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02-14-2008, 10:28 PM
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Whats's the easiest sport for you to make money at
I suspect many answers will vary.
Please explain your rationale.
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02-14-2008, 10:42 PM
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I suck at all of them.
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02-14-2008, 10:45 PM
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I find football the easiest for me mainly because I have followed it much more than any other sport besides Nascar.
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02-14-2008, 11:21 PM
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Question is a little vague.
Highest win % ATS: rugby union, due to personal knowledge and very inefficient markets
Most money to be made: college basketball, due to volume of games. You can come up with 20 plays a day easily with a 1.5%-3% edge at -110 with little time invested.
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02-14-2008, 11:27 PM
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For the mathematically inclined, baseball is a slam dunk.
A staggering amount of data is freely available in database friendly formats. Equally staggering amounts of research has already been done and published by the sabrmetrics community. One only needs to adapt the most interesting ones to the gambling market (but don't ever mention gambling research in a public sabrmetrics forum!).
And of course, you can't beat MLB for the number of betting opportunities in a season.
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02-14-2008, 11:41 PM
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I would say each sport has it's advantages and disadvantages.
I don't think the question is which one is the easiest, it is which one are you most motivated to research statistics and trends.
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02-15-2008, 03:05 AM
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I don't think the question is which one is the easiest, it is which one are you most motivated to research statistics and trends.
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Yeah, all sports have the same level of efficiency LDO.
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02-15-2008, 03:19 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MrX
For the mathematically inclined, baseball is a slam dunk.
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A walk in the park, surely.
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Originally Posted by MrX
A staggering amount of data is freely available in database friendly formats. Equally staggering amounts of research has already been done and published by the sabrmetrics community. One only needs to adapt the most interesting ones to the gambling market (but don't ever mention gambling research in a public sabrmetrics forum!).
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Why is that? a bit bigoted are they?
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02-15-2008, 04:00 AM
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Baseball by a landslide for me. I often find it the easiest to cap. As Mr X said, there are plenty of betting options. 5 Dimes has the most choices out of any of the A rated books.
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02-15-2008, 07:35 AM
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Nascar. While Books are quick to update win odds, they often fail to adjust Top 5 accordingly. Can find value on HTH matchups as well.
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02-15-2008, 11:23 AM
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Baseball for all of the reasons already stated.
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02-15-2008, 11:30 AM
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baseball was good to me until an awful end to 06. hopefully this year will be more like the ones previous.
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02-15-2008, 11:40 AM
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betting over 1.5 goals on euro soccer,in the book and on the exchange allways seem to do well
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02-15-2008, 01:32 PM
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Quote:
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Why is that? a bit bigoted are they?
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They are certainly a bit touchy on the subject. I haven't personally incurred their wrath, but I've witnessed a couple poor souls innocently asking for help with gambling related research. There seems to be a pretty deeply held belief that the appreciation of baseball and gambling don't mix.
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02-16-2008, 05:36 PM
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For winning percentage it's soccer. Don't play it much, but always on the favorite in a strong situation with a good return. I play only CL, and the leagues in Spain, England, and Holland. Never ever play the Italian league...
In the NBA the period mid-March to mid-April is best for me, and in the NFL mostly totals and dogs. I dropped all college sports.
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02-16-2008, 07:23 PM
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Nappy headed hos is the easiest--I hate to admit that.
Plenty of stale lines--not too many sharps on that action.
I agree with the idea of baseball amongst the big three sports.
Can't speak to soccer.
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02-17-2008, 07:05 PM
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GTW LEAGUE goin to work never lost money there
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