Tuesday 2 October 2012

The New Sports Betting Strategies with Computer Rating Systems

By Dan White


Sports betting are a way of betting that entails placing a gamble, also known as a gamble, on the outcome of a sporting event. The primary intent of sports betting is to win additional cash. With the exception of spread betting, 'draw no bet' wagers and a few other examples, a gamble will have two possible final outcomes. Either you win a profit based on the bookmaker odds, or you lose your bet. While sports gambling obviously incorporate wagers on sports like rugby and tennis, it also includes gambling on entertainment, such as the winner of Dancing with the Stars, and finance, such as interest rate changes. Sporting wagers can be on fixture or tournament results, or on games that take place during a fixture. For example, in a football game between Arsenal and Chelsea, possible bets include Arsenal to beat Chelsea, Arsenal to win 2-1, Arsenal to win by one goal, Arsenal to be leading at half-time, and a particular player to score a goal. Gambling on sports has always been part art, part science. Successful sports betting takes a good understanding of the game you are betting on, a lot of information about injuries and trends, and an understanding of the odds. Combine all of those, and you might just come out on top. But in the modern world of sports betting, we have more tools at our disposal than ever, and not taking advantage of them means you are not doing your best to win.

Nowadays, there are an unlimited number of computer simulations and formulas designed to rate and rank teams in almost every sport you can think of - and with a little thought, It is easy to see how you can use them when making sports picks.

Many sites that offer sports betting strategies declare that their picks generated by a computer, without showing any of the work. a lot of of these sites are truthful about where their bets are coming from; some are not. But for now, let us have a talk about those systems in which we can consult the team ratings. many of these rankings aren't even designed for people who gamble on sports, but this can be an advantage, rather than a disadvantage; a pure system without biases related to gambling might give us truer rankings than one designed to beat the system.

Let's see how we might put to use these computer systems to help us bet on sports. For example, Sagarin has a laundry list of well-respected ratings systems available on USA Today's website, all of which include a metric called PREDICTOR, which attempts to say how many points better one team than any other. Rankings like the Sagarin ratings are a good way of telling us how teams match up when every things say that the two teams are equal, but we can't just trust one system if we want to make some money at sports gambling. as a matter of fact, when the spread is so far off from a highly regarded computer rating, we should not get excited we should get suspicious! Before you bet on any game, you need to ask yourself what other actions might be influencing the line. In the case of this game, there are definitely confounding facts we need to consider. Meanwhile, Chicago was fighting for a playoff spot and was certain to go all out for a win. facts like these are rarely taken into account by computers that are your job as a good sports gambler.

Computer generated sports ratings are a great tool for a gambler looking to gamble on sports, but that is all they are a tool. They should be part of your judgment making process, but they can not replace your judgment and understanding of the sport itself.




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