A question for sports bettors

[bitbollo]

it could be considered as the same term... but soetime you can just watch a match and thats all.
this doesn't means that you're looking for something special but... just watching a game.
this kind of analysis can be somewhat helpful but on paper ... the strongest team will ever win the match unless you have special details to seek, I would not waste too much time on it....

[Oasisman]

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 guess watching the game is familiarizing how a team play. Those analysis happens pre-game. So, if you're not familiar with how every team play in a specific league, you will not be able to make some logical pre-game match analysis.
Also, there are odds or betting line that you need to analyse as well. For example, If you're betting for the Lakers to score 10 points first against their opponent, you will need to watch their previous match up and see if the Lakers has the potential of scoring the 10 pts first against that specific team.

Straight money line betting (which I think what you're trying to say) is much easier and will not need thorough analysis, especially when you're very familiar with the teams around the league, because you're simply betting on which team wins the game.

[_act_]

it could be considered as the same term... but soetime you can just watch a match and thats all.
this doesn't means that you're looking for something special but... just watching a game.
this kind of analysis can be somewhat helpful but on paper ... the strongest team will ever win the match unless you have special details to seek, I would not waste too much time on it....

They are not the same thing at all but they can achieve the same results. Yes, stronger team would win the weak team but not always the case as how bookies are making money from people because winning is not 100% certain. There are time that weak team will draw with strong team and there are time that you will not expect weak team to win but the weak team would win. Also the odds can easily be used to know if a team is strong or weak but I still prefer to make my own analyses.

[vanesha]

Feeling is indeed good to use when making decisions in sports gambling, especially when we know we are fans of a particular team. Of course, we truly understand the strength of the team we support. When watching sports is our hobby, it becomes easier to understand and know who is more likely to win. However, analysis would be even better, as it increases the chances of winning. For example, if one day there is unexpected cheating or manipulation in a match, our feeling could be wrong. Isn’t that so?

[Fortify]

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.

You're arguing over semantics and wording, it's a bit silly really. By watching your favourite team on a regular basis your mind will naturally be analyzing skills and doing cross comparisons versus opponents, otherwise it is a pretty boring game. Many people also follow the sport outside of single matches and there is plenty of background news related to the sport that can affect outcomes of games. When defining odds for a particular match, to determine whether a bet is good value, you need historical reference points based on the prior history of both teams or individual players.

[viljy]

Of course, you don't have to worry about any analyses if you already know the clubs thoroughly. Well, there are permutations, but in general you have already formed an intuitive understanding. Perhaps when they talk about analysis, they mean looking at statistics about who lost against whom more often, and, for example, where - at home or away. That is, pseudo-valuable statistical information. Why pseudo? Because time does not stand still, factors are too variable. Although this is just a subjective opinion from a not very successful bettor (me).

[Inwestour]

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.

Match analysis can't really be done while watching the game, it is a completely different thing. While watching, you can only assess how well you did that analysis. Watching the match can help you with future analyses, so you can better evaluate the team you follow, or, if you are doing live betting, then in that case you can choose a bet based on how the game is going.

[Africolo]

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 do understand what you are saying perfectly, as someone that watches any kind of sport you shouldn't have difficulty in betting and you don't have to be analyzing every match before you place your bets because as a game you watch on  regular bases you should be aquincted with it and should know how each team plays their matches like in the case of the premier League games, since it's a sport one is frequently watching you can go ahead and bet without much analysis because you know how every team plays and you must have known the weaknesses and strength of every team in the premier League too.

As for me separate analysis is not needed as I know how to place my  bets on every game most especially the premiers league, so once I keep on watching my favorite teams play I don't need to waste my time to analyze the games separate as I know how the team plays so I bet straight.

[Vaculin]

Feeling is indeed good to use when making decisions in sports gambling, especially when we know we are fans of a particular team. Of course, we truly understand the strength of the team we support.

Strength isn’t the only thing to look at in sports betting, it’s not just about who wins or loses. If you actually bet, you already know how common point spreads are, and even that “simple” market is already hard to beat, especially with even spreads where odds are usually around -110.

[WhoYouCantKill]

You know sometimes you can’t get all the details and information you need by watching a single game, or a few games. Each game has its own uniqueness and you can’t always predict a future game by watching or analyzing a previous game. You’ll need to check their previous performances, how their previous encounters looked like, amongst others, and you just can’t get these information by merely watching a game. I don’t know about others but this is what I consider when making my analysis or bets.

[KiaKia]

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 wonder too, even after all the time spent on analysis they still lose money.

The best advice is to risk your money on sports that you watch most of these time so that you will understand what's happening and how to place your bet perfectly on every matches.

I care more about the aftermath, if truly data analysis on sports bet is effective why are people losing money on them then? This is why I won't accept this as a great idea.

Place your bets on football clubs that you are either supporting or knowing very sure that they will perform very well, make sure you risk what you can afford to lose.

[POPOLUV]

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.

To be honest with you i understand what you are saying and that is why i talk my experience because one you are football entertainment lover, you will always find out to watch matches mostly during in the week and weekends, so your regular or consistent watching of football in almost the Leagues or in one particular Local League will gives the ultimatum in analyzing any matches that you decide to place your bet on,  and some predictions that some gamblers do predict is based on those clubs topping their various Leagues, which it will not permit them to analyze those clubs because a gambler has not been watching and following clubs up in their various Leagues, so what a gamblers can is to check their head to head to see their current performance before betting.

