A SharpMoney Alternative That Publishes Its Method
SharpMoney describes its Signal as “a proprietary system you won’t find anywhere else” with “all the logic baked right in” (read 17 August 2026). That is a fair description of most tools in this category, and it is the one thing this site refuses to be. Every number here shows the arithmetic that produced it, the method that de-vigged it, and the clock it was pulled at. A competitor wrote this page, it says so up front, and every claim about SharpMoney is sourced to their own pages with the date it was read.
Teacher’s Bet is a sports-betting analytics calculator that de-vigs posted prices, computes expected value, sizes stakes by the Kelly criterion, splits arbitrage stakes and prices prediction-market fees, printing the full derivation and a timestamp beside every number. It is not a sportsbook: it accepts no wagers, holds no funds and issues no picks. “Licensed” describes the data feeds (named on the methodology page): the board also quotes offshore venues as reference columns, marked as such on their face.
How this page is maintained
Disclosure: Teacher’s Bet is a competing tool. It has no commercial relationship with any company named on this page and receives nothing if you subscribe to one of them. No sportsbook or exchange pays us anything, and no link on this site pays anyone when a bet is placed; people who send us subscribers are paid a share of what those subscribers pay us, disclosed on their post. Outbound links to other tools are citations and carry rel="nofollow".
Sourcing: every statement about SharpMoney below is a fact published on a SharpMoney page or its own marketplace listing, linked at the point it is used, and read on . Where their pages say nothing, this page says “not found” and means exactly that: we looked and could not find it, which is different from it not existing. Their pages are the authority, prices and features change without notice, and nothing here rates, ranks or characterises another tool’s accuracy: that is not checkable from outside a paywall, so it is not claimed. This page makes no estimate of their revenue or subscriber numbers, which is not a reader’s business and not ours to publish.
Review cadence: re-verified against the source pages on the first of each month, and the date above is updated whether or not anything changed. If a fact here disagrees with the vendor’s page, the vendor’s page is right: send it over and it gets fixed.
What people are usually after when they search this
- The price. SharpMoney lists Core free, Pro at $79.99/month and Alpha at $199.99/month on its site, with a 3-day trial on the paid tiers. The break-even arithmetic in the next section is the whole decision, and it is division anyone can do in ten seconds.
- Whether you are buying a tool or a tipster. These are different products at different prices and the distinction gets blurred. SharpMoney’s marketplace listing describes the product as “+EV Betting and Handicapped Picks”, and its paid tiers include professional plays alongside the screen. Teacher’s Bet has no picks at any tier, so if plays are what you want, this is the wrong page and nothing below will change that.
- The black box. A tool prints “+EV” and there is no way to see where the number came from. Their Signal is described as built in-house with the logic baked in; we could not find a methodology page. Every number here has a “show the work” path, the pipeline is documented on methodology, and the underlying functions are on PyPI under an MIT licence.
- Limits. Winning accounts at retail sportsbooks get restricted, whatever tool found the price. That is a property of the book, not of the tool, and it is the reason this site’s fair-value work points at exchange order books, where the venue is not the counterparty. Covered in books vs. exchanges.
What a subscription has to earn back
A subscription is a fixed annual cost; profit from betting is a rate on money staked. Setting them equal gives the turnover a subscription costs, in dollars staked per year:
where is the total staked over a year, is the subscription price per month, and is return on turnover as a decimal.
Worked example: $199.99 a month at a 2% return
| Price per month | Per year | Handle at 1% | at 2% | at 3% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $25 (founder rate here) | $300 | $30,000 | $15,000 | $10,000 |
| $39 (standard here) | $468 | $46,800 | $23,400 | $15,600 |
| $79.99 (their Pro) | $959.88 | $95,988 | $47,994 | $31,996 |
| $199.99 (their Alpha) | $2,399.88 | $239,988 | $119,994 | $79,996 |
The math tier here is $0 and sits outside this table entirely: every calculator and the whole course cost nothing whether or not anyone ever subscribes.
