Which races are better for the backer or layer is a question that I have been asked many times. It is time that we start to de-mystify this question and look at some of the statistical facts behind which race types may provide better opportunities for the backer and the layer. I have limited the ...…
Guest article written by Paul Micelli Following on from the first part of the Outright Tennis Betting Winning Strategy, we have now established two vital factors: Selections must only be made in high profile tournaments Selections must only be taken from a high profile tournament after the draw has taken place The second part of ...…
Guest article written by Paul Micelli With the 2010 World Cup in South Africa just a couple of months away, sports betting enthusiasts will be looking to cash in on the most prestigious soccer tournament in the universe. This simple mathematical betting strategy reaped rewards in the 2006 competition and can be easily utilised during ...…
I have had a lot of requests from readers who are interested in building their own database and are not sure how to go about it. In response to these requests I am going to write a series of articles outlining the process that I used to design and build my database. This is by ...…
Guest article written by Paul Micelli Tennis betting systems still remain as something of a mystery, even to the most serious of sports betting enthusiasts. This is reflected in the large number of overpriced software packages that are currently available on the internet promising untold riches by simply inputting statistical information relating to top-ranked players. ...…
There are a lot of differing opinions about whether the use of headgear affects a racehorse for the better or for the worse. In this article I am looking to uncover some statistics that will begin to make this clearer. To start it is important that we get an initial overview of how runners with ...…
Guest post by Darren Hall from Bet72 As bookmakers look to attract new customers, many will offer free bets and bonuses as an incentive for people to sign up with them. You know the sort of thing: “Bet £50, receive a free £50 bet” when opening a new account. OK, that is good news you may ...…
When you decide to take your betting from recreational to a more serious past time then like learning anything this is the time when you are likely to make the biggest mistakes. This post looks at the top ten mistakes that are made when going from recreational betting to serious betting so that you don’t ...…
This is a multi-part guest article in which Egor, creator of the hottest poker bot on the web, explains what it takes to derive an income from playing online poker. How do you make a good online poker player? Well first you need to start with a good offline poker player. That is a basic ...…
This is going to be a new feature at the Race Advisor. I have an arsenal of racing literature, some excellent and some not so good. There is always more to read and as you may have guessed I like to read as much as I can. If I can get even the beginning of ...…
Guest post by David Renham from Racing Trends One dilemma that faces punters from time to time is when a trainer runs two or more runners in a race. Do you take the obvious option and back the shortest priced runner? Or do you look for some ‘perceived value’ by backing the outsider of the pair? ...…
Today I would like to get your opinions. There are many betting system sellers and there are also many websites who test these systems. It is of course important to have people testing and reviewing the systems but who they are and is their opinion worth listening to? As far as I know there has ...…
Some of our loyal readers have got in touch and said that I should write a little bit about betting systems. When they first began to bet they started with systems. A lot of these systems failed and the few that worked then began to fail just a few months later! What is the truth ...…
The title of this article doesn’t refer to the change from winter to spring but rather the change from the National Hunt season to the Flat season. This happens around April every year and means a turbulent time for people who use form as a guide for their selections. I always think that the change ...…
It doesn’t seem long ago that I was looking at an analysis of the Gold Cup. Like the Gold Cup analysing the Grand National is a very hard task as all of the runners are of a high quality. Earlier this week I looked at a few of the trends of the Grand National. When ...…
Guest article by Colin Magee from Betwise. I’d been interested in automating the betting process for some time prior to the emergence of the Betfair API and writing Automatic Exchange Betting, but making the process reliable was a challenge. Betfair’s API created a robust way to programmatically access market data and place bets via the ...…
As the first daffodils of the spring appear, it is time to look forward to the glorious summer of cricket ahead – weather permitting! The national team has tests against Bangladesh and Pakistan to look forward to, as well as a series of one day internationals against Australia. However, for the domestic county teams, an ...…
The first leg of the Champions League Quarter finals could have been better for the English teams involve with both Manchester United and Arsenal facing difficult tasks in the second leg to qualify for the semi-finals. Looking back historically the team favoured by the result of the first leg match does not necessarily mean automatic ...…
A few weeks ago it was the Cheltenham Gold Cup and now it is the John Smiths Grand National. What an exciting week ahead! As with the Cheltenham Gold Cup I am going to look at some past statistics today and then will publish an article on Friday reviewing the big race at 4.15pm on ...…
Last week I looked at building power ratings using a fuzzy method. This week I am going to look at a different way of creating them. I am going to imagine that we are using the same four factors this week that we used in the last article. These were Speed, Race Preference, Class and ...…
