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

[Judith87403]

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.

In my opinion I think skill and luck is a strong pair which can never be separated, take for instance those gamblers that have been in this space for years and have never experienced a single win. Can you agree with me that it can be possible? Of course is possible reason been that they prioritize luck over knowledge. I have seen some people diving into gambling with empty knowledge since they are being told that gambling is purely based on luck that is why they decided to do whatever they feel like even when they're doing the wrong thing yet they feel that they're doing the right thing so long as luck is involved. that is the reason why most people are frequently complaining about not being lucky to win in gamble, Those who have build enough knowledge about gambling can decide to apply some skills when they're in a long losing streak and this would help them reduce thier chance of losing.

[Mehmet69]

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?

From my personal experience I will conclude that gambling definitely depends on luck. If you have some experience in sports betting, you can get some help. But in all types of betting, luck is our real companion.

I want to share an experience from the past few days. In the game of Liverpool vs Manchester United, we all know that Liverpool is a very good team. Manchester United's performance has not been good this season. That match was supposed to be won by Liverpool without any competition. But I was really surprised to see Liverpool concede a goal in the first 6 minutes of the game. At the end of the match, the score was Liverpool 1 Manchester United 2. Our experience has never been useful in playing such an unexpected game. So I believe that any gambling works more on luck.

[rachael9385]

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?

Skills and luck goes together, it is important not to neglect anyone one of them as a gambler because this is the right mindset to have. If you depend only on luck you might lose a lot of times and if you depend only on skills there is a possibility that you might end up getting disappointed when your strategy doesn't work, it's like betting on a sports game that you are sure of only to end up losing based on factors

[Agbamoni]

OP lets take a quick example. Today, a lot of gamblers won money, because their analysis went the exact way they expected it. However, it all depends on luck because if by analysis alone, one or more game might be a hindrance to their potential win.

The thing is, both the analysis and the luck plays a vital role in sports betting. The conclusion of the whole argument still remains that one cannot do without the other. They are both needed.

[mcdouglasx]

Am I thinking too much or skill is definitely the major factor in sports betting and not luck?

It is obvious that in sports betting, knowledge of the sport, knowing how to read the data, gives you a more important advantage than luck itself, because if we put Real Madrid against a fourth division team, surely someone who knows about the sport will choose Real Madrid to win, on the other hand, if you put a 2-year-old child who has never seen football to choose, they will choose by chance.

[Nathrixxx]

Playing sport bet is by what you know and not what you you got by privilege or luck, though it can still work not the same way we have expected for them to play out, because the skill part of it is there as the same way for the team you supported to deliver the same way you have wanted, if they don't deliver, then you will hear some saying that it wasn't your luck, but if they do, others will say it's their skills that got them the right winning.

[robelneo]

Am I thinking too much or skill is definitely the major factor in sports betting and not luck?

Luck is still the factor, and it will show up in tight games where both competing parties or fighters are of equal talent and power, and there have been so many instances where the underdog beats the favorite.
Even the best sports bettor still acknowledges luck as one of the factors that will make a realization of his bets. I know of a friend who is very good at analyzing horses, yet when I asked him about his bets, he always ended with the word "wish me luck." He still considers luck a factor.

[Obim34]

As many times we are going to have discussion on this topic, the final conclusion won't be placed alone on skill or luck.

My opinion is that both skill and luck are important, whether they are administered equally or no-equally.

You can win a bet by picking randomly, that will be luck but regards to consistent winning or long parlay bets, applying skill and then resting lastly on luck is the only solution to stay profitable during an ideal period of gambling.

[passwordnow]

As many times we are going to have discussion on this topic, the final conclusion won't be placed alone on skill or luck.

My opinion is that both skill and luck are important, whether they are administered equally or no-equally.

You can win a bet by picking randomly, that will be luck but regards to consistent winning or long parlay bets, applying skill and then resting lastly on luck is the only solution to stay profitable during an ideal period of gambling.

Yeah, it's hard to conclude it and it will only depend as per experience of each of us. In my experience, luck plays a part but I don't think that it's the entire thing needed by a gambler. Because even if I'm lucky if the players I am betting to aren't lucky, then that's already the end of the bet that I do. And if I am just the casual gambler and I'm very much lucky with all of my bets then so I am. We will not determine if we are lucky in time and it will only result if we do. So, luck is also the action of ourselves when we bet but skills is a required thing when we gamble because we are doing our part.

[Odusko]

There is no gambling without luck and we should not expect to ever come out successful with just our skills, because skills alone are not enough to win a gambling game left alone to have a repeated winnings from your games with help of your analysis and skills and without any form of luck to push you to the winning line, that thing will not work out fine as you think in this writing.

[GxSTxV]

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 it comes to skills, I would say that Poker is the best gambling gales to relate with, because it’s mainly based on the way someone plays and manages to win more than lose. Just like so many rich people just by playing Poker for years. There is always luck in gambling which is the main factor of entertainment.

