Does Discipline Matter Compared to Prediction Accuracy?

[Patikno]

Discipline surely controls how you bet, while accuracy only affects what you bet on. Without discipline, even good predictions can be wasted efforts and resources.

Financial discipline, or discipline in controlling emotions in gambling, is very important to implement, especially for gamblers who want luck (in every session). Furthermore, discipline in managing time in gambling is equally important, and I believe that time discipline can affect a person playing style. This means that if someone can't manage their time well in gambling, they likely won't be able to exercise discipline in other areas either. Therefore, I think everyone needs to understand the importance of discipline in controlling these various factors, especially in gambling. By this way, you will become a responsible gambler, and won't experience gambling problems, whether addiction or irresponsible gambling.

[mirakal]

By this way, you will become a responsible gambler, and won't experience gambling problems, whether addiction or irresponsible gambling.

You can still be a responsible gambler and yet not be winning, and I think that’s what the OP is really pointing out. As gamblers, we need discipline for our prediction accuracy to actually matter.

For example, in sports betting, bankroll management is key. Your wager should always be based on a fixed percentage per stake, around 5% at most. If you stick to that with discipline and stay consistent with your predictions, you give yourself a real chance to be profitable in the long run, even if that goes against the experience of many gamblers.

[Beparanf]

Discipline surely controls how you bet, while accuracy only affects what you bet on. Without discipline, even good predictions can be wasted efforts and resources.

Both are good and should be combined to each other since even with good discipline while you have a very bad accuracy you will still lose a lot in the long run due to your frequent loss that accumulated over time.

Discipline is good to become consistent in what you are doing but that doesn’t improve your winning percentage. Your accuracy dictates your profitability which you should be disciplined to become consistent on your output.

[adultcrypto]

Both are two important skills needed to be successful in gambling. Through discipline you will be able to make rules and follow them both in your prediction, execution and bankroll management. If you are good in prediction but lacks discipline,  you will fail and if you are disciplined but terrible in prediction, the same fate awaits you. This shows that succeeding in gambling requires both aspect to be present and properly harnessed.

[GiftedMAN]

Both are two important skills needed to be successful in gambling. Through discipline you will be able to make rules and follow them both in your prediction, execution and bankroll management. If you are good in prediction but lacks discipline,  you will fail and if you are disciplined but terrible in prediction, the same fate awaits you. This shows that succeeding in gambling requires both aspect to be present and properly harnessed.

In addition if you are good in prediction but lacks the discipline to stop gambling when you are not getting it right it will affect your financial life this is because discipline does not only help you in difficult times it also helps you to know when you are doing when you should stop doing, discipline and good predictions must be applied to become successful in gambling if one of this goes missing in gambling then it becomes a problem to the gambler to succeed.

[Darker45]

I'm a little bit confused what you're trying to say. If you're focused on "prediction accuracy", doesn't that require discipline? And if you're "fairly good at predicting matches", why would you end up losing?

What do you mean by discipline, by the way? Are you referring to bankroll management? Discipline in that sense doesn't make you win bets. It doesn't give you a good win rate. What gives you more wins than loses is "prediction accuracy". And if your predictions are becoming highly accurate, the bigger you stake, the better.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

Lately it seems like a whole lot of gamblers just focus their energy on prediction accuracy!! More about getting the right games, right odds or even the possible outcomes. But if you take a good look at the positive feedbacks from those who have a good win rate, you will realize that discipline plays a much bigger role in the long run. Because you can be fairly good at predicting matches, yet still lose money if you overstake, chase losses, ignore limits or decide to gullibly bet emotionally. But somehow someone with very average prediction skills but have a strong discipline normally survives much longer in the system.

Discipline surely controls how you bet, while accuracy only affects what you bet on. Without discipline, even good predictions can be wasted efforts and resources.

Well, I am actually a bit confused and finding it hard to relate discipline to betting, by discipline, I want believe you mean staying consistent to an amount of money that a gambler bets on a game per time which should not be a high amount of money but low or at most; average right?

If this is exactly what you meant, I did honestly say that I don't see how this compares to prediction accuracy.
What you and I need to win out bets respectively is prediction accuracy and not discipline, anybody that is well talented on predicting match outcome accurately can win matches anyhow, the only discipline they will be needing here is only to stick to the strategy that they are using that is working for them..
If you are a very disciplined person naturally and yet, you can accurately predict match outcomes accurately, you will still lose your money, it's as simple as ABC.

