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Never mind pre-season friendlies, this weekend sees the return of ‘Proper Football’ with the start of the Championship, League 1 and League 2 seasons (alongside a whole host of others) and with it the hopes and dreams of many a football fan and punter!

Yet, did you know that last season was one of the strangest on record as anyone backing each and every home team in the main UK leagues would have made a fine profit?

It sounds bizarre, but it is true with a profit of 81.7 points at 3.4% ROI if backing all 2416 home teams in the top 4 English Leagues and the SPL last time out.

Check out the full stats below:

This table is based on the results as taken from the football-data.co.uk website, which tracks the best early odds from a panel of 3 bookmakers.

Conversely as you might imagine, this also meant that those of you backing the Draw or the Away side also make a serious loss with 168 and 177 points lost respectively…

Away Team Stats Over The Last 5 Seasons

For many punters, such a statistic is like a dagger to the heart as the biggest priced bets are often found when backing the away team.

The away teams are therefore usually taken as offering the ‘best value’ when considering who to bet upon.

Although when I say best value it’s important to understand I don’t mean ‘most likely to win’ – its vital to separate out a need to pick out a winner, versus taking a value price.

Again the 2016/17 season away bias is neatly reflected by this next graph which showcases the returns if blindly backing all away teams with Pinnacle Sports over the past 5 seasons.

Taking the closing odds (those available just before each game kicks off), you can see how the 2016/17 season compared with a huge loss of nearly 200 points. The previous ‘worst’ season for backing away teams only was the 2014/15 season, which dropped just over 25 points.

What Has Changed For Us Punters?

For punters this kind of seasonal bias can cause all kind of challenges, raising questions such as…

• Why is it happening?
• Will this home side bias continue this season?
• Should you avoid backing all away sides altogether?

Looking at the stats objectively and with an understanding that nothing has changed across the wider football world to give home sides an extra hidden advantage…the logic has to be that this is just a short-term pattern in play.

Short-term might seem a strange term to suggest when looking at 2416 games and a full season, yet we have seen similar patterns before.

A glance at the Pinnacle graph above from the 2012/13 season tells us that backing all away teams blindly made almost a 70 point profit that year…yet since this date such a strategy will have made an overall loss of over 200 points.

One Football Tipster Bucking The Seasonal Trends

Such seasonal trends also impact tipsters, so it takes a particularly talented expert or system to navigate them and still show a profit.

Take for example, one of the top rated football system-based tipsters here at SBC, who despite the home-team bias, still managed to make strong profit with a 17.1% ROI last season.

Due to his strict filters, he was able to filter out several potential (ultimately losing) away bets and end up with such a fine profit. Although his systems advised less bets than usual in an average season, it ensured his members were unaffected by this bias.

His success last season was no fluke either as this system has made a profit in each of the last 5 seasons – averaging a 12.7% ROI across the board.

You can read more about this tipster and several others in the recently released Football Tipster Guide for the 2017/18 season..

The Best Tipsters For All Seasons (And Sports)

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Part’s 4 & 5 of SBC’s 2016/17 Season Essential Football Betting Compendium have just been released – featuring reviews of 2 more profitable tipsters to check out!

Inside you can find details on the free football tipster with a 12% ROI last season (and how you can follow free in 2016/17) plus the outstanding ‘loophole’ tipster with a fantastic record.

What’s In Parts 1, 2, 3 & 6….

Our 2016/17 Essential Football Betting Compendium comes in 6 parts, with Parts 1, 2 & 3 already available and Part 6 due for release later this week.

Here is what is inside Parts 1, 2, 3 & 6:

Part 1: Sports Tipster Report: Discover just who the best sports tipsters are that we track. View tipster league tables & best buy rankings on 25 different experts. AVAILABLE NOW

Part 2: Football Tipster 2016/17 Guide: Read exclusive interviews and analysis on 13 top football tipsters – including those recommended in our Hall of Fame. AVAILABLE NOW

Part 3: Tipster Review 1: An exclusive review of the fantastic Brazilian Football Tipster that we have been tracking for 18 months – during which time he has scooped a 7.5% ROI from more than 750 Asian Handicap bets. AVAILABLE NOW

Part 6: Best Bookmaker Report: Read about the 4 betting exchanges and brokers you need to use – those that offer the best, most competitive odds and lowest commission rates. Includes exclusive interviews, reviews and analysis on each option. AVAILABLE FRIDAY 13TH

Read all about the Essential Football Betting Compendium

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Earlier this week we released Part 3 of our Essential Football Betting Compendium – featuring our exclusive review of the Brazilian Football Tipster that has really impressed us after stacking up some serious profits.

