After a few successful trials, the soccer hotmatches had two really bad months. In order to get back on track, I decided to return to an older soccer database, with strong hope that this will give me again those 130-180% ROI which I’ve got in the beginning of the year.
Crossing fingers.
As I wrote in my previous post I started to follow the French Ligue 1, inspired by another blog post about not betting on this league. Well, I found out that in a niche there was profit in the last season matches. It is about betting for draws in games where the odds for the favorite are between 1.71 and 2.
I took a closer look to the past 8 seasons, just to find out that there is no profit in that niche, but no losses, also. So, may be Ed is right – betting on French Ligue 1 is nonsense.
In the table below are all stats for this niche. I will start searching for another one, which gave small amount of profit – to bet in the league for the favorites with odds higher than 2.2. This gave profit of 110% last season. It is interesting if those result would be something regular or they are not.
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1.71 – 2
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FW
|
Draw
|
UW
|
FW
|
Draw
|
UW
|
|
2008/2009
|
40
|
31
|
13
|
47.62
|
36.90
|
15.48
|
|
2007/2008
|
54
|
35
|
19
|
50.00
|
32.41
|
17.59
|
|
2006/2007
|
56
|
24
|
19
|
56.57
|
24.24
|
19.19
|
|
2005/2006
|
43
|
32
|
19
|
45.74
|
34.04
|
20.21
|
|
2004/2005
|
49
|
29
|
15
|
52.69
|
31.18
|
16.13
|
|
2003/2004
|
58
|
32
|
14
|
55.77
|
30.77
|
13.46
|
|
2002/2003
|
56
|
20
|
30
|
52.83
|
18.87
|
28.30
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Recently I’ve been reading a post in punterslounge forum about a football rating system. The posts there are really fascinating and throw me in deep thinking about maths and how we use it.
However, I have read only 3 pages until now, because I have other stuff to do, but the post helped me with some fresh ideas, which I am going to give a try.
I was really impressed with how we can use the idea of Gauss about Least Squares Approximations . Right now I have put all other betting stuff aside and just read about this method.
I hope it will help me improve my results, which are quite bad these days.