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CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Assertion Not checkable as stated
JAMBOS achieved a 59% win rate against the spread in college basketball
“And we started doing it from then on through the college basketball season. We're up about 140 units. Now that might sound a little confusing, but basically a winning percentage of almost 59%.”
Michael Schwimer Sep 16, 2019 ▶ 14:55 Michael Schwimer - Sports Betting at JAMBOS (First Meeting, EP.08)
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Prediction Not checkable as stated
Schwimer Projects Over 50% of Big League Advance Signees Reach the Majors
“We believe that over half the players we sign will play a day in the major leagues.”
Michael Schwimer Oct 15, 2018 ▶ 31:30 Michael Schwimer – Moneyball as an Investment Strategy (Capital Allocators, EP.72)
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Big League Advance Sells Highly Accurate Pitcher Injury Prediction Models to MLB
“They built a model that was truly revolutionary to where we can predict When a pitcher's gonna get hurt with incredible accuracy to the point where MLB teams are paying for our service now”
Michael Schwimer Oct 15, 2018 ▶ 38:11 Michael Schwimer – Moneyball as an Investment Strategy (Capital Allocators, EP.72)
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Assertion Supported
Schwimer: Francisco Mejía Dropped Lawsuit and Paid Big League Advance's Legal Fees
“Francisco ended up dropping the case. We actually countersued him. We settled the countersuit. He paid a portion of our legal fees for the case, and then wrote a very long apology that was highlighted actually in the Sports Illustrated article that came out ab…”
Michael Schwimer Oct 15, 2018 ▶ 41:12 Michael Schwimer – Moneyball as an Investment Strategy (Capital Allocators, EP.72)
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Schwimer: Three NBA Teams Asked to Outsource Analytics to Big League Advance
“And two NBA, actually three NBA teams now called us and wanted to fire their entire advanced analytics department and have us be the analytics department for those teams remotely.”
Michael Schwimer Oct 15, 2018 ▶ 45:12 Michael Schwimer – Moneyball as an Investment Strategy (Capital Allocators, EP.72)
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Big League Advance saw 38 of 77 Fund I players reach MLB
“Our first fund of 77 players, and keep in mind, remember, you have less than a 10% chance to make the major leagues if you're throwing a dart in the minor leagues, and we don't get first round picks. So the players that we go after, these non top 300 prospects…”
Michael Schwimer Sep 16, 2019 ▶ 9:42 Michael Schwimer - Sports Betting at JAMBOS (First Meeting, EP.08)
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Schwimer: Baseball is the only sport where all data is publicly available
“Baseball is the only sport that all the data is publicly available. So it's just about how good your team is.”
Michael Schwimer Sep 16, 2019 ▶ 19:51 Michael Schwimer - Sports Betting at JAMBOS (First Meeting, EP.08)
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Assertion Not checkable as stated
JAMBOS achieved a 57% win rate on 2,700 out-of-sample picks
“But our record is still around 57%.”
Michael Schwimer Sep 16, 2019 ▶ 28:52 Michael Schwimer - Sports Betting at JAMBOS (First Meeting, EP.08)
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Prediction Held up
A 24/7 sports betting news network will launch by 2021
“There's going to be a twenty-four-seven gambling news network. Guarantee that within the next two years. Guarantee it.”
Michael Schwimer Sep 16, 2019 ▶ 37:38 Michael Schwimer - Sports Betting at JAMBOS (First Meeting, EP.08)
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Schwimer: 24 MLB Teams Consulted Big League Advance at 2018 Trade Deadline
“Last year, the trade deadline, or, you know, in 2017, 17 teams called us. This year, 24 teams called us at the trade deadline asking our advice on who are the underrated prospects in this organization.”
Michael Schwimer Oct 15, 2018 ▶ 43:25 Michael Schwimer – Moneyball as an Investment Strategy (Capital Allocators, EP.72)
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Prediction Not checkable as stated
Big League Advance expects over 50 Fund I players to reach MLB
“We're expecting over 50 out of the 77 to get to me.”
Michael Schwimer Sep 16, 2019 ▶ 10:00 Michael Schwimer - Sports Betting at JAMBOS (First Meeting, EP.08)
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Schwimer: JAMBOS football and baseball models backtested better than college basketball
“Obviously we don't have any track record in those sports. This will be our first season for it, but the model back tests at a better rate than our college basketball.”
