https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/30169437/roi-and-stakingHow would you allocate STAKES if you had 5 betting strategies showing potential ROI as follows :-%46.....STRATEGY A23.....STRATEGY B54.....STRATEGY C63.....STRATEGY D15.....STRATEGY E201 totaland you have 17 points available to STAKE ?===============https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/30169437/roi-and-staking?post_id=537266215#537266215I tested RATINGS last JANUARY on a few days .....and big returns on all STRATEGIES....but was more up to date on watching races day to day....so was more aware then about the likely types to run well on going.SOUTHWELL looks more like SOFT going thanMon, 06 Jan 2014 08:10:45 -0600https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/30169437/roi-and-staking?post_id=537265869#537265869Developing a good ratings system is important and the ability to compile an accurate book on a race. Definitely more important than staking strategies IMO.Ps - for jumps this time of year with ridiculous going is very very hard to come up with good rMon, 06 Jan 2014 07:49:06 -0600https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/30169437/roi-and-staking?post_id=537265775#537265775YUP - fair comment RG. Especially with first day of using "system" again !In between going is the hardest factor to weigh up on rating a race.....and logically I should not touch a race when this factor is one I am not "happy" with.The 3.0 race todayMon, 06 Jan 2014 07:41:36 -0600https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/30169437/roi-and-staking?post_id=537265581#537265581DFC - I appreciate someone who works hard at wanting to be successful and puts time and thought into betting but sometimes I think you over complicate things. Woods for the trees sort of thing.Mon, 06 Jan 2014 07:26:03 -0600https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/30169437/roi-and-staking?post_id=537265573#537265573DFC I have to point out that this forum is the only gambling resource that refers to the increase in a bankroll after an arbitrary number of bets as ROI. Everywhere else uses profit/amount staked.Mon, 06 Jan 2014 07:25:18 -0600https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/30169437/roi-and-staking?post_id=537264897#537264897Having so many STRATEGIES that appear to "work" makes it extremely difficult to apply in practice when manually placing bets.So I am using parts of STRATEGY A ( 46 ROT)and STRATEGY B (23 ROT)plus one other STRATEGY that I did not include in opening pMon, 06 Jan 2014 06:38:28 -0600https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/30169437/roi-and-staking?post_id=537262689#537262689Trevh - sent you a PMMon, 06 Jan 2014 02:11:58 -0600https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/30169437/roi-and-staking?post_id=537260753#537260753racingguru : so 7x Initial bank at a rate of 2% of turnover. Eg: a 10k bank - making 70k profit on turnover of 3,500,000.Wow thats a lot of work.Haha, yes and no! I haven't had a whole day off for about 4 years, but some days I only do 2 hours or soSun, 05 Jan 2014 21:10:31 -0600https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/30169437/roi-and-staking?post_id=537258291#537258291The ROIs shown above are ROT figures........at level staking for each strategy.Using system for only 3 races tomorrow, and I admit that , without bots, it is very time consuming to apply each of the 5 STRATEGIES (indicated above) plus another 3 STRATSun, 05 Jan 2014 17:17:36 -0600https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/30169437/roi-and-staking?post_id=537250475#537250475Just for the record. If you use a betting bank and you really should if you want to stake correctly then:ROI - is an extremely useful metric as you can estimate you profits from season to season and know what sort of bank you need to achieve the resuSun, 05 Jan 2014 11:17:32 -0600