Which of these modern sports is actually the easiest to predict?

[davis196]

Someone who grew up watching basketball every day, for example will naturally find NBA games much easier to understand and predict than football and someone who has followed tennis for years might also say the same about tennis.

The fact that you are familiar with a particular sport doesn't necessarily mean that you are good at predicting the outcomes of games, which are within that sport. I also grew up with football and football is my favorite sport, but I've failed multiple times at predicting football match outcomes. The outcome is easier to predict, when there are less variables, which makes me think, that the sports, where the teams(or athletes) cannot end in a draw should be easier to predict in comparison to football, where the games could end in a draw. I might be wrong about this. I would pick tennis, but tennis is very competitive. Most tennis players in the Top 100 are pretty much at the same level in terms of skills.

[BitBakerr1]

Football is the easiest for me to predict, the reason why I pick football is because I have been following football for a very long time, and it is the only sport that I have wider and good knowledge about.
Since I started gambling, football is the sports I have gambled more on.

Those that have been following basketball for long will see it as the easiest for them to predict.
So basically people bet on the sport they have more interest on however, there are some people that usually bet on the sport they don’t have interest on and somehow they usually win. I don’t know how they do it, but I have a friend that does same thing and it is working well for him.

[sotelorene]

For those who have followed different sports over the years. Out of football, tennis, NBA, Swimming, golf, horse racing, wrestling, Car Racing, Hockey and other modern sports, which one do you personally find easiest to predict and do you think that is because the sport is actually more predictable or it is simply because you understand it much better!!!

For me it's not a matter of which one is the easiest to bet on, but sports that are easy to understand game systems including football, volleyball, tennis, basketball, badminton and running races. I occasionally bet on all of those branches but most often only football, volleyball and badminton. Incidentally, the three sports where I live are like daily sports that are often played so the system is easy to understand so that when I gamble it is not difficult to understand how to bet.

Those games are not hard or difficult I mean you can predict with ease but the difficult thing is that, is your prediction correct? And again if you are not familiar with a game or you have not played it before some options or all the options will look strange to you because you don't know them but if you are a gambler it won't take you time to understand those options. I play sports betting and I think it's more cool for me than any other bet.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

My obvious choice is football, because I have followed football from my childhood days

For those who have followed different sports over the years. Out of football, tennis, NBA, Swimming, golf, horse racing, wrestling, Car Racing, Hockey and other modern sports, which one do you personally find easiest to predict and do you think that is because the sport is actually more predictable or it is simply because you understand it much better!!!

If your choice is football simply because you have been following up with it since childhood, then the answer to your questions is that every sport game is easy to predict depending on how dedicated you are in watching that sport and following up with every news updates of that sport. If you are a lover of hockey, tennis, horse racing and soccer, and you always follow up on all of them at once, you will find it very easy to predict the game but any sport game that you don't pay attention to and you don't watch the fixtures, you won't find it very easy to predict.

I find it more easy and comfortable to predict soccer game because I am more dedicated to watching a lot of soccer match but other sports games that I don't follow up so often, I hardly bet on them because it requires me much time to go over the previous datas and combine with recent data before I can make informed prediction unlike soccer where I have a lot of information at the tip of my fingers, but there's no sport that is not easy to predict if you always watch the games.

[Jubilee58]

Every sports has teams or individuals that do well in those profession or games, and in prediction we most times give advantage to teams, and individuals that are performing well, but nevertheless the team or individuals with the best performance doe not emerge victorious all the time, so when we talk about sports that is easy to predict, I don't think any sports is easy to predict because every gambler faces thesame fate either you win or you loose irrespective of the type of sports you are betting on.

Am majorly into soccer gambling, and predicting correctly is difficult most times, and occasionally I also gamble on basketball, and play few slot games, and non of these is so easy to win, so I also believe the same thing is applicable to other games.

[Somegory]

OP your reason of choosing football is because you have always grown to watch and love it, I am talling you right now that it is the same with many people in the world.