Predominantly, this was down to the tremendous performance of his Asian Handicap tips which have made 118 points profit from 757 bets and at a ROI of 7.5%.

Yet as I am at constantly urging readers of these emails to be aware – making a profit in theory and a profit in practice are often two very different things when betting.

After all – how many of you have experience betting in the Brazilian leagues and know exactly which bookmakers price these games up and how their odds stack up?

Not many of you I imagine!

So to gauge more on just how we could put these Brazilian tips profits into practice – we ran some very detailed odds analysis – Allow me to reveal all!

OUT TODAY: Part 4 Of The Essential Football Compendium

Enjoy this exclusive SBC review of the FREE Football Tipster with a fantastic 12% ROI record across both UK and European competitions during the 2015/16 season.

Read a full interview with the tipster in question plus details on how you can follow for free during the whole of the 16/17 season.

(Plus lookout for Part 5 on Monday featuring the amazing Football ‘Loophole’ Tipster, who made £2302 profit from just £3006 staked in 2015/16).

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3 MONTHS & 277 TIPS ODDS TRACKING…

As standard practice when reviewing a tipster, we initiate some very detailed odds tracking analysis, whereby we observe how the quoted odds a tipster put forward rise or fall.

If for example a tipster is going to settle a bet at 7/1, when you can only get 5/1 – there really is no point in following!

(Something I see time and time again in the racing world these days – be very careful of tipsters quoting big odds the night before racing as often its impossible to obtain them)

SBC Team member, David, is the man in charge of our odds tracking and he spends hours each week monitoring the betting markets and logging the odds for each tipster under our review microscope.

It’s a herculean task but it is a hugely worthwhile one as the results are often invaluable.

As part of the Brazilian tipster review, David tracked the price movements of 277 tips between March and June 2016. He used two bookmaker panels for this exercise; a “UK” panel (consisting of Bet365, Coral, Ladbrokes, Matchbook, Paddy Power, VCBet, and William Hill), and an “Asian” panel (188bet, Pinnacle, and SBOBet).

The advised odds were recorded and compared to prices available on receipt of email, 60 minutes after receipt, and the closing (kick off) price.

Here is what he found – starting with the UK Bookmaker Panel:

Odds Tracking Results (UK Bookmaker Panel)

For those of you with only access to UK bookmaker accounts – the good news is that the odds available when the tips were received could be beaten by around 0.8% ROI on average. Those of you waiting up to 60 mins or when the odds close would be between 1.3% and 2.5% worse off.

Now moving onto the odds movement from our Asian Bookmaker Panel (best odds from Pinnacle, SBObet or 188bet) – here is what David found:

Odds Tracking Results (Asian Bookmaker Panel)

Once again, the good news was that if placing your bet when it was received would result in a 1% increase in overall ROI – signifying the odds quoted by this tipster were both realistic and beatable.

More positive news came in the form of the odds available after 60 minutes had elapsed, which still showed an increase of 0.4% ROI.

WHAT WE LEARNT

The upshot of our odds tracking analysis told us a few things:

• Those getting on as soon as they receive a tip can expect to improve ROI by between 0.8% and 1% ROI.
• If getting on within an hour, you can expect at worst a 1.3% ROI drop if confined only to UK bookies or at best a 0.4% ROI increase if accessing other ‘Asian’ bookies.
• The odds do move downwards between 0.9% and 2.5% ROI towards kick-off, indicating a tipster that has a clear edge on the betting market.

So to go back to our original question: Does this tipster make both a practice in theory and in practice?…The answer would have to be a resounding yes.

Of course, the profits you make are dependent upon which bookmakers you utilise. The more bookies and exchanges you hold accounts with, then the greater the odds you can achieve.

In actual fact these days you probably only need a few key accounts for football betting – something we will be covering in-depth in Part 6 of our Essential Football Betting Compendium (out next week!)

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By signing-up you will also gain full access to all 6 parts of our Essential Football Betting Compendium – all you need to make a profit on the beautiful game this 2016/17 season.

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Parts 3 of SBC’s 2016/17 Season Essential Football Betting Compendium is out now, featuring our exclusive review of a very profitable Brazilian Football Tipster.

We have been tracking this tipsters performance intensively for the past 18 months, during which time he has made a 118-point profit at 7.5% ROI from 757 Asian Handicap tips.

Sign-up now as a Smart Betting Club member to gain instant access to Part 3 (plus Parts 1 & 2 which are out now and 4, 5 & 6 which are due for release soon) of this must-read compendium!

Genuinely Profitable Brazilian Tipping Expertise.

