[Setting basic betting guidelines to improve P/L]

Hi all, I am writing this thread because (like us all!) I am looking for ways to improve my gambling after years of casual, careless choices and indifferent results. I have a strong interest in a variety of different sports and so am trying to strategize in a manner that will return regular profit. Not worried about how much profit just yet, getting regular profit is the main aim – along with improving my knowledge of all sports which should naturally come as a result of the focus I will place on researching my bets. I want to set up certain criteria that once met will satisfy me enough to place a sensible, bankroll proportionate bet taking into account factors like form, team selection, weather, referee, etc. I have different questions I want to ask people about their betting and how they approach it if they wish to answer as I would ideally like to produce a basic set of guidelines for betting on a variety of sports – which I will then publish on this forum. · What sports do you bet on? · What factors affect your choices on individual events? · What factors affect your choices for longer term bets (tournaments, ante-post, etc…) · What markets do you like to bet on? · How do you research your bets? · Do you bet in-play? · Do you play accumulators, lucky 15s? · Do you play the exchanges (back and lay)? · How many bookmakers do you use? · What is your bankroll management strategy? · What information do you record regarding your betting and how do you record it? · How successful are you (avg. P/L per month/annum)?

[Using Excel to Model a Football Tournament (World Cup 2014 - Group Stage)]

Re: Using Excel to Model a Football Tournament (World Cup 2014 - Group Stage) Absolutely fantastic thread lunatism, I have a couple of questions though; 1. My spreadsheets seems to encounter problems at the "H = ITERATION This column is responsible for counting the number of iterations that have occurred, to do this a COUNTIF is used to search the B column on the MODELS sheet. Copy the following formula from H2 to H33:"=COUNTIF(MODEL!B:B,COUNTRIES!I2)+1 ; and Excel keeps prompting me to open up a file for some reason? 2. Do you have a book or resource from which you learnt all this that I could visit or buy as your skills are very impressive and relevant? I'd love to be able to create graphs and tables from spreadsheet data to visualize, track and predict different events. 3. I am completely lost as to why you are inputting certain codes and what they mean; how do you know what all the different functions do and mean and how they interact with each other? Thanks for an amazing resource as it is something I've been interested in for ages but not actually looked into.