The McFly Scheme: Time Travel Sports Betting
At one time or another we have all had the day dream about traveling back in time like Biff in Back To The Future 2 and betting on events you know the outcome of. The plan is simple, figure out some events you want to bet on, find out the final outcomes, find a time machine, and head back in time to place an enormous bet and then fly back to the future to enjoy your winnings and interest. Well its not that simple but you get the idea. Unfortunately that plan is incredibility flawed; minus the entire time travel concept. Don’t believe us?
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Pfft, c’mon…I realized back when I was 12 and thought I could actually time travel that the first thing I’d need to do would be to get older money…even if you have to go in steps, like find some bills from 2000, then take those back to 2000 and swap them for bills printed in 1990, and so on. It’s a little disturbing that this is being stated as such a startling realization.
1) New Money Problem – i’ve found that old bills are usually sprinkled in with the new ones that you get from the bank. That’s because people who have squirreled away money in the mattress for years will eventually deposit the cash. The bills are in good condition, so the bank puts them back into circulation. That solves the problem of not having enough cash in 1950.
2) Low Odds – Why pick the World Series? A Sports Almanac would have hundreds of other games to choose from. You would find much better odds betting on football, basketball or horse racing, for example. Find a horse running at 100-1 that wins and you will make a killing! Just remember to spread your bets around so no one gets suspicious.
3) Buy real estate with your winnings. After you’ve reached an arbitrary goal, say $1 million in winnings, start buying up real estate. Las Vegas is a good starting point since there were only 5 casinos operating in 1950. You could buy up the entire strip! Or maybe just stick to Manhattan brownstones? You could pickup handfuls for $10K each that are worth $1 million now. The possibilities are endless!
You really need to think a little harder before putting so much effort into this kind of nonsense.
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I think you missed a few steps. With the winnings from the World Series, you take that money and bet on another sport (which you know the outcome of thanks to the sports amanack). You keep doing this for around a season of baseball/football/basketball (it took you a month to make all that money? Gosh, if only you had a way of time travelling…) and suddenly, you’ve got a crap tonne of money.
Wouldn’t even take long either, you just keep time travelling to the games, place your bets, take your winnings, time travel to the next game, hell, utelise it so you can bet on the same game numerous times, you’ve made a tonne of money, invest it all in something you know will do well in the future (alhough predicting the fututre might be- OH NO WAIT, I HAVE A TIME MACHINE), go home, live rich.
Doesn’t take a genius to figure out.
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Shouldn’t this be called the Tannen scheme?
Craid said it best. 5-2 odds bet is the best you can get?! How about other better bets? Or are you allowed only one single bet and then you have to go back?
Congratulations, even biff is smarter than you!
Future Biff didn’t make the bets with future money, he just gave the almanac to himself in the past, so past Biff would use his old money. and yes, horse tracks did exist back then, finding a 90-1 longshot right off the bat would start off your fortune. luv how he mentions to spend his winnings on expensive technology lol, buy some stocks, comic books etc
If i were to get my hands
on the Delorean time machine
and a Gray’s Sports Almanac,
i wouldn’t go to 1950!
instead, i’d go to 1986
on the night of the Broncos-Browns
game where John Elway made his famous move,
“The Drive” that helped lead the Denver Broncos
to the Super Bowl XXI,
put every single dollar of my savings on
the Broncos because i know about Elway’s
Drive and when it happens, i’d walk away
a rich man!
and since i’m in the 80s with a booming economy,
then i’d open a bank account
that earns interest for 24 years,
travel back to 2010 and find even more
money than when i’ve put all of it into the account,
and then i’d be set for life!
If you have a time machine, go to 1974 when they first had sports books instead of 1950 and win tons of cash
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Yes, but Marty Mcfly didn’t want to go back to the 1950s, he wanted to go back (from the future of 2015) to his original time, 1985. At that point, there would be plenty of places that allowed sports betting and he wouldn’t need to bring “future money” back with him, he would have plenty of 1985 money. And it would give him 15 more years of winning bets. Old Biff went back to 1955, yes, but he gave Young Biff the book, so there was no need to stay in 1955 or have future money. This infographic is flawed.
Biff got his big break on a horse race if I remember correctly, (Old) Biff gave (Young) Biff the book, for young Biff to bet… Young biff already being in the 50′s would have 50′s money to use as betting. Horse Races, Tennis, you name it he could make a bet on ALL the long shot winners (even the safe bet winners) and within a few years he’d be loaded. We don’t know how long Hill Valley in the movies was “Biffville” we know he by 1985 made a killing and from the 50′s knowing the outcome of EVERY major sporting event… yeah.. it would be that simple.
Clever idea for an infographic, but it doesn’t represent what actually happened (Biff giving to his younger self, which COULD work if you bet on horse races, like he did), but represents what Marty (perhaps) was going to try to do before old Biff did it instead. Yes, folks, old Biff had an idea more successful than Marty McFly.
I think people are missing simple solutions here. If you need money, just take gold with you. No matter when or where you are, if you’re in a modern society, you can sell gold for currency. It may seem like you’re losing money, but selling the gold in the past for a lower price is mainly just adjusting for inflation.
Take back gold or some other precious commodity that will still have some value in the past.
Mike said it right… Marty never wanted to go back to 1950 to use the book, Biff did. Marty planned on using it during his time period. 1985. Get your BTTF facts straight! haha
Um, Biff didn’t go back to 1955 with his own money and place the bets. He had his 1955 counterpart place the bets.
Why must people endlessly pick on BTTF? It’s a great movie series. If you want to pick something apart, there are plenty of crappier movies to choose from.
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Buy gold, then go back in time, sell gold at a high price, then go to 74 and bet all you want on the sports games. Also, through shit into the stock market and why not hit a few lotto’s while your at it?
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Maybe the author of this article should “make like a tree and get out of here”.