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If you're betting on tennis without the slightest idea of how the game works, you probably won't do a good job because you wouldn't even understand what you're betting on. However, if you have some basic knowledge of the game and teams, is it enough to become good at betting? If you really know the teams and follow what's happening to them (injuries and stuff like that), does it really make you good at betting?
I want to draw from my personal experience with football and predicting EPL. I have some basic knowledge about EPL and about football in general, but I'm not deep into the details. However, it seems that I've been improving at predicting how the matches would go by getting the hang of analyzing the odds, previous history of matches between the teams and recent history of matches of some teams against other strong teams. So I've been paying more attention to betting, but my knowledge of football and teams did not change much, but here's some data on how I've been making predictions on Superbru:
https://i.imgur.com/F2gwma3.png
So from worse than average I went to top-20. Perhaps it's just luck or some random factors, and I'm not really getting better at it. What's your experience and opinion on the relation between knowing the sport and betting on it?

I can say yes since you will know on what are the stronger teams on the leagues and which of them is underdogs also you can always know if there's a lacking players or if there's an issue that can affect there gameplays. That's why knowing the teams really give us a great advantage in terms of betting but there are instance that we cannot always rely on it since even under dogs can unexpectedly win.

Knowledge is power and you are always on the edge especially in sports betting, if you are familiar with every team and you can compare the strength of one team to another, you will not get lost on who and what to bet, than relying on other people's opinion, so much depends on the knowledge of the sports than on luck when it comes to sports betting, I usually bet on a boxer that turns out to be the winner because of my analysis.

in my opinion? yeah, having knowledge about the game and the team gives you the ability to have an intelligent decision on what the players might and might not do giving you the advantage to have better betting picks to those who have no knowledge about the game. and based on your results it might really be the case.

Not really, because knowing the sports and the teams are the basics of the game, it's necessary in order to understand what you are doing, winning is a different thing, it's more complicated than what we think because of the betting odds set by the bookmakers.

Knowing your stuff could help you to increase your chance of winning in sports betting, since it's not base on luck. Sticking to a certain player or to a certain team is good, because it will make you to summarize data easily in just short period of time and you could at least predict it 80% of possibility that you could win, while focusing on too many team will just result the exact opposite of what I've said.

Well, it's a basic of any sports betting or even in any other events of your life as well! Assume you are a software engineer and you have been asked to handle the job of a police commissioner of the city! Your struggle will be endless! Same goes for sports betting as well!

Every gambler needs to understand the sports they are betting on. Otherwise, the end result will be disastrous! If you don't understand cricket, don't bet on it! As simple as that! Knoqing the sport well, definitely increases your chance of winning!

In the end betting will always remain mostly luck based because it's not in your hand if you win or lose but in the hand of the teams that compete. I would still say though that you can increase your chances of winning a bet if you know your sports well and also be up to date about the current situation of the competing teams. Do they have injured players? How did they perform in their last matches? Are important players banned or in bad shape?
To know stuff like that helps.

Yeah! I think so too because even though you do your own research with the team the odds still there and sometimes the team you expected to lose, will win the game. It happens most likely in boxing because you can see how they fight each other like there is no tomorrow. The only problem is the judges who score the match and if they are paid by someone then that means trouble for the one who bets.

I disagree that sports betting is luck based even though we have to rely on the players you can eventually make a bit of profit if you're very knowledgeable on the sport you're betting on as you become more cautious by knowing which matches to skip and what markets to take on certain matches. It's not the same as casino games where it heavily revolves around luck, upsets could happen once in a while but it can be avoidable and not every sport are always full of upsets.

Yes, it has the advantage, if you know very team's strength and weaknesses then you will have the advantage on sports betting, remember that knowledge is always our power, if you know every team then that would make you good at sports betting but still it won't guarantee you to win 100% because gambling is still risky and there is no assurance of winning.

last day i was trying a new sportsbetting  and i bet on random events for testing purpose and i was also in a hurry. i didnt knew anything about the teams involved but i know the game that they are playing and how it works  .
i loose that bet of mine but if i have a knowledge on the teams playing maybe i could win it .
 we wont be familiar with the teams if we dont like the sport that they are in , we need to first know if what sports we love and the next steps are going to be easier .

Don't worry, just see who's favorite on the site and bet on it.... Nooo, don't do that, this is the right recipe to lose money.

Especially in games with teams of many players, it's necessary not only to know the team but also each one of its players, because even a change in the lineup during the match can totally change the game and the result of it.

You can't just rely on the odds, you have to follow the teams and make quick decisions to decrease the chances of losing. But as good as you do, 50% is still technical, the other 50% is luck.

I don't follow football or tennis much, but I follow cricket a bit. I would say, yes, knowing about the players, their strength and weakness, their strategies definitely help at coming to a precise calculation of odds of the game. Along with that, we also have to analyze the psychology behind the game as well. Let's say, we have two teams and one has scored 3 goals and the other 0 goals at half time. Now, after half time, the winning team will play "defensive" and will try to pass as much time as possible so it wins while the other would be at attack mode. Hence, all aspects of the game are needed for an ideal calculation :)

Definitely, when I was starting my crypto online betting, I bet on some sports that I'm not familiar with and obviously I'm frustrated so see me losing. My reasoning is that maybe I can be lucky and win blindly. But it was not like that, sport betting requires knowledge, lessons for me.

So I stop doing that, maybe from time to time, just to have some fun. But majority of my bets now are sports that I'm more familiar with to give me higher percentage of winning.

Without a doubt,,, sports betting needs not just knowledge but a keen familiarity with the sports, more so with the athletes and teams. Form is important. the style they play (betting on types of event like cards and corners in football).

But the problem is people bet on emotions and on odds, rather than on the knowledge. Sports bets people like me bet on our teams. Regardless if we play like crap or not;)

It is more factor that you know the game that you are betting at because how can you bet on a game that you didn't know how to play? How come that you may understand and says that this team is much better without knowing the game itself that they are playing? Knowing the game and rulea itself will help you to analyze on which team you will bet because the more you understand the game the more you know which team is better.

You'll be getting good at betting if you know what you're doing, especially when you know how the game works and how things will turn out on the game. I have experiences in e-sports betting but not in cryptocurrency, I bet a lot and I got a huge win rate, I knew how every match will end since I memorized all of their gameplay. So knowing the game, having experience with it and definitely knew the mechanics or gameplay of each team, it will be an easy bet for you. I don't usually bet just because I like the team, if you want to earn while enjoying the match then you should bet on the team which has more possibilities to win.

Of course, knowledge of the sport and the different teams helps in betting! In my opinion, without knowledge it is better not to get involved in those things that concern money!
Especially if you are really interested in football for example and know the statistics... Why not make money from your knowledge! ;)

A bettor deep knowledge in a particular or choice of sport is the key towards winning bets consistently, personally my preference is soccer betting and I followed English Premier League with passion thus allowing me to place my bets on stronger teams against the weaker ones and knows the teams with ability of scoring goals in every match, statistically I would be to analyze past records before placing a bet all these are based on knowledge in that particular league.

you wouldn't randomly pick a side and then hope for a win but you'll likely go pick a winning team when you learned that they are currently the champ and the top badass belongs in that football team. because you know you have a higher chance of winning. everybody wants to win and make money in gambling.

i chose to pick the game that i know and the local team that I'm a fan because its worth losing than betting on another team and lose.

With sports betting we've got two options to choose the odds. One is based on the knowledge and the other is a random pick. When we go with the knowledge based odd selection we need to take into consideration different factors. Based on the players associated with the game and previous few matches history it is possible to have precise prediction about the end result of the game. With random pick of odds, the winning is purely upon the luck of the user himself.

As far as I have experienced, when betting on sports basically I can't just rely on analysis and also, can't just rely on odds. At least both have to be equally good if we want to get good results too, but something that makes me wonder when betting randomly regardless of analysis and also odds, sometimes this method can give a win that was not expected at all because it is just a random bet. Even some of my friends don't really understand about football and also, even he doesn't know the team he put in the bet which team is from which country and what league, he really doesn't know about that. But luck has always been on her side so I use such methods many times and thus, I believe any bet is about luck.

In my experience, whenever you invest time to learn about anything, it usually turns out alright in the end. This applies not just to gambling but to life itself..  Before I talk about my experience about football betting, I want to talk about mt most recent experience with placing bets on NBA games.

Earlier this year, I picked an NBA Basketball games and started placing bets on it. At first, I just picked teams blindly based on the odds (smaller odds high probability). However, it didn't take me long to incur dozens of losses. It got to a point that I had to stop betting altogether. So what I did was to take out time to learn about NBA. I started with the Wikipedia page and gradually started learning about the top teams, the underdogs, mid-range teams and the various markets available for these games and how to take advantage of them. I even started watching NBA games which I usually have fun watching.

To cut the long story short, I'd say that taking out time to learn about the sport and other details plays a key role in improving one's chances to predict the outcomes.

I think it's a no-brainer if someone will say no. Even I want to respect their stand I don't buy the idea that knowledge of the game doesn't play a role in sports betting. Random betting is not a cool thing to do for me.

Having knowledge is an advantage. It's not that we can always win but we are not just picking teams based on odds.

Why not just both? Knowledge of the game + better pick of odds.

I see that you posted pphoto from Superbru predictor. I also can share my example from it. I play in 3 pools there - EPL, La Liga and Serie A. Andmy results in it is completely different. La Liga is my preferred league, I follow it most and nothing surprising, I collected most points there - 202.5. Then EPL, I have just 175.5 point, despite that follow this league closely too, though not that much as La Liga. And in Serie A I have 182.5 point, despite that my knowledge about this league isn't good, except some main teams. And same like in predictor, these results reflect in my betting stats, I'm doing best in La Liga.
If you will start betting on some random football league that you don't watch at all, I doubt that you will do very well. Yes, you can follow odds, check squads, list of injury players, recent results and other research on apps like Flashscore, but it won't be same as following that league closely

YES! Knowing each and every little bit of aspect that could affect the run of a certain game would have a huge impact on the outcome of your prediction. You cannot just bet on basketball just because one told you so, you must bet on teams that you know were good and not because of the team's hype and popularity. Also, certain games really requires bettors to gain further knowledge before they bet as even a little news like changes in training regime of players could deal an impact to what could possibly happen in the game.

Even luck is needed in sportsbetting but having knowledge would really give you the advantage compared if you dont have any idea on whats your betting on. Knowledge is advantage because betting on sports isnt something similar to luck based ones on where you do just bet and roll.

You should know those details to make you aware on whats happening into your team such as injuries, switched players or whatsoever connection to that. Its an edge that you would be aware.

Betting without any basis is just similar when you are playing luck based ones though odds wont
be thesame somehow.

These two questions are enough for me to consider that even you are a new bettor you will make a better bettor.

Okay, if you have these, a basic knowledge of the game and of course you are following the team and of course the opponent team has a great advantage in picking which team will have potential to be a winner. There's no need to have to dig more, that information is enough for your to analyze which team will be going to win. If you are a good bettor don't follow your emotion over your knowledge, don't bet if you know the team is an underdog situation just because you are one of their fans, not like that.

It gives you a certain edge, as you nill know how certain teams do well against eacher, and you will also know what factors affect their strategy mid game so that you can get better judgment on who to play your money to. It isn't always 100% guarantee that your bet will win, but it foes help you lessen blind picking on someone just because lo ove the team.

This is true!

Even if you do love a certain team but you have seen that they are on big disavantage then you would really be betting on the other side. So this would be a question if youre a solid fan or loyal or just simply like them but you can bet against them depending on the situation.
You will really be needing these kind of information to apply it into your analysis and would make final decisions basing off on what you had seen.

Being a good bettor would reallly be having this kind of qualities even op do have some losses or still im doubt on those betting behavior but still you can see the win.lose ratio does show that he's on the good side and would really have room to improve.

If you have good insight with the game, knowing which team or player is more superior than the other one, you can give higher chances with your bet to win.


It's very important to have an idea with the team that you are betting with, not just because someone shared some tips means that it automatically will win, you need to have your own analysis before placing your money.


