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| Post Mortem | Staking | John F Jackson | John examines a series of bets in his usual challenging style and shows how a combination of proportional staking and hedging can blow the roof on the profit graph |
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| Wet and Wellin | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | With the weather changing who is well in on the coming soft ground and how can we measure it |
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| Paddock Notes | Horse Racing | Rick Taylor | Rick takes a look at paddock notes and how to get the most out of this relatively unused area |
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| Something for Everyone | Horse Racing | Dave Renham | A pub conversation leads to a selection box of stats and useful angles from Dave |
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| Sire Analyser | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | Which sire has an over 40% ROI on fibresand. A look at how to use the new Sire analyser facility on the web site |
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| Doncaster St Ledger meeting the trends | Horse Racing | David Myers | Trends expert David Myers publishes his first article here with a look at the up and coming Ledger festival |
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| MySheet | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | A look at the latest web site facility that enables you to create personalised data sheets for the days racing. |
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| A simple system for maiden races | Horse Racing | Rick Taylor | The headline results from testing this system show that over the last three years the system found 389 selections and had 177 winners, representing a strike rate of over 46 per cent. This keeps losing runs short and is good from a psychological point of view because you are frequently at the payout window. The overall profit to a 1-point stake was almost £65 |
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| Implementing Bivariate Poisson football models in R | Football | Alun Owen | Alun continues his article series after reader requests to cover the Bivariate Poisson model |
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| Automatic bet placement | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | An introduction to a utility that may solve your bet placement needs whilst you are on holiday |
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| Draw bias revisited | Horse Racing | Dave Renham | Sometimes the draw can be like moving quicksand, Dave is an expert on the draw and he looks at what has been changing recently. |
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| How to use Excel 2007 as a system builder | General | George Swan | Getting data into Excel is one thing but how can we use Excel to then test the validity of various system scenarios. |
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| KISS a simple system for 2yo races | Horse Racing | Rick Taylor | A simple system for the coming spate of 2yo races |
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| Fitting Poisson models to predict football match outcomes us | Football | Alun Owen | An insight into Aluns football modelling PhD work this time using R as his exploratory vehicle |
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| Is there a link to more successful trainers using past in ru | Horse Racing | Dave Renham | How do individual trainers perform in respect to a horses running style, Dave uncovers the facts. |
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| Using support vector machines to predict winners | Horse Racing | Ted Ashworth | Ted introduces to his series the all important aspect of finding overlays |
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| Trainer Analysis | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | Introduction to the new Trainer analysis facility |
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| Watching Racehorses | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | Some of the key factors behind John Hutsons paddock watching and a possible quick and dirty alternative. |
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| Jam,ie Spencer jockey analysis | Horse Racing | Dave Renham | You either love him or loathe him (Spencer that is), Dave takes a look at the stats associated with this most talked about jockey. |
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| World cup 2010 update | Football | John F Jackson | John exmaines how to utilise the spread odds and traditional fixed odds to form a model for the tournament. Accompanying software with the article. |
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| Front running favourites | Horse Racing | Dave Renham | How leathal are favourites that get to the front early and where best to back them. |
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| Draw bias at Royal Ascot | Horse Racing | Rick Taylor | With the big summer meeting on the horizon Rick runs over the draw at the royal meeting. |
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| How to use LightSVM | Horse Racing | Ted Ashworth | Ted continues his series on Support Vector Machines and provides some accompanying software. |
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| Gelded since last run | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | A look at the overall performance of horses gelded since their last run and which trainers do well with these types. |
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| World Cup 2010 | Football | John F Jackson | With only weeks to go to the 2010 World Cup, you cannot afford to bet without consulting Johns article and spreadsheet |
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| Using Support Vector Machines to Pick Winners | Horse Racing | Ted Ashworth | Used by William Bentner, Ted gives the first of a series on utilising SVMs |
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| Lessons from Kelly | Horse Racing | Mark Goodhead | Mark looks at the effect the odds have on bank growth when utilising Kelly |
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| Bumper Profits | Horse Racing | Bill Smith | How to use the Cheltenham bumper race to secure future profit |
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| The Derby Ssytem | Horse Racing | Ricky Taylor | A profile of the key factors that determine the Derby winner |
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| 3 yo Maidens | Horse Racing | Dave Renham | We are in the 3yo maiden period and approapriately Dave takes a look at the profitable areas within these races. |
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| Dany Nichols sprint king or is there more to him | Horse Racing | Dave Renham | He is known mainly as an effective trainer of sprint handicappers but is there more to Dandy Nichols than this?. |
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| The Newmarket Wizards - Tom Segal | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | Interview with Tom Segal, Pricewise of the Racing Post |
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| Early season 2yo races | Horse Racing | Dave Renham | With early 2yo races about to unfold Dave takes a look at where the profit can be found |
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| Avoiding account closures | General | Email List | A very active session on the email list looks at methods to keep bookmakers off your scent when it comes to closing down winning accounts.