Side by side, from their pages and this site’s shipped features
Every fact in the left column is from a SharpMoney page or its own marketplace listing, read on . Every fact in the right column is shipped and checkable today, not planned.
| Dimension | SharpMoney, per their pages | Teacher’s Bet, shipped |
|---|---|---|
| Price and free tier | Core free; Pro $79.99/month; Alpha $199.99/month, 3-day trial on the paid tiers, per their site. An annual plan: not found. | Math free; board free on a two-hour delay. Extra Credit $39/mo or $299/yr; first 100 subscribers $25/mo or $249 first year, 12 months, then standard. Pricing. |
| What is being sold | Their marketplace listing categorises the product as “+EV Betting and Handicapped Picks”, and the paid tiers list “professional plays” and the Signal. | Calculations, never picks. This site issues no plays at any price, and that is a fixed property of it rather than a tier. |
| Where the data comes from | “See historical pricing from the sharpest books — Pinnacle, Circa, Bookmaker — with Pinnacle limits to time your bets.” A statement of how that data is obtained: not found. | First-party licensed APIs, named: The Odds API for sportsbook lines, Kalshi’s official API for exchange prices. No scraping, and no purchased feed whose provenance is not warranted. |
| Fair-value method | Of the Signal: “A proprietary system you won’t find anywhere else. Everything behind it is built entirely in-house, with all the logic baked right in.” A methodology page: not found. | Methodology publishes the pipeline, the weighting formula and its constants, and names the steps that are not yet running. The math library is on PyPI, MIT-licensed. |
| Derivations | Not found. | On every result: implied probabilities, the overround, the de-vig method, the fair price, and the arithmetic between them. |
| Published track record | A record is published for the Signal: “32,079 Total Bets”, “55.7% Win Rate”, “+$164,602 Profit/Loss ($100/bet)”, “+5.4% ROI”. Presented as tracked history, not as a guarantee. | None, and there will not be one: this site does not bet and sells no picks, so it has no record of its own to publish. The record here is yours, on the Report Card, graded against the closing benchmark and frozen at close. |
| Headline promise | “Turn Your Hobby Into Your Side Hustle.” | “The math is free; speed and signal are paid.” Copy here describes the tool and never an outcome, which is a rule with a policy page behind it. |
| The company | A company name on the site: not found. The footer links are Plans, Tools, Guides, Promos, Results, Discord, X and YouTube. Their marketplace listing gives a seller location of Kenner, US. | Escapement Technologies LLC, Syracuse NY, in the footer of every page. Founder named, with a byline. Terms and privacy are plain HTML, one click from anywhere. |
| Responsible gambling | A disclaimer is present: “SharpMoney provides tools for informational purposes. Sports betting involves risk. Please gamble responsibly.” A helpline number or an age gate: not found. | 21+ age gate and the 1-800-GAMBLER and 1-800-522-4700 helplines on every entry path, and a responsible-gambling page. |
| Bet tracking | Not found as a tracker; the paid tiers distribute plays rather than grade yours. | The Report Card: closing-line-value grades on every logged bet, frozen at close, exportable, with realized results and a derived bankroll on subscribed accounts. |
| Hedge watch | Not found. | Paid alert on logged bets: when the other side prices into a lock against your price, the alert shows the matched stake and the locked return, with both timestamps. |
“Not found” means exactly that: we looked on the date given and could not find it. It is not a claim that the thing does not exist, and if their pages add any of it, the monthly re-verify updates this table.
What SharpMoney does that this does not
The honest half, and on this comparison it starts with the free tier, which is the part that usually gets left out.
- A bigger free tier on the board. Their Core tier lists the core +EV tool, an odds screen, a Promo Optimizer, calculators, Discord access, one-click bet links and a DFS tool, at no cost. The free board here runs two hours behind on purpose, and that delay is the paywall. On the screen specifically, theirs gives away more than ours does.
- Picks. Professional plays on the paid tiers, and a proprietary Signal on Alpha. This site will never have either, so if being told what to bet is the product you are shopping for, buy theirs and not ours.
- Coverage. 20+ sportsbooks spanning retail, sharp books, exchanges, prediction markets and offshore, plus historical Pinnacle pricing and Pinnacle limits. This site covers a smaller set of licensed feeds.