Agree to that, with deeper knowledge in regards to specific team or players, it will gives you better chance to pick the right
selections that may give you good benefits, though it's also needs to anticipate that shit can always happened when you
are dealing with gambling.

When it comes to sports betting knowledge is everything, a great deal of the decision of whether or not to bet on a team or the other is to be ale to tell if the odds given by the casino are fair, for example many think that the odds given by the casino are exclusively the chances a team will win or not but this is not the case, people have a tendency to bet in those that are the favourites to win so most of the time the odds they are given are worst than what they should be, which means that betting on the underdogs is almost always a better proposition but even then you need to use your knowledge to know if the odds are high enough to justify a bet.

I guess a gambler who have an experience and been gambling consistently would understand that it does not guarantee or will make your better as a bettor by just knowing the game and the teams. That's a false belief, we think it's easy to gamble but it's not, and we can only tell that based on our experience.

Sports betting is a billion dollar industry and this industry is booming, meaning a lot of people are losing money in sports and I expect that most of them knows the sports and team very well, and yet they still lose.

Betting is different from just watching the game and choosing the winner,  we are talking of betting odds here and a team needs to win or cover in order for us to win, I guess, non sports bettor would not understand that and they thought betting on which team will win is the way to play the game and it has the same odds.

No, it would not increase our winning chances if we only rely on those things, there's a lot of information we need to know and analyze in order to win, we will not win all the time but this would help us throughout our long journey as a bettor.

Only somewhat.

The fact is that the odds provided by the market already reflect a very efficient estimate of the probabilities of the outcomes. It is very rare that there will be a huge underestimation/overestimation of the odds of a particular outcome by the market.

In fact, knowing your sport/team could introduce an element of bias that could negatively impact you.

So unless you are a professional tipster with rigorous modelling, it barely matters whether or not you know the sport you're betting on imo.

Exactly
How can we bet on soemthing that we don't know? If we know the team and sport, it will help us to analyze the chance of them winning or lose. We can see the chance of every betting that we want to join at the live time. Because, the chance of every game may be different depending on the condition of the sport and team at the time, depending on the other club or team to compete or play. This will really give an impact if we know the condition of the team that we support. 

The higher knowledge you have on that sport, the higher chance you will be getting on winning your bets. It is been the usual setup with sports betting. Analysis on the team comp and also considering the history they are having at the moment is really helpful. Been doing some bets on esports and that knowledge is really paying off.

There are some of those times that you also lost with an upset but still, that happens rarely.

Well naturally, since you know the advantages and disadvantages of their habits. Like for example, I only know a paltry amount of tennis knowledge, but a player that specializes in drop and volley could easily defeat someone that has, maybe, slow speed, or can't read the enemy properly (this is just me assuming, idk if this is a fact, the only thing I really know was the drop and volley). Those kinds of things let you identify whether a match up is advantageous or not. Ofc, experience is also taken into account, but most of the time it wouldn't make much influence especially if the player themselves is really skilled. There are also a lot of factors, but knowledge of the game and of the players should be more than enough to identify who's advantageous over the other.

I guess interest is enough, I mean serious interest. I know of a few friends who are not really that good in basketball, one or two are not even playing, but they are so interested in the NBA that their predictions could be considered more or less reliable. They closely follow players, their games, teams, trades, chemistry, defense and offense analyses, and so many other statistics among players and teams.

If you don't have "the slightest idea of how the game works," then why are you betting in the first place? You are just like playing a game of dice in that case. Sports betting is not meant to be just a random betting which is only based on luck. It is meant to be gambling based on analyses.  

Nope that's not enough just to Know your team that will Make you win or an expert because your team will not play alone instead with Opponent .

So what will make us win? we must Know our team and also " The Opponents" this means we must be an expert in the whole process from our team and every team that they will be facing each time.

It's true that the more details we have knowledge regarding the players and teams that will play, then it makes our chances of winning the bet
are also higher. So it is not true if someone says sports betting is just a gambling game that relies on luck. Due to the fact that sports betting
requires knowledge of the players and teams that will play. And we also have to compare our favorite team with the opposing team, so we can
predict the results of the match. That's what makes sports betting quite complex and unsuitable for people who don't like sports.

If you only know about the game and teams' basic knowledge, I am afraid that will not help you pick the right team because you need more information about that, and that is not easy to pick the team. The basic knowledge can help us know how the gameplay, but we need to search for more details to know which team will have a big chance to win. Sometimes, we need to dig deeper to analyze each team that will match, so that can affect our decision.

All I can remember are those people bandwagoning every time.

These bandwagons may be riding the hype but they don't know anything about the game or the team. They just knew a very popular player in that team and that is all. Having that knowledge really matters in sports betting especially those that really bet on each sport so hard. Knowing your team and their opponent, how they play, and how they might win or lose depends on how you know the sport and the players themselves.

It can be a big help to your betting decision, but of course you should not depend on that fully because its sports and there will be a winner and a loser so you must also open for that. The team that you trust can't always win, but doing such research is a must before you place a bet especially if you team is dealing with a strong or weak opponent, its also important to understand the sports and know the other team as well.

It is an advantage but not necessarily mean you will make it to the sure win, because the game decides by two thing ,

- How your team perform .

- How the Opponent Perform.

So these must be consider both , the 2 of them.

knowing your team and opponent will still be not enough because you arent controlling thier play and you dont know whats going behind the stadium if what what are these players Planning about the game . lets accept that we cant escape being a loser sometimes but having adequate information is an advantage than nothing .

Yeah, it does. You know your team and how the game is played which boots your confidence when placing a bet. You know the weakness of the team which gives you an edge on who to place bets when a play goes on. It's more like you know what you are doing, instead of randomly placing bets of different teams blindly based on past results. You, over here don't completely depend on your luck. This gives you a higher chance of winning!I doubt sports betting depends "completely" on your luck. It depends more on how the team is playing.

Ofcourse, it should. But I think what would really matter the most is knowing the teams properly and factors that may affect their chances in order to be able to make better predictions. 
I believe if you could gather and properly analyze enough data/info on future matches and the teams involved, you will be able to increase your chances of predicting the matches right. I believe this will likely give a more consistent result than just guessing.

It's more about the winning chances, though some teams are underdog but it does not mean that they will lose all the time. Gambling by its word means risking for our choice or prediction to win, and we might lose as well. Successful gamblers does not win everyday or all the time, they win because they are smart to treat gambling as a business with a very simple formula they follow, some us, win more than you lose equals profit.

Even if you are big fan of the sport you cannot predict the matches correctly especially in Tennis, right now the Australian open is in full swing and we already saw many upsets including Petra Kvitota and then Stan Wawrinka loosing a match after having a lead and Bianca Andreescu lost the match but she was coming back after an injury so it was not an upset like Kvitota.

Knowing the injury of a player is more important if you are placing a bet.

I fully agree with you, to have an edge in betting we need to look at all the possible information. Knowing our home team is good, but without knowing the other teams of the league it will be hard to bet continuously on the right outcome. There are a lot different sport websites out there that are going to help us with that. Having a news feed for major news in our favourite sport is a good idea.

Im not betting about tennis, but I will recommend to bet to the team that you think is going to win. Like in basketball once you choose to a team make sure you watching their games or strategy or the chances of winning and also the sports is also your favorite sports. Knowledge is very important in every games or betting you do because it will turn for you to earn money but if you do not have enough knowledge that chances to losing money is very risky because you will not know what is happening unless you are know about the sports you bet.

lol Who says that there is an assurance ?  but at least we are advantageous in that way if we are familiar in how our team plays same as their opponent .
Exactly what i am putting here , because familiarity in both ends will help us give an estimate outcome , though it wasn't perfect but at least more percentage of winning than Losing .

The bettings odds are initially set by the bookmarkers. Then the odds change based on the number of bettors who bet on the respective outcome of the game and, above all, which amount they bet. For example: If the bettor puts team A on 1.5, team B on 3.5 and a draw on 2.0, and now the first bettor comes and bets 1 million on team B's victory, then the odds change significantly. Team B should then have lower odds than team A. This is an extreme example, but this is how it works.

I agree with you on you need some slightest idea of how these games work but some of them are based on probabilities and statistics. I have earned money betting on some horse races based on these statistics and I have no clue what a horse race is. Sometimes you can trust on some people who do this job for you with a commision based but I prefer do my own research instead of delegate my money on other hands.

I will say that there is a strong relationship between knowing the sports and betting on it because if we really know about the sports and collect so much information about the team, especially our favourite team, that will give us a chance to select the right team.
We can also have a chance to win the game because we know which team can win against the other team.
It will help us analyze and decide, even if we only use small money because our rate to win will be bigger if we know much about the team.
If you want to do sports betting, you should choose the sports you already know, so you will not have difficulty selecting the team.

Of course. Knowing your sport and teams make you aware of what you are betting into. Compare that to a blind bet, that would give you a higher probability of winning. With a blind bet, you have nothing to base your bet on. Betting without knowing is useless. It is not fun. It is not profitable also. You are simply playing with your money. Knowledge on teams and the game itself gives you a basis from which you will make your prediction analysis and bet.

There's no difference if you will bet on Tennis or basketball or any type of sports because everyone has their favorite sports and it's good if they will only bet on sports that they follow the most and they are interested the most as that will give them more excitement in betting. In my case, I follow basketball so I'm more focus on NBA games than other type of sports.

Sorry but what is Basic knowledge ? is there specification of the teams knowledge?
Have you read the title? it is about the Team and Sports that you will bet in , what's this choosing ?that is meaning you already knew your team from the start.
The bottom line is we must know "the Game, The Team, and the Opponent..

This will save your bets at any cost, and if you are not sure then better to pause betting and move on the next one.

I agree and it is better if you try to be focused on some single sports and you can and you can specialize in this sport. I believe that we should separate personal feelings and personal preferences when we talk about betting. For example I am a Chicago Bulls fan since Michael Jordan joined 30 years ago (or so) but I would never bet on them in case of betting on the NBA games.

That is another thing that gamblers or bettors should also look at, how would the other team perform. I don't think we don't need to be that kind of expert to win most of our bets, there are a lot of angles we could into and if you are a fan of the sport, you have a huge advantage. But, that also falls to what you are saying.

Every team has different performance every game and that is the same with other player that could snowball the games they are playing.

Our understanding of a sport and a team will give us more data to analyze and place bets on but as you say, we still cannot be proactive and control everything, luck still prevails and makes more decisions, considering more about match-fixing matches, our understanding won't help much. In addition, thinking like an expert, analyzing too much just makes us step closer and deeper into the world of gambling and when everything has accumulated enough, a gambling addiction will be created

Thanks for so many replies in such a short time!
Not everyone agrees that knowledge is important because some think even betting is luck-based, so knowledge doesn't matter, whereas others believe that knowing how to bet is more important than knowing the sport. That being said, there aren't many replies like that.
The majority of people here are saying that knowledge is important, but they justify it rationally rather than by appealing to experience. I agree that it seems on the theoretical level that knowledge is very useful, but I wanted to hear more about your personal betting experience and whether it confirms this notion. Some did mention experience, but it's mainly about some particular bets they remembered, on something based on the analysis of a bunch of predictions.
And I do agree with what many pointed out about knowing the sport not being enough to become good at betting, but that's a separate question worthy of a different discussion.
LTU_btc, thanks for analysing your Superbru predictions, your insight is helpful!
magneto, I also liked your thought about knowing the sport making one biased. I think it's true that sometimes people bet on the team they're fond of, even though they know this team doesn't have good chances. And this problem indeed doesn't exist if you're not attached to a particular team.
rig4hodlers, interesting experience of successful betting on horse races without diving into the topic!

Let me share my experience on betting on an Esport event. I know Esport and sport are two different things but they mostly have some similarities on the gambling side. When gambling into these kinds of event, there are many factors that we should consider that will help us win. The main one being familiar to the sport and players that will play on the event. Players statistics matters a lot as not everyone on a team is the best and it's better knowing who and when they'll play. Another factor is the gambling experience of the bettor, but most of the time this can be ignored as there are initial percentage of who's likely to win on a match or game.
So for me, sports and esports gambling can be mostly based on the statistics of the players, the team playing and knowing the sport as whole.

