Meet Douglas Farmer, Our Betting Analyst

Douglas Farmer spends his days considering college football and his nights thinking about the NBA. His betting habits and protection follow that exact same pattern. He covered Notre Dame football for numerous outlets from 2008 to 2024, most significantly spending eight seasons as NBC Sports' beat writer on the Irish. That was also when his gaming focus removed. Knowing there were seasoned beat authors with 3 decades more experience than he had, Douglas discovered his niche by finest acknowledging Notre Dame's standing in each year's nationwide landscape, a complex tapestry most easily comprehended and remembered via betting chances.


In 2021, that interest produced a freelance opportunity with Covers, a role that eventually led to Douglas signing up with the company full-time in 2023. In the fall, Douglas will position five or 6 dozen bets weekly, an out of proportion quantity through BetRivers due to the fact that the operator tends to have lines a little different than the remainder of the market. The very same can be said of Circa Sports' futures markets.


While Douglas is a devoted NBA fan and covers the league throughout the year, the huge bulk of his bets are on college football, because that is the greatest secret to sports betting: Know what you do not know.


What makes Douglas Farmer a professional?


Douglas tends to hyper-fixate on singular topics, and college football leads that list. Spending more than a years on the Notre Dame football beat provided lots of time to study the sport as an entire, as have 8 years in the 200-level of Target Center as a Minnesota Timberwolves' season-ticket holder.