Sunday, 29 October 2023

World Cups - Rugby to Cricket

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It appears that Adam Johnson has sadly passed away at the age of just 29 after his horrific accident last night while playing for the Notti...
Wednesday, 25 October 2023

Uncanny Ability - A Story of a Person

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Comments on the blog these days are few and far between but Gnome Mange, possibly not his real name, had one on a post that was published mo...
Tuesday, 17 October 2023

Anyone For Tennis?

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One of the biases I identify in my so-called Sacred Manuscript is Recency Bias, defined as: The tendency to overemphasize the importance of...

False Favourites

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International breaks during the league season are rarely welcome, but this one was nicely timed with the Rugby World Cup Quarter-Finals taki...
Sunday, 15 October 2023

Springboks Off a Bye

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The Rugby World Cup moved to a five-team Pool Stage in 2003, meaning that one team would have to be given a bye in each of the five rounds o...
Saturday, 14 October 2023

Byes, Dogs and Rugby Union QFs

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It's not been a bad week so far. Our baseball underdogs continued to shine with 13 wins from 21 games through the Wild Card and Division...
Wednesday, 11 October 2023

Severed Arms, Closed Accounts

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I've mentioned the legend that is Billy Walters a few times in this blog. If you're serious about sports betting, you will have hear...
Tuesday, 10 October 2023

Europe v USA

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Another week behind us, and mixed results as usual. It would be nice for all systems to win all the time, but of course that is unrealistic,...
Friday, 6 October 2023

Baseball, Interrupted

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I haven't written too much about baseball this season, since the significant rule changes implemented this season rendered previous (pr...
Tuesday, 3 October 2023

Buying Time

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Another weekend wrapped up with the NFL Monday Night game a winner for the Totals System, although these only went 1-2 in Week 4.  I thought...
Wednesday, 27 September 2023

Missed Bets, Missing Draws

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One of the challenges with betting when you are keeping 'official' records of a system is that they almost always will not match up ...
Tuesday, 26 September 2023

Winter Gold Mine

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I hate to be rude, but the Betfair Forum these days is mostly full of nonsense, but occasionally there's a thread that piques my interes...
Monday, 25 September 2023

Fake Indian Cricket League

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It's a story I first read about in The Guardian last summer, but thanks to Adam there is now an updated version with even more details, ...

Unlucky 13

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September is historically the worst month of the year for my net worth spreadsheet. Thirteen Septembers since I started tracking, and the av...
Wednesday, 20 September 2023

Longshot Value and Luck

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I love reading stories about individuals, or groups of people, identifying opportunities in the sports betting markets.  I wrote about the ...