American, Canadian, North American Professional Football Betting Software: BETUS, AMBET
Posted by Ion Saliu on July 14, 2001.
In Reply to: Betus posted by Steve on July 13, 2001.
: Mr. Saliu when is the new version of Betus going to be released. I follow Canadian football and want to try it. I saw a previous post that you are working on it. I like the version now but I see you are going to make it even better. Just want to know approximately when it will be ready. Thanks. Steve (Toronto).
• Better late than never, as Great Will put it. Here is the latest in sports betting vis-à-vis your request, Svitser. (Every Steve in the world will forever be Svitser in my book — named after a great sports bettor in York, Pennsylvania, a huge Penn State football fan.) The comprehensive software is AmBet.exe, which is inclusive of the older BetUS.
You need to keep track of what you bet on previously. You can use just numbers with BELLBET. You need separate data files for 5 games, 8 games, etc. I recommend you go with those two first. I assume you bet on point-spread for now (you can use for money line too). If the favorite covered the point spread, write 1 in the file; if not, write 2. (Even a push is 2: the favorite must exceed the point spread). So you'll have a game.5 file like this:
2 1 1 2 2
1 2 1 1 2
1 2 2 1 1
...
In the output of BELLBET.EXE check if any of the combinations is the file of past results. Do not use them. You can run the program again and only select combinations that did not come out recently.
BETUS will be more complicated, since it uses team names, instead of numbers. You will need a separate data file for each league (CFL2001.DAT, NFL2001.DAT, etc.) Again, you write the past results by point spread. Or, another data file as straight winners.
It'll be awhile until it's ready. It should be ready by the start of NFL 2001. Maybe I'll make my hideout in Vegas, where sport betting is legal. I wish I could be an impersonator... How about Toronto, is sports-betting legal over there?
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• The excitement is higher when it's hard to predict the results. The NFL 2002 season offers great excitement. It's valid for college football, too. There are no favorites! Or, every team has a good shot at winning any game, against anybody! Looks like the stats play a minor role. That's not exactly true! The results still follow the stats, within statistical limits, of course. What the fans and especially the bettors see is the discrepancy between the betting lines and the actual results. The betting lines try hard to ignore the randomness.
I use in-house sports betting software. It is founded on the same principles as LotWon. Therefore, randomness plays a very important rule in generating combinations. The programs are applicable to parlays. The 5-team parlay software is clearly more successful than the statistical spreadsheet! The programs eliminate certain patterns from previous results and generate lottery-like combinations. The numbers are replaced with team names. The hit rate is better than 2 out of 3 weeks. I haven't encountered two or more consecutive losses. The playing field amounts from 6 to 16 parlays per week. The payout can be as high as 24 to 1 (25% house edge or vigourish). Thus, the worst winning case comes to +8.
Read a detailed analysis of the performance of SPORTS.XLS and how to take advantage of the sports betting spreadsheet:
Here are some useful sports links. They offer schedules, betting lines, odds, results, and useful information. Things can change dramatically on the Internet. You may need to copy-and-paste the addresses, or google the essential keywords.
sports.dbc.com/cgi-bin/htx.exe/pastscores/files/pastscores.html - Scores & Odds Archive.
www.nss.net/SCORES/ - Sports Betting, Gambling, Handicapping, Live Lines.
www.vegasinsider.com - VegasInsider.com.
www.repole.com/sun4cast/ - Sunshine Forecast Historical Score Request Form.
espn.go.com - ESPN.com- the #1 sports web site in the world.
cbs.sportsline.com - CBS.SportsLine.com – the website of CBS Sports.
NFL.com – the official site of the National Football League.
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