You are absolutely right. Sports betting and others form of gambling is just like cryptocurrency trading and it will be hard for an inexperienced trader with so basic knowledge to thrive. Besides, whenever a free gain trend occurs in the market he will lose his investment in the end. The same thing goes with gambling especially tennis because each player is good on some court than others.

 Knowledge with in depth research is what makes a gambler good at betting, if a gambler is aware of the injuries and other helpful information of the teams but don't have the knowledge of gambling profitable she's still not good at betting. The good result is what counts not the awareness.

It's really important that we'll have an idea of how every game works so we'll know the possible risks and we're able to deal with it. Knowing the capability of teams,  their movements and strategies in the game and their edge with their opponent would give us an idea of where to bet so it's really important that we'll do simple research about them. We still have to exert an effort before we bet so we'll never have regrets in the future.

You can really compare the numbers and statistics which you can obviously tell on what team is on the edge when it comes to that but to check that
there are lots of factors that can really affect winning probability that's why there are still other information that we do need and somehow do really
need some mix of guts and intuition when making up some bets.This is why nothing is assured even if you do know the technicals because
there are things which cant really be determined but only via experience.

It is important that you have personal knowledge on sports that you are betting on. Basic knowledge is good however diving deep to stats is better. In that way you are increasing your chance to win in every bet and will also boost your confidence knowing that you knew a lot about the from basic to advance informations about any game.

I think not only basic knowledge, digging for every stats per match is much better than normally guessing a team who will gonna win. Because betting is not all about based on lack of game, it also acquires to have the knowledge and sometimes do the match while speculating who or which you place your bet, and of course, that is for the win-win situation.

But there are some bettors who want to risk on the underdog odds or very low odds, hoping to have a good profit a match if they will very lucky on that day.

Without even basic knowledge would really give out a problem.You dont even know even on the slightest information on the team or player which you are bound to make bets.

You are just making some blind bets and i dont see any enjoyment involved with your betting since you dont even know on whose the one you've been betting on.
Of course where having knowledge is important so that you would really have some advantage or edge for you to win.

If you are following the game of each team and seeing each player play, you don't need to always dive that deep. You can analyze the way they play against their opponent especially if you are following a team. That is why it is advisable to follow a team so you will be familiar with how they play and their opponent, that would boost your chance for a profit.

Still, analysis is really important that is why we can't just remove it if you really want to earn some ou of betting.

This is the good catch in gambling, even if you're not good in the games that you're playing as long as you have money to bet on, you can make yourself good through experience. And particularly in sports betting, a little knowledge is enough for you to bet on the players or teams that are about to play.

Knowing the sport is a great advantage for you but that doesn't give you a full guarantee that you'll have a 100% prediction for each of your bets. But you at least get an upper hand by knowing such.

I've just thought about what you said. I was going to disagree but then I realized it may indeed be possible that someone will eventually learn to analyze and decide which team or player to bet only because he has spent a lot of money or time betting on the sports. So it is probably possible that you will become a good bettor on a sports you do not really know how play for as long as you are already very familiar with its teams or players' performance in terms of numbers.

Basic knowledge is required, a pre requisite of sorts if you really want to undergo sports betting, and the same goes for the team stats. Knowing what game and not knowing how the players play, how will you judge who can win and who would lose? By their figure? It's like a pen and paper, without one, what is the use of the other right? There's also the past match stats which most gamblers would use as the basis for their predictions since those are the ones that usually indicate who could win and who could lose. It shouldn't be 100% relied upon, but it should be a good factor to determine who's team is top the other.

Knowing the sports and the teams you are betting on will give you an edge on sports betting. It can give you hints and better judgment on who's team has an edge over the other. Increasing your winning chance. If you know your team very well it is an advantage, betting on sports that you are not aware of is like putting your money in a blind bet.

Knowledge about betting is a very required attitude because you won't able to get too far if you didn't know about it. Basic knowledge and one of the things that may actually put you in the edge of winning is knowing your team. This may help you in order to measure rhe capability of winning of your team, and you must also have some background in the other team they're competing on because it also may help you to measure the chances of winning and losing of both teams. I always bet in NBA because I have know a lot if players, they play skills, mentality and like shooting. So that I able to have an advantage and I won most of the time.

Yes, knowing the sports team would be a great advantage for you when betting on a sports event, remember that knowledge is always the key to every success if you are familiar with the strength and weaknesses of the team then for sure it will give you the advantage but not a 100% guarantee. Those who do sports betting without any knowledge then they are just betting based on the number of odds or based on just their desired team.

I wouldn't Bet on basketball since I'm not a fan of basketball. I rarely watch a game but I am very much fond of baseball, boxing, and MMA, I sure had bet many times on Stake and Sportsbet on these games. I say I won about 70% to 80% of the match that I bet where my money on. For a top fan, I believe who put the games in their heart would know better and will likely have more than 90%.

Yes, if you don't know how to play the game, you can not analyze it better. If you don't know the team you choose, you will lose your bet. That is the basic knowledge that every gambler must know. Imagine you can't understand how the football player play, you don't know what corner kick is, and else, you will not have a chance to understand how the game will be.

Yes, I read the title. Sometimes, people only know about the team, but they don't know about each team player. They attract to place their bet because of the "Name" of the team which often winning the match, but we know that each player can get replace because of their performance, the "Name" of the team will not always guarantee to be the right pick for placing the bet. It will be better to know who the player is inside the team so that they can make more analysis based on player performance.

That is why we need more details about the game, the team, and the opponent before placing the bet, so we can select the right team with a better chance to win.

This is the common mistakes of the people or mostly newbie in the world of sports betting sometimes if they know the team is already strong they make a bet on that side but the problem is anything can happen in a game mostly the underdogs can make a comeback and made a miracle and win the entire game. Not only in sports but also in e-sports betting like a year before the eg vs og and Secret vs og and winning the Frankfurt major, I just give a tip too base on my experience I visit different news and articles about the teams and also trying to compare those stats to the previous and recent after that is the final decision which is the game-winner, its better to follow some betters too but for me it's better to follow your self and your guts.

Of course knowing their strength and their limit would change everything in betting,
If you are only betting without knowing a thing about the sport or the players then it isn't so different from gambling in dice games if that's the case why not just gamble in casino instead of betting in sports?
I don't really get it why would people bet or even invest on something that they don't even know they are just putting their money at risk.

It's surely better theoretically, and when I was starting my active betting, I thought so as well. But now I see some people who definitely know way more about football and the teams than me, and yet they're doing worse than me on average. This is what made me wonder if what seems obvious is actually true and whether successful betting on sports is truly about diving deep into sports.
I make my picks based on three things: the odds, match history between these teams and how the team played their games this season. Maybe I've just been lucky the last few rounds, and then all will get back where it's supposed to be, but I'm just drawing on my current experience and asking others to share theirs.

I think it's due to the fact the real profits in sports betting come when you pick the *dark horse* and he surprises the public winning. Otherwise you can know details about every teams, players and pick the strongest ones, but the profit margin will be too low, because those are the favorite ones.
Of course there is always the luck factor involved too, but as there are players making profit on long run, it's definitely possible to not rely 100% on luck. However keep in mind that in order to some gamblers make profit, a vast majority has to lose money.

I found this article on the internet.
It's about how a football player named Scott Davies was very addicted to gambling.
the funny thing is he placed a bet on his own matches.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/a35b72fb-6035-4ccc-90bc-f2a93c4d3671

He is a professional football player.
He knew the condition and situation of his team at that moment.
He was directly involved in the game.

still, gambling is about probability, no certain outcomes.
he should be very rich now if those aspects matter.

I don't want to agree with you at the first part, the thing is why should we bet on the teams that we are not familiar with us? The first thing we might consider is if that team has the championship history before or never had that championship but has the new roster or new strategy or they are consecutively in the runner up, that is the reason why we only bet on the familiar faces only.

If you are into one sport and betting on it, and it's your passion you should know what team are better than the other, you cannot just bet and not knowing who you are betting and what you are betting, it's your passion and you cannot sustain your passion without knowledge not only how it is played but those who are involved on it, even the slightest details.

From numbers to team members roster and changes would really be that significant for you to look on, not just on making out some bets blindly
basing up on your own interest and some pinpointing out of the blue.Having knowledge would really give you always the advantage.Checking out
the very details even the small ones would really be that significant towards your betting decision.Dont just base up on hunch or intuition
because that wont really be increasing the odds or chances of winning.

That's the power of experience.

It's applicable to everything that we're doing. Even if we're not too good on it but once we keep doing it and gaining experience throughout the time that we've been doing it, we're going to be good at it.

And being good in sports betting is easier for those people who have money even though they lack of experience because eventually they'll gain it if they become consistent. That's also the same for good analyst and fans although lack of money. There's balance on it.

Well, that is right. But there is one time I did this, --I gambled and placed a bet even I don't know the team but I am familiar with the game and how it will play. Fortunately, I won and I know I am not confident with that, I am most likely willing to accept whatever happens if am lose that amount.
However, it is better to be sure and have an assurance that the team we pick is right and have a higher odds of winning. At this point, we can minimize our losses by adjusting our bet amount if we are not sure which team is the best per match.

You need to know more than just an ordinary fan, you'll investigate and analyze a certain game so you can find some value or opportunity that will give you an advantage as a bettor, that's what professional sports bettor does that's why they can make money or make a living in sports betting.

with your passion, you put your time and you are also more realistic in your approach as you'll treat it as a business where your aim is to be profitable.

Bettors who try to make their journey serious in sportsbetting has to track their record, it should be their numbers that will speak for the result, not what they think by remember the winning bets and forgetting the losing bets, this ain't easy but it's possible.

Our team Knowledge is only an advantage but does not necessarily mean will make us win , But knowing the opponent will add some flavor and will give more advantage as well.

We Sports Lovers are more than familiar with all the team and their weaknesses also not only their skills.
Performance is depend on their opponent , because their offensive may change depend on how the other team will to the defense so that will "take 2 to tango".

In sportsbetting, I believe the more you know the sports, not only  your favorite team but other teams as well, will give you good advantage when it comes to betting. This is the reason why there are a lot of sportsbettors that are successful on this career. The longer they are in this game, the better they know the sports and the teams, their weaknesses and strengths. This is the side of gambling where knowledge and skills have great role in your winnings.

Along with that, there's the problem of match fixing of inside-match politics that make gamblers suffer too to a great extent. You can never know when a particular strong player will deliberately play a wrong move leading to a unpredictable outcome. There are also major politics involved sometimes, for example, when a match happens between two countries out of which one is the one hosting the match it its place, chances are that team will win (which maybe because the team knows the ground well) but also sometimes to make the country citizens feel better as losing a match on home soil feels very bad.

well Not because they are champion meaning they will win back again , there are teams that did not manage to bring back the Crown in the next year.
Well that is a good reason how to Bet , if you are fan it is not about the winning but your trust about the team.

well its better if we made a decision that is part of our feel its better  to hold our money and avoid those undecided bets thats came from the other people its good if we have a pure decision about the game we love, im more on e-sports betting and not totally in sports to be specific i just focusing on basketball but not a die hard fan knowing their skills and all over performance just an insight where is the safest bet i could do. 
Safe bet is always the best.

There's a big difference between gambling with dice and slots than sports betting on sports betting you look at the odds and the edge of another team from one team and do analysis when it comes to sports betting I like to win based on my analysis because I can do it over and over again compare on dice when I just need luck.

Absolutely it does help your chances to win the game, because you already know which team is playing against whom and what are the advantages of that team or who had a better player. So accordingly, you will place the bets depending upon the team or player who has better chances of winning rather than taking a blind spot in the game.

The thing with Dice is that you are playing against the Casino directly. All your bets and gambles will be done against the casino. If you win the casino loses, and if you lose the casino wins. That is why the games have an house edge to make it profitable for the casino in the long run. When we bet on sports games however, the bookmaker is not trying to bet against us all the time. The best for him is if he can finds another person who takes the otherside of your bet. So he will earn a small fee for every bet he makes, but he is has not a lot of risk involved.

