🎧SBC Podcast #54: 🎾James from Tennis Pilot on his service’s edge, building an AI system, bookmakers and more!

In the latest SBC Podcast I am joined by James, one half of the brains behind the recently reviewed tennis tipping service, Tennis Pilot.

English and Philosophy & Theology degrees at Oxford University may not be typical starting points for successful tipping services, but a shared love of tennis drove James and his partner Nicholas to bet using their combined expertise.

7 years, nearly 7,000 bets and a freshly built AI system later, we talk about the partners’ journey to success in a fascinating chat.

You can listen to Episode 54 now via Apple / Spotify / Google / YouTube and all other major podcast directories (search Smart Betting Club)

An in-depth chat with one of this service’s ‘Co-Pilots’

In this episode, James and I discuss:

  • Tennis Pilot’s inception, how the service has developed and what James and Nicholas have learnt along the way
  • Balancing working full-time with running a successful tipping service
  • Value – what is it and why is it so hard to identify?
  • Statistics and the different biases that can lead bookmakers to price matches incorrectly
  • How specialisation can provide an instant advantage over the market
  • Variables that help James to find expected value in matches
  • James’s masters thesis and building a machine-learning tennis betting system from scratch
  • Where to bet on tennis and the viability of different bookmakers and exchanges
  • Tennis Pilot’s 17% ROI from nearly 7,000 bets

Learn more

To learn more about Tennis Pilot, you can visit their website here or follow them on Twitter @TennisPilot.

In addition, we have recently published an in-depth review into the service’s performance that is available with a paid SBC membership.

Here, we go through Tennis Pilot’s 7 year betting record, assessing nearly 7,000 bets using our usual range of metrics including odds availability, performance in different markets, drawdown analysis and progressive reinvestment strategies (alongside many more!).

SBC Discounts

You can trial Tennis Pilot free for one month by visiting their website and following the link on their homepage.

Secondly, SBC Members can get a 25% discount on all of Tennis Pilot’s subscription options, saving you between £35 and £60 depending on the package that you choose.

This equates to up to 56% of your annual SBC subscription – another smart deal for our betting club!

Join SBC Today to read the full Tennis Pilot review and access this discount

🎾 ACE! Let Tennis Pilot Guide You To Profit!

Today I am going to make a racket as I serve up a tennis service that you will love.

Now that I have run out of tennis-related puns, it is time to talk about Tennis Pilot.

As the name indicates, this is a tennis advisory service that provides bets across all of the major global tours. Run by two friends who met at Oxford University, Tennis Pilot has over seven years of results that we have analysed closely for an extended period of time, in order to write a brand new detailed review about their service.

The Numbers

Since 2016, Tennis Pilot have put forward 6,769 selections with the following headline figures:

  • Profits stand at 2,530.54 points to advised variable staking
  • This return comes from stakes of 14,649 points, meaning that ROI stands at 17.27%
  • Odds average out at 8.25 (or 7.25/1) with a strike rate of 34.75%
  • Returns on the best tours with the highest liquidity are both approaching 20% (19.77% ROI for the ATP & 18.90% ROI for the WTA)
  • ROC for Tennis Pilot stands at 495% with £10 per point staking, returning profits of £25,305

An average of 60 monthly selections makes this a ‘low workload’ service but to get the best returns, a wide selection of bookmaker and exchange accounts is advised (with access to Pinnacle being a considerable advantage).

SBC Discount & Full Review

Tennis is quickly becoming a leading source of excellent tipping services and a sport that more and more SBC members are turning to in order to make a profit betting.

You can read our detailed review of Tennis Pilot and all our other recommended services, be it Tennis related or otherwise with an SBC membership.

By joining you will get instant access to a detailed report on Tennis Pilot’s performance, with profit breakdowns, price sensitivity analysis and Monte Carlo simulations making up just a fraction of what is inside.

In addition, a 25% discount is available on all of Tennis Pilot’s subscription packages for SBC Members – meaning that the discount on an annual subscription would go a long way to covering your SBC membership costs!

The tennis tipster with a great record laying & backing – ideal for exchange punters

Last week saw the release of the very latest SBC Magazine (Issue 106) which featured reviews of 3 new winning tipsters to help in your profitable betting quest.

Chief amongst them was my in-depth exploration of the fascinating Tennis tipping service with a tremendous record advising both lays and backs in men’s and women’s tennis.

It’s a service ideally suited to those of you keen to bet on betting exchanges such as Betfair or Smarkets, either because bookmakers have closed you down or you are looking to diversify your betting.

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A Fantastic Track Record Laying At Short Prices

My initial interest in reviewing this tipster was based on the outstanding performance levels my team and I observed from the lay bets put forward since 2016.

Recommending a handful of tennis lays each day at short prices, over the course of 1279 tips they have made a pre-commission profit of 80.8 points profit at 14.2% ROI.

Of course, nobody can place a lay on an exchange without paying a commission fee, so I adjusted these profit figures to deduct 5% off each winning lay. 5% is Betfair’s starting commission rate (it reduces the more you use them) so is a good ‘worst-case scenario’ to work off.

With 5% taken off, this worst-case scenario worked out as 59 point profit at 10.4% ROI if using Betfair. Those of you with lower Betfair rates or even with a lower exchange fee service like Smarkets or Matchbook might well be even better off.

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Using this post-commission record as the basis of our reporting, I also began to investigate performance across several other variables.

Chiefly amongst this was the price range that lays were taken on at, where I found the service to be profitable across the board.

Below you can see how I broke down the performance based on the price bracket, with the majority of lays being for selections 1.50 and below. Impressive figures indeed.

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I also found no major difference as to whether this tipster was advising lays in either men’s or women’s tennis with a very similar record across both ATP and WTA tours.

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It’s not only lays that this particular tennis specialises in but also his ‘back’ bets where he too has a very impressive record.

Although only commencing in 2017, over the course of 619 back bets so far, a profit of 40.9 points at 6.9% has been achieved.

You can see how this breaks down to 1 point level stakes below:

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Save £5 A Month On This Tipster With SBC

With profit figures both laying and backing, it’s easy to see why I took the time to analyse this service with a 9-page review of what they offer in SBC 106.

You can read about all aspects of the service including betting bank analysis and our odds tracking data, which indicates how viable these results actually are.

Best of all, I was also able to negotiate a special deal whereby SBC members can join for just £19.95 per month – instead of their usual £25 monthly fee. All part of the tipster savings SBC can offer due to our 100% independent status, whereby we take no kick-backs or ‘affiliate’ earnings for our reviews.

If my team and I say a tipster is good – it’s because it genuinely is. Not because we have been paid to say that! (and not something you can say for every ‘independent’ tipster review service.

Grab Your Copy Today (And The Entire Back Catalogue!)

If interested in reading the full review above, you can access it and our entire back catalogue of magazines the instant you join the Smart Betting Club.

This includes access to every single tipster review we have ever written (there are literally hundreds available) and all of the Hall of Fame Tipsters we recommend to make you money betting.

Check out some of our latest publications.

You can also enjoy significant discounts on the cost of joining many of these tipsters via our unique Tipster Discounts – exclusively available to SBC members only.

See you on the inside

Best Regards,

Peter Ling
Smart Betting Club Editor

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