Start of Season Bet

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Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman

You're reading it wrong.

At the start of the season, the bookies publish their handicap lists. Every team is given a handicap mark. Back in August, Bet365 made Leeds the Championship favourites, so they started with a handicap mark of scratch (+0 points). Next in the betting came Burnley, who were given a +6 point start. Then Luton, who were given +10 points, etc, down to Oxford, who were given +36 points.

All teams are priced at 18/1. The bet is to finish top of the handicap table, not simply above whoever turns out to be top of the actual Championship table.

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Looks a very difficult bet to land. Too many variables .
Bit like the bet builder the bookies like to offer .
There should never be more than one selection on your bet.

Anyone who gambles or has gambled, will agree that there is no such thing as the perfect system.
There are very good systems though, and I have hit on one with football, that has shown a decent profit each season, over the last 5 seasons (decent for my type of gambling).
Every weekend, you can get odds on there being over 1.5 goals (in other words, 2 or more goals) in any league game being played.
Certain games are not worth betting on as the odds can be as small as 1/12, but on any given weekend, you will get at least a dozen games where the odds will be 1/3, or maybe 2/5.
I pick 5 of these games and stake £5 on an accumulator. If the 5 games each produce 2 or more goals, your return will be £12.50. (£7.50 profit) equivalent of just over 3/1.
If it loses, I suck it up, but religiously stick to the same bet every weekend.
You won’t ever win fortunes, but over the last 5 seasons, I have a combined profit of £2,000.Not to be sneezed at for a small time gambler like myself. A small weekly amount, that gives you an interest, but won’t break the bank.
Anyone looking to gamble a bit more, could up it to maybe £30 a week, which would obviously give you around 6 x the profit that I get.
The Brucie bonus with this bet, is it doesn’t matter who scores 1st, or who wins or draws, as long as there are 2 or more goals in the games.

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Originally Posted by J R Hartley

Don’t let NCB see this ffs. He’ll be claiming Bulut nearly got us in the play offs.

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:hehe: Not bad for you

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Originally Posted by William Treseder

Anyone who gambles or has gambled, will agree that there is no such thing as the perfect system.
There are very good systems though, and I have hit on one with football, that has shown a decent profit each season, over the last 5 seasons (decent for my type of gambling).
Every weekend, you can get odds on there being over 1.5 goals (in other words, 2 or more goals) in any league game being played.
Certain games are not worth betting on as the odds can be as small as 1/12, but on any given weekend, you will get at least a dozen games where the odds will be 1/3, or maybe 2/5.
I pick 5 of these games and stake £5 on an accumulator. If the 5 games each produce 2 or more goals, your return will be £12.50. (£7.50 profit) equivalent of just over 3/1.
If it loses, I suck it up, but religiously stick to the same bet every weekend.
You won’t ever win fortunes, but over the last 5 seasons, I have a combined profit of £2,000.Not to be sneezed at for a small time gambler like myself. A small weekly amount, that gives you an interest, but won’t break the bank.
Anyone looking to gamble a bit more, could up it to maybe £30 a week, which would obviously give you around 6 x the profit that I get.
The Brucie bonus with this bet, is it doesn’t matter who scores 1st, or who wins or draws, as long as there are 2 or more goals in the games.

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£1,000 not £2,000. (Fat fingers)
An average of £200 a season

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Originally Posted by William Treseder

When you have time, can you post what the handicap list was for the SPL at the beginning of this season. Be interested to see what Aberdeens was and what price they were.

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They didn't have a handicap for the Scottish Premiership, or if they did the Post didn't publish it.

However, Aberdeen were as big as 150/1 to win the league (now just 12/1) and 3/1 to win the league without Celtic and Rangers (now 1/50!).

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Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman

They didn't have a handicap for the Scottish Premiership, or if they did the Post didn't publish it.

However, Aberdeen were as big as 150/1 to win the league (now just 12/1) and 3/1 to win the league without Celtic and Rangers (now 1/50!).

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