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Beating the bookies with their own numbers - and how the online sports betting market is rigged — HN submission

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 04:40:58 GMT

Beating the bookies with their own numbers

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Beating the bookies with their own numbers - and how the online sports betting market is rigged — HN submission

Sat, 22 Jun 2019 21:06:25 GMT

Beating the bookies with their own numbers

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Beating the bookies with their own numbers - and how the online sports betting market is rigged — HN submission

Thu, 07 Jun 2018 21:28:31 GMT

Ask HN: Forecasting FIFA World Cup outcomes, statistically, for fun

We are 1 week away from FIFA World Cup 2018, given than it is one of the most important sport events worldwide I though it would be an interesting and entertaining exercise to try and predict the outcomes of the matches, Im wondering what are the most effective approaches to do so and if there are some free data sources out there that one can use to build a model. For predicting the odds of a team winning an specific match it seems that there are 2 approaches that have been proved to be effective: - Using Elo Ratings [1] - Using the bookmaker consensus model [2] And we can easily obtain data…

1 point; 1 discussion reply on HN. Paper and source history. A submission is not an endorsement.

Beating the bookies with their own numbers - and how the online sports betting market is rigged — HN submission

Sat, 21 Oct 2017 19:28:11 GMT

Beating the bookies – how the online sports betting market is rigged

242 points; 155 discussion replies on HN. Paper and source history. A submission is not an endorsement.