[TheUltraElite]

If your prediction is correct, how does the discipline in betting matter?

Conversely if your are disciplined bettor, and place a wrong prediction based bet, you will invariably lose that wager.

Prediction accuracy is something we cannot measure from before hand. We make predictions on games based on a lot of factors, so you would have to see the real outcomes of those games and see how accurately you are able to predict before you start betting. One can do that before actually jumping into the money.

[Findingnemo]

If you don't win or the win percentage is too low then what is the point of discipline with your staked amount? There has to be balance in it and strict bankroll management is kind of a mandatory thing and then the prediction accuracy or whatever things come in also important if you want to be in net profitable.

But seriously stop treating gambling as investing, you will have less chance of making it possible.

[ralle14]

It's always the greed that sucks in most gamblers since it's easy to get fixated on the big potential winnings, but they forget that it takes time and patience to get there, unless you also have crazy luck on your side.

Still, prediction accuracy matters because you can't go below average most of the time, and that discipline won't be much of help when you always find yourself on the losing end. Having that discipline might help you stall for time, but it might be all for nothing when you can't improve in the other department.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

If you don't win or the win percentage is too low then what is the point of discipline with your staked amount? There has to be balance in it and strict bankroll management is kind of a mandatory thing and then the prediction accuracy or whatever things come in also important if you want to be in net profitable.

But seriously stop treating gambling as investing, you will have less chance of making it possible.

Exactly the point bud, when I come across topics like this, it does nothing else but make me wonder how serious alot of us out there take and treat gambling knowing fully well that no matter how talented we are with this whole accuracy thing, there is still no guarantee of always winning from sports betting or any other gambling related games in the casinos we choose to play on.

Treating gambling as a business or an investment is something that has eaten deep into the life of many people out there and it's absolutely scary, a society where people don't want to work, make money and invest in building proper businesses or other opportunities entells a failing and falling society.
Gambling and it's related games including sports betting is something we should be engaging simply to have fun and not something to even start talking about being disciplined, the only discipline I know in gambling is being disciplined in gambling responsibly.

[CryptoYar]

Your focus on discipline as most important lesson for long run success in betting and guessing skill could not explain more than 20% of gain of bettor. You are right on point that accuracy is like engine and discipline is steering wheel because without it even greatest guessers will crash because they have habit of either betting too much or chasing losses too much, so nowadays many sportsbooks even better models will sooner or later start losing many times in row, however, disciplined player will get through hard times as they look at betting as business and handle it with great discipline in their money handling so that they are not ahead of House Advantage in betting situation.

[Findingnemo]

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Treating gambling as a business or an investment is something that has eaten deep into the life of many people out there and it's absolutely scary, a society where people don't want to work, make money and invest in building proper businesses or other opportunities entells a failing and falling society.
Gambling and it's related games including sports betting is something we should be engaging simply to have fun and not something to even start talking about being disciplined, the only discipline I know in gambling is being disciplined in gambling responsibly.

People often confuse their initial big wins so they feel they can keep doing it forever and don't need to work and get rich easier. You can make big money from gambling and you can even change your life but it doesn't happen with everyone who chose to gamble so what if you end up on the wrong side.

So never pick gambling as your main source of income, you should treat as fun and can even be strategical to make some money but keep something else that gives you regular income even if it is lesser.

[jcojci]

Discipline matter but prediction is also needed to pick the choice. We can't just using discipline without learning analysis. We can predicts the team that may wins using analysis. Discipline makes us to stays on track and not just bet follows our feelings or randomly. We collect and gather the data and use it in our analysis till we find the right team that we choose.

Predictions without discipline may not works so we need both. Discipline makes us to bet on same amounts and will not betting excessively.

[Orpichukwu]

Discipline surely controls how you bet, while accuracy only affects what you bet on. Without discipline, even good predictions can be wasted efforts and resources.

Your focus on prediction can only help in picking out games which you consider to be worthy of your bet, and you have more confidence in betting on them than any other game, but that skill can't guarantee winning; it only gives you a better chance than someone who is picking randomly, which is why if you don't have self-control, you lose more, but if you have self-control, then you limit your staking amount and know when to stop no matter how the game outcome is turning out to be.

[Anayochukwu]

Both are two important skills needed to be successful in gambling. Through discipline you will be able to make rules and follow them both in your prediction, execution and bankroll management. If you are good in prediction but lacks discipline,  you will fail and if you are disciplined but terrible in prediction, the same fate awaits you. This shows that succeeding in gambling requires both aspect to be present and properly harnessed.

