A question for sports bettors

[Umulala-alala]

I do cheek previous record, head to head and also has been watching matches but since I can't watch all the matches I go through present form last 5 matches played how they have performed and also cheek the position they are in the table before making my choice, but nothing is guaranteed even after all this analysis we might still loss or win not that after all this we are now guaranteed to win.

[sompitonov]

I have always been doing sports betting. If I speak from my experience, I do not analyze a match before betting on it. I watch the game regularly and bet on it. Even in my case, if I am a fan of a team, then even if the possibility of that team losing is high, I still bet on that team. This only comes from my like and desire to get entertainment. And those who take it a little more seriously start analyzing the match a few days before the game starts, analyzing all the previous data information. They also analyze the current conditions of each player and bet on the team that will win a possible victory. But I have also noticed that in many cases, despite all this, they lose to fate. The team for which they bet is also seen losing to a relatively weaker team.

Of course, not always. You might have just hit a losing streak and been extremely unlucky. You can do thorough analysis; even professionals do it, but the fact is that luck has its final say, and you can end up on a really long losing streak. It just happens, and there's nothing you can do about it. Incidentally, this has even led to the end of some professionals' careers because even they couldn't handle it mentally, despite having good strategies, but luck decided otherwise. Still, I can't influence luck in any way, so I don't think about it.

[Findingnemo]

Individual stats, team combination, their recent results and many such things might influence the results as well that is what people claim as analyzing the matches which is nothing but based on the past results. But in my opinion it doesn't necessarily reflect in the coming match or people who does the analysing will always be right.

[hedgeh0g]

Individual stats, team combination, their recent results and many such things might influence the results as well that is what people claim as analyzing the matches which is nothing but based on the past results. But in my opinion it doesn't necessarily reflect in the coming match or people who does the analysing will always be right.

Of course, past results, even if excellent, are no guarantee of future results, although many players interpret them that way. It's important to understand that luck plays a major role in determining the outcome of events, but that doesn't mean flawless analysis of teams and players, as well as strategy, are irrelevant. In my opinion, if I start betting, I have to work hard, because I'm not interested in playing for the fun of it or testing my luck. I want a deeper game, testing myself, not my luck.

[AVE5]

...So whether you watches the games or you reads on the news paper is the same...

It's not the same, watching games gives you far more info than raw stats data will ever will.

You must understand that I wasn't referring to social media platforms that formulates unverified and false informations and spreads in the air?
Yes there're actually news websites that also keeps past game records just to remind you about those past events in statistics. I'm also sure you can't watch all game's and memories their performances in the thousands of football leagues today with the everyday football activities.
Watching the game maybe better if you can watch every of the games otherwise you will not have a near compiled datas to analyse the games. Or you'll only have interest in betting on few favourite teams.

I'm sure you'll agree because you'll also have something better doing with your times sometimes While games are ongoing live. Watching replays may be and hedge though.  More even, you can also get the game updates on communications with others fans. To watch it doesn't stand you a better bettor even as it seen more entertaining and looks visually easy to predict their next games

[Findingnemo]

In my opinion, if I start betting, I have to work hard, because I'm not interested in playing for the fun of it or testing my luck. I want a deeper game, testing myself, not my luck.

But I have the contrary opinion, I just want to increase the fun while watching the game so if I bet on a team that I think will win and start watching the match, then it will be just high thrill encounter. Everyone has their own way of doing it, but as long as we keep it fu,n then the chances of addiction are less.

[alastantiger]

I remember reading some comments here that say, we spend time, 'analyzing' the matches, and I wonder, isn't watching the match, itself analyzing the match?

If you keep up with sports you are passionate about, shouldn't that automatically give you an idea about everything? What's up with this idea of 'analyzing' the matches separately?

Do you understand what I am sayin? Do you do this separate 'analysis' of games before making a bet or is merely keeping up with sports is enough for you to make your bets?

As for me, I never did this, 'analysis' thingy, I watch cricket regularly, and I know what I should be doing while making bets.