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| Aintree stats other than the National | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | A look at the hurdle and chase races at the big spring meeting and where the better bets have been.
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| Delta Neutral | Staking | John F Jackson | Controlling volatility and locking in profits by hedging ... detailed, worked examples for a bookmaker special offer and a daily SP spread bet.
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| Can We Talk | Staking | John F Jackson | John go's for the jugular after a frustrating exchange on the email list about hedging. If you didn't believe Phill Bull maybe John will convince you. |
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| Staking How Should We Do It | Staking | Michael Wilding | After a debate on the email discussion list Michael sets out his thoughts on how to approach staking, including an explanation of Kelly and half Kelly |
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| Readers Requests - Trainer gambles | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | An update on which trainers were profitable with their gambled horses in 2009 |
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| Big Race Trends - The Arke Trophy | Horse Racing | Rick Taylor | An in depth look at the trends behind the Arkle trophy at Cheltenham |
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| The Newmarket Wizards - Richard Hoiles | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | Interview with TV pundit and commentator Richard Hoiles. |
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| Key Cheltenham Trends | Horse Racing | Dave Renham | A look at the key trends behind all the Cheltenham races. Invaluable if you are punting at the festival. |
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| Newmarket Wizards Nick Aubrey | Horse Racing | David Duffield | Interveiw with the Australian pro punter Nick Aubrey |
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| Validating Ratings | Horse Racing | G Swan | How can we measure confidence in a set of ratings. |
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| Betting on the Kempton AW | Horse Racing | Ricky Taylor | A look at some of the factors surrounding Kempton AW betting with a simple to follow system in summary |
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| Rating the five betting systems | General | Alun Owen | Alun applies some of his previously documented methods with a blow by blow attempt at the pre xmas competition to rate five betting systems |
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| 3 yos first run of the season | Horse Racing | Dave Renham | Whith the flat looming who should we be looking out for with 3yo seasonal debuts |
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| Knockout | General | John F Jackson | With the help of Excel John explains how to calculate winning chances from various knockout tournament stage positions |
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| ARCHIE a method for evaluating systems | Horse Racing | Steve Tilley | Steve's original article shows a simple to opearte method for evaluating the validity of system results. Published also as a pre read to Aluns piece. |
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| The Newmarket Wizards - Hugh Taylor | Horse Racing | SystematicBetting.com | The next installment of the Newmarket wizards is an interview with ATR's Hugh Taylor |
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| Big race trends - The King George | Horse Racing | Ricky Taylor | A look at the race trends and stats that can help you unravel the boxing day showdown |
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| A Christmas selection box | Horse Racing | Dave Renham | A selction of systems and angles to take you into a profitable new year. |
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| How many bets do you need to assess your system using ARCHIE | Horse Racing | Alun Owen | Alun continues the work of the original Archie article which looked at how to assess the robustness of system results. |
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| Market Bias Revisted Part II | Horse Racing | Dave Renham | Dave continues his study of market bias with the second part of his article looking at field size.
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| The Hennesy Gold Cup | Horse Racing | Ricky Taylor | Narrowing the field down with a race profile of the up and coming Hennesy.
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| Olympic Memories | Horse Racing | John Jackson | While we are united by a common interest in gambling ... are we not also united by a love of the sports themselves?
