basketball or football: Which sport is more profitable in relation to sports bet

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

In terms of sports games, I love football more than others, and I also bet mostly on football because it's the only sport that I have more time to watch than other sports. My friend has actually said the same thing about basketball, and for the countless number of times I have staked in basketball, I might not have really compared its profit level with football, but I really do think football has given me more winning streaks than basketball. 

[alani123]

Profitability in gambling depends on a few things but most importantly I think it's still luck.
Ok, some better knowledge and experience can maybe offer some very marginal advantages also. The good picks someone makes however are often counteracted with the edge on the odds which is also a very real thing to consider when gambling.
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So I would say in reality the sport doesn't matter that much. The player's knowledge and experience is more important. Are you more educated about basketball? Then more that and consider playing matches where you think the odds are worth it for the risk. This is the only way in my opinion. And between soccer and basketball, both are team sports and have very large leagues with reliable teams and good referees so I think both are ok to play for long strategies. The other sports such as non team sports and small leagues or sports that don't receive a lot of funding have many upsets that can throw any strategy off.

[bhadz]

An analogy:
A UFC bettor and fan will say that betting in the UFC is profitable for him.
A basketball bettor and fan will say that betting in the basketball is better.
A football bettor and fan will say that choosing to bet in his beloved sport is the best thing to do and the most profitable.
A boxer bettor and fan will say that looking to bet for boxing matches and watch the entire fight isn't just all about winning but also entertaining.
A typical sport fan, doesn't know all of the sports but surely going to enjoy to know how all of them work.

[redsun114]

It depends on your knowledge, I believe. I don't have much basketball knowledge either, but I'm sure that if I have a lot of football knowledge, I can still be profitable if I make calculated bets which means that I shouldn't place bets on games where I'm not completely sure whether I can win a bet or not.

In my opinion, sports betting is all about knowledge and experience, and it isn't that a certain sport can be more profitable than another, one thing can be true maybe some sports are more predictable than others, maybe some certain players and teams always win or maybe some always lose, so when those teams or players are playing, you can easily predict the side that will win or maybe other odds that are obvious to make a bet on.

[Coin_trader]

The ideal would be for each player to bet on what he has the most affinity for and identifies with the most, i.e I really like football, so the tendency would be to bet on football, however I have heard from my work colleagues that in basketball, like the moves are very fast, the court is small in relation to the field, players can bet on these moves to obtain advantages over bets based on guesses. Do you agree with this friend of mine?

He said that basketball is more profitable than football because of this.

Every now and then I make some football bets, betting on my club that I support for now.

However, I don't watch basketball and I don't know the basic rules of this sport, despite it being fun.

There’s no correct answer here since most of the user here have their own preference sports which surely they will choose as answer because they have mastery on it. Having knowledge is one of the deciding factor to determine which sports is profitable since the sports itself has their own mechanics to win the game.

For me it’s basketball because this is the sports that I follow and familiarize to easily analyze the result but that doesn’t mean this is true with other bettors with good analysis skills on football.

You can only find the right answer to gambler that has equal analysis skills on both basketball and football but it’s very hard to find that person in reality because there’s no way to measure skills.

[Gheka]

It depends on your knowledge, I believe. I don't have much basketball knowledge either, but I'm sure that if I have a lot of football knowledge, I can still be profitable if I make calculated bets which means that I shouldn't place bets on games where I'm not completely sure whether I can win a bet or not.

In my opinion, sports betting is all about knowledge and experience, and it isn't that a certain sport can be more profitable than another, one thing can be true maybe some sports are more predictable than others, maybe some certain players and teams always win or maybe some always lose, so when those teams or players are playing, you can easily predict the side that will win or maybe other odds that are obvious to make a bet on.

Perhaps America is the birthplace of basketball, so people who love to bet on this sport are probably mainly in the US market, and as you said, our knowledge is probably quite limited in this market, I don't know if other countries pay much attention to basketball or not but in my country, it clearly cannot surpass football. Betting is probably just for fun when it's no different than blind people groping for a brighter path, football is the first choice of many bettors because its popularity is so high and it is easy to choose scores and game rules.

[DubemIfedigbo001]

Every sports seems easier for the person that understands it better, you friend understands basketball better and that's the basics of his judgment. Myself that barely understands anything in basketball can never try such. Ther are other important things you can bet on in football like corners, first to score, yellow card, scores in the first 15 mins and so on and so forth, its fast and you can win easily even before the game goes far.

Its all about the person's preference and has nothing to do with a game being fast, smaller pitch or any other basics. When someone is used to a particular activity, he sees it superior to another one of limited interest and I strongly think its the case with your friend's assumption. In my own rating, basketball is even more complicated and less fun than football. I cannot even understand it, talk less of staking on it.