A question for sports bettors

[tygeade]

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?

It differs for each sport but when we say analyse the game, we are talking about the specifics. I do watch and bet on cricket like you so let me try to explain with an example. Suppose you want to bet on Ashes, now analysing here means checking out the possible playing XI, the pitch conditions, the ground dimensions because it helps you understand whether a ground is high-scoring or low-scoring. Usually grounds like Adelaide are good for bowling, so you want to bet under and that's how you analyse things and make a bet.

Once you make the bet, then you are just watching the game and hoping that your prediction comes true, which is more in hope than in conviction. Hope that explains .

[Somto9Light]

I think analyzing a football game goes much deeper than just watching the game, many people watch football but not many people understand and know football or are able to pick up some little details from football like some other people do. The people that are able to pick up the little details from football are people that actually analyze football as they watch and that gives them a thorough idea and in depth knowledge of the sport that can help them in their predictions about the outcome of the game or how the team will perform against another opponent.

The best way to understand football is by making analysis and also watching them play, because we can't actually judge from our analysis. Moreover there might be a system error most times in the aspect of statistics, But if you keep watching the teams on how they are performing you're likely to balance thier strength on your own without consulting any source or checking thier previous statistics, because most of the statistics might be referring to past matches maybe the ones that is played long time ago.

[Nwada001]

The way everyone of us research for gambling differs, some will watch the match, check on other updates online and then analyze all together to arrive at something closer to what they wanted, doing all these can help to an extent, but we must not forget that everyone of us has his or her own developed strategy used when it comes to gambling or playing any sport or games of our choice.

We all have our differences in strategy, which we either develop to help us create a closer chance of winning than just placing our bet blindly, but whatever we are doing using different strategies and however we use available data and statistics, it all boils down to us just increasing our chance of winning and not having the outcome of the game at our palms.

[Su-asa]

itself analyzing the match?

If you watch all the matches of the team you’re going to bet on, then you don’t really need any extra analysis because you already have it in your head. The problem is that you can’t follow every team, and betting only on one or two teams whose games you watch really limits your options. I only do proper match analysis in leagues and countries that I don’t know very well.

No my dear you are wrong on this, as a gambler you always need to analyze your games before you go all in with your money (even though it's what you can afford to risk) why because so that your chances of winning will increase even though there's no guarantee to win the bet. However, why I say you are wrong is that not all players who place today might be able to play the next match because some might not be available. So you need to check the players and how good you think they might be, even checking highlights too help improve to your knowledge on how to carry out tjur perdition's.

[odunybiz]

itself analyzing the match?

If you watch all the matches of the team you’re going to bet on, then you don’t really need any extra analysis because you already have it in your head. The problem is that you can’t follow every team, and betting only on one or two teams whose games you watch really limits your options. I only do proper match analysis in leagues and countries that I don’t know very well.

No my dear you are wrong on this, as a gambler you always need to analyze your games before you go all in with your money (even though it's what you can afford to risk) why because so that your chances of winning will increase even though there's no guarantee to win the bet. However, why I say you are wrong is that not all players who place today might be able to play the next match because some might not be available. So you need to check the players and how good you think they might be, even checking highlights too help improve to your knowledge on how to carry out tjur perdition's.

Watching a football match isn't enough for predictions. With this there are more than enough information which may be missing. Analysis matches before match helps in making predictions alongside the team news, form, injured or missing players which may later affect the outcome of the match. Moreover, it seems impossible for you to watch all matches in the 5 top leagues. So, you need to do some analysis unless you want to focus your predictions on a club.

[SUPERSAIAN]

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, I usually just watch the matches. I don't do deep analysis. I check for some injury situations, and then I place my bets as I see fit, that's all. I don't get bogged down in too many details because then it really feels like I'm drowning. I just want to place my bet quickly, watch the match, and have a nice meal while watching the match.

[Hypnosis00]

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?

Are you talking about live betting? Because if that is the case, you don't need to spend time analyzing it. Just put your bet on the team you trust the most.

But in the case of your betting on parlays, you should have to spend time analyzing each team. That is why bettors collect data for this purpose to get a higher chance of winning. But if you don't want to do this and gamble, just relying solely on luck, it is still okay. But you should also be aware of your odds of winning and don't be surprised by the outcome as well.

[SamReomo]

No my dear you are wrong on this, as a gambler you always need to analyze your games before you go all in with your money (even though it's what you can afford to risk) why because so that your chances of winning will increase even though there's no guarantee to win the bet.

Especially when it comes to sports betting than analysis plays it best and most important role. I know in casino games or games like Aviator no such analysis works but in sports betting analysis plays a very important role in deciding that which team or club has higher chance of winning. I usually avoid betting on football matches because in those it's hard to analyze properly but surely in cricket matches a good analysis is more than enough to have higher chance of winning than no analysis at all.