Football is a game that many loved but there are some who don't like it, they have weird tastes of sports like Volley and long tennis, when it comes to placing bets they will also rather prefer to bet on these games.

Football is simplest of them all to you, someone can predict basketball right, but everything has something to do with what we are all used to, it's why every sports have fan base.

[abel1337]

It would be esports for me, dota 2 to be exact. I play these games regularly and I'm updated on the leagues that pros are playing so I can analyze and bet on teams on major tournaments. Teams are casually changing players on every TI so I have bias on position roles of players. I usually go for known players rather than known teams as it is more reliable base on my experience.

For the majority of the sports, I think the more you know about it is the more you can predict the outcome of the game. Single player game would be easier to bet I guess, since you will only track a single person performance from his/her past games.

[Frankolala]

It all depends on your area of interest as a kid growing up. I love football because I grew up playing football with the children in my neighborhood. It's easy to get a ball and a little space to start the game. I also love basketball because I do play it in my secondary school but getting a basketball court isn't that easy in my neighborhood compared to how easy you can see a free space and start playing football. I bet on football matches.

I think, in my opinion, that's more about the betting experience rather than just growing up playing a sport. Football is a popular sport and statistics are readily available. But its low scoring nature can also means that the result of a game is unpredictable as one goal can turn the tide of the game. Basketball typically scores more and can give you more data to work with but injuries. Rotation and form can be unexpected. The most straightforward sport to forecast would be the one in which I have the most knowledge about the teams, players and statistics involved.

You have said it all mate, will you go bet on a game you don't have much knowledge on. To me, I have almost 75% experience in football and that has made me to love betting on football. It isn't all about betting experience because gambling isn't a skill neither a business that you more you are gambling, the more you become lucky. Only luck can make you win your bet and not experience.

[Agbamoni]

For those who have followed different sports over the years. Out of football, tennis, NBA, Swimming, golf, horse racing, wrestling, Car Racing, Hockey and other modern sports, which one do you personally find easiest to predict and do you think that is because the sport is actually more predictable or it is simply because you understand it much better!!!

Football is easier for me to predict. Well, if you ask some so-called professional predictors, they would say the NBA. In the NBA, it is easy to predict who will win when a stronger team faces a weaker opponent, while in football such a scenario is still unpredictable.

I don’t think it has anything to do with physical seeing or participating in the sport; it's just about something of interest. Some people just watch it on TV, got attached to it, and from their following up on the sport in every season and keeping to details can get you familiar with that sport.

The brain gets familiarized with what the eyes see frequently. It also has to do with physical participation. In this side of the country, we may not go to watch in a stadium, but we watch on TV, and sure we do play football in the streets and on the field in our respective area. The more we participate in that sport, the more we can easily predict them. You may not understand it because maybe you dont participate in sports that much.

[Saltysugar99]

OP you are right. A person who likes or watches that sports regularly and has an attraction towards it. And that is why he has a lot of ideas about that particular game. Where they can make predictions based on which player of a team is playing well and even on which team is playing well overall. And they themselves feel a lot of joy when they make such predictions. But in the case of betting, does not create excitement in all games. In some games, direct betting is seen offline. Especially in horse racing, people go directly to the gallery and bet, which we have seen in movies. On the other hand, in football, since the type of team and the condition of the players, the type of strategy the manager uses to manage the match, all these things can lead to a win or loss in the match. That is why it is easy for those who have been watching and enjoying football for a long time to do analysis. That is why they can predict some matches correctly. And I personally enjoy football matches more. And I have been betting on sports for several months now. And because I spend a lot of time watching football, I can make accurate predictions in some cases. So I am interested in betting on this particular game.

[Localhostspeed]

Someone who grew up watching basketball every day, for example will naturally find NBA games much easier to understand and predict than football and someone who has followed tennis for years might also say the same about tennis.

For those who have followed different sports over the years. Out of football, tennis, NBA, Swimming, golf, horse racing, wrestling, Car Racing, Hockey and other modern sports, which one do you personally find easiest to predict and do you think that is because the sport is actually more predictable or it is simply because you understand it much better!!!

