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IT'S BACK!!!! RALPH IS #1 AT WAGERTALK IN NFL PRESEASON GOING 72-43-1 (63%) SINCE 2025!
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#1 NFL PRE - 63% SINCE 2015! 4% & 5% ARE 40-15 (73%)!
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#1 NFL PRE L8Y - 63% RUN!
IT'S BACK!!!! RALPH IS #1 AT WAGERTALK IN NFL PRESEASON GOING 72-43-1 (63%) SINCE 2025!
•• Start off your 2025 football season with an opening night winner for WagerTalk's top NFL Preseason handicapper!
•• DO NOT BUY THIS PLAY - You can get ALL of Ralph's Preseason plays for only $69, which is the cheapest price ever offered! Ralph is 63% on all plays since 2015 while going 72-40-1 (64%) on all plays rated 3% & higher and 40-15-1 (72%) on 4% & 5% Best Bets!
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#1 NFL Preseason Package – Just $69!
RALPH IS WAGERTALK’S #1 NFL PRESEASON HANDICAPPER!
Since 2015 Ralph is:
72-42-1 (62.6%) on all Preseason games
72-40-1 (64.3%) on all plays 3% and higher
40-15-1 (72.7%) on Best Bets (4% & 5%)
Get all of Ralph’s NFL Preseason plays for the 2025 season for just $69—the same price as a standard 3-day access package! This is the lowest price ever offered for Ralph’s full slate of preseason action, but it’s only available for a limited time. The special $69 offer expires when the Hall of Fame Game kicks off on Thursday, July 31st. After that, starting August 1st, the price increases to $99—so don’t wait! Take advantage of this unbeatable preseason offer before the first snap of the season.
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NFL PRESEASON GUIDE WITH GOLDSHEET'S CFB POWER RATINGS
The 2025 NFL PRESEASON GUIDE….IT IS NOW 3 GUIDES IN ONE!
Get the most comprehensive preseason football resource in the industry—perfect for bettors, analysts, and die-hard fans.
Team Pages Include:
- Full 2025 NFL Schedule
- Projected QB Rotations with in-depth stats: starts here, career totals, and games played
- Coaching histories and game logs from the past 7 seasons
- Team-by-team preseason records since 2016
Bonus Features:
- Hall of Fame Game breakdown: historical results and betting records for teams with a game already played
- Preseason stats for the last two years: Yards Per Game (YPG), Points Per Game (PPG), offensive/defensive splits, sack percentage, and turnover margin
Ralph Michaels NFL Schedule Guide:
- 2025 NFL schedule by team and by week with lines, totals and rest.
- A “must have” for betting NFL futures and for Survivor pools
Exclusive from The GoldSheet:
- 2025 College Football Power Ratings for all 136 FBS teams, sorted by conference and overall ranking
- Each team’s average line, theoretical win total, and Strength of Schedule
Also Included for Every NFL Team:
- Results from the last 7 years with betting lines and totals
- Performance splits: Home Favorite, Home Dog, Away Favorite, Away Dog
- Offensive Coordinator, Defensive Coordinator, and Head Coach changes dating back to 2016
- Preseason QB performance data from the past two seasons—and much more
The edge starts before Week 1. Don’t go into preseason betting blind—get the guide that delivers results.
THE 2025 WAGERTALK DRAFT GUIDE!
THE 2025 WAGERTALK DRAFT GUIDE!
While the Draft brings excitement and promise to the NFL teams and fans, I feel it is MORE important to quantify what each CFB team lost in the Draft.
A weighted grading system from 8 points to one point for each team. They are sorted by points lost and alphabetically.
There is also a conference-by-conference breakdown as well as the teams that have lost the most in the draft the last 4 years!
WEEK 0/1 CFB SCHEDULE WITH LINES
OPENING WEEK SCHEDULE WITH LINES AS THE CFB SEASON KICKS OFF ON SATURDAY, AUGUST 23RD!
Take notes and track line moves throughout the Summer.
The odds are from DraftKings on Tuesday, May 27th!
They are taken from the FREE WagerTalk Score/Odds page - wt.buzz/odds
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Consultant Bio
Ralph was raised in the home of handicappers in Cleveland, Ohio. Starting in the industry as a key member of Phil Steele's early team, which expanded Northcoast Sports during the mid-90s. Ralph's personal following grew fast, allowing him to strike out on his own as the founder of California Sports. Over the next dozen years as General Manager of Phil Steele Publications and lead handicapper of Northcoast Sports, Ralph managed the creation of some of the most popular sports betting content ever, including Phil Steele's College Football Preview Magazine and Northcoast's Power Sweep Newsletter. Content displaying expertise so elite that Ralph was invited into college football's most exclusive club: Heisman Trophy Voter
Ralph Michaels has a math mind, steadily searching for a value in the numbers in addition to matchup edges, situational advantages, and hidden gems of information. Ralph finds more big bets in the college versions of football and basketball, but his handicapping approach also uncovers selective winners in the professional leagues like MLB. Small conferences are particularly profitable due to mispriced injuries and his profiling of exploitable coaching tendencies.
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