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Betting Traps - Survivorship Bias

Betting Traps - Survivorship Bias

In an obscure B-Side to one of their earlysingles, the band Oasis asked listeners, “Do You Wanna Be ASpaceman?” Probably by the time of life they were listening to thissong, most people would have given up any childhood hopes ofbecoming
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Converting Odds To Probability

Converting Odds To Probability

I'm a maths geek. I really like probability. So when I make a betalways like to compare the probability of the result I am bettingon to the odds from the bookies. It is not for everyone but itgives a good
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Why Fiddling with Markets can be your downfall

Why Fiddling with Markets can be your downfall

Why Fiddling With Markets Can Be Your DownfallWe all like bigger odds on our bets but quite often we pay theprice for seeking out those odds and betting on ‘fiddly' markets.So much of making profit in football betting is about
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Betting Approach - How far in advance should we place our bets on football ?

Betting Approach - How far in advance should we place our bets on football ?

Betting Approach - How far in advance should we place our betson football ?Football betting has developed and progressed massively over thelast 10 years, especially the last 5, with punters having aseemingly ever increasing array of betting options to choosefrom.One
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Betting Approach - What are the best types of bet to place on football and why ?

Betting Approach - What are the best types of bet to place on football and why ?

Betting Approach - What are the best types of bet to place onfootball and why ?As mentioned before in a few others blogs of this type, right nowseems a very good time to take a break from focusing on bettingdirectly
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Betting Approach - what do you think the most common betting mistakes are ?

Betting Approach - what do you think the most common betting mistakes are ?

Betting Approach - what do you think the most common betting mistakes are ? We have all made them but right now seems a very good time to dig deeper and find our where many of us go wrong.
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Betting Approach - What have you learned from betting on football over the years ?

Betting Approach - What have you learned from betting on football over the years ?

Betting Approach - What have you learned from betting onfootball over the years ?With Royal Ascot now finished and with the domestic football seasonnot starting until August, right now seems a very good time to takea break from focusing on
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LAYING Delving deeper into the dark art.

LAYING Delving deeper into the dark art.

LAYING. Delving deeper into the dark art.I have run a series of blogs on the subject of laying. Maybe now isthe time to dig a bit deeper into the complexities of the subjectand perhaps explode a few myths along the
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Does Squad Consistency Breed Success in Football?

Does Squad Consistency Breed Success in Football?

The number of players used by each football club in a season can be relevant, so i thought I would undertake a statistical analysis to discover whether using more players benefitted or hampered a team's final finishing position
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Confirmation Bias - Rules Of Thumb

Confirmation Bias - Rules Of Thumb

Hopefully this is entirely unnecessary but let me start out by saying I am not advocating murder; the darlings referred to in what I say next are a metaphor for pet theories.
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