Well watching a sport closely does give you intuition, context, and familiarity with teams, players, and momentum and that kind of understanding matters, especially if you follow a league consistently. But intuition and analysis are not the same thing, even though they may overlap each other. You see, analysis is simply the step where you slow that intuition down and test it against reality. It forces you to ask why you think something will happen, what could go wrong, and whether the odds actually reflect what you believe. Proper analysis wont just help you help you with matches (to an extent) but it will make you avoid losses as you wont bet carelessly or with just emotions and feeling.

[Uruhara]

I remember reading some comments here that say, we spend time, 'analyzing' the matches, and I wonder, isn't watching the match, itself analyzing the match?

If you keep up with sports you are passionate about, shouldn't that automatically give you an idea about everything? What's up with this idea of 'analyzing' the matches separately?

Do you understand what I am sayin? Do you do this separate 'analysis' of games before making a bet or is merely keeping up with sports is enough for you to make your bets?

As for me, I never did this, 'analysis' thingy, I watch cricket regularly, and I know what I should be doing while making bets.

I personally analyze several things related to the depth of the soccer squad that will compete. Such as who will play and be starters and who are the injured players. Whether they are important players for the team who can change the results and performance of the team or not. And besides that, I also sometimes look at the record of the teams that will compete. Head to head sometimes repeats more often in patterns.

I don't know about others, but for me, even in leagues I follow and am familiar with, analysis is still necessary before placing bets and making decisions. For example, if a team is not productive in scoring goals, we should avoid betting on the number of goals and other goal-related aspects like both teams scoring. However, for teams that are productive in every match, it's usually almost certain that when they meet on the field, both teams will score goals. Well, it's just basic analysis like this—the list of injured players and so on.

[Showlove01]

In my opinion, if I start betting, I have to work hard, because I'm not interested in playing for the fun of it or testing my luck. I want a deeper game, testing myself, not my luck.

But I have the contrary opinion, I just want to increase the fun while watching the game so if I bet on a team that I think will win and start watching the match, then it will be just high thrill encounter. Everyone has their own way of doing it, but as long as we keep it fu,n then the chances of addiction are less.

Yea, there is nothing wrong in playing a game and watch them, whether those people will win or not because we don't really know or we can not tell for certain whether those people we bet on will win or not but we just hope they win. And sometimes there is so much fun if the people we bet are winning, that feeling is always good especially if that is your last game to win your ticket but sometimes it can be annoying and sad if people you play to win are losing or playing anyhow but these doesn't change anything so long as you played with what you can afford to lose.

[Dunamisx]

There's no how we can claim playing sportsbet without watching some of the matches and to have a live experience in them, this is very common to see people being interested in sports and also playing in playing bets and that is why sports bet has gone so far head any other gambling games today because we are used to analyze this as long as we can watch and know what is going on in most of the matches right by ourselves.

[Johnlomape]

Individual stats, team combination, their recent results and many such things might influence the results as well that is what people claim as analyzing the matches which is nothing but based on the past results. But in my opinion it doesn't necessarily reflect in the coming match or people who does the analysing will always be right.

There is no way you can analyze the future chances for a team to win without checking if they are in form and their past matches performances. Predictions is different from you analyzing what could be the future performance if a team. For you to predict what is going to happen in a match, youdont need serious tools for you to do that. You can make your of previous performance of the club to judge the kind of way they are going to play in their future matches. This is how we can know whether a team is in form or not when gambling on what club could win in an upcoming match.

[coolcoinz]

In my opinion, if I start betting, I have to work hard, because I'm not interested in playing for the fun of it or testing my luck. I want a deeper game, testing myself, not my luck.

But I have the contrary opinion, I just want to increase the fun while watching the game so if I bet on a team that I think will win and start watching the match, then it will be just high thrill encounter. Everyone has their own way of doing it, but as long as we keep it fu,n then the chances of addiction are less.

I do the same.

I tend to check the previous matches, or watch them if I can, especially if the team competes in a larger event like the World Cup. It's similar to watching previous fights of a fighter you want to bet on and his opponent. If that's analysis, then I'm doing it, but that's all I do. I never read articles giving odds to this or that side, talking about their styles, comparing things like reach and stuff. I can talk about it with friends, but I'm not going to spend hours making a bet because it's going to kill all the fun.

On one hand I won't bet on sports I know nothing about or bet on teams I don't watch play, but I also try not to overdo it and go into the nerdy side of things.

