Blogs: Football

If we want a ranking system to help us bet on the World Cup, then we should look at the ones available and decide. If they are good enough, then it would be a waste not to use them.

As club seasons draw to a close and the World Cup approaches, what a lot of people would love to know is who is going to win the competition. It would be nice for football punters if there was a ranking that could help.

In my last blog I showed that for the PremierLeague in the last five seasons, draws were often the outcome gamesof that was priced the longest. Furthermore that when only thoseodds for an outcome in a game were considered, when

After the very favorable comments I got regarding my Bulgarianleague analysis, I have decided to share my knowledge on anotherleague, which is close to me and I have particular interest in bothas a fan and from a betting perspective. Coincidentally,

A game of football can be thought of as a threehorse race, the three horses being “home win”, “away win” and“draw”. If we look at the Premier League over the previous fiveseasons, the performances of these ”horses” are as follows.

When betting, statistics can often unveil some great value, but can also be misleading to the detriment of punters. The title statistic of Germany not losing a World War since 1945 is correct, or it could be reported that “Germany are unbeaten inWorld

In recent weeks I've been looking at the new betting phenomenon ofScore & Win, this bet is like Both teams to Score but you have tochoose a winner the odds are obviously much more attractive.I have approached this from a

In my last blog I looked into the idea that it might be possible to make money backing the same team every week. My conclusion was that last season there were teams that could have been backed every week to make a profit.

I got the idea for this on overhearing a conversation in a pub, as it often does, the discussion moved around to football betting. One of the group sat near to me informed his friends that he'd had a great idea!!

A lot of the football markets that I am interested in these days revolve around low scores or one team not scoring. Win to nil is one of my favourite football bets and one that always seems to surprise me with how much value it offers. Just look at the football betting odds for the win to nil on EPL matches.