Does the many options in sports betting help increase win rate?

[GreatArkansas]

This topic is specifically for sports bettors as I want to get idea of how people use the many options now available in sports betting. Please if such things have been discussed in any topic before, someone should draw my attention to it so I can lock this one.

For those who have been betting on sportsbook for long, you would have realized that there have been rapid increase in the options one can bet on. Now we have options like over and under in both goals and corners, 2UP, 1UP, scoreline in certain duration, certain players to score with right or left leg or even with head. The options just keep increasing probably to help people win more. Even match builder is something that was not there in the past and I find those features interesting, but I don't know if they generally help people to win more or add to their woes.

I will like people to share their experience in terms of what they play now that help their gambling which was not there before.

For me, it will not help you to have a better chance to win, as you already mentioned: "options". So, it will just more on personal preference.
What I am thinking is they can also make people take more risks. I think simple bets are still easier to understand and control than match buildings with many conditions or some rocket sciences that most users will not use at all, they are just making it complex to other.
These kind of features for me is only useful if these bettors will find it useful or have a clear reason why they will use it.

[Agathamay]

I will like people to share their experience in terms of what they play now that help their gambling which was not there before.

Gambling is gambling regardless of any new features added and since the market is getting very challenging, these bookies are seriously also trying to get more ways to get people to keep gambling, making these features seem very easy to win but trust , gambling will always be gambling.

The option that interest me more is scoring first goal with leg which seems like a very easy pick but you'll be shocked that, there might not be a single goal in that very match or the goal will then be scored with head by nodding, that's how these options work but it's alway best to stick to what we know except we just want to try out new things without much expectations.

Yes the wider variety of betting options has definitely made sports betting more interesting, but I don't think it has made it easier to win consistently, like most of the markets, like player props, corners are designed to keep bettors engaged and encourage more combinations, it in no way helps the betters win rate increase. Just because you placed more bets doesn't mean your win rate will increase and ultimately the house wins in the long run

This is exactly what I mean because all those options are typically made available to attract the players and keep them playing with more options but doesn't give any winning advantage.

[Mr_Brilliant$]

Maybe it could if you understand how to use those options, they can help a little.. Those features like 2up, sometimes if your team can just score 2 straight goal, the game will then enter, instead of waiting for the complete whole match, it just gives you more flexibility option..

So it does not fully automatically increases your chances of winning.. But it does a little, If you don’t understand how they work, they can be confusing and even make you overcomplicate your bets.

[alegotardo]

For those who have been betting on sportsbook for long, you would have realized that there have been rapid increase in the options one can bet on. Now we have options like over and under in both goals and corners, 2UP, 1UP, scoreline in certain duration, certain players to score with right or left leg or even with head. The options just keep increasing probably to help people win more. Even match builder is something that was not there in the past and I find those features interesting, but I don't know if they generally help people to win more or add to their woes.

I do not think so, what I do believe is this some types of bets can be more easier than others for certain people.... if you consider that every type of sports betting requires a good amount of knowledge to be successful, then I think of this variety of betting markets within the same sport benefits us, because there are always people who are better at predicting goals, while others spend more time studying offsides or fouls committed.

What you ca not do is bet in several different things without know what you are doing. You need to study the game and make predictions that you genuinely believe are reasonable for the match that is going to take place. If you understand the teams and can accurately assess the pre match conditions, then this variety of betting options can be a good way to make more money, provided that you are smart and make informed decisions.

[uneng]

but I don't know if they generally help people to win more or add to their woes.

No, they don't help winning more often or more money. They just delude gamblers into believing the new trends of gambling industry can be more profitable, so they should focus on it. I remember when there was only dice game available in this market, so we went for it expecting profits. Then, no profit at all was achieved, but by there we already had another games such as crash, plinko, mines, blackjack and so on... Still, another deception for those seeking for profits. But then, we had sports betting, and this time it would work nicely, because skills mattered.

However, after all, more losses were accumulated. Doesn't matter how many options you have available, the results will be always the same after a while playing, and they aren't going to be interesting for you, as a gambler.

[ArabBTC]

I don’t think that winning ratio in sports betting can be influenced by many options because in betting no particular option is safe, the only point i feel is the reason why this casinos add a lot of options is just to ensure widespread participation, not every body might be good in predicting which team will win or lose a match but any gambler will easily predict yellow cards or corner kicks or over 0.5 etc depending on the options available in his sport book. More options make predictions easier because there are a lot of choices to pick from but that is not a guarantee for winning because gambling is unpredictable.

[Africolo]

This topic is specifically for sports bettors as I want to get idea of how people use the many options now available in sports betting. Please if such things have been discussed in any topic before, someone should draw my attention to it so I can lock this one.

For those who have been betting on sportsbook for long, you would have realized that there have been rapid increase in the options one can bet on. Now we have options like over and under in both goals and corners, 2UP, 1UP, scoreline in certain duration, certain players to score with right or left leg or even with head. The options just keep increasing probably to help people win more. Even match builder is something that was not there in the past and I find those features interesting, but I don't know if they generally help people to win more or add to their woes.