The thrill of the chase. The beautiful game. The spectacle. The atmosphere. The friendship.
Here are one punter's memories of arguably the greatest sporting event in the history of mankind.
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| Neural Network Learning Methods and AW Racing | Horse Racing | Peter May | A look at some of the underlying principles underpinning neural networks and their application to horseracing |
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| Draw LTO | Horse Racing | SystematicBetting.com | Good draw last time out bad bet next time out ?, a look at the stats. |
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| Profitable Headway | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | We read the daily race comments on a daily basis but do we really understand them all in terms of profitable impact. |
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| Grumpy Holiday Notes | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | A typical example of the application of pace despite the Algarve keyboards |
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| Beating the Football Spreads using conditional Probabilities | Football | Ted Ashworth | A look at how to gain an edge by examining the odds in seperate but related football markets |
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| Pace Running Styles in NH races | Horse Racing | Dave Renham | How does the question of pace relate to NH racing. Dave takes a long overdue look at the winter code. |
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| Wellin Horses II | Horse Racing | SystematicBetting.com | The second part in a look at horses returning to favourable marks, with a trainer by trainer breakdown. |
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| Prediciting Pace | Horse Racing | Rick Taylor | Rick continues his series on how he approaches the analysis of race pace. |
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| King Canute Must Die | Horse Racing | John F Jackson | Where do you stand with respect to the digital revolution?, be prepared to at least shuffle a little after reading Jacko. |
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| System testing competition | Horse Racing | Peter May | Using a set of results from 2008 can you predict which of a number of systems have perfomed the best in 2009 and win 4 months free membership. |
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| Well in horses | Horse Racing | SystematicBetting.com | What does it mean when a horse is well in and how profitable can it be to follow them |
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| Trainers two runners | Horse Racing | Dave Renham | What should we do when a trainer has two runners in a race. Dave examines the stats. |
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| Measuring early pace | Horse Racing | Ricky Taylor | Ricky explains his approach to catagorising and measuring early pace in a race. |
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| Mamite market mapper | Horse Racing | A N Other | A useful software tool for monitoring exchange prices |
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| Market Bias revisited | Horse Racing | Dave Renham | Dave continues his research into market bias witha more general look at turf races |
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| Show me the supercomputer | Horse Racing | John Jackson | John takes a look at what needs to be considered when you set out to buy a new computer system |
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| Educating Trevor | Horse Racing | SystematicBetting.com | A year with an apprentice bettor at his side highlights how mindset is probably the most difficult pro punter characteristic to adopt |
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| Market bias in 5f handicaps | Horse Racing | Dave Renham | Dave takes a look at what assistance the market offers in 5f handicaps |
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| Multiple Mugs | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | Would a profitable straight win set of bets create better returns if bet in Lucky 15's. |
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| How reliable are breeding stats | Horse Racing | Mark Foley | A look at some of the myths and dangers of misuse of breeding stats |
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| Developing Statistical Models using R III | Horse Racing | Alun Owen | Aluns third part in a series looking at statistical methods using R. This month developing a binary logistical regression model |
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| Developing Systems | Horse Racing | Rick Taylor | Rick gives some general advice on how to improve your chances of developing successful systems |
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| Developing statistical models part II | Horse Racing | Alun Owen | Following on from June, part II of Alun's introduction to building models for horse racing data. |
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| Two year old debutants in maidens | Horse Racing | Dave Renham | With the 2yo season starting to flourish, Dave takes a more in depth look at 2yo debutants. |
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| Impact Values | Horse Racing | Michael Wilding | In response to an email request Michael takes an introductory look for beginners at the use of Impact Values. |
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| When to back the favourite | Horse Racing | Ricky Taylor | Finding good favourites and avoiding bad ones, Rick takes a look at the figures. |
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| Are you feeling lucky, well are you Steve | Horse Racing | SmarterSig | Should we put any faith in numbers, well Steve doesn't think so and he should know he works for the Racing Post |
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| 2yo Trainers | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | How do the various trainers fair with their 2yo's first second and third timne out |
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| Developing statistical models for racing using R | Horse Racing | Alun Owen | A beginners guide to building statistical horse racing models using the free downloadable package R |
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| Pace Running Styles for Jockeys | Horse Racing | Dave Renham | Dave takes a look at which Jocks to watch out for in relation to pace profiles. |
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| Programming with the Betfair API | Horse Racing | Ted Ashworth | Introduction to programming the Betfair API |
