BettingPros review: prop ratings with a public record, and a banner that oversells it

A tools site that rates every line

BettingPros is mainly a tools site: odds from a list of books, matchups, projections, a bet tracker and a rating out of five stars on player props. The trademark belongs to Marzen Media LLC, says the footer, and the copyright runs from 2018. The site's sections cover the NFL, MLB and college football.

The free tier, by the plans page, includes live odds, EV and bet ratings, daily expert picks and articles, and bet tracking. Plus adds "the pick on every prop & game" and premium projections, at $29.99 a month or $119.99 a year. Elite adds what it calls Sharp AI and 29,000-plus betting systems with their picks, at $49.99 a month or $199.99 a year. The yearly plans come with a three-day free trial. I didn't see refund or cancellation terms.

A record with the price in it

Here's what I like. The NFL prop record page says "All picks are recorded at the time of release," and shows, for each star rating and each market, the won-lost, the units, the ROI and the average odds. It even turns the units into dollars at $10 a unit. A unit with a size, a price behind every result and losing markets shown next to winning ones: that's the right shape for a record.

The page the home banner links to, for that week, showed 133 picks, a 50.4 percent win rate, plus 3 units and a 2.3 percent ROI at average odds of +103. At +103 you need 49.3 percent to break even, so that's a small edge over a week, and a week proves nothing either way. It's still the number I'd look at first, because it's the whole week and not the best of it.

The record is BettingPros' own. The page says "All picks verified", and nothing says who verified them besides the site. That's fine as far as it goes, and it is a long way from a record checked by someone with nothing riding on it, which is what the ATB Verified standard asks for.

The banner and the slice

Now the home page. Its banner says five-star NFL Receptions picks went 18-8 that week, 69 percent and plus 10 units. Follow the link and the 18-8 for plus 10 units sits under Passing Yards, not Receptions. On the same page Receptions were 12-9 for 3.8 units. Either the label is wrong or the link is, and I'd want to know which before I trusted the banner again.

Either way, 26 picks in one week, chosen from one market at one star rating, is the slice that happened to come in. The same page shows Rushing Yards at 12-18 for minus 4.9 units and First TD at 4-8. That's how any rating system looks on a single week: one row up, one row down, and the marketing picks the row. I'd want the five-star record over a full season, then two, before I paid for the rating on every prop.

The leaderboard isn't the experts

The accuracy leaderboard is a different thing again. It ranks users of the app by ROI, and the leader that day was at 145.4 percent ROI on a 4-3 record. Seven picks. That's a contest, not a record, and nobody should follow it.

Before you pay

The arithmetic is gentle at the yearly price. Plus at $119.99 a year is about $2.30 a week; say you bet ten rated props a week at $20 each and the ratings really do return 2.3 percent, as that week did. That's about $4.60 a week, which covers the fee with a little over. At $29.99 month to month it wouldn't. And a 2.3 percent ROI is small enough that one bad month wipes it out, which is why I'd want the season record first. The sum is laid out on what cappers are.

The prices on the record are the site's prices at release. Props move fast, and if you're betting a passing yards over a point higher than the rating used, you aren't getting that record. I'd note the number I actually got against the rated number, and check both against the close, as the closing-line value guide explains.

The questions I'd ask: who checks "all picks verified", where the season-long record by star rating is, which book's price each pick is graded at, and how to cancel a yearly plan after the trial.

No rating makes a prop a safe bet. Bet the same small share of your bankroll on every one, five stars or two.

Read the whole table. The banner is the part they chose.