- DFS and promos. A DFS tool with exchange liquidity and a Promo Optimizer. Neither exists here at all.
- Community and track record. Their marketplace listing showed 5,573 joined and a 4.9 rating from 264 reviews on 17 August 2026, and the product dates to 2024. This site went live in July 2026 and its Discord is small. That asymmetry cuts against this page, which is why everything on it is written to be checked rather than believed.
The one question worth asking either way
Every “+EV” number any tool prints (theirs, this one’s, anyone’s) is a subtraction between the price you found and a fair line the tool chose to trust. Change that fair line by a point and a half and the same posted price flips from positive to negative.
It decides more than every feature list combined, and it has a page of its own: what to ask a +EV tool about its benchmark. This site’s answer is on the methodology page: the weighting formula, its constants, and which steps are not yet running.
Check this yourself
The claim that the math here is open is checkable in about thirty seconds, without an account:
pip install teachersbettextbook >>> from teachersbettextbook.devig import devig, prob_to_moneyline >>> devig(-180, 155, 'proportional') (0.6211096075778079, 0.37889039242219213) >>> prob_to_moneyline(0.6211096075778079) -163.92857142857144
Those are the same functions the calculator pages call. If the site ever prints something the package does not reproduce, one of them is wrong and it is worth knowing which.
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Frequently asked questions
Is there a free SharpMoney alternative?
Teacher’s Bet keeps every calculator and the whole Learn course free, with no account, no email and no card, and the free odds board runs on a stated two-hour delay. It is not a trial. SharpMoney also has a free tier, called Core, and on 17 August 2026 its listed contents were more generous than this site’s on the board specifically: core +EV tool access, an odds screen, a Promo Optimizer, calculators, Discord access, one-click bet links and a DFS tool. If a live free screen is what you want, theirs is the larger free tier and this page is not going to pretend otherwise.
Is SharpMoney legit?
Legit is a judgment, so this page prints checkable facts and no verdict. As of 17 August 2026: their homepage advertises “historical pricing from the sharpest books — Pinnacle, Circa, Bookmaker — with Pinnacle limits to time your bets” and we could not find any statement of where that data comes from; their Signal is described as “a proprietary system you won’t find anywhere else” with “all the logic baked right in”; their footer links are Plans, Tools, Guides, Promos, Results, Discord, X and YouTube, and we could not find a terms of service link, a privacy policy link, a company name or an age gate; and they publish a claimed record of 32,079 bets at a 55.7% win rate and +5.4% ROI. They do carry a disclaimer: “SharpMoney provides tools for informational purposes. Sports betting involves risk. Please gamble responsibly.” Their pages are the authority and any of this can change.
What does SharpMoney do that Teacher’s Bet does not?
Per their pages read on 17 August 2026: handicapped picks and a proprietary Signal on the paid tiers, 20+ sportsbooks including sharp books, exchanges, prediction markets and offshore books, historical Pinnacle pricing with Pinnacle limits, DFS tools, a Promo Optimizer, a free tier that includes the live +EV screen, and a community their marketplace listing shows as 5,573 joined with a 4.9 rating from 264 reviews. Teacher’s Bet sells no picks at all, covers a two-outcome stack from a smaller set of licensed feeds, and went live in July 2026.
Why does Teacher’s Bet not publish a win rate?
Because it does not bet. A published record is a record of somebody’s picks, and this site issues none: every output is arithmetic on a price you are looking at, with the derivation printed beside it. There is a record here, but it is yours rather than ours. The Report Card grades the bets you log against the closing benchmark, freezes each grade when the game closes, and shows the realized result separately from the closing-line grade, because those answer different questions. A tool that shows you its method lets you check today’s number; a tool that shows you its record asks you to trust yesterday’s.
Does this page earn a commission?
No. No company named on this page pays us anything, and no link on this site earns a sportsbook commission. Outbound links to other tools are citations and carry rel="nofollow". Teacher’s Bet pays people who send it subscribers a share of what those subscribers pay, disclosed on their post, and is itself a competing tool, disclosed at the top of this page.