Dan Gordon's NFL Football Handicapping Companion - Version 1.0 Betting the NFL requires a great deal of data and effort. With automatic updates of handicapping data from the Web, auto-download of subjective adjustments by one of the 3 top handicappers and the ability to experiment with changes to the calculations and assumptions and instant recalculation of the tables for the entire season and enormous flexibility, you have the best chance to beat the books.