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About Charles K. McNeil
- Charles Kline McNeil (16 August 1903 – 7 April 1981) is the inventor of the point spread in sports gambling.
- McNeil earned a Master's Degree from the University of Chicago.
- He then taught math at the Riverdale Country School in New York and in Connecticut.
- His students included John F.
- Kennedy.
- He was also a securities analyst in Chicago.
- While gambling on the side, he developed the point spread, betting not on the probability of the final outcome, but on the expected difference in score.
- He eventually opened his own bookmaking operation in the 1940s.
- Charles McNeil method is used today in different areas: anything from basketball to poker.
- He started the new method of trading and changed the way people bet.
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