One of the challenges why Nigerians don't like to predict NBA are not played during the regular time in Nigeria. NBA and MLS are played during the night when most will be sleeping, sometimes it's not like they don't like to predict about the game, they do but they don't want to predict what they can't watch but there are gambling demons that stay wake in the night, they watch the games played until it's their bed time before they finally sleep.

I like football actually, it's cool and more fun than any other sport games, one of the active games and predictions sponsors are played because of Leagues of football. There are some other games but they are not as popular like other games. Though, the way casino and bookmakers played with games is what determines your outcome, there are days you see gamblers don't make football predictions, they prefer to do sport hockey for that day because of the lower line, football might be hard. This makes football very hard to win.

[SuperBitMan]

It all depends on your area of interest as a kid growing up. I love football because I grew up playing football with the children in my neighborhood. It's easy to get a ball and a little space to start the game. I also love basketball because I do play it in my secondary school but getting a basketball court isn't that easy in my neighborhood compared to how easy you can see a free space and start playing football. I bet on football matches.

I think, in my opinion, that's more about the betting experience rather than just growing up playing a sport. Football is a popular sport and statistics are readily available. But its low scoring nature can also means that the result of a game is unpredictable as one goal can turn the tide of the game. Basketball typically scores more and can give you more data to work with but injuries. Rotation and form can be unexpected. The most straightforward sport to forecast would be the one in which I have the most knowledge about the teams, players and statistics involved.

You have said it all mate, will you go bet on a game you don't have much knowledge on. To me, I have almost 75% experience in football and that has made me to love betting on football. It isn't all about betting experience because gambling isn't a skill neither a business that you more you are gambling, the more you become lucky. Only luck can make you win your bet and not experience.

You are actually correct.
People should learn to bet on the sport they have more interest in. One of the reasons why people are losing in gambling is because they sometimes bet on sports they know nothing about.
If I can be losing money when I’m betting on the sport I have more knowledge about, what will happen if I bet on sports I don’t have knowledge about, that will be a big disaster.
Someone was telling me that, betting on horse race is highly profitable and that he wins money regularly betting on horse race, I told him I have zero knowledge on horse race, but he said I don’t need to have knowledge to win money in horse racing. If I go with his advice I will probably lose huge money at the end of the day.

[Emitdama]

Someone who grew up watching basketball every day, for example will naturally find NBA games much easier to understand and predict than football and someone who has followed tennis for years might also say the same about tennis.

For those who have followed different sports over the years. Out of football, tennis, NBA, Swimming, golf, horse racing, wrestling, Car Racing, Hockey and other modern sports, which one do you personally find easiest to predict and do you think that is because the sport is actually more predictable or it is simply because you understand it much better!!!

Understanding a sport may not help you to predict it in my opinion but closely following a team or player for years may help you to predict. I mean to say that understanding a sport is different and understanding the skills and capability of a team or player is different. Basically, the first step of sportsbetting could be understanding a sport if you decide not to depend on a signal provider but start evaluating the player alone will help you to predict the results accurately. For a team sport, both individual player's skill and as a team are very important to have better predictions.

Overall sportsbetting would be profitable when you are developing your skills on players capability on contributing to win. This cannot be possible over night but closely following every sport, high accurate prediction is possible. Only when you are loving a sport, you may start watching it closely. So, personal preference is the base.

[bakasabo]

For me there is no sport that is easier to predict, but there are sport that you can find much more information and analytics, than in other sports. Football should be the king of sport that has too much information on and about everything, that might help someone to decrease chances of losing. When there are so many people who look and analyze every step player make, every move player make, there are army of stuff who look after player and team, all that I think give enought information to analyze, to increase chances to win.

[bangjoe]

It's not really about easiest, it's about the one you identify with since what appears natural to you would definitely be very easy for you to predict. I'll go with football since I play and it's easier to understand and predict. I also have a friend who's a basketballer and has zero interests in football, he bets steadily on basketball games as well, so it's more about what is appealing to us.

