“When I got started, baseball was the best game in town,” he said Tuesday. “They were making some big mistakes, especially in the futures markets, pricing the long shots incorrectly. That was how I got a big enough bankroll to play with … Early in the 2000s, I was quick to adopt a lot of the new stats they had out there, and I think the books took a long time to incorporate the new stats into their oddsmaking. So for a while, the stats guys were really ahead of the curve. I know some other people who also cleaned up on baseball. It’s a lot harder game now.”