Betting system promotion

[Guest adamskitwo]

Hi, I wrote on this board a while back about a computer system I had almost developed, and decided that I would retire into the shadows until the system was fully developed....and now it is. This system is designed currently to predict the results of Premiership games although with more stats this could arguably be extended to cope with any game where the result could be a win, draw or a loss. The system takes in an array of past statistics and predicts the probability of a win, a draw and a loss occurring. This makes it useful to not only predict the favourite result, but also as a device to try and undercut odds. As an example, if I took the result predicted from the system to be the odds on result. I would have a result which I could call 'its prediction'. This can also be applied to the bookmakers odds also. I have found that comparing the predicted results of my system and the bookmakers prediction against the actual result, my system predicts correctly 50% of the time while bookmakers such as William Hill, Ladbrokes, SuperSoccer, Coral, etc tend to hover around 40% correct. As you can see this is a significant improvement, and seems on the surface to be very marketable. I figure that it is best to sell it to bookmakers given it has odds prediction included. From my research, the big boys, William Hill, etc, seem to predict their own results, and the small fish, (local bookies), use coupons from the big boys and dont want the risk of a computer system. It seems like to sell it, I would have to go to the big boys. So this is where it becomes a little sticky....so here are my questions... Extremely grateful for any help. 1. Do you think I am marketing the software at the right person? (the bookies). I figure it could make a killing and it would be wiser as usually selling s/w to the general public results in everyone pirating it in the end anyway. It doesn ideally need an administrator also. 2. How can I possibly go about marketing this software to the big bookmakers? 3. Does anyone have any contacts that I could use just to run the idea past them? 4. Does anyone else have any comments/suggestions/questions about the system? Thanks, Adam PS. It is a windows based neural network based system. The reason I dont use it to bet myself is that the risk is still there (especially with the bookies markup), and that I dont have the money to invest in casual gambling currently.

[Guest OddsAgainst]

Re: Betting system promotion Sorry to rain on your parade but I don't think bookmakers will be interested. They employ professional odds compilers who are very good at their job, otherwise they would not make any profits. Why not proof the results here for a season? If you can demonstrate that your system can indeed beat the odds compilers then either the bookmakers will buy you out to keep the system out of the punter's hands or we will buy it. But you need to prove it's worth over hundreds of live bets first.