Contact Teacher's Bet

Last reviewed 24 July 2026

Teacher’s Bet is run by one person, Alex Thornton, in Syracuse, New York. The address is alex@teachersbet.com, it reaches him directly, and it is the only channel — no phone line, no ticket queue, no chatbot.

What to write about

• A wrong number — the highest-priority mail this site gets. Include the page URL, the inputs you used, and the result you expected. A calculator that prints a wrong number is a broken product, not a cosmetic bug.
• Press and interviews — questions about the tool, the market math, or the prediction-market angle. Attribution details and the logo are on the about page.
• Data, licensing and API questions — what the site ingests, under which licence, and what is and is not available to third parties.
• Bugs — something rendered wrong, a page failed to load, a calculator refused valid input. Browser and device help.
• Security — mail it, do not post it. Describe what you found and how to reproduce it; you will get an acknowledgement before any fix ships.
• Billing — subscription and charge questions once checkout opens. The renewal and cancellation terms are on the pricing page.

The library that implements the math is public, so a disputed result can be reproduced independently — before or after mailing. It is teachersbettextbook on PyPI, MIT-licensed, and every formula it exposes is listed on the formula sheet.

The corrections policy

Stated plainly, so there is something to hold the site to:

1. Every article and reference page carries a last-reviewed date, and that date is the same string as the dateModified in the page’s structured data, so the visible date and the machine-readable one say the same thing.
2. A reported error is reproduced first, against the published library rather than against the site’s own output. If the two disagree, that itself is the bug.
3. If the page is wrong, it is fixed and redeployed, and the last-reviewed date changes to the day the fix went live.
4. A correction that changes a number or a method gets a dated correction note on the page itself. Typos, broken links and wording fixes do not — a correction notice that fires on every comma edit teaches readers to ignore it.
5. Nothing is quietly deleted. If a claim turns out to be wrong, the page says so rather than the sentence vanishing.

The full standard — who writes the pages, what gets reviewed, and the standing ban on picks, ratings and testimonials — is on the editorial policy page.

How fast you'll get an answer

One person reads this inbox, so these are honest expectations rather than a service guarantee:

• A wrong number: a reply within two business days, and same-day where the fix is obvious.
• Bugs, press, data and billing: within about a week.
• Security reports: acknowledged as soon as they are read; a fix ships before any public write-up.

There is no auto-responder, on purpose. Silence means the mail has not been read yet, not that a robot filed it somewhere.

What this inbox is not for

• Picks or handicapping requests. Teacher’s Bet does not issue picks or betting advice, by email or anywhere else. Outputs are calculations on inputs supplied by a user or on posted market prices, with the derivation shown.
• Sportsbook account problems. Teacher’s Bet is an analytics tool, not a sportsbook: it holds no funds, no accounts and no bets. A deposit, withdrawal or graded-bet dispute belongs with the book that holds the account.
• Gambling harm. That is not a support-inbox matter and no calculator can help with it. The National Council on Problem Gambling helpline is 1-800-522-4700, and 1-800-GAMBLER is staffed 24 hours. More resources are on the responsible gambling page.

Where everything else lives

• About — what the site is, who runs it, and what it refuses to do
• Pricing — what is free, what the paid tier costs, and how to cancel
• Methodology — how a fair line is built and when it is refused
• Formulas · Open source — the arithmetic, and the library that implements it
• Privacy · Terms