Without doubt, yes. There are two options when betting: Bet according to statistics and knowledge around the team or bet according to odds which is a bad indicator to my mind and have proven myself for a lot of times, especially on strange teams that normally no one bets on.

When betting, you have to consider everything, every detail plays a huge role in matches. For example, in a soccer match, you have to consider:
1. What was the score in last matches between these teams
2. How these teams perform at the moment
3. What was their last results and what was the reason behind this? Does any of them has bad season or were they missing the player and that's the reason?
4. Which team needs the win most? This plays the huge roll too, sometimes one team needs to win in order to participate event and if this is their last chance, they try their maximum.
5. How are players feeling? Was there some conflict in the team? Are they motivated or not?

There are still a lot of things to consider but personally I think that psychological factor plays a huge role and we have to always consider this among other statistics.

This highly increases the chance of winning. When they are matched against each other you can already analyze who is going to win. Though luck will still play its role, the team at disadvantage doesn't win that often. This can already be noticed on online betting sportbooks where many sports enthusiasts bet on the team they think to win. The team with the higher odd has low chance to win, so betting on them bears a high risk but can give you a huge return.

Yes, sports betting is good in a way because we can analyze the team performance before making the bet on them. Although we can still lose the bet but the probability of winning is higher than losing sports bet after knowing the team details.
Its always good to know about the team than to bet blindly.

I will completely disagree with this, knowing is not enough, you need to win more for you to be profitable.

The win rate is very important in sports betting, for example, you have a fix bankroll and you manage it very well, as long as you win 60% for your overall bets, I guess that would already make you profitable, and let us not talk about luck here as sports betting can be won by using your skills.

For me it does make a significant difference in results, I have just a few experience betting on sports/teams that I'm unfamiliar with, and that's by relying on odds alone and over all it wasn't a very good experience and even though I did not experience that much of a loss, I was really close to losing too much money because of that.

It's better to always wait to bet for the teams/sports that you have some knowledge about instead of just randomly start betting on different teams and even worse on a sport that you have no clue about, unless you just don't care at all about the money and you just want to bet on something for the dopamine rush that you get out of it, but then again you'll always have more fun betting on the sports that you actually enjoy watching.

Most of the answers here say about experience or knowledge on the team or the game.

I am kind of curious if there are some bettors here that go against that knowledge? I mean, for example, a team that is expected to dominate that certain season fighting against a not that strong team but you still went for the underdog team. Maybe for the thrill or just maybe for the odds that could give you big winnings if that team actually wins.

Did it a lot of times in an esports tournament but it did not go well.

Because experience and knowledge will have a chance to win because everyone will learn from mistakes, especially knowledge that really supports team selection after being studied well.
I also sometimes bet on the underdog but win the match, and I do it by following my conscience to choose it on the grounds I am not sure about the opponent of the underdog.

Nothing is good than a gambler knowing more about the team he or she is betting on, so, many gamblers made some regret during one or two of their games becasue they failed to check the details of the team players. Personally, am a lover of a sport-betting and whenever i want to bet i usually double check the team players to verify their strength, than just doing garbage.

I think this is similar to asking if learning about trading strategies is going to make you a better trader? And the answer to that question is yes, and the answer to your question is also yes, you can get lucky and win many sports bets but if you do this for long enough your win ratio will return to the mean and you will see losses, as such the only ones that are successful long term betting on sports are people that are extremely knowledgeable and passionate about the the sport in which they are betting.

Not only about strength but simply talking about numbers or statistics.You can really make out comparison between the two but doesnt mean
that underdogs or lower tier teams or players cant beat out those better ones thats why this will really be still be aware into those possibilities
but yes, its better to have knowledge or skills on looking for those numbers or checking out everything rather than on making some blind bets.

It may really have beneficial effects, from my personal experience, knowing what your team can and can't do gives you this sense of confidence in terms of calculating whether they would win against a certain team or not, allowing you to make educated guesses and decisions which is really integral in the betting world. This could be the case for some, especially those who extensively researched the capabilities of the team they are originally rooting for, I can confirm since I tried this too, and I must say, it helped me not to be trolled by fate royally.

Judging from personal experience there's no point in the deep analysis of the game you're betting on, there are too many factors to take into account, from injuries to coaches, and personal health, gaming history, the atmosphere in the team, and many-many other things that you may not even think about and can't possibly know.

Considering all this, I'd say it's impossible to gather all the data, make a full analysis, especially if it's not your main occupation and you're betting on many games at a time.

However, there are some significant points that might affect the course of the game, but that's why it is good to analyze the odds rather than the game itself and that's why you've improved. The odds already represent all that data you need, because other people analyzed some stuff, made their predictions based on this, which affected the odds.

I often play sports betting, indeed, to increase the chances of winning, I have to have a lot of information related to sports and the teams that will play.
Because usually the latest conditions in the teams that will play can affect the results of the match, therefore most gamblers who like sports betting.
They will often read a lot of news to be able to find out the latest conditions on the teams that will play. That way they can get important information
that could be decisive for predicting which team has the chance to win.

I did it because I have no choice. The last NBA finals, most of my friends are all into LA Lakers so I have no choice but to bet on their opponent. I didn't bet on the first and last games but I did bet on games 2 - 5. I thought Miami could win more games in betweens the series but they didn't and just have a 2 - 2 in that games. The first one and the last one was won by Lakers so that would be a huge loss for me if I continue to bet.

Did it on an esports game too in a site called Dota2Lounge using my virtual items in Dota 2.Can't recall if that is TI4 or TI5. The same as you, it didn't go well too. Lost my 2 immortal items because of that.

100%, if you are watching every game you know who is playing than you know if someone is playing through an injury might be less likely to have a breakout game.  Knowing specific players and their hot or cold streak, injuries, etc help when doing player props for sure.  The professional sports betters know in and out what is going on with every team they bet on or against.  Throwing a dart at the board isn't the best strategy :)

Yes, when the coach changes the player because of injury, we can arrange or modify the strategy to select the team, which can help us get each team's statistic, which is a match. It could surely help us have the right team with the biggest potential to win, although that will not always guarantee because, in the middle of the game, the situation can change, and we don't know if our team can still have a chance to win. Besides that, our instinct will also help us choose the team, and we can search for what strategy can help us win.

It definitely will make you better, if you just bet on the team without the knowledge that their players are bad then it means you are going to lose a lot of money. When it comes to sports, you just need to learn the basics, overanalyzing the game will be detrimental in your decision making process. Coaches play some part too, if they are famous or not is a big deal, they can strategize into doing a comeback.

It absolutely does. I analyze sports professionally, and used to post picks here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=987312. Most of my analysis relied on knowing the Teams, and specifically their formations in soccer. You also have to be active in tracking their recent games because their recent performance is an indication on how they will perform in the games that are to happen a few days apart.

And I absolutely prefer Soccer over Tennis. Tennis is 1vs1, and a lot is dependent on the performance of a single player, where as in Soccer its a team effort, and the decider heavily relies on more number of people playing good. So you are likely going to get more bang for your analysis with a game like Soccer. There are also more lines available in Soccer vs other sports like tennis. The only time I bet on Tennis these days is, if I am watching the match live.

If you bet without a knowledge on the sports, that's betting blindly, if you bet with knowledge on the sports and the teams, that's normal betting.
It doesn't mean you'll win right away or even increase your chances of winning, if we talk about sports, it's entirely different if you are putting a bet on it speaking based on my experience.

I agree with you that over analysing could be harmful for our bets. There are so many different information out there that it seems impossible to take everything into consideration. Especially if you follow all the top teams out there. A more modest approach is probably better, because in the end its a game played by humans. Everybody can have a bad day and match can go against you, even though your analysis was writing.

I will share a technique, when you are betting in sports although you know all the teams or fighters that are playing, just limit the number of bets you'll make, the lesser the better as you can carefully analyze the game and that you can make a very good decision.

In sports betting, we need to have a basic knowledge about the team and the sports, but that will not win the game because we can't get more chances to win if we don't get more info about the team. It will help us analyze each team, and we can know which team can win in that match. But besides having knowledge for the team and sports, we need to remember that the luck factor will also take part in sports betting. So if we can analyze the team that has a chance to win, but we don't have luck, we can get lost.

I agree with you but what part in my reply did I say that betting without knowledge means that you are betting blindly? I hate to say this but I disagree with you about having knowledge about the teams will not make your chances go higher, in a sports league, there will always be someone that is going to be in the last place because they are not good with the game, now if you don't know about their history because you don't know about the sports leaderboard which is part of knowing about the sports then you will have a higher chance of losing because you didn't do it.

Precisely! but it's important to use all the channel that influence the possible outcome.

Having the right knowledge and maintaining the pattern that you use gives you good chances, same with the example above, teams and players together with coaches who handled them are important, strategy and all those key tools to take any advantage that you may have,
all must work together in taking every opportunities.

Knowing play style of your team or players can certainly help if you know how to use it. I will share a few examples to explain it better.

Tennis: There are certain players who don't press for every return game like Federer so you can bet on the opponent to win their serve.

Cricket: Some teams are slow starters while some are explosive from start like Australia so you can bet on over/under for the powerplay overs based on that.

Esports: Some teams do better on particular maps (CS:GO) and you can use that data when betting.

So, it matters when you bet on sports having some knowledge but it does not guarantee that you will win every time, it just increases your chances a bit.

People will always have a team, player, or location (such as a national representation in the Davis Cup/America's Cup etc) where they always barrack for their side, so they will have something of an inherent knowledge even if they only follow the game/sport socially.

It's really only when you get to the pore professional end of gambling on sports as more than just a "flutter" that people will study who strikes better, runs faster, drives sharper etc and make their bets accordingly.

You decide how much to bet if you have done carefully research and analysis for the upcoming match including the players and if there are some news that have happened before the game. If you're comfortable with the research you've done and what's showing in the news, you can bet as much as you want if you think that you're confident with your basis.

And you're hitting a jackpot if the odds for that team you have found have the upperhand and has a good odds for it and that's favorable for your bet. If it's more than 1 for the odds then you really know what you do and that's the advantage for doing research and creating analysis for every match you bet on sports.

Precisely.

And what you just said essentially constitutes bias towards a team - which could actually *skew* your judgement of whether or not odds offered on a bet is good value.

So as I said, unless you have some sort of rigorous quantitative model that can compete against well funded professional tipsters that are already taking advantage of these certain odds, you are going to be playing a -EV game regardless of your knowledge of the games offered. You could derive more personal satisfaction watching a team that you like win, sure, but other than that it's useless.

I reckon it does but it largely depends on the sport. Having knowledge of the game gives you some advantage and if not, well that's reality and fun side of sports betting.

Anyone who thinks they will make their way to an easy profit is on the wrong track to say the least. The key is to make small profit and at the same time learn the flow of sports betting.

My advice is to think of it as sports investing rather than sports betting. It may not be an instant benefit at the start, but likely it will make a great impact on proper mindset when it comes to sports betting.

The most important factors to determine an odds for teams that you're betting with, is you really a fan of that kind of sport you wanted to bet. It won't be effective if you're just choosing depending on sport activity, as other think they'll able to take good chances to win. However, knowing the odds of the game you desired most like of basketball or any other sport, could be done simply if you're updated with their eliminated rounds until finals. Don't think about the luck but the probability is certain, once you exactly have the knowledge on the sports that you're going to bet.

in sportsbetting, knowledge is your weapon here. the more you know the sports and the teams involved, the higher your chance of winning. this is the reason why many sportsbettors can make a living out of this game. because the longer years they know about the sport, the easier for them to place their bets and win.
this game is more on skill or knowledge based rather than luck. so if you are a sports fanatic, you can actually be a good sports bettor.

There are indeed sports bettor who do really make out a living out of this  betting industry and of course those people are more knowledgeable compared to anyone else on the said sports.

Indeed that knowledge is your main weapon here because you wont really be successful into this industry if you dont have these kind of qualities.Even though this is gamble

but doesnt mean that you cant increase your odds of winning.This isnt something compared to dice games where pure luck dependent.

You are right. If we are a fan of that team, we will know almost everything about them, including the coaches, the player, and how they can play better than the other teams.  We don't have to analyze too long because we already know who they are. Basketball and football can give us the odds to win because many people are fans of that team, which will help us know which team has the high odds to win in the next season. The probability will be our luck to win the games, so that luck will come to us.