More precisely the sport that you recognize and understand, like is not enough to understand a match, there are people who only curiously like the match but do not understand how management, strategy, player ability, and many others that are not easy to learn.
I have a friend who likes to watch football, but he can't read and doesn't know the whole gamut of players on his favorite team, even in other types of sports, it's the same thing.

The fact is not that simple in terms of guessing who can win or lose, not even a few people who already understand the type of sport when guessing they can be wrong,but people who have knowledge and understand every player and strategy in a type of sport have a much better probability of winning than those who only know outside of it.

[free-bit.co.in]

Football is the easiest for me to predict, the reason why I pick football is because I have been following football for a very long time, and it is the only sport that I have wider and good knowledge about.
Since I started gambling, football is the sports I have gambled more on.

Yes, it may be easy for you to predict those game you know better. But you will not be able to profit from it in regular basis although those are easy for you, . In fact, bookmaker odd are much stronger benchmark than simple tipster or our personal prediction. Otherwise we could all find and bet on sport and earn huge money regularly.

Another thing is, let's say because my knowledge is very good on football I thought the chance of a football team winning was 80%. But when I went to bookmaker and saw that they had given 1.01 odds. So, there is no profit in betting on those game although my knowledge is better. In my opinion, knowledge about sport can give us starting advantage, but it is not very useful in long run

[Cossyblack]

Someone was telling me that, betting on horse race is highly profitable and that he wins money regularly betting on horse race, I told him I have zero knowledge on horse race, but he said I don’t need to have knowledge to win money in horse racing. If I go with his advice I will probably lose huge money at the end of the day.

Gambling is fun so it wouldn't take you much time to learn how to bet on horses races. Nobody was born with the knowledge of gambling,we all started somewhere to learn,and the more consistent we engage on it,our knowledge of if gradually increased.
So even as you currently don't have knowledge about horses,if you are consistent on it for a week or two, I think you will become familiar with how it is been played. But mind you, since you are still new to horse racing,you might probably lose some money. So I will advise that you gamble with what you can afford to lose so that it doesn't disorganized your finance.

[Taricoins]

There’s no one size fits all answer to this question OP, Because the answer depends on individual preferences. Which game is the easiest to predict is obviously dependent on the individual’s knowledge and insight in that particular sport or game. Someone who enjoys soccer and has an in depth knowledge on it would certainly claim soccer is way more easier to predict, same goes for someone who loves and enjoys basketball ball, baseball and other sports.

I don't think it all fits into this analogy, I love soccer alot but having lots of knowledge on both soccer and the NBA and occasionally American Football, I would say the easiest sport to predict between them is Basketball, the good thing about Basketball is the effect of luck in the game, unlike soccer with low scoring matches where 1 lucky goal could change the tide, Basketball often have over 200 points between the two teams in a single match, that streamlines the luck effect, and another reason is the presence of a star play like Giannis can change the game.

But still honorable mention has to be soccer because of the variety of options given when placing the bet

[Marykeller]

The thing is that each of us makes good predictions based on the sports we are familiar with. Although it's not actually easy to make those predictions correct all the time.

For me as an example, I can't go on to bet on sports I hardly watch. If I do that, it's wrong predictions not a single win will I have. To avoid such, I would prefer to bet on sports I have knowledge of and my interests are in. Like, football and basketball, they are the sports I can make good predictions on, even though my wins are few compared to my numerous losses

[Stepstowealth]

or it is simply because you understand it much better!!!

It is really determined more by your understanding not just the sport itself because there are people who would follow the opinion of another person to bet on a sport that they think is easy and still end up losing money. Understanding of the sport plays a huge role, and since everyone cannot understand everything the same way, we will all not be able to pick one sport as the easiest because we all understand it, our choices will al be different and random because our understanding varies.

But still honorable mention has to be soccer because of the variety of options given when placing the bet

Is the variety of options not making it more difficult to pick one? I feel the sport with fewer options can make for a good sport to bet. Just my thinking.