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| Jockey and Trainer Trends for Royal Ascot | Horse Racing | Rick Taylor | Who should we look out for this months up and coming Ascot festival |
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| Successful Betting Characteristics | Horse Racing | Email Chat | What characterises a successful punter, interesting discussion from the email list |
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| Derby 2009 Breeding Ratings | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood & Peter May | Evaluating this years derby from the npoint of class and distance using pedigree ratings. |
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| Going and Pace | Horse Racing | SystematicBetting.com | Do front runners do better on soft or firm, AW or turf?. |
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| Good Pace Good Draw Good Bet | Horse Racing | SystematicBetting.com | An examination of which course, track and draw sections offer the best figures for horses with prominent running pace profiles. |
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| 2nd Run 2yos | Horse Racing | Mark Foley | Which trainers can be relied upon to show marked improvement from their second time out 2yos. |
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| Conference news | Horse Racing | Alun Owen | Updates on a couple of up and coming conferences that may be of interest to sports bettors. |
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| Finding Different Ways to Evaluate Performance | Horse Racing | Dave Renham | Is wins to runs the only or best way to evaluate performance when analysing past data?. |
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| Repeat Winners | Horse Racing | Ricky Taylor | Which trainers can be relied upon to get repeat wins from their 2yos, Rick investigates. |
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| Statistical Forecasting & Football Match Outcomes | Football | Alun Owen | The final part in Aluns series sees him find further improvements to the model developed last eyar. |
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| Premier league darts part III | Darts | John Jackson | Johns third installment takes a look at some general principles for gathering data from the web and in particular Betfair prices |
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| Trying to spot horses that shorten in running | Horse Racing | Dave Renham | Dave takes a look at some methods for trading horse prices for a profit via the in running markets. |
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| Grand National Trends | Horse Racing | Ricky Taylor | Some vital stats and trends to help you find this years National winner |
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| Finding Winners by Natural Selection | Horse Racing | G E Swan | George takes a look at the Darwinian world of Genetic Alogorithms and their application to winner finding. Accompanying software to get you going with your own experiments. |
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| Kiss Tips update and Avoiding Closed Accounts | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | An update on the profits from the first month of the Kiss Tips and some further advice on keeping betting accounts open. |
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| Premier League Darts 2009 Part II | Darts | John F Jackson | John continues his model building process for the ongoing darts tournament. The fixed odds and spread quotes produced take account of the first throw advantage. |
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| 2yo Summary 2008 | Horse Racing | Peter May | Peter Mays top 2008 2yo's with breeding predictions for 3 yo careers. |
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| Horse Profiling | Horse Racing | Dave Peat | Dave continues his look at horse profiling as a method for bet selection. |
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| The Betting Market As A Guide To Winners | Horse Racing | Ricky Taylor | Utilising the betting market as a short cut to profit. |
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| Was All The Research Worth It | Horse Racing | Dave Renham | As the flat season looms up Dave looks at some trainer predictions that held up last year and hopefully will repeat again. |
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| KISS Tips | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | A daily KISS brought right to your door |
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| Cheltenham festival trends - The Champion Hurdle | Horse Racing | Ricky Taylor | Rick turns hs attention away from the Gold cup and this month focuses on the up and coming Champion hurdle with ideas that have produced good profits in the past. |
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| Favourites in Novice Hurdles | Horse Racing | David Renham | How to make a profit from fancied horses in novice hurdles. A wealth of stats point the way through. |
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| KISSed Again | Horse Racing | Justin Penrose | Justin continues his look at the relationship between the two main betting forecast sources and the final outcome of horse races. |
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| ATASS Sports Seminar review | Horse Racing | Alun Owen | A review of the December 2008 West Midlands statistical society talk by ATASS sports (sports modelling) and Mark Dixon |
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| Horse race prediction - Monte Carlo simulation | Horse Racing | G E Swan | How to use a Monte Carlo simulation to convert horse ratings into probabilities. Comes with accompanying software to carry out the simulation |
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| Weighing up horse profiles | Horse Racing | David Peat | A first look at horse profiles and the useful ingredients that can paint a rich picture about a horses preferences and limitations. |
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| Premier League Darts | Darts | John F Jackson | John takes a look at assessing odds and identifying profitable bets on the coming 2009 Premier darts league in addition to downloading up to date prices from bookmakers and Betfair |
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| Kelly Matters and the Varance/Mean stakng Plan | Staking | Jon Desler | Jon examines the application of Kelly to markets that are not easily receptive to the popular staking plan. |
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| KISSed Some More | Horse Racing | Justin Penrose | Justin continues his investigation into the strategies that lie behind an examination of the forecast markets. |
