The Betcast Ledger: Football Podcast Scoreboard, September 14-20, 2026

Welcome to the Betcast Ledger.

We're back again, another week, another episode, and most importantly, another report.

Oh yeah, we got a good one today.

Really are trying to make these reports valuable and give you something interesting, give you something that maybe you didn't know,

in regards to sports data, sports tracking, in particular to podcast host and all their lovely picks, which is what we do here.

Data tracking, tracking those bets across the podcast ecosystem, across the podcast, the sports gambling podcast universe.

We're tracking all those picks.

Then you say, why?

Why?

Because we want that data.

We want those picks to help us and guide us to making better sports gambling choices.

So the picks are information.

That's why we want those picks.

And we do a heck of a job trying to validate those.

And I know I've said this before.

I know I've gone into this spiel.

But hey, I'm growing.

We have a very young, sort of not young in age, but young in sort of time of an audience.

Maybe we do have some young folks who knows.

I don't 100% know the demographics.

I'm just out here trying to have a little bit of fun and bring some value and hopefully for the hard work and value that I bring.

some of those things would get returned to me in ways to help cover, you know, the ability to bring you this.

But nonetheless, we want that information.

We want that data.

And then as a part of that, we didn't determine if that bet won or lost.

So not only are we gathering all these picks from

I mean, a whole host of sports gambling podcast.

The, the, the net is huge in terms of what we're gathering here and the, the different sports that we're tracking.

And so not only are we getting all those picks, right?

Most importantly, then we're telling you if they want a loss and that data is also important.

Because that allows you to make decisions of, hey, are those picks really good?

Or are those picks really hitting?

Because like I've always said, it's fun to gamble.

But most importantly, you want to make money.

That's why you gamble in stocks.

That's why you gamble in crypto.

That's mostly why you gamble in sports.

That's why you get a lotto ticket.

It's a gamble, maybe not the best

gamble I would advise, although every blue moon, I buy a lotto ticket, every blue moon, I can't actually, the last, I don't think I've bought a lotto ticket in 2026.

Nonetheless, if you count a 10 leg parlay as a lotto ticket, then yeah, I've gotten a few of those.

Gotten a few of those, but the information is key.

And that's why I am very excited when I get on

to the mic.

It was a, it was an interact.

Like I said, I didn't know if I was going to do, I didn't start Betcast with the endeavors of starting a podcast.

A podcast never was a part of the equation for Betcast.

What was a part of the equation was getting a product out there that was valuable.

And most importantly, a product that I loved and used

and was valuable to me.

It had to be valuable to me first, because I went down this road of creating a lot of projects, having app ideas and all kind of stuff.

But then it never even connected with me.

So what was I building?

At the end of the day, it had to connect with me.

Now, there's all kind of different entrepreneurs or mindsets.

You know, some people can just spit out a whole bunch of products that don't mean anything to them and maybe one of them could be successful and then they run with that.

I tried that.

You know, I, for me personally, I have to feel connected to the project, to the endeavor in some way.

It has to hit me, it has to connect with me.

I have to love it, be passionate about it in some degree.

for something to, for me to really care about and grow in nature and nurture.

That's why I actually meant this, I meant to say and nurture something.

And that's how we got here.

Hello to all of you and thanks for listening.

Before I forget, yes, email me, please, joe at Betcast,

AI.com.

Check me out on X. Joe from Betcast.

Look for me.

You'll find me.

I'm out there.

I don't have a huge follow.

I'm getting some followers as I continue to engage and operate on X. I love, I love posts.

It's, it's a lot of fun.

It's, it's kind of my favorite social media.

It's just, I like it.

It's a fun outlet and um,

I am just trying to put good stuff out there.

If you like it, great.

And we'll grow as I should.

There's no magic button that I can press coming from really no one knowing who I am or what I do or what I'm trying to do.

So really going from zero, zero,

That very first podcast I put out, we're talking about crickets.

I mean, I'll just let my family and for a couple people know, but I don't really do any, I'm not doing any major marketing campaigns or anything like that.

I'm, I am, I'm not saying I want to grow slowly cause that could be never.

Uh, but I really want to make sure that I am doing something

that I care about, that is fun to me, that is interesting, and then most importantly, beneficial in this arena of sports gambling.

Okay, yeah, I'm not changing the world here.

