Does knowing your sport and teams really make you better at betting on them?

[Timelord2067]

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

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.

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[coin-investor]

What's your experience and opinion on the relation between knowing the sport and betting on it?

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.

[Genemind]

What's your experience and opinion on the relation between knowing the sport and betting on it?

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.

[maydna]

There are gamblers that is fanatic on the team that they are betting because they love the team no matter if won or lose.

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.

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.

[carlisle1]

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.

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?

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?

For team competition of course this really matters and no doubt about that .

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.

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 .

[geegaw]

What's your experience and opinion on the relation between knowing the sport and betting on it?

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.

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

[Btc_1856]

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.

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.

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.

[XZERO1]

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?

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.

[South Park]

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.

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 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.

[jossiel]

There are gamblers that is fanatic on the team that they are betting because they love the team no matter if won or lose.

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.

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.

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.

[jostorres]

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.

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.

[Silberman]

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.

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.

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.

[tygeade]

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.

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.

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.

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.

[MWesterweele]

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.

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.

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.

[romero121]

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.

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.

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.

[blockman]

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.

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.

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.

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.

[Timelord2067]

If you have luck, there will be a 100% assurance the winning, as in all gambling games needs to have luck to win.

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.

[Silberman]

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.

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.

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.

[Botnake]

If you have luck, there will be a 100% assurance the winning, as in all gambling games needs to have luck to win.

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.

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.

[blockman]

If you have luck, there will be a 100% assurance the winning

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.