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I spent about 4.7 hours each Saturday looking for the perfect match. Sheets and stats from 2019 cluttered my desk and I had to sort through worthless player injury reports that were probably out of date.<\/p>\n

For nothing. I still lost.<\/p>\n

So, what actually made the difference? First, I stopped making every weekend a hedge fund operation and started doing things that actually needed me. Changing my attitude about the simple things most forget about, made\u00a0sports betting<\/span><\/a> a lot more fun.<\/p>\n

The 3:00am Mistake<\/span><\/h2>\n

I have lost sleep over this. Match prediction scrolls at 3:17 A.M. trying to decide whether to support Arsenal or take the cautious route and assume a draw, all while reading 14 contradictory \u201cexpert\u201d opinions.<\/p>\n

After logging my bets for 8 months, I actually had more wins for the matches I watched than any match I won after reading the most articles. I actually saw how the teams performed in their last 6 matches.<\/p>\n

What Actually Worked for Me<\/span><\/h2>\n

I actually started getting wins after I started taking notes on my phone. I wouldn\u2019t write stats after the Premier League matches I watched on the weekends. I would write Chelsea\u2019s defense was easily countered on the right side, or that after the 60th minute, Haaland and the rest of the players got frustrated when they weren\u2019t serving.<\/p>\n

After about 3 months, I ended up with a pretty solid system that was better than any of the prediction sites.<\/p>\n

Yeah, I still lost some bets. About 43% of them. The difference was those other bets made up for my losses, because I wasn’t just betting for the fun of it. I was betting only in cases where I had reason to believe the outcome based on the patterns.<\/p>\n

The Friday Night Ritual<\/span><\/h2>\n

Currently, my system is this: at around 8 on Friday night, I look at the matches happening on Saturday and Sunday. I don’t look at them to analyse. I see what’s happening and look at match preview content without trying to make or find predictions.<\/p>\n

Team news is important. I want to know who’s playing and what’s predicted is worthless because managers can decide to make changes.<\/p>\n

Saturday morning is spent looking at confirmed lineups. If they differ from what I was expecting, I don’t bother with that match.<\/p>\n

By Sunday evening, I would have made a maximum of only 3 or 4 Bets as opposed to 15. I had mostly conservative Bets because of the patterns.<\/p>\n

The Money Part Nobody Mentions<\/span><\/h2>\n

To start off the last season, I had $340. To start off, I kept $190 and only touched the $150 for the first two months.<\/p>\n

Essentially, I was putting my system to the test and seeing what results it yielded without a big commitment. I placed my system on the same level as my betting friend’s day trading and relied on the same risk management.<\/p>\n

By December, I had made a total of $127. While not crazy, I ended the season with the initial amount I started with and, unlike in prior seasons, I relied on smaller, thought-out, conservative bets instead of betting just for the fun of it.<\/p>\n

You really don’t need to place 20 matches every week. Five quality predictions always beat 50 impulsive random ones. That\u2019s what I have learned across the past 11 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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