[Agbe]

I remember reading some comments here that say, we spend time, 'analyzing' the matches, and I wonder, isn't watching the match, itself analyzing the match?

We are talking about the current Matches. You have to bet before watching the match. And before you bet, you have to analyze the previous performance of the teams. Assuming you watched the team you want to predict for in their previous games, yet you have to check the opponent team. And the current Squads of the teams because the players in the previous games might not be the same. Though watching it help too.

[Asiska02]

Do you understand what I am sayin? Do you do this separate 'analysis' of games before making a bet or is merely keeping up with sports is enough for you to make your bets?

As for me, I never did this, 'analysis' thingy, I watch cricket regularly, and I know what I should be doing while making bets.

In your own case, cricket might be a game that you don’t need to keep analysing at every game before you can be able to place a bet on them. But for others who are into other sports like football, there is what we call form and consistency, even if the best of team that has more potential to prevail in a game is not consistent enough, while playing against a lower team that’s more consistent checking from their recent form, you may not give them a win outrightly because you may just be gambling with your money. I don’t know cricket works, so maybe it is a different case with football that needs to be analyzed at every game before playing a bet on the teams.

[IjawMan]

I remember reading some comments here that say, we spend time, 'analyzing' the matches, and I wonder, isn't watching the match, itself analyzing the match?

If you keep up with sports you are passionate about, shouldn't that automatically give you an idea about everything? What's up with this idea of 'analyzing' the matches separately?

I understand what you are saying, if you are watching matches on a league like the English Premier League very well, you may not need any analyses at all to know the right teams to choose, this is very true.

I disagree on this as this is giving the impression that in a season all the big teams makes a 100% win in all their matches, a thing we know is not so, cause the big teams do loses some of the matches with the underdog teams in the season.

The analysis and research on the present update about the team are made to guide the gambler on what market option to pick.  You have to make analysis on each match day to stay informed not to make a blind bet.

[|MINER|]

In sports betting, I don't really need to watch every match, just observing the score info of some matches gives me an idea of ​​which one I should bet on. Whether I win or not, I get an idea of ​​how I should bet on which team.
If I give a small example, today the match is currently being played between Barcelona and Athletic Club. I am not viewing live for this match because I know that Athletic Club is the underdog team in this match and for this, Barcelona's victory is pretty much confirmed, which we can already see by just checking the score during the match.  But if there is an interesting match being played between Barcelona and Real Madrid, I try to enjoy those matches live stream.

[Oluwa-btc]

If you keep up with sports you are passionate about, shouldn't that automatically give you an idea about everything? What's up with this idea of 'analyzing' the matches separately?

I think everyone knows what works best for them, it could be watching matches and analysing before placing bets, or it's the other way round by placing bets and making your analysis on the matches. So basically you can always go with what favours you so well and again you can as well keep up to your bets by watching matches tayts some kind of oversight for bets you could place later on.

[Victorybit1]

There is a difference between watching a game and analyzing a game are two different things. when a bettor analyses a game there are different things entirely. Watching the game is all based on fun and following up on what is going on. making research and analysis is all about using statistics to predict a match, this doesn't always guarantees win it is only going to increase the chances of winning

[Miles2006]

The whole concept of watching and analyzing is actually two different things, generally anyone can watch different sports frequently and they’re definitely knowledgeable about the sports including the different players more especially knowing the capacity of the club. Anyone can make use of this common knowledge whenever they feel like playing although analyzing the match is also the process of determining how far the club can go, analyzing requires focus and attention unlike watching a mere match, I think sport analysis is one of the basic reason why gamblers watch their game along side a specific match making sure to cash out if there’s a chance.

[slaman29]

Go in a movie, lets say a talking movie where 90% is dialogue of 2 hours (more or less same time as watching a full football game), and bring your 10 yr old niece. The movie should be a sequel if possible.

Then ask each other to say something about the movie, a  few complimentary points and a few criticism.

Then you will understand what the difference is between watching or analyzing.

Okay. What's with sequel?

Sequel requires some memory of wathching the first or earlier movie (the prequel or whatever), and it means you must be able to analyze and remember which character did what.

A bit harder to do for the 10 yr old niece unless its a simple cartoon movie with bad guys and good guys.

So, like, did you get what I mean as my response to your question yet?