I will like people to share their experience in terms of what they play now that help their gambling which was not there before.

From my little experience as a gambler have come to realize that the bookmarkers and the gambling system is always created for them to benefit more than the bettor because even though they are making many options for the gambler to explore there are higher chances for them to loose as bettors, there's no better option that is provided that really favors the bettors more than the bookmarkers so it's assumed that they know exactly what they are doing because the more an individual looses the more they gain, so I don't think the many options provided increases win rate as gamblers are still loosing massively.

Although the options provided that wasn't there before is good but even at that the gambler still finds it difficult to win because gambling is a game of luck and don't really depend on the stats, odds and team performances we select for winning to come if there is no luck. Options keeps increasing so do loosing increases too because bettors will always loose at the end of the day.

[TedMosby]

This topic is specifically for sports bettors as I want to get idea of how people use the many options now available in sports betting. Please if such things have been discussed in any topic before, someone should draw my attention to it so I can lock this one.

For those who have been betting on sportsbook for long, you would have realized that there have been rapid increase in the options one can bet on. Now we have options like over and under in both goals and corners, 2UP, 1UP, scoreline in certain duration, certain players to score with right or left leg or even with head. The options just keep increasing probably to help people win more. Even match builder is something that was not there in the past and I find those features interesting, but I don't know if they generally help people to win more or add to their woes.

I will like people to share their experience in terms of what they play now that help their gambling which was not there before.

I think this topic has been discussed here before. This topic is almost similar to this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5583278.

More betting markets don't mean more opportunities to increase your win rate. It can go both ways, giving you more opportunities to win or lose. IMO, it mostly benefits the sportsbook by creating more opportunities for bettors to lose. More betting options could trigger impulsive betting. Apart from that, there is a chance you would bet on options you don't know well just because the odds look interesting.

Think of a sportsbook as a company, a company that make profit from the losses of bettors. By this logic, it means they won't add something that could help you win frequently. They just add something that can attract you to place bets, giving them a chance to make money from you. For me, it's better to stick to the more classic options like 1X2 and Over/Under.

[SFR10]

I will like people to share their experience in terms of what they play now that help their gambling which was not there before.

Given that I'm just a casual sports bettor with less than two years of experience, I can't answer this question, but regarding the one on the subject field, it does give the wrong impression that with more options, you could win more, but in reality, it's the other way around ^{[it decreases the win rate by confusing bettors (e.g., you wanted to go with totals, but at the very end, you changed your mind for something that doesn't yield the desired result)]}.

[Barikui1]

I will like people to share their experience in terms of what they play now that help their gambling which was not there before.

Talking about more gambling options in sports betting, if it's helpful? No it's not because when you have too much option to choose from, their is a higher chances that you may get confused easily and later choose the wrong one. Though it looks like it's helpful to bettors, but it's not, that's why gamblers are still not winning regularly or consistently after all this additions of betting options.

In my own opinion, I think that I have a greater chances of winning when I gamble only on home or away to win, or  double chancing any of the team, but if I start looking at more options, their are more chances of losing my bet, unlike when I gamble only on those three options, which are home or away to win or double chance.

[Livingleged]

As I read through many replies here, I got to understand that many bettors agree that bet winning solely depends on luck which is absolutely true. But having many options should increase your chances of winning in my opinion, let take the newly introduced 1up and 2up options as a case study.

Before the introduction of the 1up and 2up options you could place a bet on a particular team to win and they might be winning by 2goals and later end up losing or playing a draw. But with the option once the team you picked to win is winning by 2 goals or 1 goal depending  on if you played 2up or 1 up your bet will settle as won, and even if the game turned around later you’ll not have to worry about the final result.

There are many options that could increase your chance of winning, remember when we had option of 1x2 only it was difficult to win accumulated slip but with this new option you could accumulate several options and get a win easily.

[viljy]

In my opinion, a large number of different types of bets would rather create new ways for manipulation and match-fixing than increase the chances of bettors to win. There is also an aspect that, although the variety of bets provides ample opportunities for choice, it is also somewhat confusing for a person, because when there is too much choice, it hinders concentration. Although, in general, the development of bookmakers in this direction ("expanding the range") is natural, since the gambling industry is currently booming.

[Somegory]

Few comments are saying that these new implementation are good but they really are not, sportsbook will never add anything that will make gamblers and bettors benefit more, or make them win more.

All these are a way to make sure that people gamble with that little faith of winning in them, these options of betting on number of scores and others will make some people believe that it's going to be easy to win money but I don't believe so.

At the end of the day, more money goes to them, I guess people just don't understand how hard it is to predict on an upcoming event, I would rather run such business than been the player myself, anything has to do with prediction is lucrative business.

[Furious 7]

I will like people to share their experience in terms of what they play now that help their gambling which was not there before.

