Fixed Odds Sports Betting

Statistical Forecasting and Risk Management

Author: Joseph Buchdahl

Few people manage to make money from gambling; fewer still make a living from it. Written for hardened and novice sports bettors alike, Joseph Buchdahl's Fixed Odds Sports Betting examines, through various numerical techniques, how fixed odds punters may learn to beat the bookmaker, protect profits through a sensible approach to risk...

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Few people manage to make money from gambling: fewer still make a living from it. Written forhardened and novice sports bettors alike, Joseph Buchdahl's Fixed Odds Sports Betting examines,through various numerical techniques, how fixed odds punters may learn to beat the bookmaker, protectprofits through a sensible approach to risk management, and turn high-risk gambling into a form of low-risk investment.

Fixed Odds Sports Betting investigates:

Markets in fixed odds sports bettingThe bookmaker's over-round
Value betting
Ratings systems for sports predictionProfitability and risk
Singles versus accumulators
Staking plans and money management
The favourite-longshot bias
Sports advisory services
Betting records and their significance testing

About the Author

For 20 years, Joseph Buchdahl has worked as a betting analyst, providing historical sports data and betting odds through his websites Football-Data.co.uk and Tennis-Data.co.uk. He is the author of Fixed Odds Sports Betting, How to Find a Black Cat in a Coal Cellar, Squares & Sharps, Suckers and Sharks and Monte Carlo or Bust published by High Stakes Publishing, and has been a regular contributor for the online sportsbook Pinnacle, with over 60 betting-related articles. He continues to tweet regularly via 12Xpert.