered by top users of any system is becoming an important trend. [...]

By: EveryDigg » Blog Archive » PicksPal Could Disrupt Sports Betting Markets

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 12:14:17 +0000

[...] "Tom Jessiman, the founder of PicksPal, stumbled onto something that could change the way we predict sporting event outcomes. And it could therefore have a big impact on sports betting markets."read more | digg story [...]

By: Phil Thompson

Phil Thompson — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 18:41:08 +0000

Hey Mike - I just wanted to point out that this portion of your writeup is not accurate:

>For $10, users can get access to the collective wisdom of the 30 best PicksPal players over the previous five weeks in a given sport, and get five predictions on upcoming games.

I just looked at PicksPal.com today and it is actually $19.95 for a single pick. Not such a great deal.

By: Ray

Ray — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:10:14 +0000

The problem I see with all of the WOTC models is that sooner rather than later, the crowd is going to want something back for all of it’s wisdom. And I’m not convinced that office bragging rights will be sufficient to pay the piper.

If I were a ‘genius’ pickers (assuming I could identify myself), I think it’d be really nice if I owned my picks and I rented them to you (PicksPal) for your inclusion in the ‘genius’ picks. I still get the office bragging rights, but also some revenue share so we’re all happy.

What would you need to do to make this a reality? Not much, just a new micro-format (hPicks anyone?) and a site that would serve as a broker/aggregator for user-generated content.

By: TalkCrunch » Blog Archive » Episode 12: Featuring Om Malik, Robert Scoble and Michael Arrington

Sun, 24 Sep 2006 09:08:09 +0000

[...] Companies mentioned include Digg, Facebook, Myspace, Skype, PicksPal, TechMeme, Jajah, Scrapblog, Rebtel, Hullo and GrandCentral. [...]

By: bill

bill — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 01:29:22 +0000

have you looked at motley fool CAPS? http://caps.fool.com It is the same concept as pickspal, but for the stock market. it is a very powerful and useful product

By: squidward

squidward — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:34:52 +0000

Hey Four Aces you must be out to lunch or nor know how to use a computer. I bought a pick last week and I got a message right away that they would get back to me in 20 minutes with the pick. The pick was delivered to me in 7 minutes. Awesome!! And it was a win. Could not ask for a better deal.