I’m testing the predictive and value betting ability with the Fink Tank ratings. Have a good read of the first post here to make sense of it. So far the Fink Tank performed as follows: Raw 1×2 betting: +3.25 With team news filter: -1.10 I’ve dropped the Asian handicap bets to ease the admin burden [...]

We are starting to see some patterns form across the league now and with the transfer window closing next week, the league should start to settle down a bit. Already I have been picking out a few angles to follow this year, which I hope will be profitable as we move forward. Readers from last [...]

I’m testing the predictive and value betting ability with the Fink Tank ratings. Have a good read of the first post here to make sense of it. Last week the Fink Tank performed as follows: Raw 1×2 betting: +2.56 Raw with Asian Handicaps: -0.64 With team news filter: -0.54 Too early to say anything concrete [...]

A good start to proceedings last week even if somewhat surprised Blackpool won 4-0 but it just goes to show the unpredictability at the start of a new season and why we keep our powder relatively dry. Speaking of Blackpool I had a long look at the markets for their game away at Arsenal this [...]

The few days after the first weekend of the football season are always a fascinating time to observe some of the over-reactions that the football betting markets take after just 1 round of games. Its often a time like no other as a single result such as Wigan’s thumping by Blackpool has a much bigger [...]

Over the world cup we put Castrol rating’s prediction model to the test and were quite impressed. Sadly they aren’t applying their model to make predictions for domestic games, but we’ve another public and well researched model we’re going to be putting to the test this season. The Fink Tank is a football prediction model [...]

With the return of the Premier League this weekend and the major European leagues soon to follow suit, its back into the swing of things football wise. The temptation when the season re-starts is to rush in and place a whole load of bets as your betting money has been burning a hole in your [...]

As the Premier League doesn’t kick-off until next week, I am going to start-off by rounding up my pre-season ante post bets. In my Weekend Wager column over the past few weeks I have already shared one ante post bet that I like on Stoke to finish in the top half of the table. They [...]

With the Premier League football season just under a week and a half away, it’s time for my football bets to return after the success enjoyed last year. Last season from October onward I posted my best football bets up at my free Betting Prophet blog and began keeping a full record. These bets were [...]

Have you ever started to follow a betting system or tipster, only to find that as soon as you join it hits a losing run? Well if you have you are not alone let me assure you. Some consider this simply ‘sods law’ and just the way things work, but delving deeper is there anything [...]