Tag: bets

A look under Betfair’s football markets

As you may know I’m bit of a stats man, but it’s a useful discipline. Monitoring your own activity can give you a useful insight into the markets and your activity on them. I spend at least a couple of hours a day either analysing what I did yesterday, or some aspect of the market or a strategy.

The champions league matches give me a chance really get under the skin of the market. This is because the liquidity is …

13/02/2013 | By Peter Webb | Reply More

Hedge your bets

Last night in the champions league we had a range of generally uncompetitive matches. Only Galatasaray vs Braga exhibited the characteristics of a match that could potentially be tight.

Of course you can never quite tell in Football. The average number of goals scored is quite low so results can be highly variable. A ball in the back of the net off a ‘wicked’ deflection, why are all deflections ‘wicked’?, could easily see a side take the lead unexpectedly. From …

03/10/2012 | By Peter Webb More

The 49 bets

Here is something interesting. Well I thought it was interesting anyhow, so I thought I would share it.

On Saturday I was working a position into the Liverpool vs Arsenal match. I’ve often maintained there can’t be many big gamblers / traders out there as I rarely see big amounts in the market. OK there are reasons why I may not be able to see them, but even then, I rarely see anything that looks like a bigger player.

In …

07/03/2012 | By Peter Webb More