A Numbers Game | August 12, 2026 | Hour 3

**Todd Wishnev** (0:00)
The Numbers told the story, they always do.

**Gill Alexander** (0:02)
It's one of those idiots who believe in analytics.

**Todd Wishnev** (0:05)
This is a Numbers Game with Gill Alexander on VSiN.

**Gill Alexander** (0:08)
Our number three of a Numbers Game at VSiN, eSportsMediNetwork, vsin.com, Game Plus. Let's see, there's iHeartRadio, there's YouTube TV, there's SiriusXM Channel 158 I could go on.

**Kelley Bydlon** (0:19)
Good job.

**Gill Alexander** (0:20)
I choose to end there.

**Kelley Bydlon** (0:21)
Dustin kept leaving out Game Plus. I had to make sure we got Game Plus.

**Gill Alexander** (0:24)
He's... is that the anti-Canadian stuff? Is that what he was getting with?

**Kelley Bydlon** (0:29)
That was it, literally. That was it.

**Gill Alexander** (0:32)
And then people said that. That was literally. The man loves Canada, for god sakes. I'm a spook of Dustin Tweedleson, who is on every night cashing out here at the network. Did a great job here filling in last week and then part of the week before. We get tweets of beating the book. Dr. Actor KJ, oh, he's the biology nerd.
I think he's the biology nerd. He says, oh, sweet, innocent Kelley, living in the desert and having to play golf for hours with a temp of 99, 98 percent humidity with a heat index of 125 and profusely sweating. Just standing still are not the same thing. Been in Memphis 16 years, still not used to it.

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:06)
Yeah, but it's brutal. I mean, I've lived in South Florida for a while. Venezuela, those those humid places.

**Gill Alexander** (1:12)
I prefer humidity over this oven of Vegas because maybe because I grew up in it. I prefer the humidity.

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:18)
I do not. However, I find people comical that have a strong, strong opinion. They're both miserable. They're both miserable. Yeah.

**Gill Alexander** (1:30)
David Shalifour. Yo, I would do the club for 5K, but only the tip of no ball strike. Okay, I see what you did there. Thank you, David Shalifour, best listeners of the game. Rich Sports 1981, Wishnev Wednesday. The worst segment of ANG always reminds me to take my trash out. Pause. Just kidding. Haters gonna hate on Todd. Keep crushing it, Todd.
Boudin boy. I respect paying the bills with that department of we don't listen to the commercials.

**Kelley Bydlon** (1:55)
Also, I don't know what that I saw your tweet. I don't we don't know. We don't hear the programming the commercials, depending on where you're listening.

**Gill Alexander** (2:02)
Ace de Cardona, which panelist was the motherless see you next Tuesday lying about and taking shots at Todd? Completely unacceptable. Todd is a nice, brilliant guy who is crushing and helping people. I'm telling you from yesterday, from the segment I did yesterday on it till now, nothing but non-stop support for Toddie Wishnev. I don't even know if he went and listened to it. It is the great Todd Wishnev, the star of Wishnev Wednesdays in the flesh, courtesy of the Progressive Guest Line. I don't get the flesh, that means he'd be here, but he's courtesy of the Progressive Guest Line from Pittsburgh, PA. Toddie, good morning. How you doing, man?

**Todd Wishnev** (2:35)
How you doing, Gilley? What's going on?
By the way, I would say there's a fundamental misunderstanding in this whole discussion of whether you can get the number or not.
If you understand how in-game markets work, it is not like a pre-game market where the game can be plus five and then all the sharps come in on the side and Dr. Bob releases, and now it's plus three.
My friends, if you watch the in-game markets, they are based on the closing number and the algorithm. There is not that much difference between all the different books as in-game numbers out there. So for those who say that you only get a small percentage, it's just factually incorrect. Yes, it is. Now, I can't look at that many books myself. I only have like three or four books that I can still do this with, and those books are not that different. Once in a while, yeah. Okay. I do a lot of first half with like eight minutes left in the first half, 12 minutes left in the first half college basketball betting. You might see 72 and a half at one book, 72 and a half at another book, minus 114, minus 121, 72 and a half minus 108 somewhere else, maybe 71 and a half minus 130 somewhere else. But that's pretty close to 72 and a half because you're paying more big, right? So that's almost all of them are going to be running the same numbers. Now, what people are saying is, very often it takes me time to make the bet, decide I want to make the bet at the commercial. Remember, there's only two minutes, and a lot of times you're 30 seconds behind because of the TV delay already. So maybe there's only a minute and a half. Now, you've got to decide what to do. I've got to go make the bet. It may be at a kiosk. If I'm sitting at Rivers, that takes time. I got to come back, post the bet. Now, sometimes the game has just started or has gone 30 seconds by the time I get my post in. So let's say I say over 71 and a half first half with eight minutes to go, and the first possession is empty. Guess what? You're going to get better than 71 and a half.