Instructions for Downloading and Saving the New Week's Statistic File

Instructions for downloading and saving the Premium Program

The latest Version of the Football Forecaster Premium Program is version 5.3 and is called Forecaster14.xls.

The new week's stat file is usually available no later than 11pm each Wednesday evening EST. Please read the instructions in full so you can get a good idea of how the program functions.

1. LOGIN TO OUR WEBSITE - Open your browser to www.footballbet.net and go to the download center by clicking ‘Download’ on the drop down menu under the System menu column. Input the case sensitive username (forecaster) and password for 2014 (pistol). This will bring you to the page where you can download the most current Program file.

2. DOWNLOAD PROGRAM FILE - Right click on the filename link Forecaster14.xls and choose "Save target as..." and save the file on your computer. You only have to download this spreadsheet once at the beginning of the season.

3. DOWNLOAD WEKLY STATISTIC FILE – There is a ‘Download Week’ tab in the spreadsheet where you will go when it is time to download the weekly stat file. Since currently in the beginning of the season there are no actual real game stats to download I have provided a test file ‘Week 99’ that can be downloaded to get a sample of how the program functions. Once the THIRD weekend of games comes around the stat file will be available each Wednesday evening no later than 11 PM.

That's all there is to downloading the program and weekly stat file!

ANALYZING WEEKLY GAMES Open Forecaster14.xls – Please enable Macros and allowing external content if Excel asks if you should do so otherwise the program will not work! You should print out the instructions and read them to fully understand the methodology and what the program is trying to calculate. When you are ready to analyze a week open the ‘Download Week’ tab and press the button for the week that you would like to analyze. There will be a slight pause while the spreadsheet imports the data from our website. Once that is done, all the information is right there for your analysis. You may also change the point spreads if they change during the week for any game (column ‘P’) or the Over/Under points (column ‘W’). When you complete filling in all the games for the week the program will rank the bets from best to worst, and based on the amount of Variance Points advise you what type of bet each game is (Best Bet+, Best Bet, Good Bet, Do Not Bet). You can print out just a summary of the week (‘Print Worksheet’ button) or all the team data (‘Print Data Sheet’ button).

After the games have been played, enter the actual final scores in the program (column ‘U’) and it will automatically compute the wins and losses both straight up and against the spread, as well as the Over/Under results. Print this out on a weekly basis for your records and also transfer this result data to the Year to Date workbook tab. You can also enter your monetary wins and losses on the Bet Ledger workbook tab.

Frequent Mistakes or Questions  If Microsoft excel will not let you run the program because of macros running in the workbook you have to adjust the security settings. Make sure Macros are enabled and external content is allowed to be downloaded.  DO NOT CHANGE THE FILE NAME OF THE EXCEL WORKBOOK OR THE PROGRAM MIGHT NOT WORK.  If you want to save each week as a separate file then please use the “Save As…” function and save the Forecaster14.xls file with a different name (ie: Forecatser14_Week8.xls).  After you transfer the results for the week to the Year to date tab you can press the ‘Delete Actual Scores’ button to clear the scores.  See the bottom of the instructions tab in the workbook for the typical weekly step-by-step procedure.

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