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Pinnacle Sports sold and their future

It appears that PinnacleSports has been sold to undisclosed buyers. Whilst rumours are going around that it is a Las Vegas firm, evidence suggests a UK or Ireland company. And this makes perfect sense. It wasn’t long ago that Pinnacle … Continue reading

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How to determine the optimal Kelly fraction

As we have discussed previously, the Kelly criterion is mathematically the optimal method of money management when betting. It takes into consideration the probability, and the odds in working out what percentage of your bank one should bet. The higher … Continue reading

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Sportpunter’s new MLB model

In case you didn’t realise, Sportpunter have a new MLB model, and predictions have been going up daily as shown here: http://www.sportpunter.com/baseball/members/currentbets.htm More information including probability of totals going over and under, suggested bets etc. will be added. A betting … Continue reading

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Perth Wildcats and Sportpunter clients are the NBL Champions

The Perth Wildcats are the Australian basketball champions, defeating Adelaide in a best of three playoff. But the real champions are the subscribers who signed up to Sportpunter’s NBL model this season. It was nice way to finish what has … Continue reading

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NBL Finals: Total points scored analysis

There has been some talk about the NBL finals and how the totals and team lineups will play a part. In American basketball as well as a lot of other sports, the total amount scored during playoffs or finals decrease … Continue reading

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Average NHL Goals per game per month

There has been a bit of talk about how on average the number of goals increases and decreases over the course of a season because of the ice conditions. We’ve had a look at all the data going back to … Continue reading

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NCAAB totals on the increase

The start of the new NCAAB (American College Basketball) season has seen some high scoring matches. Since the year 2000, scores have gradually been decreasing from a high of 142 on average to last years low of 133. However, this … Continue reading

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NBL expected totals increase in 2013/14 season

With the Australian Basketball NBL Season 2013/14 set to start on Thursday, we thought we’d take a look at the new rules that should allow higher scoring matches to occur. The NBL has always been under the pump with regards … Continue reading

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Top 4 AFL games where player model is different to team based model

We previously talked about the difference between the original model and the player based model as discussed before. But today, we will outline the 4 games with the biggest difference in probabilities and why. So here they are. 4. Western … Continue reading

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Tennis Serving Speed Male vs Female

It’s well documented and observed that on average male tennis players serve faster than females. This is common sense considering that males are much more stronger than females. But how much difference is there really and can the strongest female … Continue reading

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