I think it depends on the user also I don't think they were strategy but basically more on betting behaviour I'm not quite sure if something like that would work on sports betting sometimes even if you place bet on 1.4 odds there's still a high chance that you will still lose. Have anyone tried something betting something like this?
Not only that, in the past I had lost sports bets even those were very low odds like 1.01. With this incident I realized that any bet can not only rely on knowledge, strategy etc. because the most important thing in betting is awareness of a lucky factor. To be honest, I have done everything the OP makes but still, luck is the main factor that will pay off for you, be it win or lose. So, whatever strategy you do if you are a lucky person, then I'm sure you will still be able to win even if you only use a simple strategy.