I'm not fixing global warming or solving the conflict in Gaza.

Although maybe one day I could venture there, who knows?

But this, this, Betcast, the Betcast Ledger, it's about sports gambling.

It's about sports tracking.

It's about data processing.

It's about making sense of the numbers.

It's about allowing the numbers to help you, myself, make better sense of a pick or a bet.

I'm learning as we go.

I'm learning as we go.

And it's fun.

It's fun to learn.

It's fun to learn.

So yeah, check it out, betcastai.com.

This podcast is about promoting the data reports that the system delivers that I

derived from looking at the data.

And there's a lot you can do on there.

You can generate cards.

I have something that I'm excited to show.

I probably won't show it, but I'll talk more about it probably next week.

But it's called Betcast Scout.

And it's going to be more of a chat-like interaction that you can have with a validated

data.

As of right now, the only entry point into the validated picks is generating a card.

And hey, as much as I love the card generation, I'm starting to realize as I use the application, as I want to bring value out of the application, I'm starting to realize that I want more specific data in terms of a pick, in terms of a podcast, in terms of a game, in terms of a market.

And the car generation just doesn't quite give me that.

It gives me some good information about a particular sport or a host of sports.

But it's lacking in terms of like, I want information about this one game.

I want information about this one game in this one market.

What is the podcast data telling me about that?

How many episodes support that?

How many episodes are against it?

Then I can start making even better decisions about the consensus, about a cluster, about the information.

So that's called Betcast Scout.

So far, a couple of beta testers are using it, and I hope I get some feedback.

But again, it's in beta, and I'm hoping to make it a part of the

a part of the feature list for paid subscribers.

But before I get to off, off the tangent here, cause I can't, I will tang.

I'll tang.

And before you know it, it's an hour.

I'm like, we just came here to talk about the report.

But that's what BetCance is about.

That's what I'm about.

That's what I am trying to do.

And I want it to be interesting and valuable.

That's important.

And the way that I help achieve that goal is by using it myself, whether

I use the UI or whether I use the data.

If I find the data valuable as someone who likes to gamble on sports, I want to give that to you.

Cause I know you like to do it too.

We like to do it.

We like to hit.

And so let's all

together, who knows?

Be profitable.

And if not, we can look and see like what's profitable, what's not profitable.

I don't see a problem with that.

I don't see any issues with that.

You don't have to follow every little detail.

If you have discretionary funds and you like

putting it on a stock.

You don't have to know everything about that company for you to be profitable.

A lot of people get information, insider information, outsider information.

So I'm bringing the information.

I'm the window into a new set of data to help you make a decision.

It's not, well, it's not new with podcasts have always been given picks.

So that's not new.

What's new is the,

swath of information that we're bringing together, centralizing it.

Centralizing all that information and trying to provide context.

That's what this report is about.

And we'll get into that here in a second.

But first, as always, each episode, we're going to look

at the count.

We got to look at the count.

I won't spend too much time, but hey, we're, we're almost at 40,000.

Almost at 40,000 picks, baby.

I'm gonna do something that 50 K every 50 K. I'm gonna do something.

I don't know what that something is, but I'm gonna do it.

40,

almost 39,795 to be exact.

All right, that's about four and a half picks per extracted episode.

So every episode we're getting almost four and a half picks.

Four and a half picks.

All right.

So again, check it out.

if you go to betcastai.com you'll see the count on the homepage if you haven't created a betcast account in order to be able to log in or you can just go straight to the to the count page betcastai.com slash count okay you can kind of see see what we're doing I want to be transparent I want to

let the awesome people that care about this or that are tuning in or that are subscribed or that are just interested in getting information, I want you to have what I have and track what I'm tracking.

And this is sort of a high level, like, hey, here's all the picks we're looking at.

Here's what we validated.

Here's what we settled.

Here's some of the futures and here's why.

We haven't settled some picks, or here's why some picks aren't validated.

And look, I'm constantly making the system better, so these numbers will constantly change.

And one other point, too, is if you're a podcast host and you see a profile, I want to just be accurate.

whenever you're dealing with this much data and you're dealing with a lot of automated processing, it's not going to be perfect.

There will be some things that may get settled incorrectly.

I'm doing a great job of not, you know, of not validating some pics.

So that that is something that's actually working.

We just I just got to get a better way to triage in those those particular pics.

