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If you enjoy betting on Football.........
.....then a quick note to say that on Thursday's (tomorrow) Show, there will be a 2 hour segment where we preview the upcoming season, including the EPL, but especially the Sky Bet Championship, Sky Bet League 1, & Sky Bet League 2, with emphasis on value betting opportunities.
One of the Studio Guests will be sports geek SPT Rich (aka Rich Prew, aka Tighty), who probably knows more about football than anyone I know.
He even went on Mastermind & answered questions about "Football Stadiums designed by Archibald Leitch, 1933 - 1952". THAT is proper geeky stuff.
The football segment will be between 8pm & 10pm.
If you like football, tune in, if you don't, Big brother & Eastenders it is.
There will be the usual Show thread, so if you have some football questions for Tighty, send them in to the usual address, (SkyOpen@bskyb.com ) or on the Show thread, which will appear in due course. I expect we will give away a few free bets &/or prizes.
Less happily, the Presenter will be Richard Orford.
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Thanks bugaloo.
There will be a Show Thread for these questions, but I'll pass this on to Tighty, & I'll bet a pound to a pinch of whatsit that he won't be able to resist answering it here, today!
Interestingly (arguably....) the question you raise about FFP on Championship Clubs is something he has a strong theory on.
He is currently testing that theory, & based upon it, yesterday he put up 4 Teams to win their League Cup first round matches - three last night, & one tonight.
The three last night all won, & there remains one game tonight. Lots of people follow his football betting advice (he really is a genius at football) & we all lumped on Super 15's, Yankees & the like, so we have a great sweat tonight, with the first three selections already home & hosed!
The prices were not huge, but it'd be a tidy return come what may....
10/11
10/11
20/21
11/10
Anyway, I'll make him aware of your question.
Last season I concentrated on betting on the under/over goals markets with a good deal of success.
I make five selections and have 5 x four folds + accumulator. I try and restrict my stake to about 15 buy ins - £150 in account = £10 , £300 - £20 and so on.
Perming the bet this way allows one selection to go down and still make a profit - all five in usually returns at least 10 x stake.
Well I can't really link it, as it is another Forum, but we just have some fun, & we do so profitably.
I'll ask him if he would perhaps post a few of his recommendations here, maybe in the Football board. Actually, he is a profitable better (all proofed in advance) on Football, Cricket, Rugby Union, & NFL amongst others.
Hope your Unders/Overs continue to be profitable. You may not be aware, but Joe Beevers - he of The Hendon Mob - is very big on Over/Under 2.5, & runs a sort of Tipping Line based solely upon it.
Same here - I bet for fun with my brother and we usually make a profit.
Another interesting one for you.
One of my friends puts an accumulator on both teams to score in all of the fixtures for each division. He only stakes 50p, so it's costs £2 per week to do. And usually at least once a season he gets a line up. The odds for the accumulator are normally />1000 to 1 so it's a nice return if you can be bothered with the rigmarole of putting the bet on.
In theory premiership parachute payments, which can help those clubs hit the FFP guidelines, are a big competitive help to recently relegated sides too
FWIW, and I have written about it elsewhere but won't link, I like Port Vale on handicaps/spreads in L1 too.
Rastafish on Sky Poker cash game fame keeps me in touch, as his son Gavin plays up front for them and he put me on to them having a good seson 4-5 weeks ago
Tikay - slapped wrists. It is not and never has been, "The EPL". Please stop using this horrible made up American acronym.
You will understand that anyone who works for this Business will - must!- always prefix the Championship, League One & League Two with "SKY BET".
And I sort of wanted to avoid prefixing the Premier League similarly, with "Barclays", so I thought if I wrote "EPL" - probably the first time in my life I have ever used that abbreviation - I might just get it through without anyone noticing.
Proper FAIL, that.
I italicised "abbreviated" in the previous post for a reason.
Here's a really geeky thing for you, which a learned friend told me only a day ago. Can't believe I'm still learning stuff like this at my age!
An acronym can be pronounced as a word. "NATO", BOGOF" etc.
So EPL is not an acronym, but an abbreviation.
Can we call that 1-1?
Sorry, but your friend is wrong. I've heard that a couple of times too but it is a fallacy,
An acronym is an abbreivation formed of initial letters of words, whether they are pronouced as one word such as your examples above, or pronouced one letter at a time such as BBC, DVD etc, (see my favourite online dictionary http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/acronym)
Really though, like all language matters, there is no actual right or wrong, it is interpretation.
For what it is worth, Wikipidea (my favourite, though not always accurate, point of reference) go with his version, whilst acknowledging that the usage is not universal. This is their take......
The term acronym is the name for a word from the first letters of each word in a series of words (such as sonar, created from SOund Navigation And Ranging).Attestations for "Akronym" in German are known from 1921, and for "acronym" in English from 1940.
Whilst an abbreviation is the shortened form of any initial, syllable or parts of a phrase or words, an initialism (or less commonly, alphabetism) refers to an abbreviation formed from, and used simply as, a string of initials. Although the term acronym is widely used to refer to any abbreviation formed from initial letters, some dictionaries define acronym to mean "a word" in its original sense, while some others include additional senses attributing to acronym the same meaning as that of initialism.The distinction, when made, hinges on whether the abbreviation is pronounced as a word, or as a string of letters. In such cases, examples found in dictionaries include NATO /ˈneɪtoʊ/, scuba /ˈskuːbə/, and radar /ˈreɪdɑr/ for acronyms, and FBI /ˌɛfˌbiːˈaɪ/ and HTML /ˌeɪtʃˌtiːˌɛmˈɛl/ for initialisms.In the rest of this article, this distinction is not made.
So, take your pick, now we have.....
Acronym
Abbreviatiion
Initialism
Acronym
Good, 'innit?
They tend not to be short-priced favourites, more "value" bets at a price
Bettors beware!
Value betting, FPP, acronyms & abbreviations.
All good.
You can just as likely have bad value @ 25/1, as you can have good value @ 4/6.
The key is the word value.
4/6 about a 1/2 shot is value. 25/1 about a 33/1 shot is not.