Aug 2024 £3000 - ? Bank Challenge
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5 to go. Still in profit.
I think the one thing I can be pleased about this month is that with such significantly higher stakes my mental game hasn't suffered as a result. By and large I've just looked and dealt with it the same.
With so few games, although my virtual bank is much much higer, I haven't actually had to dig into the real bank for anymore than £50 at present.
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2/3 again and a small loss on variable staking. Satisfying to see Columbus win after price on Philadelphia plummeted when everyone saw the team sheet and started saying Columbus were playing their B side.
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I was wondering why Uruguayan game is once again cancelled. Defender died today after collapsing on pitch a few days ago. This explains all the recent cancellations in that league.
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Potential to be a busy end to the month!
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Updated set of fixtures (home lays) for the next few hours/overnight. Doesn't often happen but 2 selections turns into 4:
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More to add. Hoping to build towards a respectable position for Aug and a decent base from which to build/take off:
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Update - Two home lays to look at now:
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All Uruguayan games were postponed this weekend until 28th by the way
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Nothing until Wednesday now:
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Recovered from the initial set back to make a small profit. Also very close to having made up for the Korean debacle in week 2 of this month. Profit still needs to improve massively but it's never going to be too easy to do that while selections remain so thin on the ground.
Think Sept could be the launchpad there.
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Annoying overnight loss but Paraguay is still good. Nothing changes and hope to get some kind of a run going.
South Korea has been the difference this month and one I didn't post for today in Korea League 2 on course for another loss. Although still 10 minutes for that to change (Bucheon).
Kalmar odds way higher but I am more confident in the higher odds as they they very rarely lose. We'll see.
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6 home lays across Sat/Sun - Majority of Winter Leagues still to kick in:
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1-3, that's more like it.
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Adding to the last post - Both home lays:
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Nothing until this now - Home lay:
All the other things I continue to work on are still going great guns but less ready than this one.
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Disappointing month so far but still waiting on Winter leagues which are mostly about to start kicking in.
Still not really changed anything in overall criteria for a while. Been debating a couple of things internally but nothing more at present.
There really aren't many leagues I've found issue with. Some are Central/South American and it's long been discussed how this can be a bit like headless chickens running around after the ball with no particular plan. I first looked at these when the overall p/l for Central/South America along with s/r was a losing proposition.
Rather than remove all leagues, when many were doing very well, it seemed a beter idea to simply exclude the problem leagues initially. This decision has so far proved to be the right one.
Summer leagues have been a problem with the much lower odds also leading to a large decrease in strike rate/p/l ratio.
Scandinavian leagues with much lower odds have been a concern and so have been put to track only.
Up until recently Korea hadn't been something that was jumping out. K League 2 started with 4 straight wins. Clearly this didn't make it the best league out there. The last 3 results in that league have now been negative. 7 fixtures, 4 wins and a large enough deficit that even 4 straight wins still doesn't take it into the green.
K League 1 had until yesterday 2 results, 1 loss. Big deal. Now 3 results 2 losses and a reminder of how batshit crazy the win was.
So now 10 fixtures across South Korea and no more than a 50/50 proposition. I would say that is something to be wary of.
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@Alex-Rendell They absolutely don't but I just saved myself a chunk of money today and being over cautious is better than the other way. Done that plenty in the past.
What 4 results with odds of around 2/1 does do is make it almost impossible a league can finish in the green for the entire season. A losing season to me is certainly worthy of checking to see whether it's an anomaly or a symptom something bigger.
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@Richard-Latimer it's your system and I'm not personally following it but 4 results don't indicate anything. If they'd all won, it doesn't make it the best league in the world for trading either? Just trying to give an objective viewpoint - like I said, I think you should have a minimum amount of games traded in each league before you start using real money on those leagues, but that's just my humble opinion. Cheers
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@Alex-Rendell tell me I wasn't right to be cautious with the South Korean fixtures. That's now 4 losses on the bounce unless there's a comeback here.
