With the Premier League football season just under a week and a half away, it’s time for my football bets to return after the success enjoyed last year.
Last season from October onward I posted my best football bets up at my free Betting Prophet blog and began keeping a full record. These bets were all based upon the advice I highlighted in my ‘next week in football betting’ column in the free Weekend Wager email sent every Friday (enter your email address at the top of this page to pick it up). I also selected regular bets for midweek games as well, which all went up at the blog.
By the end of the season the Premier League focused best bets (my speciality) had returned a profit of 10.66 pts from 64 bets and a total of 78.5 pts staked. The return on investment level was 13.58%. Check out the profit graph from last season below
Along with my main football bets I also began to highlight my next-best ‘shortlist’ selections. These were those bets that don’t quite make the grade for a main selection but I do think offer value. Only 7 bets via this so far, losing 0.64 pts from 7 pts staked.
This Season’s Target
In the 2010/11 season my aim is to continue to expand upon this and see what kind of profit or loss level I may actually generate over a more substantial number of bets. Whilst the 10.66 pts obtained since October 09 is decent, I want to judge this over a larger number of bets.
Hopefully I can also provide some ‘against the grain’ style betting commentary and suggest a few good angles to take if nothing else.
I will be backing each bet to small stakes myself as I always like to track any such method with my own money. However I wouldn’t advise those of you following do so with anything more than similarly small stakes.
Asian Handicap Focus
The vast majority of my bets are all based around Asian Handicap betting, which is quickly becoming one of the most popular ways to bet on football. One of the reasons for this is that the bookmakers margins for these bets are smaller, meaning in principle it’s easier to make a profit.
Don’t be put off either by the name or some of the terms it uses such as 0.25 or -0.5 – It is actually quite simple to follow once you get a grasp of it. If you have yet to consider Asian Handicap betting, let me encourage you to do so this year – you can read an explanation of what it is and how it works at the following websites:
Wikipedia
Beat The Bookies
SBOBet
Other bet types supplied will be on the outright win and also the under/over goals market.
Next Up
Over the next few weeks I will begin to blog and share my football bets for the coming season, starting with a look at my advice in the Ante-post market.
Bet numbers may be relatively low at the start of the season as I want to see how each team approaches things this year. With the transfer window at the end of August this can also throw things a little. Once the season is up and running properly and things have settled down, expect regular bets from me.
All bets will be posted up at this blog so keep an eye out for my advice whenever there are Premier League fixtures looming.