Saturday, 9 October 2010

New York Times

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Online Betting Venue Betfair to IPO Punters: We’re Worth $2.4B By RILEY MCDERMID of VentureBeat The world’s largest online betting excha...
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Friday, 8 October 2010

However You Spin It

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I usually ignore any Arcade or Exchange Game promotions, but Talkbet (again) wrote the other day that Betfair also very kindly gave me £5...
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Numbers And Unders

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The SBP needs to look behind the numbers, rather than just AT them: He wrote yesterday " Tough loss for us last night. Twins jumped ou...
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Autumn Gold

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The Minneosta Twins have taken the lead in their last eight play-off games versus the New York Yankees, and lost them all. Tonight they tra...
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Thursday, 7 October 2010

Hole-In-One Gang And More

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I was reading Derek McGovern's 1999 book" On Sports Betting...And How To Make It Pay " last night, and it took me on a trip d...
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Wednesday, 6 October 2010

On Deck

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The play-offs begin today in the baseball and with some early start times and nothing in the way of football as an alternative, here's ...
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Tuesday, 5 October 2010

Bundeslayga

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Anonymous writes: Well done on an interesting blog. In relation to your findings on the laying odds on in the Bundesliga, you said last s...
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Monday, 4 October 2010

Ratings v Positions

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One of the strengths or weaknesses of Elo ratings is that they adjust slowly. This is a strength in that when a Barcelona loses at home to ...
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Sunday, 3 October 2010

Barcelayna

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Lecce defeated Catania today, so no joy there for the "strong draw" system, but a lay of Barcelona, far too short at 1.19, more t...

Money And Happiness

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Most readers of this blog are probably looking to make a little more money to supplement their regular income, and might be interested to r...
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Saturday, 2 October 2010

Game 162

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There's Game 7s, and there are game 162s. The San Francisco Giants and San Diego Padres are now separated by just one game and the Padr...
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Penultimate Day

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After a losing September, October is off to a good start with some baseball profits overnight. At this time of year, there's value in l...

Reds In October Hunt

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The regular baseball season comes to a close this weekend with the play-off teams all but decided across the leagues. In the American Leagu...
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Wednesday, 29 September 2010

Turkish Delight

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Anonymous argues that No, the market doesn't need to know your selections. If the price on a certain outcome is consistently incorrec...
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Drawing Hope

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The draw debate continues, although it is spilling over into a broader criticism of Peter Nordsted’s book Premier Football Betting Handbook...
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Tuesday, 28 September 2010

Drawing Fire

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As I mentioned on Saturday, quite independently, both Peter Nordsted and myself have arrived at a similar system based on backing the draw....
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Monday, 27 September 2010

Defensive Indifference

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Very little trading this weekend due to social commitments. The draw hunting system again proved profitable in England with Fulham and Ev...
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Saturday, 25 September 2010

Drawing Encouragement

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A busy football weekend got off to a good start with a draw between Koln and Hoffenheim backed at 3.5. The Elo ratings are particularly goo...
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Friday, 24 September 2010

Scientific Bullshit

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Great news! From the SBP today - Guess what? I'm an author now! That's right, I've got a brand new book being released on A...
Thursday, 23 September 2010

Betfair's Future

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Some interesting comments in this article from the London Standard including comments about rival exchanges, and Betfair's future : Fir...
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