How valuable is information in soccer betting?
Just like in life and business, knowing something before somebody else does is the key to success in betting. While other bettors waste time looking for cheap betting tips, the smartest and the most successful bettors deliberately collate important information, analyze them and bet according to the results of their analysis. Information is potential power and it could change the way you bet as well as how successful you would become as a bettor. As long as an information becomes common knowledge, bookmakers would have adjusted their odds according to it, so bettors who can get hold correct information and act on it before anyone else discovers it would always be in a position to win more bets. There is no surer way to beat the closing line at all times, but while the right information will not always provide you with the best selection to bet on, it is the only way to beat the closing line most of the time. There is information that influences the way the best bettors bet, these include team news, how a key player’s morale level is, teams not wanting to play because they have just been attacked, etc. Why soccer betting tips may not be correct The advice tipsters give are just their own opinions, even though they usually have comprehensive knowledge of the sports they bet on. We know that some tipsters have been in the game long enough to make accurate predictions, yet those “experienced” tipsters still need luck to predict the right outcomes. On the other hand, facts are just facts. Everyone has access to them, however, successful bettors are usually the first to know and act on factual information and that is what gives them the advantage over others. One way a successful bettor betters others in a scenario like this: while a tipster would advise bettors to bet on team A to win because team B has been on a poor run of form and team A has won her last 15 games, a successful bettor may get an information that two key players on team A have been injured and they would miss the game and he would bet differently with that piece of information. What usually eludes soccer betting tipsters We all know that getting information about team news is a key to winning bets, it is perhaps the most important information that bettors use to get an edge over others. However, there are other information which are considered less important but are key especially when betting on less-popular teams. Pinnacle betting relayed this story about Weymouth F.C: Just like many lower league sides are accustomed to, Weymouth F.C were in some financial troubles in the February 2009. You may be forgiven to expect everyone betting on them to know, but only a few people actually got information about how severe their problem was. They were to play mid-table Rushden and Diamonds after losing 3-0 at home to Stevenage, although they won their match with Torquay 2-0 before losing Stevenage. Ahead of that game, Weymouth had not paid their first team’s medical insurance bill and because of that, they were going to field their youth team. If everyone got this information it would have changed the odds dramatically, but they didn’t and Weymouth went on to lose that game 9-0. Kettering Town F.C offers another example of how club’s finances could influence the outcome of games. In 2012, their first team players issued an ultimatum to the club about unpaid wages, this information surprisingly eluded many bookmakers. This scenario was playing out ahead of a Southern Premier League game against Bashley at home. On the day of that match, only ten players of Kettering Town F.C had been paid and so only those ten were fielded in the match. Although Kettering had lost two of their last four games, those losses were by a lone goal margin. They lost the game against Bashley by 7-0, anyone with information about the pay dispute and eligible squad size would have placed a bet on Bashley winning significantly knowing that they have a huge advantage. What differentiates rumours from information The advent of social media websites like Twitter means we now have access to more information than we may need, and also means that just about anyone can claim to be a good tipster and get our attention. Depressingly, there are fewer facts and more fictions out there. Because several of these “tipsters” are just people trying to get cheap traffic to their website and they don’t care if they mislead us or not. Leaked information may pay-off at times especially if you get it before anyone else does, but if it turns to be false you would also pay the ultimate price for trusting on the wrong information.