[DaNNy001]

like your question implied that should give you an idea but it doesn't make it analysing automatically...there is a difference between analyzing and watching a game...Anyone that's interested in sports can watch a game but it doesn't mean that they know how to analyze a match..you can also use what you see in those games as one of the your analytical tools but that won't be everything you need

[Wakate]

The best way to understand football is by making analysis and also watching them play, because we can't actually judge from our analysis. Moreover there might be a system error most times in the aspect of statistics, But if you keep watching the teams on how they are performing you're likely to balance thier strength on your own without consulting any source or checking thier previous statistics, because most of the statistics might be referring to past matches maybe the ones that is played long time ago.

You don't have to even analyze sport outcome yourself, there are people that can do that for you and you dot have to worry about what to predict and how you are going to predict the majority of the football matches from champions league to premier league and other leagues. There are people that are dedicated for this and that is what they do always.

[slaman29]

Ok. Let's see if I am getting it right,

You are implying, a 10yr old will be merely watching the movie, and won't have much idea about anything else while an adult will be watching, as well as analyzing the movie simultaneously?

...and if that's correct interpretation, I wonder how that'd be translating to the sports betting though? Cos, you know, mostly adults gamble, and when they watch games, they would be analyzing the match simultaneously!?

Try the same situation I mentioned with predicting the result of a team playing football

Ask a 10 yr old to watch the game same as you. Then at HT, ask both to predict the FT result.

Do this for the whole season (let us say about 35 games in a season) on the same team.

Then, I can almost guarantee your FT predictions are better than the child's predictions.

(No need to bet, predicting is legal hehe).

[justdimin]

The way everyone of us research for gambling differs, some will watch the match, check on other updates online and then analyze all together to arrive at something closer to what they wanted, doing all these can help to an extent, but we must not forget that everyone of us has his or her own developed strategy used when it comes to gambling or playing any sport or games of our choice.

Sometimes I feel that when we are trying to analyse a game and look for predictions online, we are trying to get confirmation that what we think is true. Like if I am betting on Conor vs Khabib (wish a fight like that happens again) and I am leaning towards Khabib, then I will search online for articles that explain why Khabib will win. It does nothing but just confirms our personal bias haha

There is no doubt in my mind that analysis changes nothing because eventually it all comes down to luck. If analysis were to determine wins and losses, there would be pro sports bettors who would always profit because they just know better and analyse better.

[Bluedrem]

There are many gamblers who do not watch sports regularly. But if they are interested in sports betting, then they can analyze the teams and place bets based on their analysis. But those who are already involved in sports and observe every sport do not need to analyze the teams separately before starting a new match. They know in advance which team is the favorite for the match and they can place bets based on the performance of the players in the team. Yes, if people watch sports regularly, then they do not need to analyze separately like I do.

[MainIbem]

The way everyone of us research for gambling differs, some will watch the match, check on other updates online and then analyze all together to arrive at something closer to what they wanted, doing all these can help to an extent, but we must not forget that everyone of us has his or her own developed strategy used when it comes to gambling or playing any sport or games of our choice.

We all have our differences in strategy, which we either develop to help us create a closer chance of winning than just placing our bet blindly, but whatever we are doing using different strategies and however we use available data and statistics, it all boils down to us just increasing our chance of winning and not having the outcome of the game at our palms.

Very correct mate, the sad truth is that we can't have the outcome of the game in our palms, if so the house edge won't supercede nor luck be the major criteria for winning a reward, but many people don't want to accept that which is why they just blindly place their bet with money meant for other essential needs and feel it would go their way, some even go to the extent of paying punters heavy amount of money for sure games. Gamblers just learn to understand that gambling is won by luck and we can only increase our chances using different strategies.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

There are many gamblers who do not watch sports regularly. But if they are interested in sports betting, then they can analyze the teams and place bets based on their analysis. But those who are already involved in sports and observe every sport do not need to analyze the teams separately before starting a new match. They know in advance which team is the favorite for the match and they can place bets based on the performance of the players in the team. Yes, if people watch sports regularly, then they do not need to analyze separately like I do.

You are ultimately right but the question is, how many people around the world can afford the leisure of watching every single match every damn time it's played? People have businesses they are running, or a day job they leave to early in the morning and come back home late at night, or clients they provide services for..
Very minimal persons can really boost of not every missing to watch any match and if we consider this, the conclusion will be that doing some analysis before placing some bets is still something every bettor do.

Notice I said some bets, yeah, there are some teams bettors could always follow up at all time, but the fact is that, it's not only this team that a bettor will be betting on, for other teams, doing analysis on them is still very important to atleast, get a higher chance of winning when we bet on them.

