Does Discipline Matter Compared to Prediction Accuracy?

[Cointxz]

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.

Yeah, it’s more on the risk management side rather than increasing winning potential of the bet.

Although reducing your risk is also considered as winning on gambling since our main goal here aside from profit is to have fun so achieving the entertainment while less loss is already a good result imho.

But technically, having discipline doesn’t mean you will win.

[TypoTonic]

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.

Yup, you can have 60% accuracy but if you aren't disciplined with your bets (e.g., chasing losses, not sticking to bankroll limit, etc.), then you won't be able to make the most out of it. It's so much better to work on our discipline instead, since we have more control over it compared to our prediction accuracy, and it will also help improve our gambling behavior.

When we talks about accuracy; this determines how much we stakes or bet in a given moment or how much bet within the nearest time frame.

I think this definition fits a lot more to bankroll management instead. Isn't accuracy supposed to be how often does your prediction turn out to be correct?

[Accardo]

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.

How good can someone get in predicting games? Discipline should be the number 1 priority more than anything else. Advancing to be a better game predictor could only affect disciplinary measures later on, due to the intense continuous failure attached to such a quest and the mental dissactisfaction the player could receive after multiple losses in the process. Discipline on the other flip won't do a thing, other than strengthening the player to do much better in what is right, which is staying responsible. Players have control over themselves more than the game does, or than they do to the games, it's best for the players do what is under their own control.

[Peanutswar]

When it comes in make a prediction most likely its on the sports betting is you must need to consider the game are they worth to place a wage or not because not all the time the odds are ideal to make a bet and the game is good because sometimes there's an unexpected changes on the rooster or the starter players and knew that if the top player are not in a good shape possible its not a good outcome of the game might probably table turns and ended up you lose the bet. This is how does the risk management.

[Yamifoud]

 Without discipline, even good predictions can be wasted efforts and resources.

You can't make good decisions if you aren't disciplined enough. So what you are saying is that gamblers have no discipline at all.

Why does it matter? Because this will be the foundation of our gambling journey, as we can't be just disciplined later when we are risking right now. If that is our practice, there's no way we can become (at least) successful in gambling. It is like creating a disaster.

It is either we go for better or not; it is our choice. But I am supposed to believe that we have the same goal in gambling, and that is to trust ourselves and enjoy it.

[Gozie51]

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.

I don't know what control discipline also has on emotion because I have seen good prediction gamblers who still regret for taking wrong bet after giving someone his suppose prediction. He bet another thing while his own prediction was successful. It happens with gambling often times that fear and emotional indiscipline becomes what changes the direction of well analysed bet. If a discipline gambler can as well control his emotion and stay focus on his good prediction then that is fine but if you are a good predictor and you have no emotional balance to believe yourself, you keep betting in regret.

[shinratensei_]

Discipline or prediction accuracy, it's all matter. You will never able consistently winning by missing one of those factors. So i don't think we should exclude one of them.
Even the most disciplined person can go on a tilt due to low accuracy prediction. Just don’t even bother thinking missing one of them will work out.

It's also the main reason why casino business keep stay alive. It's caused by many people keep abandon the fact all variable matters.

[YOSHIE]

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.

My experience in the world of gambling and when carrying out gambling activities, I can conclude that discipline prioritizes prediction accuracy, I'm not saying prediction accuracy is good, it's actually better. But prioritize discipline in gambling, because we are gambling long term, not just to achieve momentary wins and profits.

In my opinion, in gambling activities, accuracy is not always consistent to produce 100% predictions, it could be said that without discipline, even accurate predictions can be destroyed in a matter of seconds due to one fatal error.
For this reason, discipline in risk management, managing emotions, managing finances, plans and so on in carrying out gambling activities is the key to success in every type of bet we want to play.

[Hardyrobust]

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.

Prediction accuracy and luck matters a lot in winning because without this two especially luck winning in gambling won't be there. Discipline is only needed in terms of gambling responsibly because without discipline a gambler may end up in loses that they never imagined.However as much as a gambler needs to be disciplined in not to end making a mess of himself while gambling, prediction accuracy is also important too. I believe this two things are important for success in gambling.

[MainIbem]

Although it doesn't guarantee constant winning but it's very important because it would help a gambler avoid spending recklessly or do things that would attract addiction, a gambler that's very disciplined understand that the house edge supercedes and would gamble with what he can afford to lose, also control their emotions when one losses so as to avoid chasing loses, it pays to be a disciplined gambler

[Fortify]

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.