But

I just want to give a shout out to like just when that's baby, uh, I've been communicating with them behind the scenes and, and, um, and I, I want to make sure that they know that I'm open.

If, if there's any dispute about any picks, please let me know.

Um, I sent them an email of, of, of a report of some picks that we were tracking with the quotes with the settlements.

Um, so.

I can give that to any podcast host if there's a pick that I might have missed.

And then I can kind of look into, maybe there was a particular bug in that settlement query.

Or maybe there was, maybe we got the wrong game.

There's lots of things that could have happened.

So I wanna make sure, and it's a part of the, if Betcast had a mission statement, it'd be like, it'd say,

accurate tracking information that is there for everyone to see.

Man, I really messed up that mission statement.

I got a workshop.

I tried to freestyle a mission statement and it went poorly.

But yeah.

Almost 40,000 picks.

That's it.

Now, let's see here.

What do we got?

Oh, yeah.

Just to kind of reiterate, email me.

Reach out to me on Twitter if there's something that is missing or if I got a pick wrong or if the system got a pick wrong.

or maybe it's not tracking, because I have, now I will say this, I have got an email and I had a, this was a while ago, I had to actually fix some of the processing around the transcripts to open up getting and tracking particular bets.

I had a clamp on what I was actually tracking, which I removed.

And from that point forth,

haven't heard that there's been any issues there.

But yeah, I'm just trying to get, look, I'm just trying to get it right, because I want to get it right for myself.

I don't want to, I don't want to say a podcast is number one, number two, and I'm like, and the whole record is messed up.

So yeah, I'm dealing with a lot of data over here.

Some of it is being done automatically.

Some of it requires mainly review.

It's not going to be perfect.

But we're going to strive, we're going to pursue.

That's right.

We're going to do our best.

Our very best.

I promise you.

All right.

Let's get into this report.

Let's get into this report.

The headline.

The headline in this report is

the podcast ecosystem, the podcast data overall.

When you look at decisions, when you look at number of picks and when you look at the Ren, uh, the win rate, it's not good.

It's not good.

That's just a bottle high level overall.

what was captured for the week.

Let me zoom in a little bit for the YouTube feed.

Yes, check out the YouTube feed, Betcast.

Betcast AI.

But when you look at everything from a high, high level between

September 14th and September 20th, it's not good.

And there's nobody to blame.

It's just that you got a lot of picks wrong.

You got a lot of picks, not just one, a lot of where the wind was blowing.

Let's say where there was a beehive, where there was lots of honey, lots of bees.

that branch got chopped down and that brought down the performance.

But I have faith.

I have faith in the podcast world that you're going to get it back because some of you individually podcast or sorry, some single shows did great, did great.

And we're going to look at those here.

We're going to check those out, give them some shout outs.

but as a whole, not very good.

As you can see here, maybe I'll zoom in just a one more.

As you can see here, had a 46.8% win rate.

That's, that's not profitable.

Let's put it like that.

That's across 145 shows.

So for this week's slice, 145 different podcasts produced 2,425 picks and it yielded 1,134 correct picks at a 50

No, sorry, 46.8% win rate.

So higher level, you haven't quite as a group performed well and that's okay.

It's the first week of football.

Maybe there's some misalignment, some misjudgment, some bad information,

Whatever the case may be, the gut just wasn't right or it's a new year, things are crazy.

But I'm hoping by week or the coming weeks, we can get a little bit better.

But again, not all bad, not all bad as a whole bad.

But if you kind of peel in there, if you kind of look in there, which we're going to do.

We'll see some positive.

And I'll point that out.

But first stop, just a kind of clean split here.

We had NFL specifically.

Now this is a reminder.

This is not just NFL.

This is NFL and college football.

So 2,425 picks across both NFL and college football.

And the split was

Pretty interesting.

44.5% NFL win rate, if you just split it down.

They had about similar amount of decisions.

College football had a thousand decisions.

NFL had 1,425.

So just four, you know, about 500 more, 400 more decisions.

But college football broke even.

I mean, you didn't break even with money.

I'm saying the percentage itself is 50% because it should be noted that you got to actually go a little bit above 50% for it to actually be profitable over time because you're going to have to pay a little bit more in order to actually win.

So that percentage goes up if you actually want to break even.

All right.

But nonetheless, that's the percentages between NFL and college football.

Now.