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| Discpline | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | Is it really important or just an excuse as one Betfair forum member suggests |
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| Using Systems to Lay Horses | Horse Racing | Dave Renham | Dave takes a look at the other side of the fence with some stats and methods for layers. |
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| Bouncing Bobby Robbie Bookie | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | How significant is the bounce factor and are there any outright profitable systems surrounding it. |
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| Cheltenham Festival Trends | Horse Racing | Ricky Taylor | First article from Rick who takes a look at selection trends for the Cheltenham Gold Cup |
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| When conditions are just right | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | Mark finishes some unfinished business from 1995 |
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| Backing horses with poor recent form | Horse Racing | Dave Renham | There is nothing like backing a big priced winner. Dave looks at some factors to slim ddown the picks. |
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| Changes in distance does it matter | Horse Racing | Dave renham | What relevance does the previous distance run have at various distances of todays race. |
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| Topspeed Recency and Runs NH | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | How best to use topspeed ratings. this time a look at the NH hurdle scene. |
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| KISSED | Horse Racing | Justin Penrose | Justin looks at a possible assist to other systems via the betting forecasts. |
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| Flat Trainers in Sellers | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | A continuing look at the performance of trainers in Flat race sellers |
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| Trainer Changes | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | A look at the performance of horses coming out of new yards. |
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| The course can make a difference | Horse Racing | Dave Renham | Which trainers should be noted at which courses, Dave uncovers some useful stats. |
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| Trainer Gambles NH 2007 | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | A continuation of the exmination of trainers to note when backed in the market. |
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| Rating Maiden Debutants | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | Prompted by an email discussion, an initial look at rating newcomers based on trainer trends. |
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| NH Trainers in Sellers | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | Who are the trainers to follow in sellers and how do they do with seller debutants |
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| Price Equivalence | Staking | John Jackson | With so wide a variety of markets available to us John takes a look at some methods for extracting the best deals |
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| NN and AI ratings video | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | A downloadable video of how the ratings were compiled for the NN article. Apologies for slight synch problem on second half of video. Download Video |
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| Trainer Gambles | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | A continuation of the examination of trainer performance with market droppers and drifters. This time the NH trainers come under the microscope |
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| Systems have a shelf live | Horse Racing | Dave Renham | Dave takes a look at some previously profitable systems that have fallen on harder times and explains why many systems suffer this fate |
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| Neural Networks AI Ratings | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | Mark dips his big toe into the practical world of NN's and re-explores the compilation of the AI ratings |
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| Placepot Analysis | Horse Racing | Dave Renham | The first in a series of articles examining the underlying influences on this popular bet |
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| Automated Exchange Betting book review | Horse Racing | Patrick Gamble | A review of Colin Magee's new book on Automated exchange betting |
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| Free wine lunch and yankees | Horse Racing | John Jackson | Whats the best approach to an offer of a free yankee if only one of your original yankee selections wins. |
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| Profiting from staying 2yos in the latter part of the season | Horse Racing | Mark Foley | It takes a certain kind of horse to win the late season staying 2yo races. Mark examines the factors that offer the best guidelines |
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| Readers requests trainer gambles 2 | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | The second part examining the performance of flat trainers with respect to their entries that drift and drop in the betting |
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| Late season trainer 2yos | Horse Racing | Mark Foley | Which trainers should we focus on as the Autumn 2yo season kicks in |
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| Email chat - combining ratings | Horse Racing | Email group | Some interesting email discussion on combining two sets of ratings to make selections |
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| Do you remember the Legacy system | Horse Racing | Gerald Simpson | Gerald takes a run through the system and how it can be applied today |
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| Statistical forecasting models and football match outcomes 3 | Football | Alun Owen | Alun continues his series with part 3 on modelling football match outcomes. |
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| Readers Requests - Trainer Gambles | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | How do various trainers perform with their price droppers and drifters. |
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| Statistical Forecasting Models and Football Match Outcomes | Football | Alun Owen | Part II of Aluns series on modelling techniques for football match prediction. |