This is only as an option for us to bet more actually if we study further especially in 1 game we cannot parlay (must be single bet) for betting unless there may be a bet builder feature.

As for the increase in winnings or not it depends on The Gambler himself because we can take advantage of this but winning is certainly not easy even though there are many options that can be wagered.
I even only have 3 choices in betting in a match wich 1x2, BTTS or Over/Under. I rarely see others even though I make a parlay as an option but these 3 choices I always make the initial benchmark in the betting I do.

[Cryptmuster]

Everything you're talking about has been around for a very long time. Statistical betting, bet constructors it's all been around for years. And perhaps the only reason you haven't noticed it before is because you either haven't bet on it, or you've been playing at a casino with a more limited lineup, where statistic betting isn't as common. But at larger casinos, where the lineup is fully covered, statistic betting has been around for a very long time. I can't even remember going back to a time when it didn't exist.

[Frankolala]

Maybe it could if you understand how to use those options, they can help a little.. Those features like 2up, sometimes if your team can just score 2 straight goal, the game will then enter, instead of waiting for the complete whole match, it just gives you more flexibility option..

So it does not fully automatically increases your chances of winning.. But it does a little, If you don’t understand how they work, they can be confusing and even make you overcomplicate your bets.

I see it as the opposite. It increases your chance of losing because how will you know that a team will score two goals in the game before their opponents break the deadlock. It all boils down to luck but those options are good though, since you can use one to balance your loss from the other.

[X-ray]

Those options are making betting even much more confusing. It's because you can't sure what to bet when you have so many optiones at the same time. So it's pushing sport bettors to add some options into their parley.

Whe they're doing parlay with greater legs by adding those options in the same bet, it's increasing the risk to lose their money. The fact that less option in sportbetting will give you greater WR instead of putting as many legs as you can in your slip.

So those options being added to give various things to bet while it's also making bettors to feel dilemma with what they will choose. In my perspective, it's not help to increase your WR.

[The Founding Titan]

This topic is specifically for sports bettors as I want to get idea of how people use the many options now available in sports betting. Please if such things have been discussed in any topic before, someone should draw my attention to it so I can lock this one.

For those who have been betting on sportsbook for long, you would have realized that there have been rapid increase in the options one can bet on. Now we have options like over and under in both goals and corners, 2UP, 1UP, scoreline in certain duration, certain players to score with right or left leg or even with head. The options just keep increasing probably to help people win more. Even match builder is something that was not there in the past and I find those features interesting, but I don't know if they generally help people to win more or add to their woes.

I will like people to share their experience in terms of what they play now that help their gambling which was not there before.

I will say it's more of a honeytrap, they give you more options and you think that you have an even more higher chance of winning which will push you to gamble more and the more you gamble the more money they make from you, if it wasn't for their benefit they wouldn't include it, its human nature to want more options to pick from and they provide you with these options.
If you have enough luck on your side and you analysis and understand of that particular sport is good enough then you will probably benefit from those other options.

[Emjay24]

Casinos introduced this to mess with your instincts in order to make more money compared to when those options ain't there.

I don't believe this, it is a win win situation, some of these options created some safe heavens for gamblers like the 2UP, 1UP and the over/under goals, so the gambler doesn't have to ensure  a side wins before he gets profitable. The only constraints I see with it is that the  safer options comes with reduced odds, as compared with more risky ones. The safer options still holds no guarantees actually.

So with reduced odds from safer options, you make less money if you win and the risk is reduced to your own advantage.

[Mandoy]

This topic is specifically for sports bettors as I want to get idea of how people use the many options now available in sports betting. Please if such things have been discussed in any topic before, someone should draw my attention to it so I can lock this one.

For those who have been betting on sportsbook for long, you would have realized that there have been rapid increase in the options one can bet on. Now we have options like over and under in both goals and corners, 2UP, 1UP, scoreline in certain duration, certain players to score with right or left leg or even with head. The options just keep increasing probably to help people win more. Even match builder is something that was not there in the past and I find those features interesting, but I don't know if they generally help people to win more or add to their woes.

I will like people to share their experience in terms of what they play now that help their gambling which was not there before.

I will say it's more of a honeytrap, they give you more options and you think that you have an even more higher chance of winning which will push you to gamble more and the more you gamble the more money they make from you, if it wasn't for their benefit they wouldn't include it, its human nature to want more options to pick from and they provide you with these options.
If you have enough luck on your side and you analysis and understand of that particular sport is good enough then you will probably benefit from those other options.

I agree that most of the betting markets are being created just to get people more involved in betting and not to make a bettor more successful. More options doesn't necessarily mean more opportunities, just more ways to place bets. When you aren't knowledgeable about a particular market. Those additional options can simply cause incorrect choices. However. Niche bettors such as corners, cards, or player prop bettors may benefit as bookmakers may not price the niche markets as efficiently. Ultimately it is the discipline and good analysis that is more important than the number of betting options available.