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Calculating Odds for League Newcomers is Unpredictable
We often receive queries asking how to calculate odds for league newcomers and why we don’t develop a Value Bet Calculator for league matches involving teams without head-to-head (H2H) history, or their respective last 25 matches being in...
Video Tutorial: How to Input Best Market Odds into the True Odds Calculator
This is the last in our series of video tutorials regarding the filling-in of data into the True Odds and Value Bet Calculator Excel spreadsheet.
Here you will learn the input process of market odds from sites such as www.betfair.com into the...
Video Tutorial: Input Historical Football Data and H2H Results into Value Bet Detector
Our darling Soccerwidow is at it again with another eastern European rendition in our series of video tutorials showing you how to input historical football data into the Value Bet Detector for league games with head-to-head history.
Enjoy the...
Video Tutorial: Download Historical Football Data and Sort for Functionality in Excel
We are often asked for advice and shortcuts on how speed up the process of filling-in data in our various Value Bet Detectors such as the League Matches with Head-to-Head History spreadsheet.
Here is our very own Soccerwidow with some Excel...
Correct Assignment of Football Data to Levels of Measurement
In statistics, information is collected using qualitative or quantitative data. The collected data is then organised using scales or levels in order to classify the data correctly because not every set of data is of equal value and can be analysed...
Bookmakers/ Bookies – What are Bookmakers?
A collection of definitions and explanations of “bookmakers” and “bookies” as found in dictionaries, encyclopedias and web sites.
Dictionary definitions of bookmakers
ldoceonline.com (Longman): book‧mak‧er also bookie (informal)
Someone...
Choosing the Right Staking Plan
If you have investigated staking plans to any degree then you will certainly have already heard of various different strategies such as Martingale, D’alembert, Fibonacci, Parlay, Kelly, Square Root, Labouchere, Retirement, etc.
You should...
Soccerwidow Match Preview Pause in Betfair German Blog
Unfortunately, this announcement is not good news for those of you who like to follow Soccerwidow’s regular match previews published in the German Betfair blog: With immediate effect, there will be a pause until further notice.
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How is Overround Calculated and what are the Benefits of Removing it from the Betting Odds?
Simply put, overround is the bookmaker’s profit margin. Overround percentages vary and usually average between 4 and 7%, depending on the bookmaker.
Although bookmaker odds do not always fully represent the ‘true’ (expected)...
When to Back Instead of Lay Betting: Asian Handicap; Double Chance; Dutching…
This article explores the alternatives to laying at the betting exchanges in order to bet against a result.
Every bettor should try to optimise the financial return from his/her risk, which means finding absolutely the best prices available.
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