There are times that these underdogs win.

Some are just trying their luck or just wanted to be different sometimes if they can win but some are based on some of the information they have or based on what can happen. It is really hard to rely on this as it might not give you the win that you want. It is a risk that you need to take but if you  are confident to take those and won, congratulations then.

I think knowledge only adds a little bit of edge, but most of the time, it already reflected in the odds.
I experimented some time ago when I asked my hardcore EPL fans to make predictions of 10 matches. The result was 4/10 correct, lul.

More knowledge means more edge.

Your experiment failed mate but continue learning and you'll eventually be on a winning percentage.
In a 10 matches experiment, you just need to win 6 out of 10 to be profitable, just use the proper bankroll management.

That's true and since sports betting has the highest house edge as compared to casinos so its always better to make bigger but lesser number of bets as it reduces the house edge I believe by limiting the number of bets.

Analyze matches and one thing to always check when betting is the motivation for the teams because I have seen some mediocre teams getting the upper hand against better teams just because they had more to fight for as compared to the favorites who were playing after qualifying. A team who have something to gain will put their 100% on the field and the team who doesn't need the win will concede more than what they normally would.

This would really be involving lots of trial and error but hey you wont really be progressing out if you dont risk out and some do make or treat it as a money profiting thing or source of income
but some do make it the other way. Knowledge is indeed power because this do really give out the edge on a certain bettor compared to those who do just make out bets blindly or without
any basis then you can really tell out the difference.This isnt something like those dice games that you do just simply put bet and click the roll button.
This doesnt includes any need of analysis or knowledge but pure luck.

Unfortunately yes, winning is never a guarantee in betting. There is always a tail risk of us losing, no matter how good we know the game, the league and our home team. Luckily we don't need to win every games. As long as we manage to win 51% of the bets we are going to make a profit. Of course it would be nice to win at a much higher percentage. Winning of your home team in sports betting feels awesome, you make money and your favourite team keeps doing well. And as long as we learn from our mistakes we will keep getting better in betting.

This is such a nice way to put it and that is because the very few that are successful with sport bets in fact use very similar concepts to what you're going to see investors and traders use, even if they strongly believe that a team is going to win if the odds are not good enough then they are not going to take their chances, this means that they do not make a bet in every single match that they see instead they look at the odds and decide which ones offer the best odds and then make their bets, obviously they do not win all the time but they win more than enough so they can overcome the house edge with their skill and earn money that way.

Of course, no one can guarantee a win... And no one ever wins in all bets, it's just unrealistic! But knowledge always helps... For example, if you know that a soccer club will not play the main striker or defender, or someone was injured... All this will increase your chance of success!

If you know the team that you are betting on, then most likely, you know their current stats, standings, techniques, and confidence towards them. That is the reason on why you betted on them in the first place. Betting without even knowing on which team you are rooting on makes it relatively riskier compared if you have full information and personal knowledge on them.

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Based on the image above, the results showed that most people gamble based on the team that they actually identified and been loyal with. Almost most of the people who participated in the survey voted that they chose the team that they are comfortable¹.

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1. https://thesportjournal.org/article/is-gambling-preference-affected-from-team-identification/

We will know because it will be announce or there are rumors on that and bookies are not stupid to not adjust the betting line. In all type of major games, most data are available online, whether free or not, you can access it and you'll know what's going on in a certain teams.

Yes atleast you have the idea whether that team you're going to bet on was striking high chance to win the game or not. At the same time, we have our own favorite team that we are comfortable and trusted our principal to bet on because you already know how they play, and you know that the player are good enough ro make the best out of their game. This gives you an increase of chances to success in betting.

for me, you should also familiarise yourself with other teams, not only your favourite one. as this will give you edge on assessing their chances inside the field. the more you know both camps, the sounder your decision will be. because if you will stick knowing only one team, you are blind from the capability of others. and this will affect in your betting decision. sometimes you need to bet on the other team for you to win, should not always put your money on your favourite one.

This is exactly what some of the gamblers have neglected when they bet on games.

Knowing both teams that are playing makes you realistic, unfortunately some of us are bias, we only look at our own team and believe that we will easily win, and that's the reason why most of us loses in sports betting because of that kind of thinking.

Because to fight the majority is difficult so even though we don't have a favorite team it's still difficult, I personally don't have a favorite team, I'm just aware of big teams and small teams so that when they compete at least it needs to be mentally strong if we bet on the underdogs team. That way, knowing the sport and the team is basically just to make us aware, because it still doesn't guarantee we win easily.

It makes you more confident on the games your team will play, because by then you will know what your team is capable of doing and not, based of course on their known skill set and what the enemy has to offer to the table. So it may seem like voodoo crap to some, but knowing and researching your team's capabilities actually work in betting. Well of course there will always be a margin of error that can escalate to a lost, but honestly speaking, I will happily take the small advantage increase than having none at all.

True to that. It should be almost every team or opponent, you should take a look and study them. You'll get a vast knowledge by knowing each of them and not just only focusing in your favorite team or players. It's easier for you to recognize your favorite team because you know a lot from them but with the other teams, you should also put some focus on them if you want to expand your info about them. It will give you a nice idea how they'll be doing and not just the existing information about them but as much as possible, any info that gives you up to date.

Still for me sports betting has to have luck too in order to succeed, like when I bet on a match in the Bundesliga. The results of the match last week
were mostly draws, this is not in accordance with the analysis I have done for the match. So knowing our team or players does not guarantee success
when betting, it still takes the luck factor. But when compared to doing sports betting without knowledge, it is indeed better to have knowledge of
the teams or players who will play.

I think this depends on the gambler himself. There are a lot of gamblers out there that you are talking about but there are also a lot of gamblers that don't base on what they have on their team but base their bets on their analysis and knowledge about that team and the opponent's team.

For sure most of the bettors here are like that, are analyzing their team and their opponent based on what I am seeing on their posts on this thread.

Just because we cannot do something that doesn't mean that someone else can't, it's fine to recognize that we cannot do something, I know that I cannot be successful in sport bets either but there is significant evidence that shows that there are some sports bettors that are in fact able to beat the house and it is obvious that the way they do it is by knowing so much about the sport in which they are betting that they are able to identify opportunities that people without that knowledge cannot identify.

When you gamble in sports, you have to sacrifice emotions, love and faith from the team you support from heart and the player you admire. The ideal athlete you admire has their own flaws, and you have to accept it even if it goes against your heart, because if emotions are considered then one can never win in sports gambling as one won't be able to make a good calculation and prediction.

It is not easy to sacrifice emotions because when our team can't serve their best performance, we feel sad and disappointed. But that is what happens in sports because not every time our team or players can have full stamina in every match, so we need to be ready for that. But I am sure that we can select the other team or player to place a bet, and that team can have a big percentage to win. In sports betting, many things can happen because that is how the team or player can play with their best performance.

And how frequent does that happen?

Based on your statement, it just happened once last week. Going against the majority, as the other said is very hard. Yeah, something like what you've experience sometimes happens but it is not that frequent. Maybe 2 or 3 out of 10 games, it would happen. That is why we look at the players and news about it and base our bets on that.

It also depends on what you are betting. If you bet on over/under it is really random and no matter how much information you gather and brainstorm but it will not help because these kind of markets are based on luck and how the match unfolds. For example if an early goal is scored, one team will get more defensive and the opponents will try to score the equalizer as soon as possible.

You can use these opportunities and bet live and most of the time equalizers do come sooner or later because if the team that scored the 1st goal has gone into a shell and not attacking at all, at some point of time there will be a breach of defense and goal will be scored against them.

Picking what markets to bet is really important even in sports like basketball and tennis not just soccer. You can ask any gambler and I can bet they won't be in profit in long term just by betting on under/over markets before the start of the game.

The more information we manage to get about the teams, the better our bets should be. In my opinion investing time into research and staying up to date on our favourite teams will pay off. If we are a big fan of our home team it happens naturally that we are well informed
We just need to make sure we are also looking at the other teams. Also once information about the sport gets published we should assume that most betters are looking at it.

Watching every game.
Being updated on every news. Injuries, sudden absence and a lot more.

I have been watching NBA since I was a kid but there is one thing I had learned. Everything will change in just a manner of time.
Players, rosters, coach, management and trades.
All of this could affect the performance of one team and you will need to keep track on that in order to have a higher winning percentage.
So yes, it's a big deal to know everything when it comes to sports betting.

Aside increasing the chance of winning, It's even impossible to play a game you know nothing about. Or else someone else is playing the game or helping them out to gamble but that takes away the fun in it.

It will be a waste of money to bet on a game you know nothing and leaving it to chances or luck will neither make the person win.

Well, in this sense, my favorite sport has always been football, the fact that my favorite team in the Spanish league is Real Madrid, in Italy Juventus, in the English league. United. This causes each game to be followed, knowing each player, following the statistics of each one can help to win a bet, as long as no feelings are mixed.

Sometimes I have lost bets to follow my feelings and not the reason, I think it is best to use all the knowledge tools you have, some intuition and of course have some luck.

Exactly, that's also your personal emotion, I guess because even you know that there's a weak on their team you still pick them just because you like them. You should always have a comparison between the two teams in each match, their disadvantage and advantage as a player and also always seeking information regarding the injured list, this will I guess will help you to predict who will win the match.

Knowing your sports and team will always have an advantage over without knowing everything just only guessing. But if I guess if the luck is with you at any time, that's a good sign for you.

Small details in sportsbetting will really help you determine which team is going to win that match.
I do agree that knowing simple info like the injured list, will assist you in evaluating the strength of the team.
Even if you have favorite team, still you need to be familiar with other teams as this will help you big in the betting game.
For me, I can bet on the opposite team of my favorite, if I know that they do have high chance.
But of course, you are still rooting for them, but you need to be smart in sportsbetting if you want to earn money.

Correct, the only way to take advantage of information like that is if somehow you got insider information and you got to know that before it became public, but very few people have that kind of information available to them so the best way to improve your chances of winning a sport bet is by designing your own system that can tell you if the odds you are being given favour you or not, this may seem complicated but odds not only move depending on the chances of winning, the odds also move because people are betting too much on one side of the bet over the other and casinos in order to balance their books begin to offer better odds for the other team to encourage sport bettors to take that side of the bet.

That's very true, NBA and Football match results can change with very minor changes in team formation, injuries and any other small thing that can shift the sentiment even for a bit.

I know some people that only rely on odds and don't have any clue about the sport itself and I wonder if that way you can be any successful on mid/long-term, I only placed bets on a few occasions on teams/sports that I don't have any information on them and I lost on most of those bets so I can not possibly imagine how does that work out in such unpredictable sports like NBA and Soccer and because of that I just stick to teams that I know about their history and follow their news instead of betting on some random team winning or losing the match.

You are right, knowing your fav team is highly recommend, there are instances that when new rosters came the emotional effect of it in each team can be change too maybe that team can be stronger than recent one of their team will need some time to figure out and get familiarize with each other, I rather bet on the team that has no change in their roster and came from recent top teams so I don't need to be worried too much on their capabilities and strengths.

It is very complicated and tough to bet on the match with 90% confidence if there is no inside information. I have heard about the Italian mafia who controls the fixed matches and they sell this information on the local blogs 1 hour before the match. Knowing your team doesn't add a special advantage for gambler, it is never guaranteed to make a profit if the match is fixed in either way.

There's no such thing about 100% winning.Lets cross out that mafia and fixed matches and go talk with probabilities of some upset where everybody will really not expect to happen that way
and this had been seen in lots of cases that not all favorite ones will really won the game even though most likely they will but not a guaranteed one.
In the mention of fixed matches then i wont really be minding much knowing that these informations doesnt really come out casually.

I like your thoughts on choosing teams which we do know about the history and the news. Instead of choosing randomly and analyzing based on
the team's win or loss, because sometimes to truly succeed in sports betting, we need as much detailed data as possible in order to do
the analysis correctly. This is what I love about sports betting, compared to other types of gambling games. Because to be successful
in sports betting we have to do research and analysis properly and we don't need to rely on luck.

