Label
Library
Following a nerve-racking qualification for Germany and a hugely entertaining quarter-final match for France, Portugal and Wales, the tournament’s two lowest ranking nations face each other with a rare opportunity to reach a major final, whilst…
Authored by: System on
Our recent Euro 2016 promotion – Euro Predictor – was such a huge success we wanted to catch up with the winner, to understand the secrets of his success and to analyse the predictions to see what we could learn. Wisdom of the Crowd or Foolish…
Authored by: System on
On Thursday July 7th, Las Vegas will host the first of three UFC cards being held on three consecutive days with UFC Fight Night: dos Anjos vs Alvarez . Over the course of 55 hours, UFC fans and sharp bettors will have a remarkable number of…
Authored by: System on
The Poisson distribution is typically used as a starting point to derive initial odds. But in short tournaments, like the Euro, where such parameters are hard to obtain, the limitations of otherwise reliable statistical tools become more apparent…
Authored by: System on
July 9th is around the corner and despite Jon Jones’ removal from the UFC 200 card Las Vegas is still ramped up to host one of the most packed card in MMA history. The road to the most stacked Ultimate Fighting Championship is paved by a doping…
Authored by: System on
With an abundance of books claiming to hold the secret of how to win big in betting, Joseph Buchdahl and his latest book “Squares & Sharps, Suckers & Sharks” embark on a different mission: to reveal the insides of winning and losing…
Authored by: System on
On July 9th, Las Vegas will host UFC 200, poised to be one of the biggest MMA events of all-time. Following Jon Jones dishonourable removal, the three-round fight between former heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar and Hunt will now headline the…
Authored by: System on
Following England’s shock elimination by Iceland and Spain’s kick-out by Italy on Monday, the Euro 2016 has now reached its crunch time. With eight quarterfinalists left to fight the battle to glory, sports journalist, Alex Keble, looks ahead to…
Authored by: System on
Soccer expert, Mark Taylor, looks at the relationship between expected goals and finishing position in the group stages to determine which teams have better chance of qualification in the knock-out stage, than their finishing group position…
Authored by: System on
Euro 2016 is now in full flow giving us ample evidence to judge a likely winner. We are also seeing interesting themes develop such as the focus on late goals, but is this a genuine data pattern or selective reasoning?
Authored by: System on