Blogs: Football

This is the (belated) third part of my series onAsian Handicap betting, in the first part I explained what AHbetting is, and in the second I pointed out why I think that AHbetting offers better value than standard 1X2 betting.

Much tends to be made about the value of statistics in betting -how feasible it is to place bets solely based on statisticalanalysis; strike rates and LSPs when it comes to systematicbetting; and in my mind most importantly, which statistics

My football writing has been thin on the groundrecently, mostly because I have been devoting a lot of time tohorse racing; but I am hoping to step up my football blogs over thenext couple of weeks, with a bit of

Many would argue that goal difference (GD) is just a statistic andat the end of the day the position in the league table is all thatmatters. A lot of emphasis is put on the wins and losses of recentform but

What is now known in the West as Asian HandicapBetting was originally called Hang Chen betting has been popular inIndonesia for a long time but is said only to have gotten itsEnglish name as late as 1998. The story goes

As I write, a week of international football iscoming to an end, but not everyone is happy about the fact. To somethis was yet another week with no top level club football to enjoybecause of the “dreaded” international break. I

The Capital One Cup (The League Cup) is the lesser known of the 2major cup competitions in England, although it does offer a routeinto European Football for the winner it is not as popular as theFA Cup, even though the

When we see the match odds on our favourite team to win and think"that looks a good price", we shouldn't really leave it at that, weneed to delve that little bit further and see if by pickingdifferent bets we can

We are nearly there! The World Cup is just a dayaway as I write this and the time has come for me to unveil my ownInternational Football Rankings. Having looked at the FIFA rankingas well as the Elo version, I

In my last blog I made criticised the way FIFA calculate their international football rankings. In this blog i will experiment with the rankings to glean some winning World Cup bets based on the International football rankings.