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| Jockey / Trainer Combinations | Horse Racing | Dave Renham | A look at the profitable areas surrounding various trainers and jockeys combined |
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| Does the Going Matter | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | Just how important is the going to the betting pound in our pocket |
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| Front Running Research | Horse Racing | Dave Renham | Dave continues his research into pace patterns on the flat |
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| Blink Update | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | Update on the progress and profit of Blink selections from the web site |
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| Profiting From Pullers | Horse Racing | Mark Layden | What have the Derby winner New Approach and the 60 rated Grey Boy got in common?. |
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| Key Race profits | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | A continuation of the key race analysis from the last couple of months |
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| Pace Disadvantaged LTO | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | A look at what constitutes a pace disadvantaged horse last time out and how to spot them. |
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| Running Styles / Pace Bias | Horse Racing | Dave Renham | Dave continues his analysis of pace bias paying particular attention to courses |
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| Blink - Thats Overpriced | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | Inspired by a recent read, a ready replacment is found for the Edgewise experiment with some promising early results. |
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| My Euro | Football | John F Jackson | John takes a look at his Euro 2008 betting experience |
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| Everything you wanted to know about Kelly | Staking | John Jackson | John sets about unravelling the much talked about Kelly |
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| Entry Profiling | Horse Racing | Mark Litlewood | Whats in an entry, a look at the stats behind the trainer habits. |
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| Profiting from Market Movers | Horse Racing | Peter Marko | Peter continues his look at trading the horses and appeals for volunteers |
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| Email Chat | Horse Racing | Michael Bowman | A discussion of the WellIn horses on the web site highlights an excellent start to the season. |
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| Key Race Profits | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | A look at the profit from the previous months key races and a look ahead to this month |
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| Three breeding KISS systems | Horse Racing | Dave Renham | Three systems based on pedigree stats |
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| Statistical Forecasting Models and Football Match Outcomes 1 | Football | Alun Owen | Part 1 introduces Models Based on the Poisson Probability Distribution |
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| Topspeed Recency And Runs | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | This month the question of what works best with topspeed is turned on handicap chasers. |
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| Key Races II | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | Following on from last months article, a look at Mays key races and how the April ones have shaped up. |
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| A Possible Method For Greening Up On Betfair | Horse Racing | Saltbob | A look at one of this months exchanges on the email list. |
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| The Punters Revenge Effect | Horse Racing | Justin Penrose | The first in a series of recommended books that helped shape members thinking about betting. |
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| KISS | Horse Racing | Dave Renham | The second of Dave's keep it simple stupid systems. |
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| Profiting from Market Moves | Horse Racing | Peter Marko | Is it possible to identify sufficient morning price droppers to trade a profit. Peter looks at a method that shows some early promise. |
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| The Newmarket Wizards III | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | This months interview with the pro's is with author and pro punter Alan Potts |
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| Trading in Running | Horse Racing | Dave Renham | Dave takes a look at in running trading with a blow by blow account of one days trading. |
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| Watching Paddock Watchers III | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | The conclusion to the paddock watching experiment and the question of whether there is value in the parade ring. |
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| Topspeed Recency and Runs | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | Prompted by an email list question, a look at how best to use speed figures in terms of recency and runs. |
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| Racing Trends Revealed | Horse Racing | Dave Renham | A review of the new book by David Myers |
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| Sprint Handicap Preparation for the Flat Season | Horse Racing | Dave Renham | Dave takes a look at an alternative approach to evaluating race class. |
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| Key Races | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | Can we identify key races before they occur. A look at the American definition and perhaps how past key races might help. |
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| K.ISS | Horse Racing | Dave Renham | A welcome return for this series of simple systems put forward by readers. |
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| Sample Space | Horse Racing | John F Jackson | John gears his probability corner towards some questions raised on the email list regarding the value or no value inherent in a free yankee bet offered by bookmakers. |
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| Review of the 2007 2yo Turf Season | Horse Racing | Peter May | Peter May takes a look at last years 2yo with a view to the 2008 season |
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| The Journey of the Invisible Pink Unicorn | Horse Racing | John Jackson | John identifies common but erroneous gambling beliefs.