Born and bred in Brazil, the tipster we review in Part 3 employs a team of scouts to help him identify the best value betting tips – in leagues that many bookmakers and punters know very little about.

He uses his expertise to great effect in the high value Asian Handicap markets and perhaps best of all – our tracking indicates that the odds he quotes are realistically achievable.

We observed the odds movement on 277 bets between March and June this year and found that on average you can expect to better the advised odds by between 0.8 and 1% ROI, simply by shopping around and using recommended bookmakers/exchanges.

Making it both a practical and profitable tipping service!

Grab Parts 1, 2 & 3 Now!

You can access our full independent review of this Brazilian Football Expert in Part 3 of our Essential Football Betting Compendium, with Parts 1 and 2 also now available (read more about them here).

Parts 4, 5 & 6 will feature even more professional betting advice and will be released in the next fortnight.

Sign-up now to receive all 6 parts as they are published and give yourself the best chance of success this coming season!

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Earlier this week we released Part 1 of the 2016/17 Essential Football Betting Compendium – our latest Sports Tipster Profit Report, featuring the lowdown on the very best sports tipsters we proof.

In the Profit Report, you can find updated results, rankings and best buy tables for 25 top sports experts – all as tracked by the team here at SBC. The vast majority are football tipsters, with many of them having a track-record of making regular profits for those that follow them in each week.

To help illustrate the potency of the tipsters within the Profit Report, I have picked outjust 8 of the 25 tipsters we track and listed their performance if following at just £10 or £20 per point size advised in the table below….

You can also view some key points such as the number of bets tipped, their ROI and how long they have been tipping (Helping to prove that their record is no flash in the pan).

(Sorry but as the full details of this report is so potent I have had to protect the tipster names and details for SBC members only – hence why they are Tipster A through H below).

At just simple £10 or £20 stakes, each of the 8 tipsters has made a fine profit over several years and thousands of tips.

Take for example ‘Tipster C’ who has maintained a 13.51% ROI and made 795.5 points profit since March 2012. At just £10 stakes, this equates to £7,955.30 profit.

In fact, all 8 tipsters have made a good long-term profit, whether it be to £10 or £20 stakes and all have passed the test of time.

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Second Measure of A Good Tipster – Betting Bank Growth

Yet as good as the above table is – it isn’t always the most scientific way of comparing tipsters.

We also like to weigh up tipsters based on what we term ‘Betting Bank Growth’, which is effectively showcasing the tipster providing the biggest return, based on our sensible and realistic betting bank suggestions (something we explain in the 100-page ‘Pro Gambler Blueprint we supply to all new SBC members for free).

We reveal the betting bank growth by comparing each tipster if following from a £2000 starting point, although in the example below we have also included a £1000 starting point to help underline the fact that you don’t need a huge initial amount of money to profit here.

Once again, whichever way you look at this, each of the tipsters has made a tremendous profit and all to sensible betting banks and amounts.

For example, Tipster D has made as much as £11,564 to just a £1,000 starting point – multiplying its starting bank many times over.

Tipster E and H have also made great strides from a £2000 bank, with as much as £13,720 and £12,917 profit generated respectively since they began.

A couple of the tipsters such as F and G are probably best suited to slightly larger betting banks (£3,000 upwards) as they do concentrate on quality not quantity of tips. Yet even they will have made upwards of £4,300 profit from just a £2000 starting point.

All told, to 8 X £1000 starting banks you would be sitting on as much as £41,668.20 if you followed all these racing tipsters – an average of £5,209 per tipster.

There is no betting at silly figures such as £200 per bet or higher, like some tipsters advocate you do. Instead, the approach is about making regular and consistent profits.

Grab Your Copy Of The Sports Tipster Profit Report

As you can imagine this latest Sports Tipster Profit Report is a veritable goldmine of information and if picking up your copy today, you can also find tables dedicated to revealing which tipsters…

• Have made the largest profit of all-time.
• Have enjoyed the best past 12 months.
• Generate the highest Return on Investment.
• Offer the lowest workload to follow.
• Are easy to get advised odds with.
• Make our ‘Hall of Fame’ recommendation list
• And most importantly…can genuinely make you money betting!

As well as this Sports Tipster Profit Report, by joining the Smart Betting Club today you can also access Part 2 of our Essential Football Compendium: The 2016/17 Season Football Tipster Guide.

Inside this you can read exclusive interviews with 13 of the very best football tipsters on just how they make money betting and their plans for the new season. Alongside this we have an updated review on each football tipster plus our recommendations on which ones to follow.

Parts 3, 4, 5 & 6 of our Essential Football Compendium are also due for release ahead of the 2016/17 season – each of which will be available to you as a Smart Betting Club member.

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