[Ishicryptic]

It is not necessary to make analysis but it is helpful and part of bet fun because at the end of the day whether you make a thorough analysis or not you can still lose a bet. I like to enjoy games when it's being played live that is why I don't usually do live bets or analysis for bet purposes during matches. We all have different strategies to make bet predictions, if doing it on the spot is your thing and it favors your bets sometimes you can continue with it but if you do analysis atleast for the sake of fun and statistics of the teams that is likewise good, whatever you can do to increase your chances of winning is welcomed.

[dwyane36]

You know sometimes you can’t get all the details and information you need by watching a single game, or a few games. Each game has its own uniqueness and you can’t always predict a future game by watching or analyzing a previous game. You’ll need to check their previous performances, how their previous encounters looked like, amongst others, and you just can’t get these information by merely watching a game. I don’t know about others but this is what I consider when making my analysis or bets.

Well, there is no point in spending a lot of time watching previous games in order to place a new bet. I think that few people do this, because most of the time it is enough to analyze the statistical data from past games to make an educated guess about who might win the next game.

[WhoYouCantKill]

Well, there is no point in spending a lot of time watching previous games in order to place a new bet. I think that few people do this, because most of the time it is enough to analyze the statistical data from past games to make an educated guess about who might win the next game.

Everyone has their own methods of analysis, if someone feels he’ll gain better clarity by watching previous games, or watching recaps from previous games, then there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that, it’s entirely their choice.  But the truth is that, there are several analytical tools that has been provided to make analysis easy for bettors, I believe there are also sites that deal more on specific type of analysis, one can easily pick a few data from there, add it with their knowledge and save themselves the stress and time of going to review previous matches.

[libert19]

...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.

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?

I guess watching the game is familiarizing how a team play. Those analysis happens pre-game. So, if you're not familiar with how every team play in a specific league, you will not be able to make some logical pre-game match analysis.
Also, there are odds or betting line that you need to analyse as well. For example, If you're betting for the Lakers to score 10 points first against their opponent, you will need to watch their previous match up and see if the Lakers has the potential of scoring the 10 pts first against that specific team.

Straight money line betting (which I think what you're trying to say) is much easier and will not need thorough analysis, especially when you're very familiar with the teams around the league, because you're simply betting on which team wins the game.

Yes, I am talking about straight moneyline bet. As for your example, I would say, if you are keeping up with matches, you'd be able to guess (not saying, you will win every time), who could be scoring 10 pts first.

...However, analysis would be even better, as it increases the chances of winning. For example, if one day there is unexpected cheating or manipulation in a match, our feeling could be wrong. Isn’t that so?

What analysis helps against cheating/manipulation? And I never said, you can win everytime.

...You’ll need to check their previous performances, how their previous encounters looked like, amongst others, and you just can’t get these information by merely watching a game. I don’t know about others but this is what I consider when making my analysis or bets.

I don't know about other sports but in cricket, they literally throw every kind of stat possible to our faces.

I wonder too, even after all the time spent on analysis they still lose money.

The best advice is to risk your money on sports that you watch most of these time so that you will understand what's happening and how to place your bet perfectly on every matches.

I care more about the aftermath, if truly data analysis on sports bet is effective why are people losing money on them then? This is why I won't accept this as a great idea.

Place your bets on football clubs that you are either supporting or knowing very sure that they will perform very well, make sure you risk what you can afford to lose.

It's luck at the end of the day, nothing can make you win all the time.

[khiholangkang]

Of course, you don't have to worry about any analyses if you already know the clubs thoroughly. Well, there are permutations, but in general you have already formed an intuitive understanding. Perhaps when they talk about analysis, they mean looking at statistics about who lost against whom more often, and, for example, where - at home or away. That is, pseudo-valuable statistical information. Why pseudo? Because time does not stand still, factors are too variable. Although this is just a subjective opinion from a not very successful bettor (me).

It can be done, I also often use my intuition before betting if it's for the team I follow, but it will certainly be different from fighting an opponent that I don't understand in its entirety, the data is still important even though we can use intuition to choose directly, we need to update data such as injured players, absent players, starting, and so on to analyze, and the use of strategies can also be concluded, how they can be strong and weak there is always a cause and effect in the results of past matches.

I am also not successful in betting because sometimes I use analysis sometimes not when I use my instincts.

[cryptoaddictchie]

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 get what you’re saying, and I’m the same way like you bro watching the team play gives me a feel that no spreadsheet can really replace. When you follow a sport closely, you pick up momentum, confidence, and small details that don’t always show up in analysis. For me, betting feels more natural and enjoyable when I’m watching a team I know well, not just crunching numbers beforehand.

Plus I am enjoying the luxury of watching them play organically and not with facing some numbers and sheet.

[ruykeri]

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.

[WhoYouCantKill]

...You’ll need to check their previous performances, how their previous encounters looked like, amongst others, and you just can’t get these information by merely watching a game. I don’t know about others but this is what I consider when making my analysis or bets.

I don't know about other sports but in cricket, they literally throw every kind of stat possible to our faces.

Likewise football or soccer betting, finding the game stats wouldn’t require much. In fact most of the casinos that supports football betting do have spaces where they drop various analytical tools for gamblers to use when making their predictions. Although some of the casinos may not really have a comprehensive tools for analyzing games, so most time gamblers could refer to other sites for additional information and insight about the games.