🔮⚽ Predict the Winners: Enter the 2025 Football Betting Challenge! ⚽🔮
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@Everyone Starting this Friday...
Are you ready to showcase your football expertise and win big? Dive into our 2025 Football Betting Challenge exclusively at Betfair Trading Community.This is a bit of fun to get our creative juices flowing. This isn't tipping.
Why Participate?
Compete with Fellow Fans: Test your predictions against a community of passionate football enthusiasts.
Exciting Prizes: Stand a chance to win rewards including a personalised trophy!
Weekly Leaderboards: Track your progress and climb the ranks with every match week.
Prizes Include:
Grand Prize: Champion Trophy
Second Place: Silver Medal
Third Place: Bronze Medal
Challenge Duration:
Start Date: Friday the 31st January
End Date: May 26th, 2025Submit your bets below by commenting them.
Football Challenge Rules:
- The bets are set and forget, so straight backs or lays.
- You can submit up to 5 selections per day along with the odds of those selections
- Selections must come from one strategy only, not multiple strategies.
- You will need to update us on how many point’s profit you made.
- All results should be recorded to £10 stakes, a £10 bet at 2.0 odds would be £10 profit if it won or a £10 loss if not.
- Lay stakes are recorded to stake, so if you lay at 3.0 you are risking £20 to win £10.
- Martin will record the standings in a weekly table.
Good luck, and may the best bettor win!
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@Stephen-Hancox did you win
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@Richard-Latimer surely we're deducting 2% on all winnings?
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@Martin are we including commission?
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2/2 today for £19.60 profit (to £10 stakes)
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@Richard-Latimer said in
Predict the Winners: Enter the 2025 Football Betting Challenge! :I'll get the ball rolling:
All selections are going to be from my lay under 1.5 system. I'll post up here along with any stipulations on odds. As I place bet 5 mins prior or sometimes the night before if it's an early early kick off I will update whether it's a trade or not.
Net Eerste must be no higher than 7 to lay
Aus A-league must be no higher than 6.6 to laySo the very first trade I forgot to post again just before kickoff. Odds on Den Bosch were around 6.0 but I can't check exact again at the moment as there is a problem with betfair for me.
Oddsportal will confirm this however.
Betfair playing ball again. It was 5.9.
Final score 3-0
Odds on early morning trade no good.
Thats +£10.00 or £9.80 depending on whether we are adding commission or not.
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@Martin-Webb said in
Predict the Winners: Enter the 2025 Football Betting Challenge! :Over 2.5
Germany Bundesliga 2 Elversberg v Karlsruher 1.53.Won Points Balance +0.53
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BET 1: Wil v Xamax - BACK Over 2.5 goals @ 1.70 odds 2-0
(-£10)
BET 2: Bremen v Mainz - BACK Over 3.5 goals @ 3.25 odds 1-0 (-£10)-£20 overall
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@Martin got you.
I'll go with my BACK THE DRAW strat that has been going well.
31/01/2025 Belgium Challenger Pro League FC Liege Seraing Utd odds - 3.75
31/01/2025 Switzerland Challenge League Stade Lausanne-Ouchy Etoile Carouge odds - 3.75
31/01/2025 Italy Serie A Parma Lecce odds - 3.5
31/01/2025 Mexico Liga de Expansión MX CD Tepatitlan De Morelos Club Atletico Morelia odds - 3.5
02/02/2025 Australia A-League Men Central Coast Mariners Newcastle Jets odds- 3.7 -
Backing over 1.5 goals. None are currently matched but I hope they will be shortly after KO (is that within the rules)?
Elversberg v Karlsruher. 1.26
Den Haag v Eindhoven FC. 1.26
SV Werder Bremen v FSV Mainz 1.30
Montpellier v Lens 1.30
Parma v Lecce 1.30Result: 1 loss and 4 wins = -0.98 pts
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Four selections for over 1.5 goals.
Been testing this value system for Over 1.5 since the beginning of January. Fairly promising start so let's see how it goes moving forward.
Selections are from an initial filter based on O1.5 percentages in last 10 games. Final selections are whittled down depending on av. goal rates and value (based on the O1.5 percentages.)
EDIT Scratch the Mexican game. Just realised that counts as tomorrow.
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Over 2.5
Germany Bundesliga 2 Elversberg v Karlsruher 1.53. -
@GREGORIOS-KARASHIALIS Good advice and might work if the strike rates and odds improve at that stage. S&F is more suited to me for these.
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@GREGORIOS-KARASHIALIS totally understand
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@Richard-Latimer sorry…..
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@GREGORIOS-KARASHIALIS this is a set and forget Challenge thread only though.
The other discussion is for football thread or it'll get real messy here real quick.
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@Stephen-Hancox
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.If you start with a £100 stake per trade and aim for a total return of £687, deducting your £500 investment yields a profit of £187. This equates to a profit margin of about 37.4%, which is indeed a positive return.Regarding needing four out of five successful trades to recover your money and make a slight profit, that is accurate if you consider the cumulative risk involved.
my idea about waiting for the first 10-15 minutes to assess how the matches are progressing is also a good strategy. This approach allows you to gauge the momentum of the games and possibly place further bets on teams that are performing well or have scored early, which can enhance your chances of getting better odds.
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Here's mine for today, I'll be doing over 0.5 first half goals
