PropHitter is retired.

My views on sports betting have changed.

I built PropHitter to combine my background in math, science, software, and AI with my love of sports. Betting seemed a testing ground for analysis and experimentation: could knowledge and careful reasoning produce an edge? I supported adults testing their judgment and believed a wager could add to enjoying a game.

What made me love sports in the first place was the human experience: the people, the stories, the emotion, and the culture. Following teams across the NFL, NBA, MLB, and Premier League, I’ve found that the sense of community is what matters most to me. At university, I founded a club to give students a welcoming place to come together. Those connections cannot be captured fully in a statistic.

Over time, I came to believe that commercial betting was undermining that experience. My deepest concern is what it does to the integrity and culture of sports. To me, the legalized sports-betting industry as it exists today stands in direct opposition to the human values that made me love them. Sports depend on trust in the competition and a connection between fans, players, and teams. I believe the constant presence of odds, promoted parlays, and betting advertisements pulls attention away from that shared experience. It encourages us to judge a performance by what it pays out, rather than what it means to the game.

Athletes should not have to carry the consequences of someone else's wager. Betting-related harassment and threats make this a question of their welfare and safety. Protecting the integrity of sports means more than preventing outright cheating. It means allowing people to compete without ordinary successes and mistakes becoming reasons for abuse or suspicion.

I know people, both younger and older, who have been drawn into sports gambling, and I have seen the damage. Entertainment can become difficult to leave when betting starts to look like income or an escape from financial pressure. That goes far beyond the small, voluntary stake I originally imagined.

I do not want gambling to become an assumed part of being a fan. Sports advertising reaches younger audiences as well as adults. Incentives to keep betting can make it harder for vulnerable people to leave. Reporting on data and predictive models used to target promotions has deepened my concern about commercial interests conflicting with customers' well-being.

I am also troubled by the growing influence of large financial interests on that experience. When that experience becomes another arena dominated by institutions pursuing financial returns, I feel something essential is lost. I worry that when every part of being a fan becomes another opportunity to sell something, the shared experience gets pushed aside.

I no longer believe the current commercial sports-betting system serves those values. I am not convinced that its financial incentives can be reconciled with adequately protecting the people affected by them. The expansion of betting into more areas of everyday life through prediction markets has reinforced those concerns. For these reasons, I no longer support legalized commercial sports betting.

That is why I am retiring PropHitter. The original website is preserved here with frozen data as a record of what I built. You can explore its dashboard, player research tools, and interactive charts, but it no longer produces or updates betting recommendations.

Thank you to everyone who used PropHitter, shared feedback, or supported the project.