I think no, it will not make us know about our enemies and their proper strategies to win. Putting much focus on the rival team, it is possible to know whether our team has enough strategy and energy to win or not, and we may decide which way to put our money as it isn't necessary that even after knowing about our team to throw away our money by betting on them.

I'd like to think my sports knowledge increases my ability to gauge a winner, but you never know I guess.  It's possible that casual betters know just enough to get them in trouble.  I think doing research on the event is probably more important than knowing your stuff.  Who is out, who got hurt during practice, who is going through a tough time personally, etc...  These are all things that are probably more important to a bet then knowing a large amount of information about the sport.

That is a Big factor to win but it is not an assurance , you can at least study and must have knowledge of the opponent also because the game does not compose of your team but the team they will go against also.
There are gamblers that is fanatic on the team that they are betting because they love the team no matter if won or lose.

Gamblers usually rely on their team to place bets they love their team and try to win their team at any moment. This makes their betting game better all together to make an accurate prediction for the game, which is the basis of a winning bet you need to have mathematical knowledge have an idea about the theory of probability and mathematical statistics and know the details of bookmakers. Playing means playing against another person it takes knowledge and experience to defeat them and move forward not only is the popularity of sports among the teams declining but it is also becoming more and more ubiquitous as it has become particularly noticeable with the advent of internet technology.

The information we get is important but it is even more important to be able to process that information relatively quickly and be able to give specific odds to that information, after all the odds move for a lot of reasons and some of them have nothing to do with that information and instead have to do simply with the way the casinos have to balance their books, if you are able to find a discrepancy between the actual odds of an event happening and the odds being offered you are bound to find good bets in which you have a slight edge over the casino.

Exactly, we should know that and we need to understand as a gambler.

For beginners or newbies in gambling, they maybe think that winning is easy but those who are consistently gambling would prove that it's never easy, even those who are really profitable in sports betting, their journey is not easy and they also have losing moments in gambling.

And they'll lose overtime because no one succeed in this kind of strategy.

And if we are not that assured then better to not bet at all because if you only new one side in the match then how can you analyze the outcome?
actually it is "Teams" and not Team , we must Know the team we are betting and the team they will be opposing .

two parties must be studied for us to have a bigger chance of winning but of course not 100% sure.

It is not easy to rely on the team's odds if we do not have much information about that team. They can beat the other team if the opponent can turn back and get more power from their player. But if we only use that bet for fun, that will be no problem as we do not chase for the winning, and we consider that we gamble with our money and hope we can win because of luck. You can win in that game, especially if you have luck, so you can continue to use that method and hope you will be lucky in the next match.

Ofcourse. It's important to have the right knowledge & skills in order to be able to predict the outcome of matches right & consistently. Knowledge and skills can help a bettor win and earn consistently ...without them it will be hard to win consistently unless maybe you are cheating, getting helped by someone or something.

Sports investing is a very popular words in sports betting, these are the words use by those who are selling their picks through subscription, though they are right that we should consider it investing but for me it's wrong to rely on their pick to succeed in sports betting or investing, whatever you call it.

for me, it is better to do your own homework in sportsbetting. some really are subscribing on this kind of service. but there's always advantage if you do know the sports and the teams involved. ill be more confident to place my bet if i know the teams involved. but for some, maybe for those who dont have time or relying in those individuals who have good reputation with their picks, they are availing for the sake of comfort. but in sportsbetting, it is known that the more you know your sports and the teams, the higher the chance that you will win your bet.

Those are fans but just chose to gamble and they will never change their decision no matter what handicaps and situation has changed.

They are die hard supporters and that's how it goes. It is not a questionable strategy because there really are people that do that and higher chance of winning has been experienced.

Investing or neither simply sport pick following it doesnt matter on what its called since it could really be just the same which i dont see for it to be worth and i would rather make my own bets and own selection rather thanon relying my funds and winning chances into someones decision and analysis which you cant even know if those are indeed best ones or not but somehow it isnt really bad for you to make out some reconsiderations
that these might be helpful towards your own analysis too but to know that these tipster or analyst would really be having some charge which it isnt really that appealing at all.
Bet on your own and you will able to indulge the thrill and excitement towards your bet since you know that you do pick it yourself.

Those are the ones you want to gamble - their wagers in the face of overwhelming odds against their player/team helps boost up the pool of funds and makes they payout for people who think with their heads, not their hearts all the larger than if most were truly analising the match.

If it's a dice game or a slot game you can bet even with your eyes close, but this is betting in sports where the results very much depend on the performance of the player or the team, and with the proper analysis, you will have an idea who is likely to win, so it's very important that you know both teams and has done analysis on their strengths and weaknesses.

Knowledge about the sports and the teams is one of the key factors in sports betting. It is way different than dice or roulette which depends on luck. When your betting on sports it's best to choose a sport that you are really a fan of, you can't just depend on luck which team will win. Better choose a bookie that offers a better odds, sports betting can be tricky since there are times that underdogs win a game and if you bet on a team with a higher chance of winning you get lower betting odds.

I know about my cousin who often gamble for their favorite team, but if he sees that the opposite strong than his teams, he will not gamble nor watch the match. He only said nah I don't want to watch my team play with that team because that will make me sad to see my team lost a chance to beat that team.

It seems my cousin is not a fanatic supporter because I think he can act based on the match situations, and if he thinks that it is not worth gambling for his team, he will leave it just that way. Perhaps, that is what we should do in sports betting, so we don't waste our money on something we are not sure we can win or not.

I don't think that Team Matters in Tennis for betting? sorry i am not a tennis fan but i do know that we are betting for individual battle here and not with the team right?

For team competition of course this really matters and no doubt about that .
But talking about EFL is far different from the above topic and question as this really needs team to be in action.
and yes Team knowledge is indeed important , from your own team and the team that they will face in field .

As you said, even if we have good knowledge of a sport and teams we still can't win too much, the casino will always adjust the odds to balance win and loss, many people bet in one direction, the bonus will be small and vice versa, the casino always has a big advantage, they create a playing field that they are in control and cannot lose while we will lose over time even if we have a high probability of winning. I've seen too many instances where the weak beat the strong, sport should be a passion and a favorite, rather than becoming a playground of betting

Exactly, it is a completely very risky job to handle sports betting and every time it is not impossible for us to keep on winning through sports betting even though we know very well about the team members. Investing in any type of betting there is a huge risk involved in it.

Yep, there's betting on individual only for tennis which could make it a little bit more predictable than when you're betting on a team which includes many players that some of them could have a good day and some others a bad day and as a result predicting the outcome is way more complicated than that.

But then again I haven't bet on tennis yet so even if in theory it looks like an easier sport to place bet on, that could turn out to be not true at all when it comes to actually betting on the outcome, also I watched tennis games that one player is great in one round and I though to myself that he's going to win the game, and in another round the other player shows an even better performance, so again wouldn't know till you try and place some bet on it.

There are no guarantees that is correct but you do not need to win 100% of the time, in fact sport betters know that as long as you can win roughly 53% of the time then you can obtain slight profits, now that percentage may seem to be too low but that is what the pros do, if you can win something like 55% of the time then your profits rise considerably, but as you may guess this is not easy at all, which is why you need to know as much as you can about your preferred sport and you need to have several accounts in different casinos to shop around for odds.

Then, he is good enough to understand that if his favorite team is no match to the opponent, he will just forget about it and wait for another match that they have the better chance of winning.

Well, we can say that there are still die hard fans but not too dumb to bet and lose their money if they understand and analyze that the match isn't going to be well with their favorite team.

Also the outcome of a game can change so fast in NBA that you won't believe. I was watching a game recently between Golden State Warriors and Charlotte Hornets where it looked like in the last minute like GSW will win and the worst case scenario would be a tied game for them but things turned as green lost his cool and got a foul which then lead the Hornets winning in the regulation by 102-100 I think was the end score. There was controversy and some thought referees were at fault.

But what we must know from such incidents is that a game can change within moments of such brain fade by a player and even under normal circumstances I have seen teams comeback from 10+ deficit within the last quarter itself so betting on underdogs is a good idea in sports and leagues like NBA.

Exactly, lets suppose you want to bet on a match and then you find a team has an injured player, unless you know anything about the sport it is going got be impossible for you to tell if the injury was in an important player or if it was just a player that did not meant too much for the team, and even if you can read this on the news itself you will have to trust the source itself and this is not always the best thing, as we know there are many players in team sports that are not flashy but that are in fact the soul of the team and without them the team is not the same.

I used to think the same, that betting on a game where I have done my analysis will help but the final of the super bowl proved me wrong as there was no way Tampa Bay Buccaneers should have won but they didn't just won but they did so in a dominating manner. It is funny how sometimes we forget experience can overcome any skillset in games like finals and Tom Brady proved it the day it mattered the most.

Those gamblers who bet on their teams despite them weaker or knowing they shouldn't win are gamblers who are betting for fun and in essence that's how gambling should be done. Doing too much analysis and comparison between teams only mean we are taking gambling too seriously and although it helps I think, but too much comparison sometimes complicate things and you mostly bet on favorites as a result.

I am also an avid fan of NBA and i know that every NBA fan have their own favourite teams and definitely were happy to watch everytime that their favourite team are on court. But i do agree, and one thing for sure happened that i have observed while watching was that the quality of game of the player even they are known as the ultimate basketball player were not consistent all through out. Though its a big factor that you have already know the capability and potential of the players and the team when it comes to sports betting but that doesn't give a 100% assurance.

With sports betting the selection of the odds will be made more effective when we have better information about the players and the teams. Though there isn't 100% assurance the winning chances can be increased through these data gathering. Moreover along with the odds selection relative to the game and player data, it is must to use strategies/tricks to make the winning a promised one.

Data or information for each player that you'll have is a big help when you bet. That's how you compare details in which team you're going to bet with.

It is the strategy that you should do but there are bettors that don't really use it at all, they're preferring to choose based on their instincts.

I always like to point to games where the underdog wins and all the commentators are stunned that there was "no chance of them winning"...

The fact is that if you turn up to play your match/fixture you have more of a chance of winning than if you did not turn up at all.  There's no such thing as 100% chance a team will win  -  Not every time at least.

Do not be so hard on yourself, I read an article which stated 80% of gamblers put their bets on the other team and yet they lost, that guy is just an anomaly, as long as you have a lot of knowledge about the game you are interested you can make good enough predictions most of the time, you will not win all the time but you will win often enough to get some profits out of it, just remember to avoid betting against him and everything will be fine.

Yes it could be 100% with luck because good luck means a win, but in reality there's no such thing as 100% chances of winning, even if you bet on a heavy favorites with odds 1.05 or even 1.01, understood could still upset the heavy favorite.

We believe that but there's a counter argument that could be against what you have said. So, what if you're very lucky today and someone comes along at the table and has a luckier day?
What do you think about that? luck versus luckier.

If you're just blindly betting on a sport you know nothing about then of course you're going to do much worse. However, if you don't know much about a sport then you can just go by what the odds are telling you is favored to win and you should do reasonably well.

If that happens to you, it is better to stop betting for a while, even if you really want to place that bet because if you still do that, you will see that you don't have much chance to win, especially if your luck does not come. But you can place your bet by following the odds, but you need to be careful by using the money to bet because you will have the risk of losing the money in the short term. Knowing your sports and the team will be the important factor before you place the bet, so you will have a chance to win.

Betting without having any knowledge of the sport and the team at stake equals you wasting time and money aimlessly, betting with knowledge and research, the chances of winning will be easy to grab.
but if you are not an active gambler and just having fun in my opinion it doesn't matter because you don't often bet and only rely on luck and only do it occasionally and that's your right.

But not all the time odds will dictate your wins. Although the chance is higher with the favored and lower odds you don't always rely on them.
I've done that in the past that I used to do that as my strategy and many of those bets I've made didn't go well. Knowing that those matches were I know and I have a background yet still didn't end well for me.

Definitely much worse than someone who blindly throws the dice, not knowing the performance of the team that you are betting on and the team that they are going to fight is a betting suicide because you might get the wrong bet. Plus if you know the team, you will know who to bet on and who not to bet on when the time comes, odds can help but sometimes those are attractive and can make you do some dumb decisions caused by greed.