Explains the intuition behind Kulldorff’s strategy for gambling on favourable games.
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| Your Country Needs You | Horse Racing | John Jackson | Jacko makes a call to arms and as an example asks what you would like to see in a programming or probabaility corner. |
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| The Edgewise Experiment part 1 | Horse Racing | Justin Penrose & Peter Marko | The wisdom of crowds and concensus value betting experiment currently active on the email list, Justin and Peter go behind the figures to maximise profit. |
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| Watching Paddock Watchers II | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | Does paddck watching actually offer an edge. An update on the figures first quoted in the Feb Mag. |
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| Making a Profit with Spread Betting | Horse Racing | Alex | Getting started with spread betting isn't easy. Alex guides the way. |
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| The Newmarket Wizards II | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | Under the spotlight this month is pro gambler Laurence Lambourn, the man behind equineinvestments.co.uk |
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| Pace Angles for Profit III on the AW | Horse Racing | Dave Renham | Dave continues his investigation of pace angles focusing this month on Lingfield |
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| Automatic Betting Data Sources and Smartform | Horse Racing | Colin Magee | An introduction to the world of automatic betting in its widest sense and the limitations of previous provisions. |
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| EdgeWise the wisdom of crowds | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | An account of how SmarterSig members pooled resources and opinions to crack open some real profit in January. |
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| Watching paddock watchers | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | Does paddock watching yield a real edge. Mark begins a project to find out. |
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| The newmarket wizards | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | Last months interviewee and pro punter Russell Clarke answers some readers questions on pro punting |
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| Pace angles for profit on the AW (2) | Horse Racing | Dave Renham | A continuation of this series into how pace analysis can be utilised on the AW |
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| AI ratings review | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | The AI ratngs have been around for a few years. What are they made up of and how have they performed?. |
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| A bumpy ride on the road to profit | Horse Racing | Mark Foley | Mark takes a look at some profitable angles in NH bumper races |
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| Alternative strategies for football game predictions | Football | Stefan Perry | Stef takes a look at how it may be possble to move away from an overall evaluation of form when assessing a football match to one which becomes sensitive to how each team has perfomed against similar sides to the one it meets today. |
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| Early, Live and SP Betting | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | Are we better off betting in the early or pre race live markets. Some stats from a survey highlight where its best to play. |
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| The Sports Trader Blog | Horse Racing | Justin Penrose | Justin looks at the methods behind a profitable in running sports trader. |
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| AW Trainer Stats | Horse Racing | Dave Renham | With the AW season about to kick in, Dave takes a look at some profitable AW trainer angles. |
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| Pace Angles for Profit | Horse Racing | Dave Renham | An examination of pace and its potential for profit on the All Weather tracks |
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| The Newmarket Wizards | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | First in a series of interviews with the professional players kicks off with Russell Clarke, ex Odds On columnist and long time pro' |
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| First Time in Handicaps - Trainer Analysis | Horse Racing | Mark Littlewood | A brief look at trainer profiles for inmates making their first, second and third run in handicap company. Accompanying spreadsheet shows all trainers. |