[Onyeeze]

The way everyone of us research for gambling differs, some will watch the match, check on other updates online and then analyze all together to arrive at something closer to what they wanted, doing all these can help to an extent, but we must not forget that everyone of us has his or her own developed strategy used when it comes to gambling or playing any sport or games of our choice.

We all have our differences in strategy, which we either develop to help us create a closer chance of winning than just placing our bet blindly, but whatever we are doing using different strategies and however we use available data and statistics, it all boils down to us just increasing our chance of winning and not having the outcome of the game at our palms.

Taking gambling research serious is good, but the thing way I'm seeing everything that has to do with gambling is that, if you make a research and gamble you will notice why you lose, but if you dont make a research and lose, you will not know why you lose and your chances of losing in gambling is high, that's why is good for someone to make a research and also known the out come of it, wining gambling is a luck and everyone who gamblers is interested to win not to lose, so i have not seen any reason why someone who wants to win will not make inquiries in gambling, whatever action we take during gambling research, is for the benefit of the gamblers.

[Akbarkoe]

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.

It should go into our analysis, whether it's watching the match live, reading the news, reading statistics and reading references from other parties it includes analysis, I like to do it when I want to bet, and even if you just watch or just follow it doesn't matter because it's analysis too it's just that your analysis is limited to what you do, analysis is your way of judgment to produce the assessment conclusions that you get, regardless of whether you read or watch and even just listen.

[bettercrypto]

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 understand the point you’re making. Actually, the reason I’ve gotten so hooked on sports betting lately is that if you're familiar with the teams playing, you can immediately tell who has the advantage like in the NBA, football, tennis, and so on.

When we know a team or player is strong and skilled, we often know who will win even without deep analysis. While our basis isn't right all the time, our betting decisions are usually correct. In my opinion, it’s when we are still learning the ropes that formal analysis really comes into play.

[libert19]

it depends on the sports you are placing your bet on and how many numbers of games you want to combine in a single bet slip since you can't watch many matches at once, those you don't watch you will get their performance index by doing analysis. These analysis are necessary if you are betting in a sport like football. Watching a football match can roughly give you the idea of how strong a team is, but it won't give you everything you need to know if you want to bet on other markets like corners, cards, time of scoring first goals and others.

You have to look at the previous performances of the team and see how they performed in their previous games, it's from the statistics of the previous games that you will draw your conclusion on the best option you should bet on that particular match.

I have said in earlier comment, if you aren't keeping up with matches, then analysis is necessary but if you are keeping up then watching itself is an analysis and you don't have to do any separate analysis (wow! too many 'analysis').

As for bolded part, whatever analysis one may do, it's derived from match itself, then how can watching match can't give you same info? It's logical, no?

Are you talking about live betting?

Any (live or pregame).

But in the case of your betting on parlays, you should have to spend time analyzing each team.

I have never bet on parlays, I just bet on teams I already know/follow.

Ok. Let's see if I am getting it right,

You are implying, a 10yr old will be merely watching the movie, and won't have much idea about anything else while an adult will be watching, as well as analyzing the movie simultaneously?

...and if that's correct interpretation, I wonder how that'd be translating to the sports betting though? Cos, you know, mostly adults gamble, and when they watch games, they would be analyzing the match simultaneously!?

Try the same situation I mentioned with predicting the result of a team playing football

Ask a 10 yr old to watch the game same as you. Then at HT, ask both to predict the FT result.

Do this for the whole season (let us say about 35 games in a season) on the same team.

Then, I can almost guarantee your FT predictions are better than the child's predictions.

(No need to bet, predicting is legal hehe).

I interpreted you correctly then, and I am saying same thing in op, you can predict well by merely watching the games (10yo girl won't be betting but an adult.. I hope).

[ruykeri]

There are many gamblers who do not watch sports regularly. But if they are interested in sports betting, then they can analyze the teams and place bets based on their analysis. But those who are already involved in sports and observe every sport do not need to analyze the teams separately before starting a new match. They know in advance which team is the favorite for the match and they can place bets based on the performance of the players in the team. Yes, if people watch sports regularly, then they do not need to analyze separately like I do.

I don't find people who bet on sports but don't watch games regularly. In fact, those who bet on sports bet on watching games regularly. They enjoy watching games together and besides, when they bet there, their excitement increases even more. But those who don't watch games regularly bet very rarely on sports betting. Maybe in big matches once or twice a year. If you watch games regularly, you automatically analyze which team is playing well. In that case, you don't have to analyze anything new. After that, everything depends on luck. Many times, even after watching games regularly, analyzing and betting from experience, the weak team wins and the strong team loses. That's why a lot depends on luck.