Aug 2024 £3000 - ? Bank Challenge

[Richard Latimer]

Disappointing day today although not that red due to losing odds.

Beerschot couldn't even manage 1 SHG let alone 2 or 3 and it finished 0-1 so that was a loser on 3 entries.
Celtic conceded and managed to get one back so loss on the game was small, especially as odds taken at kickoff were already small to lay.
Bodo, got to love them. Winning 3-0 @ HT. A 4th just before 60 and when things were lookign dicey for the other entry points they popped up with another. Then They let one in and just for good measure they let another just before it finished.
Molde, odds very short so glad these didn't all lose. A late goal to the opposition sealed the 2-1 win and a split for small red.

I'm back over 100 selections now but next lot of numbers aren't as conclusive so leaving be for now.

[Richard Latimer]

The black box denotes a game where neither has anything to play for.

[Richard Latimer]

Potential LTD today:

Den Bosch was on there but not liking 2-2 scoreline for now.

I''ll enter LTD on 69mins providing 0-0/1-1/0-1 @ HT and no goals/1 goals scored 55mins or less.

Also want ave H2 goal odds to be 1.12+ across the board which can checked on oddsportal.com

[Richard Latimer]

@richard-latimer said in All Goals Are Equal But Some Goals Are More Equal Than Others:

@richard-latimer said in All Goals Are Equal But Some Goals Are More Equal Than Others:

A sizeable list but important to note it's unlikely many will qualify as there are quite strict restrictions in place now to get to qualifier stage:

Revised list as hadn't been through looking to exclude promoted home teams and relegated away teams. Reason for this is I want home teams with form for their average goal tallys so need them playing against similar or better opposition to amass the tallys they have.

Opposite is true of the away team. As I want a dominant home performance living up to their average goal tally I want an away team used to playing against lesser or similar teams rather than one where they've come down a league and will probably bounce straight back up.

In terms of my LTD I've had 6 trades and not one breached 2.06 when entering on 69mins.
5 were wins and 1 was a loss. The loss was 0-1 @ HT and equaliser came on 59mins. The hisory showed me another goal was likely in this case but I think I may reduce it to if the leveller comes after 55 mins it's a leave. Plenty of opportunities without pushing it and I noticed that where another goal came after the equaliser that first goal was scored before 55.

In any case it was good profit and because these are so low in price I'm not stressing over the equaliser at all.

The games in question were:

Salernitana
Menemen Belediyespor (loser @ 1.75)
Vasteras
Slask
Montpellier
Rangers (Chile B)

Sporting Luqueno still technically in play @ 0-0 HT but I may not bother. Plenty tomorrow.

[Richard Latimer]

Here's tomorrows:

Only 1 Belgian Jupiler selection so far but it was a goodun
Got a first selection in Scotland. Will Celtic be able to win convincingl or at least ship enough themselves?!
Bodo have already won the league. Will they continue to run up the score? I see no reason to think otherwise. They'd won last week as well and it didn't stop them scoring 2 late ones to make it 5-1.
Adana won the last time they were selected for this 4-1 after it being 0-0 @ HT.
Finally Molde.

Here's to another good solid day.

[Richard Latimer]

Finally for now though, without the EPL, this is the current state of play:

Over 3.5, 34/48, 71%, ave bookie odds 1.97
Over 1.5 SHG 37/48, 77%, ave bookie odds 1.59
Over 2.5 SHG 14/30, 47%, ave bookie odds 2.69

[Richard Latimer]

And so, not nearly enough data to show anything conclusive but here it anyway in case anyone would like to follow and wants a breakdown of leagues:

[Richard Latimer]

But I'm back over 100 selections again and it's time to remove some low hanging fruit.

Home offensive numbers of 1.35-1.399999 performing better than the numbers below it I've already removed but still decidedly lagging behind the higher numbers. Ave odds for 2 SHG is around 1.75 bookie price and s/r is only 55% They wouldn't lose much if anything but I don't see them adding much to the party longterm.

I'm not removing things based on trades I've done and regretted. These were always on borrowed time and the only thing I'm posting is the best of what I see and what has worked up to now.

[Richard Latimer]

First, a quick tally of the day on these BOGOF's (anyone guess what it stands for haha??):

4 wins, 3 losses on the over 3.5. More than good enough as odds average out around evens. That said, as I've pointed out, it's very clear the EPL is currently underperforming and I'll move them out of the firing line for now. Would be 4 wins, 2 losses. An excellent return.