I remember that is what I did before. I have been inviting by my friend to place a bet on the local bookmarked. I said that I don't know what team I need to select, but my friend insists on picking randomly on that team. So I look at the lists, and I select the team that I feel I am familiar with and place on that bet.

I don't take the result seriously as I don't have a passion for betting on that team, but because my friend invites me, I think that will be okay for me. After all, that is a $5 bet on that night, and I lose that money hahah. But my friend takes the winning, and he buys foods and drinks for the other friends who don't join us.

It is known that favourites are given worst odds that what they could otherwise receive, and this is because most people that do not know anything about the sport in which they are betting are going to have the tendency to bet on the favourite, casinos know this so they give themselves better odds on the matches in which the favourite is clear, this is why in the case of a huge upset casinos can lose money as they give such good odds to the underdog that they can end up losing big because of it.

Coming from an MMA perspective, I can tell you that better knowing the sport in general and the fighters at hand, can, at best, sway you in the right direction, but over it will not give you an advantage over others, especially in the heavier divisions. Sure, there are some outliers, but even with them, it can sometimes be a coin toss. Championship bouts are the hardest to predict and have gone both ways in the past. I can imagine it would be easier for team sports.

take for example the boxing sports alone, since it is easy to spot who's the favourite or not because there are only 2 fighters involved. usually, the lower the odds, is what the bookies eyeing to emerge as winner. you can easily see who are they favouring in the fight and the odds' gap as well. the wider the gap, it means, they have high assurance that one boxer has no chance to beat the other one. but if the odds are tight, then, the fight is a good one and they are not so sure who's gonna be the winner.
so in this sports, even if you are not familiar with the boxers, you will get an idea about the position of the casino. and read a lil bit of their background and you will understand.
but dont put all your trust to the casino, better know the boxers and their capability, and their current conditions.

Yes, knowing the team or a person (1v1) you bet on will make your calculation easier who will gonna win, just like yesterday here in the Philippines which is online sabong. Jayzam vs Jomar on a 1v1 basketball, all the time I know already that Jayzam will gonna win because he has more experience and practice than Jomar. Those 2 players are bloggers here in the Philippines.

If we select the underdog team, and suddenly, that team can win, we feel that we are very lucky to win on that game because many people and even commentators will not believe that is happening to the strong team. Sometimes, when we select a team that we knew before, that team is underestimated by many people and they think that the team does not have a chance to win. But if our team can give the best performance in the game, that can change the situations and win the game. Yes, there is no 100% chance a team can win, so we do not have to use too big money to betting.

Gambling is all about increasing your odds of winning, unless you gamble out of boredom and don't care about the money. Knowing the spot, he teams and their past performance and other small things like player transfers, increases your odds. Sure there are people who rely on predictions and follow the way of more experienced gamblers and there's nothing bad in that. Some people bet on sports they never watch, which for me is strange, but if they like it it's all good.

Of course this knowledge will help you but so far with the experience I have, it is not always good because at least there will be moments where a team has a change whether it is for better or for worse. But yes, at least with the knowledge that you have it will make it easier for you to be able to predict matches, even though we also have to balance and be aware of the luck factor that exists because everyone still has to have their own calculations and portions.

At first I wasn't much different from him no matter how good the a b or c team was, I never even watched any of the teams.  And it's true the fact that I've never won at a gamble that I don't recognize my choice.  And as time went by, I started studying the teams I bet on because besides gambling entertained me, I was also able to earn more than I risked.  Different goals sometimes lead people to have different approaches to gambling.  So it comes back to the choice of each.

I guess not knowing is definitely something wrong, that is the big part here, knowing may not be a huge deal but not knowing is a big deal that is the problem. I for example try to gamble on games that I know both teams, and that way I know that who should win, sometimes I lose, and it is a bad situation to lose on games I think I know, but not knowing makes it even harder and you lose even more, if you lose 30% of the games when you know the teams that means you will lose 50%+ of the games and that is even worse.

So, long story short it is not about always winning, even the best teams could lose against the worst teams, it is sports, but if you follow teams closely, you could at least know more stuff, the injuries, the morale, the chemistry issues and many other things that you will not see on paper, and only know if you follow the team very closely.

Definitely those who place sport bet without vividly knowing the team involved are blind bettors, they have no single chances of these games becasue they aren't aware about the team strengths against the opponent. Most of my bet are done on the ground that am conversant with the team and their play positions before make bet on them.

Those changes won't happen at the exact time of the game. That's why there are news reports and validated ones before a game commences. And in that news, it's a good source for you to rely on that there's a change to the team that you're following or is about to have a match.
Mostly, teams that have changed, don't do it to have worse results but they're changing their roster or ways for the better.

It definitely helps to have a good overview of the game and the balance of play that determines a win.  This best applies to team games where each side will try to operate a strategy specific to their opponent but it could apply to any support where initial success could give way to endurance and other factors over time, if you haven't played yourself its harder to appreciate possibly but I'd argue anyone can overview a game impartially will have far more success then just glory supporting and more casual betting.

I like the very slight or last minute details that change the odds in value and can make for some good bets, a player change in a team it helps if you know all the names etc.

First thing you have to ensure you properly manage is your bankroll, then knowing the team or the player will just come next as a priority. You win some and you lose some but what's important is you win more so you'll be profitable. With the right bankroll management, you just have to achieve a certain percentage to be profitable, and it also requires a decent bankroll to get a decent profit as a 5% to 10% profit in sports betting is already a good one as long as you are consistently doing it.

Bankroll shall come if you are winning and if you have a plan whenever you lose, you stop. Then that's a good strategy and knowing much about the sport you're betting which I agree is the next priority.
But it's fine if you have a lot of things knew about that sport and it's easier for you to cope up with such news then the next thing would be the bankroll management, whichever is best for the gambler. The situation varies from each gambler.

Kinda agree, it is all money management skills we need to control the outcome of each bet. Knowing the team and having an edge in sports betting can be combined with well-planned money management in order to reach the maximum profitability rate over the long term. In the financial market trading world, without knowing the bet size aka the simplest form of money management, no one will risk a single greenback. The same idea is always actual for all gamblers.

Decent profit is the result, we have to analyze the sports market like what the pro players do on the pinnacle. Some bookies don't like match betting or arbitrage betting tools and many gambling accounts have been blocked for not obeying the TOS. Pinnacle bookies like winners exactly for this reason ;)

Gambling or trading it would really be having some similar when it comes to money or bankroll management which is of course it would really involved experience plus the knowledge on dealing with things.
You would really be having the advantage on how to maximize out your possible profit on just arranging on the most efficient way to bet.Success will vary on how you do deal up with things
on the right way even on sports betting doesnt guaranteed 100% win but at least you do able to do on making yourself sitting out on higher chances of hitting the right one.

There's a lot of difference between gambling and finance or trading. In finance, it's normal to be good in money management because it is the main source that you're going to do with that job you do. The main economy lies in the money that you manage and that's how you'll earn or the company you work for.
In gambling, there are other focuses that you have to consider other than that. It is like the industry or mastery you're going to will depend on how you do it.

It is not possible to be consistently in profit on gambling but it is possible to be in profit for a long term in trading. The well-planned trading strategies are better gun than any luck factor in gambling, there is no guarantee on both industry but surely trading has more capacity to pay back more compared to gambling. The chanced factors is second degree on trading while it is bone of gambling..

Of course, there are differences but there are many similarities between both trading and gambling. The money management skills are the same in both sectors, the smart people tend to control the capital by risking the small percentage of bankroll per trade/bet. Mastering money management skills is tough but only experience is not enough to be a profitable gambler in the long term.

Correct, the odds alone are enough to give you an idea of how the casino feels about a certain match but as you say that is not really going to help you much if you want to at least not lose as often, in order for that to happen then it is necessary to have knowledge about the sport in which you are betting otherwise you are going to lose more times than what it could otherwise happen to someone that has a deep knowledge about the sport.

I agree that before betting you need to know every step of the game and use your experience to connect with each other and try to win. Blind betting always brings loss it is not possible to develop oneself here and it becomes very difficult to win depending on your luck you have to research everything before betting and then participate in the game.

As said, it varies from gambler to gambler. There really are gamblers that needed to improve themselves in terms of money/bankroll management.
But if it's just about the experience together with the resourcefulness and being knowledgeable in the sport he's betting, that shall be enough.

Our team represents our knowledge in what sports are we dealing , We trust them because we are following them for long .

I know their Power and force and i also Knew if what team can beat them so yes , knowing my team and sports is the most important thing in my gambling career.

Sports and gambling combined is the greatest gambling area that people has created.

If we can know which team has a big chance to win, we can use the right strategy to help us get the win. But we must remember that choosing a strong team can not guarantee us to win because the weak team can change their strategies in the middle of the play, which means we need to analyze deeper to find out about that. But sometimes, blind betting can give us lucky to win the games as we only choose random teams, and we do not have much info about them. That will be lucky to us ;D

Blind betting without the help of luck will lead you to lose your money

It's more on risking your money though if luck permits you then most of the time the outcome is really decent. But for experienced gamblers, knowing the statistics of the team and what would be the advantages of your chosen teams gives you more confident betting with them.

- Knowing statistics and experience brings a great advantage to betting, we will certainly be more confident but then, losing more also begins to appear because we are very confident but gambling has a lot of pure elements, even the tricks and arrangement of the forces behind the betting, smarter also can hardly solve problems out of control. If sports gambling can be better through knowledge, why don't we see information about the rich, why do magazines and newspapers only cover evils and bankruptcy by gambling?

Analyzing and finding accurate information about who is playing and who is the backup is also important, but we also need to know the strengths and weaknesses of a weak or strong team because most of the weak teams win because we don't really know the players.
and betting without doing anything is useless even if you only rely on luck but you will get more losses than winning if you continue like that.

If we can get a clue about each team, that will help us to decide which team we can select because that team will have a good performance than the other team. Sometimes, we need to know why the team is weak because sometimes the weak team can surprise us, especially if they can change their strategies from time to time. We are supposed to avoid the losses, although losses can come to every gambler without what we can expect. But at least, we can have more chances to win.

Nowadays it's not hard to get a clue, you can even get the whole stats of the teams that you like to know, that's what internet can do. However, though you know which team is strong or weak, it still doesn't guarantee that it will give you an easy win, there's a betting odds in every game and you just have to gamble on the odds provided if you know what I'm saying.

Exactly, but I think not all information was there, there will I guess sensitive information that the team was trying to cover for the sake of their team's chances of winning. Internet is a very convenient way of looking at stat per player, but it doesn't mean this will give you an accurate result that will surely win per bet.

However, you are right, there are already odds provided by the bookers.

Indeed. Luck has a huge part for us to win regardless of what game we are playing. However in sports betting, having a knowledge on a team that you will bet on is an advantage to maximize your chance to win.

Knowing the team's background like their past games, updates and performance can help us to gain idea of the result. Thus its an edge if we are aware compared to relying only on luck because sports bet is slightly different to other gambling games.

You need some inside information if you want to know deeper information, that's hard to do.

All we have is a public information that we can always use as our basis in analyzing a certain match or game, we have to live with it.

Cover up or anything related, we have no clue what it is but stats doesn't lie, unless there are some rigging of games happening as no stats would help you and your effort analyzing the game using the stats will be just a waste of time.

Knowing the teams that you bet on is going to make you better at sports betting but not the sports itself, maybe you should learn the basics of the sports to understand what is happening but sports team knowledge is a top priority because they are the ones that is going to decide how the game concludes, if you bet on a team not knowing that they are a bad team then you will lose money. Although there are some exceptions where you got lucky and bet on an unknowingly bad team and that team miraculously won the match.

I always consider my Team as an advantage , and besides i never Bet in teams that
i never knew for long , even if there is no chance that i will bet as long as not my team i don't care.

maybe i am a loyal fan and also a not so typical gambler that looks for bets every time.

If we are familiar with the sources, I am sure we can know which team can win and have a bigger percentage to win. I agree that the betting odds will not let us win easily as that can make us feel confused to determine the team that will win. If we see that the betting odds are bigger, our stats say that the opponent has more chances to win. We need to have more information to choose with the right.