Now, let's look into the markets here.

Yes.

Now we're getting to the individual markets for each.

So we broke it down into the two big markets.

We're not looking at props here.

We're just looking at totals and spreads.

Totals and spreads.

That's where we got a lot of data.

We got a lot of data for totals and spreads.

So if you look at the win percentages,

You would have made money if you bet or followed or should say the podcast sports gambling conglomerate, they would have made or they made money on totals.

They went 94 and 74, 168 decisions.

That's 56%.

So from a total standpoint,

You're doing good.

So again, what does that tell you?

What does that tell me?

What does that tell us?

It tells us that there's more profitable plays in the totals market, specifically the NFL totals market.

That could change.

That's just, this is just, look, again, a small slice.

You can become a subscriber.

You can log in and you can use the Explorer and you can,

change the size to a larger sample size.

But this is just a weekly report that we're looking at this particular week between the 14th and the 20th.

Of course, when we get to certain parts of the season, which would be the, that had to be the most fun, we'll do a look back over a larger sample size, and then we can say, then we can make some even more definitive conclusions.

But right now the most profitable plays are NFL totals.

The least profitable plays are NFL spreads.

That went 45.9%.

So ironically at the top we got the NFL totals and at the bottom we got the NFL spreads.

So

That tells me be weary about the spreads.

If I'm going to do a spread bet, I'm going to do some extra research.

I'm going to look at some prediction models.

I'm going to look at the sort of price that I got or that I'm given or that I see.

And I'm really going to dig down to make a decision on a spread.

Because, again, not profitable.

Not profitable now.

This is where things get a little bit interesting.

Let me zoom out here.

So if you kind of look at everything, because I saw this data, obviously, before producing this report.

And when I looked at it, I was like, OK.

Yeah, overall, that was the win percentage.

Not good.

But I was wondering what contributed to the bad performance.

What contributed?

So I had the system.

We dug a little bit deeper.

And I wanted to know the top 10 picks that

made or broke the record, the win rate.

And most importantly, it wasn't about just the top 10 picks.

I wanted to know the top 10 picks that had the most support.

That's the key.

Top 10 picks that had the most podcast support.

How did those picks perform?

How did those picks settle?

Cause that tells you a lot that tells you exactly sort of sometimes, or it kind of expresses this thought that look, sometimes when there's a huge cluster somewhere, we want to know is everybody right or is everybody wrong?

So as we get back into it, the number one,

that really brought down the house was the Houston, Texas minus two and a half.

It also brought down my house.

Uh, I went with the, I went with the cluster here and I got burned.

It's okay.

It's okay.

Hey, the idea is that you're profitable over time.

You're going to have some losses.

And this was a big one because

as you can see there was a huge cluster around the Texans covering against the Bengals and I thought coming off that really tough loss they look it looked pretty good I mean they had a chance to beat that Buffalo team that everybody thinks is going to the Super Bowl and I thought that they you know being at home with that defense I thought that we're gonna

That seemed like a good, my gut agreed with it.

Nonetheless, we see what happens.

So if we look at this, and we won't go through every single one, but if you kind of take a look at the top 10 most supported picks, look, only three, only three of them won.

Every other,

Top 10 supported pick lost.

It lost.

It goes the, the, the jets money line loss.

The Denver Broncos to cover loss.

The Cowboys.

loss.

I mean, speaking of that game, wow.

Look how one week the Cowboys couldn't cover.

As a matter of fact, lost to the giants and now the giant season is over based off what happened.

Unless Winston can, can Jamis start Jamison it up?

I don't know.

These are, these are the picks that cost the podcast ecosystem this week.

The Broncos money line, the bucks.

Whoa.

16 shows were on the books to cover.

They were minus eight and a half.

Okay.

Wow.

And they lost.

I mean, not that they didn't cover.

They lost.

Talk about a shocker.

I actually had the bucks.

and a money line that I had them in a leg of a money line parlay.

Terrible.

Terrible.

I had, I had the bucks.

I had the Texans and a money line parlay just, just not good.

Games that I thought they were going to know, not to mention,

This was, this was a, see, I love the Ravens and I had this also in a money line parlay and they lost, but I saw that it was a lot of consensus that the saints could cover, but I didn't want to, that was one of my heart picks because I don't want to, I can't put money on my Ravens to not do well.

