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What Does ‘Form’ Mean in Football?
Please Discuss…
Now and again Soccerwidow receives enquiries as to whether we consider ‘form’ in our match analyses and value bet recommendations.
The reader will have to excuse our increasing ignorance of the concept of ‘form’...
Manchester United’s Magical Powers of Recovery
On Sunday, 5.2.2012, millions of football fans around the world witnessed Chelsea leading 3:0 at home after 57 minutes. They subsequently went on to gain nothing more than a draw from a position which had looked completely lost for their bitterest...
What is a Bet? How to Calculate Mathematical Advantage?
It is difficult to believe but, there are plenty of people around who have little idea exactly what a bet is or what is meant whenever I mention being interested in betting or the fact that I run a Web site about online football betting.
Obviously...
Free Download: Worldwide Football League Betting Opportunities
Whilst not a totally exhaustive list, the Excel spreadsheet available below for download shows in tabular form just about every professional and semi-professional football league in the world available for betting (split into the six FIFA confederations)....
Europa League: What happened here?
Translated excerpts from a thread in a German forum from yesterday (30.11.2011)…
13:48 – Akoya
Hey com,
I haven’t posted for a long time however for today I have 2 games which have 99% chance to win (secret source) sorry I cannot...
Value Bet Test Evaluation – Three Months – 65% Bank Increase
In August 2011, Soccerwidow began a portfolio football betting exercise involving the backing of over-priced odds and the laying of under-priced odds, subject to certain calculated probability parameters.
The picks were originally only published...
Holy Grail: Lay 0-0 at Half Time
I have come across an interesting riddle which is worthwhile mentioning on Soccerwidow… This mystery was presented by a Dr Slicer approximately two years ago in the Betfair Community Forum and still causes headaches for many people!
Dr Slicer...
Backing and Laying Under the Minimum Stake Amount in Betfair
At some stage, after extensive paper exercises and calculations everyone will reach the phase where testing a system or strategy with real money is necessary.
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However watertight the system seems...
Soccerwidow Poll Results up to October 2011
Soccerwidow’s first reader poll is on the subject of whether there are people who actually make a living from betting.
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Altogether, since February 2011, there have been over 100 replies in total from our...
Fenerbahce match sees all men banned
More than 46,000 women and children filled Sukru Saracoglu Stadium to watch Fenerbahce play against Manisapor in a Turkish Super League match in Istanbul on Tuesday night, 21st September, 2011.
The Turkish authorities came up with this radical...
