Josh Appelbaum. Fact-Checker · United States

I've worked in sports betting since 2011, and I've been a Sports Betting Analyst at VSiN since 2019 — the Vegas Stats & Information Network, where data does the talking. I host VSiN's Market Insights Podcast, contribute data-driven betting articles to VSiN.com, and show up regularly across VSiN and DraftKings programming, including Follow the Money, The Lombardi Line, Sharp Money, and The Sweat.

I call myself a contrarian bettor because the numbers usually reward it — the crowd is often wrong in a predictable direction, and spotting that gap is most of the job. I wrote The Everything Guide to Sports Betting to put that mindset into something a newer bettor could actually use.

As fact-checker here, that's exactly the discipline I bring: every wagering term, every “up to” figure, every payout claim gets checked against the operator's actual fine print before it goes anywhere near a published page.