So that's why I got to, I got to pick bets that I can like,

Prop bets or if I think they'll cover cover but I'll if I think they'll just barely win I'm not gonna I'm not gonna put money on the Night.

See I'm not there yet.

I don't have that much disgust Yet, but that loss was ugly.

Whoo And so if you kind of look at the numbers here You can see that out of the top ten picks They had a win percentage of

6.9%.

So not even 30%.

Like I said, they only hit three out of these 10.

And so that's what we're looking at at a high level.

These, these clusters just didn't do well, which I don't think will always be the case.

It was just one of those weeks.

But where the bright spot lays, as we talked about here at the top of the report is the totals.

The totals had a profitable win rate.

And then when you look at the five most supported totals, only one lost.

So that's the type of numbers you want to see when there's a cluster around a pick coming from a reliable source like the podcast ecosystem.

Because, you know, I,

I trust you on the forefront.

As I've said before, you're doing all the research.

You're in it.

You're in the business of getting this data.

You are someone might say professionals and you're teaching us.

So I trust in it.

And this will happens when you do trust in it.

The top supported, for example, Broncos chiefs under boom,

Like I said, when, when, when top five, the only loss was the Minnesota Vikings and bears, which maybe we should have saw that one coming with the rain, but nobody, I mean, considering that Ben Johnson wants to be the highest scoring offense ever, that game just was a slugfest.

So,

That's what we're looking at here.

Um, totals did great.

And just a little quick peek into the confidence.

Um, the high confident labeled picks are not doing well.

That kind of goes into the overall, um, theme here, but

to the next bright spot.

So again, bright spot in totals.

And then we have a, I want to recognize five podcasts here that within this sample size really performed well and deserves a shout out and deserves recognition.

Whatever the little bit of recognition I can give

has to go to these five podcasts.

That's Tarp Sports.

They went nine and two, 81.8%.

Bear Bets, a Fox Sports gambling show, 76%, 19 and six.

Dan Patrick takes a gamble.

Extra shout out to them because they recognized my X post.

They quoted it.

I love it.

Thank you.

Dan Patrick takes a gamble.

Give me a shout out.

We're here tracking the data, providing information.

So tune in.

Hey, each week, if you want tune in to say, give me a shout out.

Say let's tune in to Betcast and see how we're ranking this week.

Cause you did pretty good.

14 and five over 19 decisions, 73.7% hit rate, win rate.

All systems go with Josh Appelbaum.

Eight and four, 66.7%.

VSiN college football betting podcast, 17 and nine, 26 decisions.

That's the 65.4%.

These podcasts, and see, that's what I wanna be able to give when you're sitting down making a bet.

I want you to be able to come to Betcast, use Betcast Scout and say, hey,

What are the validated picks for tarp sports for the NFL slate this week?

And you can get that information.

Right now you can.

Unfortunately, right now you can't.

It's in beta.

But right now, the only way that you would get that is if you have to go to the NFL, generate a card, and then look at the sources and see which one came from tarp sports.

But if I take a quick peek into their account,

They got an overall profitable win rate.

But look at this.

Look at these NFL picks right here.

Where are they actually ranked NFL?

Oh, look at that.

10 and two here.

Let me zoom out so we can see.

Number one in the NFL.

Whoo.

You gotta eat a badge for that.

Yes.

Top ranked NFL podcast.

Congratulations.

Tarp Sports.

Small small sample size only 12 Decisions in and you have to meet a 10 decision minimal threshold to be ranked So once they cross 10 they can be ranked.

Nobody's bidding a 3.3% Look at this just wins across the board wins across the board

So again, major shout outs to these podcasts.

Hey, I'm shouting out to y'all shout out to me.

Give me some love for what we're doing here, for what we're doing here.

As I said, I want to be the official podcast tracking system.

I want to be the official podcast tracking news reporter.

We are.

as far as I'm concerned, we are.

But that concludes the report here.

Go check it out.

You can see all the reports at betcast.com slash reports.

You can email me, Joe,

at batcastai.com.

You can find me on X Joe from Batcast.

Check me out.

You can check us out on the YouTube feed.

Check out the podcast.

Do whatever.

But I'm here.

And that was good.

That was, that was, that was a doozy.

You know,

I really feel as this report will help me as I put together my Sunday buffet abet.

So again, I appreciate it.

Appreciate you tuning in.

And as always.