Skill and luck, which play bigger role in sports betting?

[adultcrypto]

There have been so much argument about gambling being a game of luck and not necessarily skill but is that really true? Sports betting is not entirely based on lucky because there can be expertise in analysis that can give a gambling some form of advantage and ease to win gambling. Am I thinking too much or skill is definitely the major factor in sports betting and not luck?

[Sim_card]

Luck is ths major factor that leads to profit when gambling and not skill so don't get it twisted. In sportbet, if you want to depend on your skills alone, you win never win anything because no matter hoa you analyze the gane if luck isn't at your side, it's a waste of time. Ac lot of gamblers would have been multimillionaires assuming sportbet is more of skill like you put it because most gamblers stake on sportbet than any other games.

[EluguHcman]

There have been so much argument about gambling being a game of luck and not necessarily skill but is that really true?

In sports bets you have to consider both skills and luck put together before you can achieve wining. Skills may have larger roles to play because you don't just pick the teams like the casino games.

Analysing the game based on datas and key role players in the games gives players very good advantage. So after all efforts, you will not be guaranteed of the outcome, so the outcome of the game should have to determine your position if you get it wrong or not.

[joniboini]

Does this matter, though? Let's say it's 40% skill and 60% luck; it doesn't mean you can just play games and win 6 out of 10 every time. Feels like it's a topic where it's meaningless to argue against the opposite side and just move on asap since it won't affect the results at all. Other than finding a topic to debate just for the sake of it, I guess.

[adultcrypto]

Luck is ths major factor that leads to profit when gambling and not skill so don't get it twisted. In sportbet, if you want to depend on your skills alone, you win never win anything because no matter hoa you analyze the gane if luck isn't at your side, it's a waste of time. Ac lot of gamblers would have been multimillionaires assuming sportbet is more of skill like you put it because most gamblers stake on sportbet than any other games.

I don't agree with you Mr Sim_card when it comes to sports betting that luck is the major factor. You can say that about casino games like slot, roulette, dice and others but for sports betting, you need to put in some works to analyze the games, check injuries and present form of the players and also compare head-to-head to know what option is best for the match you want to play. If you neglect these and close your eyes to select a parlay, you will rarely win and even if you do, your win rate will be nowhere near that of someone that do proper analysis.

[retaur]

I'd say it's both and neither.

If you're gambling without a strategy that has positive expected value then it's a gsme for enjoyment.

If you're doing something that gives positive expected value (or neutral) you're relying on both luck and skill (luck to not liquidate you and skill to make picks that a profitable and not make mistakes - although mistake making can also be luck based).

[Oshosondy]

There have been so much argument about gambling being a game of luck and not necessarily skill but is that really true? Sports betting is not entirely based on lucky because there can be expertise in analysis that can give a gambling some form of advantage and ease to win gambling. Am I thinking too much or skill is definitely the major factor in sports betting and not luck?

Why are the sport betting sites making money from people always, paying workers and maintaining their sites? Some people will think betting is more about skills but they are losing, just know that. You can have the skills to maximize your winning but know that any match you won is still luck. Some people learn the skilled part and know how to analyze but they are still losing.

[Nathrixxx]

There have been so much argument about gambling being a game of luck and not necessarily skill but is that really true? Sports betting is not entirely based on lucky because there can be expertise in analysis that can give a gambling some form of advantage and ease to win gambling. Am I thinking too much or skill is definitely the major factor in sports betting and not luck?

When we are talking about gambling in general, then we are not being specific here to know or determine whether they are referring to a particular game or not, because the games are not the same pattern in gambling, some require skills from us while soendo not and they depend only on luck, which type of game we are playing when gambling will then determine what we get from it.

[Shinpako09]

Actually, this came to my mind before. Skills are needed, but you can’t win without luck. No matter what kind or form of gambling you do, you’ll always need luck, even in skill based ones like sports betting or poker. Analysis will help you, but it’s not guaranteed, that’s why you still need luck. Does it mean you need luck more than skills? Or maybe it’s just that our skills aren’t enough? Or is it just part of gambling’s nature that most of the time the house always wins?

[Jaycoinz]

Actually luck plays a huge role when it comes to gambling, even though it's possible to increase the chances of winning through skills you still depend on luck because skills only work to a certain extent. Relying one hundred percent on skills isn't really advised, this has made a lot of gamblers too confident and they end up losing a lot of money. We need luck as much as we need skills in gambling, they both go together

[bhadz]

There have been so much argument about gambling being a game of luck and not necessarily skill but is that really true? Sports betting is not entirely based on lucky because there can be expertise in analysis that can give a gambling some form of advantage and ease to win gambling. Am I thinking too much or skill is definitely the major factor in sports betting and not luck?

You are mixing it up with what others are saying and what you are believing. Sports betting both requires luck and skill but what's needed most there is skill on how to do analysis. But you can also bypass that and just rely on your luck, choose the games and teams that you like to bet and see if they're going to make it. We're free to bet on these games without having the need to analyze when we're confident of being lucky. There's no such requirements for us to bet to any of these games as long as we've got money to do it, the bet will proceed.

[Samlucky O]

There have been so much argument about gambling being a game of luck and not necessarily skill but is that really true? Sports betting is not entirely based on lucky because there can be expertise in analysis that can give a gambling some form of advantage and ease to win gambling. Am I thinking too much or skill is definitely the major factor in sports betting and not luck?