Me either i do have a trust to put my bets on a team especially iny favorite team with my favorite players, it gave me a trust and comfortability that i will make that bet on my side. But to be honest i have some instinct and tricky decision which i made an experiments which team i would like to put my bets on, like i would like to see if that team really worth to put a bet on. I admit it was tricky and risky at the same time but i just made it once.

Better not do that all the time, a favorite team may win most of the time but we have a betting odds (Moneyline or point spread), and usually if you want to get a better payout, you will go with the point spread and unfortunately it doesn't cover most of the time.

The principle in sports betting is bet against the public and favorites are just public bets.

It looks like a do or die game on the side of the gambler because they are trying to wage to those teams they didn't know well some of them for sure makes their own research which is a good thing before making a decision but still, there is a part of it about the problem of having a dilemma if they are trying to wage their money because they want to reach the daily, weekly, or their monthly quota, but I think its better to place a safe bet than making a decision which brings you a lot of regrets if the result is opposed to your side.

Well in my opinion, there is a possibility that knowing the teams that you bet might be able to give you quite an edge when it comes to winning. But of course, if many of you have that skill then all of you will be betting the same player or team over and over again. It is quite obvious that there are sports superstars and they are winning their teams but of course, the element of surprise is still a good thing when it comes to betting. If two major teams compete then you won't have a good idea who you should be betting to unless you are a diehard fan of one and just keep on betting them.

Chances of winning depends on some indicators. Knowing the stuff is one of them and it will help you to make the best decision which you could possibly do from your end. So, without any doubt, you can predict the best one by knowing the teams well. So, the process will make you better at betting.

Yes, knowing the sport and the team is one of them and remember, it's only one of them and not the main factor for you to win the bet. I think there have been many cases where the favored team against the underdog team but the victory happened on the contrary, at least such cases have given us all the lessons of how we have to reveal about our own knowledge whether to be rounded off or still have to slightly reduce our egoism to accept reality.

If you do talk about upsets then it do really happen it might not really be casual cases but it does really have the probabilities this is why you should really be knowing
the factors that really been affecting on the highly favorite team or player to win the game.

This is unavoidable circumstance this is why knowing at least those bit information will really be helpful towards your decision.Not always the case where favorites will
really be securing out win.

Finding the opportunity to win up those kind of bets knowing the odds is much more better or worth to take on.

Exactly, the presentation or explanation is impressive to me and exact the meaning which I want to mean. It is just an indicator which will be helpful of decision making. Whether your knowing team can be succeeded or loss the game. For knowing them, you can make the best decision from your end, that what my point says. Situation can be different.

While without a doubt statistics are necessary in order to become a more effective sport bettor at the same time that is not going to be enough, you need to actually watch the games, this is why for the most part the few successful sport bettors that are out there are fanatics of the sport in which they bet, and they have to be as there are many things that are not reflected on that stats but that you can see when you actually take the time to watch the games and take notes while you are watching them.

Knowing our team and the sports we want to bet on will give you more info about what team that you should choose from the other team. We can compare the data that we've got, and we can see which team has bigger odds to win. If we can analyze better, it will not feel difficult to predict which team can win. But we should also analyze the opponent team because sometimes, the opponent has a surprise that they don't show to us, so better to analyze them. If we see they can win, perhaps we can change our selection before the match begins.

Yes mate, we should analyze both teams to ensure our winning percent more. If there has one which we have known before then it will be helpful for us and we just find out to know another one. But if both are unknown to us, then it may take time to analyze first then will be difficult too for decision making. That's why, knowing the sports and teams matter regarding this.

I agree, we definitely need to analyse both of them to make a good prediction. The more we know about our team, the league and the enemy team the better we can make our forecasts. It all depends on how precise we want to bet. Do we just want to bet on the overall outcome of the game or tournaments, or do we want to bet on specific goals. The more specific we can make our predictions the higher our profits in the end. For example, if we know that one of our players is especially strong during the first 30 minutes we might be able to bet on 1 or 2 goals in the first 30 minutes of the game.

That's the point actually which I want to say. The guy explained it with example. So no more confusions and doubts here that it will help to predict the best thing from your end. I usually go for doing sports betting as it is easy to identify the team from my end. Football match is one of them.

I didn't say it "completely" depends on your luck, i said i will remain "mostly" luck based and i still think that statement is not wrong.
You can know everything about your team and the opponent. Their current shape, their injured and banned players for the next game and the history of the last matches between two teams.
Maybe you even analyze every position like in football left defender vs right wing attacker to really cover everything, but in the end the game still needs to be played and there are humans evolved.
Therefore unforeseen mistakes can happen and you can sill lose your bet even you made no mistake in your analysis...you are just unlucky.
Ok let's say it will always remain "partly" luck based.  :)

The source is not the source that will tell us a game is rig or not, it's just a source where we can analyze the stats of a certain team or players, nothing more than that, and even though we know which team has the bigger chances of winning, this wouldn't tell which team would win easily.

Sports gambling is not easy as we think,  we maybe think that we know the sports we are gambling but we need to prove that it helps by winning our bet, otherwise, we are wrong with our expectation.

If we find the information, perhaps we should not try to place the bet as we don't know much about the teams, which can make us get lost. We can let the game and watch it if we want to place the bet on the next match. But that is only if we can collect as much information as possible, so we don't feel hard to select the team.

That will be difficult if we want to bet on the tournament because that can confuse or divide the information. Besides that, that will be a lot of information that we need to take for every match in the tournaments. But if we can select several matches for our favorite teams, that will not be too difficult as we don't place a bet for the whole tournament. Perhaps, that will benefit us if we only place a bet on the team that we really know how their performance can give us winning at the end of the match.

Yes, you are right and my standpoint is crystal clear that if we know the team of the tournament then we can predict the winning rate who will be the winner, it can be different though. But after knowing the team, the prediction will not favor us as we don't know the team. So, it is important to know the team for making the better decisions.

That source is very important, I have seen people gamble just looking at odds and nothing else, I have seen people make decisions based on what popular bet is as well, both of them are quite wrong moves if you ask me and will not make you any profit at all.

Not knowing the injured players, not knowing the booked players, not knowing stats and many other things matter, hell even at least looking at the league rankings matter, sure that is barely something, it could be considering nearly nothing, but there are people who do not even do that, and gamble on leagues they have never watched a single game from, just because it is one of the most gambled games of that sportsbook that day. Long story short sources that gives us information about teams in detail, like to the point where it gives you how many corners this team has per game, that really matters and helps you win games a lot more frequently.

Well there is a higher chance or potential that we will bet to those team who loves or support because it's part of the will being a fan the team but I think sometimes it's not good which we bet too much trust them not all the time the team we love gives us a good chance of winning sometimes unexpected team's winning against them and some of them unexpectedly throwing the game.

The best option still find a reliable source and information so you can decided and let your feeling who thinks gives you profit.

Of course. When you understand the team and also the players who are competing, especially if it is a club that you really like, it will certainly make you have more confidence that the bet will win. That is what makes myself less stressful sometimes when losing because it certainly has the principle that the club we bet on is not performing well. believe me if we understand the team will definitely have the confidence to win in betting

Best way is just to look at all the available sources. odds from bookmakers usually matches the chances of winning in the match. Sometimes the odds are not correct.
That could be the moment to get a huge advantage, but could also be the moment when a bookmaker decides to close your account. use general information and depending on the sports, check data from the past.

You should always lessen the risk if you are going to bet, and the only way to do that is to know what and who are you betting on, of all the gambling form, sports betting is less risky, provided that you know who and what to bet, compare to dice and slot games where you never know when you are going to lose or win or if luck is in your side.

Sometimes, if we see the big percentage come to the opponent team, we will change our selection to them because they have a chance to win, even if they play with our favourite team. When you don't know which team has a big percentage, you can just watch the game, and you don't have to try to place a bet because that can lead us to get lost.

Sports betting will be less risky, but that only if you know how to use the information you got because not many people can analyze the information with the right. They prefer to follow the tipster and not try to use small money because they want to hit the big win money. That is the risk from sports betting, but in the dice and slot games, that will depend on your luck to win.

Entrusting your bet to someone who know better gives you better chances of winning, most of those experienced gamblers especially those who already engage that much to this types of sports betting,

They take time to find the suited team or players to ride along, knowing the capabilities and skills of each team/player to gamble with is really important as you are giving your chance to a much comfortable position.

Though it's not an assurance but it gives you more confidence to wait and see the outcome.

Not knowing the team that you are betting on is like going into a war without knowing how to shoot a gun or fight. Dice and slots is not luck based though, it is more on the chances and probability side which is difficult to explain so we just say that it is luck that makes us win or lose.

That is precisely the kind of advantage that you can get if you really know the game in which you are betting, casual fans are never going to make that kind of bet and if they do it it this is not because they know anything about the game that could lead them to the conclusion that they can get an advantage by making that bet, they were just lucky, but we know that for someone that wants to become a professional gambler that is not an option, you need to rely on your knowledge not on your luck and in order to do that you need to do everything in your power to get all the information that you can so you can make very specific bets and earn money that way.

It does.

You know that those teams you're looking at with your knowledge in that sport really help you with what teams to bet on. But it's not enough if you want to have that safety that you've mentioned because there will always be those changes and news.

If a good news that comes to the team that's about to have their game, you understand that the odds changes and favor is on them.

Whether there is changes or none, it would still not guarantee you a win because sports is also a game of chance. Upset is possible, your team looks healthy and they are in a winning streak but suddenly they loss against a bad team, that could happen as its normal in sports.

Sports betting means betting on chances, favorites has higher chances but with these betting odds (handicap or point spread) in place, it will not be easy for us to decide. Of coruse you can go with ML but favorites only has small odds.

Yes, I agree that there's no guarantee that you will win. But the factor of knowing if there are changes is that you'll get to have the advantage and it can help you make a wise decision upon betting.

Like if your favorite team is about to have match and there's a news about injury or their greatest player won't play, that will help you determine that they have a lower chance to win and in that case, you'll bet in the opposing team which increases your chance to win.

You should tend to know everything so that you would able to benefit it out and able to know on what would be your next step on making your bets.

You would be basing up on what you do have accumulated news towards the team that you do favor and same goes with the opponent.You can make out some comparison on whose have the advantage

and whose is on the losing side.It might not be precise as always because there are really factors that could really affect winning probability and also even if the winning chance is high
but try to check if the odds is really worth of the risk.

With sports betting information plays a big role, because a team on a whole through its combined effort makes a win. Among that specific position will be played good by particular players. Absence/rest/injury of that player will make changes on the outcome. By this time the alternate takes the position, if we're well aware about the alternate players performance we can go with the team or else wait and Betting in between the game seems to be good choice.

It plays a big factor in your decision making not all teams are created equal with equal skills and experiences, if you know the teams that are competing against each other you have a good chance to predict the most probable outcome, but of course you also need to understand that there is just a thing as upset, sometimes it will not go against your plan, and it's part of the game.

Yes, the others want an assurance that they have to win every bet they'll do but that's not how it goes. Getting higher chance to win depends on how you'll do your research and effort upon researching and getting all of those news related to the game that you'll be getting on.

All of those necessary information if you are going to compile them and reliant on those, that will make you feel better for every game that you're going to bet. Because you're prepared with team has the better chance and has the upperhand.

But always put in mind that sports betting is not as easy as we think, it's not just selecting a team to win and we bet on it, in sports betting we look more on the points handicap to get a good betting odds and per expereince, it's not easy. Reality says that majority of the sports bettor are losers and as a result sportsbook are getting more profit and their operation is profitable, so we must reflect on that so we will stay realistic on what we are doing.

Winning consistently is the key to making profit in sports betting, if we can't do that, then we should not expect long term profit.

Confidence will never Make us win In gambling though this will attract luck i Believe.

And also Knowing your team is not enough but instead Knowing their opponent as well because teams will play against each other and the reflection will go together.
You talk about confidence as if that will be the reason to win?

Since when that this happen ?yeah that is advantage but assuring the game? lol that must be a joke.