I recently started a discussion on a forum about when the optimum time is to stop betting if things aren’t going right for you. It has been interesting to see the opinions of others and find out what they do. This is a topic that is seldom talked about but is every bit as important ...…
I had an email from a reader after writing the article on ‘How Important Are Recent Finish Positions’ suggesting the possibility of using this as the basis of a lay system. I thought that we would investigate this today using estimated Betfair prices to assess the profitability of the lay bets. In the last article ...…
You hear a lot of articles and systems discussing how you should always look at a horses most recent races as a major factor in assessing the chances of the horse winning. In this article we are going to look into this theory and see whether it is true or false and to what degree. ...…
I am sorry that I haven’t been writing as many articles recently. I have been so busy I just haven’t had time to think but my aim is to write at least two articles for the RaceAdvisor every week. I have left it quite late this week so expect another one over the next couple ...…
Earlier this week I wrote an article about how we can use graphs to help visualise ratings. I had a lot of emails about using visualisation in handicapping. I thought that I would write a part 2 and look a little bit more in detail at what we can do to help us visualise handicapping. ...…
There are a lot of numbers in sports betting. It doesn’t matter whether you are betting on racing, football, golf, tennis or any other sport. The way that most people analyse the competition is through numbers. These numbers are known as ratings. Using numbers is fine when there are just a few of them, but ...…