Over 1.5 SHG @ HT 5 wins, 2 losses. Odds higher but again Man City and the EPL have been useless so far on these. Take them out of the firing line as I will be doing and that would be 5 wins, 1 loss. An excellent return there too.

Over 2.5 SHG @ HT. Started with a bang and a late goal in Singapore very much unexpected at that late stage (to be honest looking at goal times they often are - This thing is littered with clusters of seriously late goals). Anyway then came Bayern, Ajax and Liefering who alway failed on this particular entry of the trade. 1 win, 3 losses for I'd imagine around 0.75-1pt loss.

I now make that 15 wins and 16 losses from what amounts to around odds of 1.6 average.

[Richard Latimer]

Since that last post Bayern did most of the business and Olympiakos got the full win for both entries placed.

Ajax was a loss just over 1pt and Liefering about to fall down big time.

Thank goodness for Porto then who are already 2-2. Another 2 SHG and it will be a good day for these despite Man City who probably just gave me a decent enough excuse to exclude the PL from these for the time being.

[Richard Latimer]

@richard-latimer said in All Goals Are Equal But Some Goals Are More Equal Than Others:

Man City look to be undoing a lot of the good work from this morning. Still small green if/when this loses.

On to Bayern.

Interesting. You'd think Man City would be really good for this but 2nd selection and both lost. Also one for Liverpool that lost.

[Richard Latimer]

Man City look to be undoing a lot of the good work from this morning. Still small green if/when this loses.

On to Bayern.

[Richard Latimer]

@richard-latimer said in All Goals Are Equal But Some Goals Are More Equal Than Others:

Under 3.5 lay in already in first game.

Late winners for both 2nd half entries. That's the sweep on first game.

[Richard Latimer]

Under 3.5 lay in already in first game.

[Richard Latimer]

@richard-latimer said in All Goals Are Equal But Some Goals Are More Equal Than Others:

A sizeable list but important to note it's unlikely many will qualify as there are quite strict restrictions in place now to get to qualifier stage:

Revised list as hadn't been through looking to exclude promoted home teams and relegated away teams. Reason for this is I want home teams with form for their average goal tallys so need them playing against similar or better opposition to amass the tallys they have.

Opposite is true of the away team. As I want a dominant home performance living up to their average goal tally I want an away team used to playing against lesser or similar teams rather than one where they've come down a league and will probably bounce straight back up.

[Richard Latimer]

A sizeable list but important to note it's unlikely many will qualify as there are quite strict restrictions in place now to get to qualifier stage:

[Richard Latimer]

I'm above 100 selections again on the LTD. Time to remove some more numbers. I've previously mentioned that high numbers are performing as bad if not worse than the low numbers. Sweet spot is in the middle. Already removed some high numbers. Left the others in there but no improvement, in fact you could argue they have performed worse than prev with Leverkusen being the latest high profile unexpected 0-0.

Back to 90 selections for now.

[Richard Latimer]

@richard-latimer said in All Goals Are Equal But Some Goals Are More Equal Than Others:

From the LTD filter I'm working on (JO.F.F.S):

I'm becoming more risk averse. Want no H2 goals prior to 69 mins unless it's 0-1 @ HT and then an equaliser prior to 60mins will be fine (going on current data):

So 0-0/1-1/0-1 @HT. only 2x 2-2 results so far and it's a 50/50 split.

Providing average bookie price for a H2 goal is 1.12+ as per oddsportal.com I will ltd on 69 and cash as soon as there's a goal.

Amstetten was 2-1 @ HT, tracking the win as it went 2-2 before 60 but nothing else right now.
Telstar goal came way too early as did Maastricht.
Lausanne-Ouchy postponed.
Waregem I was getting ready but goal came 5mins too early for my current plan. It's tracked though as a post 60 mins goal.
Almere, over odds too short.

[Richard Latimer]

Looks like some big potential for tomorrow on the BOGOF front:

Providing the home team doesn't turn out to be a dog or pretty much even stevens (think that's unlikely here) I'll be laying under 3.5 on all pre kick-off. At HT I'll be laying under 1.5 SHG. For the ones with offensive numbers over 2.0 I'll also be laying under 2.5 SHG.

[Richard Latimer]

From the LTD filter I'm working on (JO.F.F.S):

I'm becoming more risk averse. Want no H2 goals prior to 69 mins unless it's 0-1 @ HT and then an equaliser prior to 60mins will be fine (going on current data):

So 0-0/1-1/0-1 @HT. only 2x 2-2 results so far and it's a 50/50 split.

Providing average bookie price for a H2 goal is 1.12+ as per oddsportal.com I will ltd on 69 and cash as soon as there's a goal.