Tuesday, 28 April 2009

Winning System - Patience Required

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One of the more curious incidents of my Betfair life occurred within a month of my opening the account, which is why I failed to take max...
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Five Years

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I was planning on writing a post to mark the fifth anniversary of opening an account with Betfair later this week, but I have just discove...
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Monday, 27 April 2009

Conference Thoughts

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Torquay United made my day yesterday with a win over Burton Albion, but there were some strange results elsewhere in the Conference, inclu...
Sunday, 26 April 2009

Final Day Countdown

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And now for something completely different. This afternoon’s Conference National fixtures. The only game in-play is the Torquay United v B...

Exclusive Follow-Up

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Just a quick post to follow up on last week’s “Exclusive” on Betactual, and their results are going from bad to worse. As I reported last ...
Friday, 24 April 2009

Burton Stumbling

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Over the last few years, my interest in non-league football has increased significantly. Back in my day, there was very little coverage, but...
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Monday, 20 April 2009

Tipping Service Exposed - Exclusive!

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On March 28th, Trade On Sports highlighted a football tipping website, and their supposed results up to that date did look quite impressi...
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Thursday, 16 April 2009

NBA Play-Offs

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Back in October last year, I wrote a post about the 2008-09 NBA season and made some predictions. The regular season has now finished, so ...
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Wednesday, 15 April 2009

Sgt. Pepper Taught The Band To Play

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Twenty years ago today, I headed off to Selhurst Park, hoping to see Crystal Palace pick up an important three points in their match again...
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Monday, 13 April 2009

April Fool

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Easter Sunday was one of those days. Perhaps I should start going to church? A big loss (biggest since May 19th 2008) on the first NBA g...
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Friday, 10 April 2009

Betting Scandal

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Apologies for the lack of recent posts, but it is the Easter holidays and I'm spending a few days with my son and not focusing too muc...
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Sunday, 5 April 2009

Not Going For A Burton

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A thin football schedule tomorrow may not mean an abundance of choices, but does give the opportunity to look at the games in detail. B...
Saturday, 4 April 2009

(Very) High Risk, Low Reward

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100-1 outsider Mon Mome wins the 2009 Grand National, trading at the maximum of 1000 on Betfair during the race. Easy to say after the fac...
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Baseball By The Numbers

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Still on the subject of statistics, but this time I’m switching to baseball, a sport that (along with cricket), is ideal for statistics. T...
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Lies, Damn Lies

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I wrote a few days ago about how statistics differ between different web sites on football matches. Apparently it is subjective whether or...
Wednesday, 1 April 2009

Excel-ling At Tennis

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I have been asked by a student if I, or anyone I know, would be interested in buying a ‘tennis valuation tool’ (not a system) which is an ...
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Tuesday, 31 March 2009

Fair Enough

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The long-awaited report into in-running betting has been published by the Gambling Commission. Although I wasn’t expecting any dramatic ch...
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Monday, 30 March 2009

Mea Culpa

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A rather disappointing weekend, all things considered. No decent football this weekend with internationals going on. FC Dallas were defeat...
Saturday, 28 March 2009

Away We Go

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A dozen aways today, all from the lower divisions because that's all there is to choose from today! My picks are Tranmere Rovers ...
Friday, 27 March 2009

FC Dallas

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Many thanks to Curly and Strugar for their suggestions on where I might find stats on corner kicks. I am now more confused than ever becau...
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