This matter has been deliberated repeatedly on various occasions and I don't see reasons to why we will keep on emphasizing on this for long, but that not withstanding I still maintain to say gambling is base on luck. Although skill play a good role in making a gambler to have more edge of wining because of good prediction that may leed to nearly %70 to %80 Chance of wining but that doesn't still guarantee sure win. Because sometimes you may make an  analysis and become sure of wining from your track record with confidence and yet be disappointed by losing, but sometimes when you don't have confident in such game, you.may be lucky to win. So now tell me how wining is skill base and not luck?

[Yamifoud]

In all kinds of gambling games, luck is always the ultimate factor. No matter how skillful you are, if luck isn’t on your side, then it’s hard to expect getting profits in gambling. So I don’t see the relevance of choosing from these two, instead have these two because they are what it takes to finally getting advantage from gambling casinos.

Skill and luck should be inseparable, and shouldn’t go one way or another. So if you want to get the best of sports betting, make sure you’re not just skilled enough but also lucky and favored by the market.

[cryptomaniac_xxx]

There have been so much argument about gambling being a game of luck and not necessarily skill but is that really true? Sports betting is not entirely based on lucky because there can be expertise in analysis that can give a gambling some form of advantage and ease to win gambling. Am I thinking too much or skill is definitely the major factor in sports betting and not luck?

I would say that luck is still needed even in skill base games or in sports betting. Because there is still the factor of unknown existing, so we really don't know how it won't end the game even if we put our focus on the analysis or we might have a good batting record on certain sports.

Maybe in like poker, the river turns out to be in your favor, or in sports betting, suddenly the other team was able to make a good run and won the game by just 1 point or the leading team's top player got injured and so the complexion of the game changes and they lost the game even though they are the overwhelming favorite.

[Cyber_warrior]

There have been so much argument about gambling being a game of luck and not necessarily skill but is that really true? Sports betting is not entirely based on lucky because there can be expertise in analysis that can give a gambling some form of advantage and ease to win gambling. Am I thinking too much or skill is definitely the major factor in sports betting and not luck?

When you gambling, then you are suppose to make use of skills and pray for luck. No
Matter how skillful you are, you Won’t be right always, when you are about to place a bet, you will have done your analysis, and you going to think everything is already right, but after the match ends, the result is going to be shocking, what you don’t even expect might be the result, so it’s just better you always pray for luck also when you are gambling, actually you are also suppose to be skillful.

Just imagine someone that doesn’t understand anything about sport bet decide to gamble, you should know that it’s not really going to be easy for the person, if the person isn’t lucky, then their is no way the person will be winning, but if you are skillful, you already know things to do which can make you win your bet.

[Cryptomultiplier]

I believe skill is more important than luck when one intends to make gambling a serious financial investment of sort.
Only skills will make a gambler know the exact strategy to use to have an edge over the house because there is a way to bet and strategies to adopt that may bring more luck than others.

Luck in my own sense is just the God factor that makes a bet click, otherwise what would one call it if every bet results in a loss?

[livingfree]

There have been so much argument about gambling being a game of luck and not necessarily skill but is that really true?

They are confused and don't believe them. We've got our own ways of how we're playing sports betting.

IMO, it really needs skills if you want to thrive in this game because if you're so reliant to your luck, you're going to throw as much money as you can.

Determining on how your bets will be, you'd based it on your skills but you can also just try your luck every time you do so but maybe after 2nd or 3rd try and it doesn't work, you have to change your strategy afterwards.

[Odogwu-Blockchain]

There have been so much argument about gambling being a game of luck and not necessarily skill but is that really true? Sports betting is not entirely based on lucky because there can be expertise in analysis that can give a gambling some form of advantage and ease to win gambling. Am I thinking too much or skill is definitely the major factor in sports betting and not luck?

Similar topics had been discussed many times here.
Casinos are purely based on luck, no strategy and analysis is needed, you just strike the bet button and the system decide the outcome for you, balls cannot be altered to the multiplier you want at the point of motion.

Sport betting is also based on luck but can slightly be altered based on the analysis and strategies put on ground, you could analyze that top club can win an underdog at home ground with 1.12 odds which literally is sure to occur, the analysis had reduced the risk level and increases the luck level to your advantage, but its not certain the prediction is sure.

[Hyphen(-)]

There have been so much argument about gambling being a game of luck and not necessarily skill but is that really true? Sports betting is not entirely based on lucky because there can be expertise in analysis that can give a gambling some form of advantage and ease to win gambling. Am I thinking too much or skill is definitely the major factor in sports betting and not luck?

There is no how you will talk about gambling or sport betting without mentioning luck, this because you need it even if you are a football pundit or analyst that knows everything about the record and stats and also knows everything about respective teams forms Ana players form as well.

If you are have good gambling or sport prediction skills through good analysis from respective websites and opinions and through H2H, last games encounters and last few matches performance against other teams, you can predict a game with 80% assurance, you can’t be 100% sure because you need luck to make it happen because no matter how good you are with predictions, some predictions will go opposite direction.

[Moreno233]

Skill play a part in sports betting to a large extent but you cannot remove the importance of luck either. Skill might make you to analyze match correctly but a simple red card will spoil your bet, this is how luck comes into play because through luck, the red card can be in your favor. We should not ignore the importance of luck but it is absolutely difficult to depend on luck entirely, hence the need to have some skills to survive in sportsbetting.