One without the other can still lead to a positive return, but you should always be seeking to maximize your strategy, whatever it is. You strategy might be volume, so as long as you're tracking at a positive rate then this can still work, or your strategy might be refinement and going higher on a small amount of bets that meet a much stricter requirement. Neither is wrong if you're able to tease a profit out of it, but you must track it adequately and not just use a hunch that you're not losing money over the long term.

[hyudien]

Simply put, discipline is not enough if your prediction accuracy is poor, indeed in the short term it is useful because your losses can be said to be minimal, but in the long run slowly those losses may end up the same as bettors who have good prediction accuracy without discipline, so if we ask which one is more important, the answer is that both are equally important.
With learning and experience, we can develop both. That is why balance is so important in betting.

[AbuBhakar]

Simply put, discipline is not enough if your prediction accuracy is poor, indeed in the short term it is useful because your losses can be said to be minimal, but in the long run slowly those losses may end up the same as bettors who have good prediction accuracy without discipline, so if we ask which one is more important, the answer is that both are equally important.
With learning and experience, we can develop both. That is why balance is so important in betting.

This is really the right thing. If you don't correct your predictions in the game, you will often lose, even if you have a lot of self-discipline, then your predictions will be wrong, and in the end, the capital you use will be used up. So for me, they are equally important that you have, it's not just discipline, it's hard to win when that happens. And if you are good at prediction, but you don't know discipline, you will be exhausted for a long time with your wrong bets.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

Let's say a bettor has a good strategy in making possible prediction and most of his prediction are always accurate, if combined with discipline, it means that the bettor must only wait for games that validates his strategy before he selects the game, otherwise, if he just go fandom, it will cause him have less successful games, meaning that his accuracy has dropped.

[Kasabus]

Simply put, discipline is not enough if your prediction accuracy is poor,...

The OP already mentioned that people with accurate predictions do exist, so that part isn’t really the question anymore.

The real question is whether they have the discipline to actually turn that into long-term success in sports betting. Discipline is the hard part. Real winners think long term. It’s not like starting fresh every day and chasing results. They go through losing streaks and winning streaks, and what matters is that, overall, they stay in profit.

[Agbe]

Learning betting strategies and how to predict accurately without being disciplined will yield no positive results, this is the reason why a lot of people make profit and still end up losing in the long run because they are not disciplined enough to keep their betting activities in check. One of the problems that comes with not being disciplined as a gambler is the high chance of becoming addicted to it as time geos on.

[danherbias07]

I agree with that. Sometimes it's the chasing of losses that gets us out of control, and that's when we mostly make mistakes.

I don't blame them because I had been in that position when I chased my losses and lost more in the process. It's a bad mental habit, and it can be frustrating to end the day with a loss, which is why we try again. But the quality of the prediction gets lower because the purpose was different. The first bet was to win so badly, the next bets became different, and it's all because we are trying too hard to get the money back so, we end up not analyzing it anymore.

[Uhwuchukwu53]

Gamblers achieve more when they are discipline than been reckless, because once a gambler lack discipline it will be hard to control emotions while staking. Discipline play a very good role it's a tool for gambling management because what reduces addiction is discipline anyone who gamble and lack's discipline will always have some issue financially because it will be hard to control it's gambling lifestyle. But majorly wining is not tired to discipline it's only tool to avoid excessive losses, the perimeter of wining for me is centered on luck even if some proficiency may help luck play vital role even more than discipline.

[AmaGold70]

No gambler can be 100 percent accurate all the time in prediction, and a gambler who is disciplined with considerable level of accuracy at least 90 percent accuracy should be considered a good gambler. In gambling discipline plays a major role, infact discipline is the key to successful gambling. Some disciplined gamblers sticks to particular odds, and staking power, some also have their staking limits.I have someone, each time he wants to play sports betting, he doesn't play more than 2 odds no matter how enticing the week's games might look like. He sticks to this particular odds and a particular staking power. Someone without discipline lacks gambling coordination and records more losses than a disciplined gambler.

[Sammye3]

Of course, discipline is very important when it comes to sports betting over prediction accuracy, if there is anything like that. I believe nobody has a perfect prediction record but only near accurate predictions over others which still remains same as losses for others too.

But over every predictions, discipline is an asset because without one,  every gambler would keep going round in circles with no tangible profits after a betting day even after multiple winnings because it just keeps going back into the gamefor the purpose of making more profits.