Michael Schwimer Sep 16, 2019 ▶ 18:48 Michael Schwimer - Sports Betting at JAMBOS (First Meeting, EP.08)
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Vegas sportsbooks slashed Michael Schwimer's betting limits to $300 within 16 days
“16 days, I was shut out of all the books, because I didn't realize it's not a liquid market. The sports betting market is not liquid. At all. And so what that means is at the time I was cut down to 305 hundred per bet instead of 10,000 a bet.”
Michael Schwimer Sep 16, 2019 ▶ 21:17 Michael Schwimer - Sports Betting at JAMBOS (First Meeting, EP.08)
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Assertion Not checkable as stated
BetCRIS and BookMaker effectively set the worldwide sports betting market
“So we're using the market consensus line, which is defined by this company, BetChris and Bookmaker. They kind of set the worldwide market for this stuff right now.”
Michael Schwimer Sep 16, 2019 ▶ 24:48 Michael Schwimer - Sports Betting at JAMBOS (First Meeting, EP.08)
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Prediction Not checkable as stated
JAMBOS expects its sports betting edge to disappear within two years
“We're only going to have this advantage for a year or two, I think. There's only a very short number of time where subscribers can take advantage of this.”
Michael Schwimer Sep 16, 2019 ▶ 32:23 Michael Schwimer - Sports Betting at JAMBOS (First Meeting, EP.08)
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Schwimer: Big League Advance Has Signed 128 Minor League Players
“Of the 128 players we've signed now, and that probably 300 ish we've offered, or more”
Michael Schwimer Oct 15, 2018 ▶ 26:45 Michael Schwimer – Moneyball as an Investment Strategy (Capital Allocators, EP.72)
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Schwimer: Over 75% of BLA Signees Were Outside Top 300 Prospects
“Over 75% of the players that we sign Aren't top 300 prospects in baseball when we sign them”
Michael Schwimer Oct 15, 2018 ▶ 30:00 Michael Schwimer – Moneyball as an Investment Strategy (Capital Allocators, EP.72)
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Schwimer: Former Goldman Sachs Employees Failed at Minor League Player Investing
“There were some Goldman guys that quit and tried to do it. They have a couple players, then they left, because they realized they couldn't do it.”
Michael Schwimer Oct 15, 2018 ▶ 38:50 Michael Schwimer – Moneyball as an Investment Strategy (Capital Allocators, EP.72)
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Schwimer: All Big League Advance players in the majors have paid in full
“We have many, many players in the major leagues. They've all paid on time and in full.”
Michael Schwimer Oct 15, 2018 ▶ 41:54 Michael Schwimer – Moneyball as an Investment Strategy (Capital Allocators, EP.72)
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Two Soccer Federations Offered BLA Multi-Million Dollar Contracts Before Qatar World Cup
“Two soccer federations have reached out to us. We have nobody that has any experience in soccer, by the way. Two soccer feders reached out to us, offering us multi-million dollar year contracts to help them in advance of the World Cup in Qatar using advanced a…”
Michael Schwimer Oct 15, 2018 ▶ 44:49 Michael Schwimer – Moneyball as an Investment Strategy (Capital Allocators, EP.72)
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Assertion Supported
Schwimer: Less Than 10% of Minor Leaguers Reach Major League Baseball
“There's 7000 minor leaguers. And less than 10% will play one day in the major leagues, and less than three percent will actually get to arbitration and make, make big money.”
Michael Schwimer Oct 15, 2018 ▶ 9:21 Michael Schwimer – Moneyball as an Investment Strategy (Capital Allocators, EP.72)
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Assertion Supported
Schwimer: Minor leaguers are not represented by the MLBPA
“Minor leaguers are actually not covered under the Major League Baseball Players Association. They're not represented at all.”
Michael Schwimer Oct 15, 2018 ▶ 16:02 Michael Schwimer – Moneyball as an Investment Strategy (Capital Allocators, EP.72)
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Assertion Supported
Schwimer: Former Lakers analytics director Jason Rosenfeld joined Big League Advance
“Jason did leave the Lakers, came to work for big league advances, our chief strategy officer running the entire analytics team.”
Michael Schwimer Oct 15, 2018 ▶ 36:54 Michael Schwimer – Moneyball as an Investment Strategy (Capital Allocators, EP.72)
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Assertion Supported
Schwimer: Drafted by Phillies in 2008 With $5,000 Bonus
“Fortunately for me, baseball did work out and I was drafted in 2008 by the Philadelphia Phillies in the 14th round. There's 40 rounds now in the baseball draft. And I was a 14th round pick. My signing bonus was 5000 dollars.”
Michael Schwimer Oct 15, 2018 ▶ 8:20 Michael Schwimer – Moneyball as an Investment Strategy (Capital Allocators, EP.72)
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