Aug 2024 £3000 - ? Bank Challenge

[Richard Latimer]

ELO has been rubbish again today despite a win in Bayern and Sevilla. Time to pause. I'm working on other stuff although not ready to post yet.

Will keep tracking the ELO's but been a steady decline since Oct I think and It's not really getting any better.

Maybe when fans allowed back into the stadiums it might pick up again. Not really sure what to make of the fact it was flying post lockdown when all the leagues came back to finish but maybe after so long out the players were just really fired up to get going again.

Now they're all knackered and need a holiday haha!

[Richard Latimer]

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

Time to get to bed in case opportunity knocks early doors!

Following my decision to go 106+ on ELO difference I forgot to amend my spreadsheet so Dundee and the Brazil Series C don't qualify.

[Richard Latimer]

Time to get to bed in case opportunity knocks early doors!

[Richard Latimer]

Fri ELO's and finally there's some football again haha!

[Richard Latimer]

I read that pl home advantage has pretty much gone out of the window this season. Not all leagues like that but it may certainly explain why ELO has been far more up and down.

[Finn Kristensen]

@martin-futter said in All Goals Are Equal But Some Goals Are More Equal Than Others:

@richard-latimer sending you some positivity mate! next international break is now 4 months away

Lovely!

[Richard Latimer]

@martin-futter said in All Goals Are Equal But Some Goals Are More Equal Than Others:

@richard-latimer sending you some positivity mate! next international break is now 4 months away

Thank god haha!

[Martin]

@richard-latimer sending you some positivity mate! next international break is now 4 months away

[Richard Latimer]

So tomorrow is another bucket of sweet FA again. Basically Telstar on the ELO's. That's it unless Kuwait is inplay properly which it very rarely is these days. Also not even sure on how Kuwait has performed.

[Richard Latimer]

Nothing has qualified yet today. Just Lillestrom as a potential on the ELO front.

[Richard Latimer]

Paraguay comes through. I like this league.

[Richard Latimer]

Sad state of affairs recently.

As documented in the football thread I'm sick of Romania Liga 2 now. Gone from being a league I could trust to WTF is happening now!?

Sport Huancayo are winning so only leaves Guarani is a possible and Paraguay touch wood has been good.

On the last sheet running from May 19 to July 20 I had 6 winners and 2 losers for a small profit. Since then 4 winners and 2 small losers for another small profit.

[Richard Latimer]

So looking at the overnighters, Ecuador proved as inconsistent as ever. There's now been 4 wins and 4 losses. Of which 3 were minor and 1 more substantial. I didn't post this as I had no intention of being on it regardless of what tiime it was.

Of the games I am interested in Romania starts at 17:30.

[Richard Latimer]

Another miserable day. Zizkov I've already covered but this weekend in general wasn't great. A late lay of Nacional was odds on but then they went 0-2 down and just when I thought I was out for a scratch @ 1-2 VAR reared its ugly head!

Variance is a bitch for sure!

Not much for tomorrow. I'll post in the afternoon.

[Richard Latimer]

Too late to do anything about Zizkov but I've made a small adjustment to the ELO. It's something I've been thinking about for a while but now I've analysed it properly there doesn't seem any rational argument against.

ELO difference of 100-105 removed.

Since August this has been a losing proposition but that's not a reason in itself. No, I went back and analysed my old sheet and removing these numbers takes away £1.20 of my lovely profit. Not only that but it amends figures as follows:

S/r up from around 72.5%-73.10%
Yield up from 15.75%-16%
Average odds up very slightly from 2.66-2.68.

Small differences last year but essentially risking to gain nothing all year and this year that nothing is a loss.

[Richard Latimer]

Need to try and be up early. Bed soon:

[Richard Latimer]

First losing day in a bit. Not a heavy one. See if tomorrow brings anything.

[Richard Latimer]

Few potentials for tomorrow. Not bad for an international week:

[Richard Latimer]

Only this for tomorrow but I'll be in bed:

[Richard Latimer]

No ELO's tomorrow and so may be time for an early night.