Green All Over

Established in 2008, this blog is an independent, common sense, look at challenges and opportunities in sports and financial investing, with occasional diversions as my mood takes me. I am not a tipster, nor is this a Profit and Loss report either. They are boring.

Wednesday, 3 January 2018

Year Eleven

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In my opening post of 2017, I predicted that blogging would take up less time than previously, but although December was rather unproductive...
Wednesday, 27 December 2017

Useful Lessons And Important Principles

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A much appreciated Pinned Tweet and thread from James led to a small explosion in mentions on my Boxing Day Twitter feed , and a smaller e...
Sunday, 10 December 2017

Army March On

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Hopefully some of you were on Army +2.0 selection yesterday, as they not only covered the spread but also won the game.  It would have be...
Monday, 4 December 2017

Cricketing Crunchyfrog

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One of the rare interesting threads on the Betfair Forum is the long running  Cricket Test matches thread showing the results of backing or...
Tuesday, 28 November 2017

Leaving New York Never Easy

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As some of you may have noticed, the blog has been dormant while I took a few days off for a little Thanksgiving trip to New York and Philad...
Wednesday, 15 November 2017

Carbonara Bitches

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There was a flurry of interest on Twitter yesterday regarding my observation that the Away team has been underestimated by the market in Lea...
Saturday, 11 November 2017

Correction And Reflection

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Thanks to Habotron, possibly not his real name, who spotted a rare error in my recent post on College Basketball pointing out that: I th...
Thursday, 9 November 2017

The Boys Are Back

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The College Basketball (NCAAB) season begins this Friday, and having watched the rising totals in the NBA, here are some observations on the...
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Sunday, 5 November 2017

Runaway Train

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Runaway train never going back,  Wrong way on a one way track,  Seems like I should be betting somewhere,  Somehow I'm neither here nor...
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Sumptuous Pickings

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As I have noted previously, some betting articles from Pinnacle, "the world’s sharpest bookmaker", are worth a read. Some are abso...
Saturday, 4 November 2017

Aiming High

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I'm not sure how many readers agreed with my logic for The Beast system this season, and are following along, but in the last week it h...
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Thursday, 2 November 2017

Colt .45's Dodger Bullet

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Survivorship bias  at work here, but this Sports Illustrated magazine cover and prediction from June 2014 proved to be perceptive, even pro...
Wednesday, 1 November 2017

Posh Bankers, Essex

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Still desperate for a writing career at Green All Over, Tony Stephens is back with another free contribution: "And many traders who w...
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Tuesday, 31 October 2017

Plunging

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Referencing a couple of books and authors mentioned here recently, namely Joseph Buchdahl and his book Squares & Sharps, Suckers & S...
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Sunday, 29 October 2017

Halloween Spells Trouble

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Fizzer generously shared a hot tip with me earlier today, writing: As I know you are a fan of great stats, here is one for the footy today...
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I have had a life-long interest in sports and after studying Pure Mathematics with Statistics at secondary school, have been fascinated by odds and probability. The first system I came up with was a simple one - back the favourite and double up after a loss until a winner. Simple enough in theory, and I told my Dad about it. Not being a betting man himself, he ran it by some of his colleagues, and came home to tell me that it wouldn’t work because a long losing run would mean that the bank would be empty. Then there was always the possibility that the winner would be returned at odds-on, meaning that the total returns would not match the outlay. Not what a ten year old wants to hear! Only slightly daunted, I then went on a search for the Holy Grail, the secret to riches that I knew was out there somewhere. Finally in 2004 I stumbled across an article about Betting Exchanges and four years later I was able to make a steady profit.
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