When it comes to sports betting, things are a bit different because you cannot control that much, you have just to pick a side and the team or player is responsible for your outcome, that’s why it’s mainly based on luck.

[danherbias07]

You are not thinking too much. It is about skills. If you work hard to analyze what the possible result will be, then your chances of winning grow unless the other team or player gets lucky and the team you bet for loses despite all the analysis you made. It happens.

Luck is something we cannot rely on or should not rely on when it comes to sports betting. The love for the game will be one factor to have an idea which team will win, and being updated is also a big factor in it. Those two things do not rely on luck. It's our knowledge about the game. To win, we will just have to upgrade that knowledge.

[AmoreJaz]

There is no gambling without luck and we should not expect to ever come out successful with just our skills, because skills alone are not enough to win a gambling game left alone to have a repeated winnings from your games with help of your analysis and skills and without any form of luck to push you to the winning line, that thing will not work out fine as you think in this writing.

Luck will always be a factor of gambling. So don't get disillusioned that you can eradicate such factor. But you can change the narrative of your gambling if you will go to other games such as poker or sportsbetting, where skills is a very good advantage, that may increase your winnings. But with regular casino games, I don't think you can change the narrative here because the luck factor plays the major role of how the outcome will come out to be.

[kotajikikox]

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?

That is why there is a separation of sports betting and gambling. Is there any skill in slots? Or in roulette? A lot of your usual games in casinos only involves luck but sports betting requires analyzations and extensive knowledge of the sport. All which can't only be boiled down to luck but since we are still betting on whatever may happen in the future, we can't say that it is fully reliant only on skills.

[uneng]

Skills can be improved within time, what means if it was the determining factor in gambling, you would see many gamblers increasing their profitability rates along the time, while what you see in fact is gamblers losing the more they play. It means the correlation between skills and profit in gambling is inversely proportional. Therefore, here is your evidence that skills don't matter in gambling to improve your performance. It's mainly about luck which no one has control over.

Add this to the house edge element and you will discover that even by being a lucky gambler it's still not enough, because the house isn't playing from equal to equal against you. In warlike terms, it's like saying you may win few battles, but the war is lost...

[sunsilk]

Playing sport bet is by what you know and not what you you got by privilege or luck, though it can still work not the same way we have expected for them to play out, because the skill part of it is there as the same way for the team you supported to deliver the same way you have wanted, if they don't deliver, then you will hear some saying that it wasn't your luck, but if they do, others will say it's their skills that got them the right winning.

Those praises are usually coming when we're doing something good and the results are out positively. If they see that we're good with most of our bets then that's nice.

But it's normal for them to say that we're out of luck if we start losing. I guess that's part of the gambling community and the feed back that we give to the others when we're doing good or bad.

So, as a gambler, it's a matter of what we think we're good at. If we're lucky then we shouldn't be putting all the burden to it and we still have the chances through our skills which is an important factor when we bet with sports.

[Versatile_choice]

Luck will always be a factor of gambling. So don't get disillusioned that you can eradicate such factor. But you can change the narrative of your gambling if you will go to other games such as poker or sportsbetting, where skills is a very good advantage, that may increase your winnings.

You're right skill plays a very big role in poker, because the rate of winners in poker game can never be compared with that of sport betting even though the both requires skill but I think skill work most in poker than sport betting, though I'm not good at poker game but I think I have tried it once or twice with this two attempts I can testify that poker is quite different from sport betting. So long as gambling is concerned skill and luck is needed if you omite one among this two then be rest assured of having series of losses.

[nelson4lov]

I don't know which is bigger. I just know that even if you have the best skills in sportsbetting, you still need a bit of luck to make it tick. While someone with almost no skills will can win effortlessly just because they're extremely lucky with their bets. However, I do recognize that luck can only take one so far and if one relies too much on lucky, when it fades away, they will be exposed as frauds that are dependent only on luck.

[laspol65]

Both luck and skill play an important role in winning gambling, if you have good luck and no experience then you will bet on guesswork no research no interest in the team you will bet blindly and you will be more likely to lose. And if you do not have good luck then no matter how much research you do luck did not help you win gambling.
So I would say both luck and skill play a major role in gambling, the luckier you are and the more skilled you are the more likely you are to win gambling.

[Mrbluntzy]

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?

Gambling is a general term that encompasses both sport betting, casinos games and other activities, these types of gambling have it's requirements. If you are playing casinos games such as sweet bonanza, ocean hunt and crash, etc, skill will not play any role for you to win but luck will. If you are playing table games like poker, skill and luck is needed to help you win. If you are also sport betting, skill and luck have to work hand in hand to help you win. So, if you are playing a skill based game and you have good skills on the games, it will give you an edge to win but you also have to hope that luck doesn't go against you.