In addition if you are good in prediction but lacks the discipline to stop gambling when you are not getting it right it will affect your financial life this is because discipline does not only help you in difficult times it also helps you to know when you are doing when you should stop doing, discipline and good predictions must be applied to become successful in gambling if one of this goes missing in gambling then it becomes a problem to the gambler to succeed.

They are all important in gambling because lack of discipline can easily make a gambler to go extra mile. These are the things we don't need to over look when gambling because without them a gambler would never in any way get it right, especially when you are losing it is only when you have the discipline and self control that you would be able to stop and take a break. So no matter how accurate prediction you have you still need to know that gambling depends on luck.

[coinrifft]

Discipline surely controls how you bet, while accuracy only affects what you bet on. Without discipline, even good predictions can be wasted efforts and resources.

And that's why you will heard most gamblers advice is to have self-control. Which means you need to have discipline as it is very important as it:

- Prevent chasing losses - most of have this kind of mindset. But if we have the mental discipline to stop and not try to win back our money and say that there are tomorrow, then it can prevent more losses.

- Of course with discipline, we don't bet based on our emotions. But we bet base on what we see the games or what our analysis says so.

- And it terms of bankroll, we set rules that we won't risk the entirety of our money in one sitting and not go YOLO or all-in.

[ZeroVinsonN]

Lately it seems like a whole lot of gamblers just focus their energy on prediction accuracy!! More about getting the right games, right odds or even the possible outcomes. But if you take a good look at the positive feedbacks from those who have a good win rate, you will realize that discipline plays a much bigger role in the long run. Because you can be fairly good at predicting matches, yet still lose money if you overstake, chase losses, ignore limits or decide to gullibly bet emotionally. But somehow someone with very average prediction skills but have a strong discipline normally survives much longer in the system.

Discipline surely controls how you bet, while accuracy only affects what you bet on. Without discipline, even good predictions can be wasted efforts and resources.

Discipline and gambling do not align very well in the same sentence in my opinion. This because every gambler loves to win and most of these sport bettors try to do their best and win as many bets as they can yet as you say they lose more than win in most cases. For me this has not a lot to do with discipline rather than no one can predict outside factors in sport betting which are massive nowadays, for me the main one that bring these surprise results every single day are the referees, I know I have said it many other times yet I cannot emphasize how important a referee is in a soccer game, they have full power, no one says a thing to them and these surprise results keep coming. So no matter how disciplined you may be you cannot outperform the referees and cannot make it a reality to win more than you lose.

I disagree with you, discipline will always play a role as long as a person wants to be disciplined, prediction accuracy is good but most times it is carried by lucky so regardless of your skills your prediction might not always be correct, you even mentioned how referees ultimately determine the outcome of a game so that your skills become next to ineffective but that's where you being disciplined comes in, you can control how much you gamble, set limitations to prevent you from over gambling, without discipline you will just end up continuously gambling without control.

[Yablee0]

Discipline surely controls how you bet, while accuracy only affects what you bet on. Without discipline, even good predictions can be wasted efforts and resources.

We all need discipline in gambling because it play a  lot of vital role in our daily gambling life, gamble is one game that can quickly take over your emotions especially when you aren't doing well possibly having multiple losing streak, at this point in gambling you become very aggressive and open to whatever negative decision that comes accross your mind and at this point only core discipline can see you through  and keep you safe.

However, any gambler operating without discipline is actually open and  totally exposed to more risk of getting addiction, and till discipline in all aspects is being properly observed and applied in our gambling games it will continue hitting us hard till we stand right and do the needful.

[cryptoaddictchie]

Lately it seems like a whole lot of gamblers just focus their energy on prediction accuracy!! More about getting the right games, right odds or even the possible outcomes. But if you take a good look at the positive feedbacks from those who have a good win rate, you will realize that discipline plays a much bigger role in the long run. Because you can be fairly good at predicting matches, yet still lose money if you overstake, chase losses, ignore limits or decide to gullibly bet emotionally. But somehow someone with very average prediction skills but have a strong discipline normally survives much longer in the system.

Discipline surely controls how you bet, while accuracy only affects what you bet on. Without discipline, even good predictions can be wasted efforts and resources.

That’s a solid point OP because discipline is what protects your bankroll when things go sideways. You can be good at predicting games, but without proper staking and emotional control, those good reads won’t mean much. In the long run, discipline keeps you alive in the game far more than raw accuracy ever will.