How To Test A System?

Why use past games and not future games?

Fracsoft gives you full details of all prices for events both pre off an in play. In theory it's brilliant but in practice their software is terrible so it's a bit of a pain. It's still useful though.

It would save a lot of time.

I'm relying on "in game" betting.

If I could test this on say, Octobers "In Play" markets. I could see if my ideas have potential..

It's probably work buying a couple of hunderd matches- just to see how everything fits together. It will cost you a bit of money but it's cheaper than losing bets.

Your other option is to reccord odds using Gruss, but you can ony every gather so much data and it will take a while to do. The good thing about fracsoft is that you can get a whole season's worth of price information immediately and once you've bought the market you can examine it from any number of angles.

You may well find that what you're thinking of doesn't work, but the process of researching it gives you other ideas- that's certaily my experience.

No chatname specified 10 Nov 10:59
It would save a lot of time.

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if youre trying to fast track your way to succesful gambling then it wont work .

word of warning ...you need to look at odds while theyre being played ,historic odds can be very misleading
unless you are betting pre match of course

Systems the good man who said i have not failed
i have just found10.000 ways that wont work g/luck

Thanks,

Will probably just use matches from now on and test on paper in a hundred or so matches. See what results I have after that.

in game betting on football is usually a pretty good system...for example last night i was guareteed a profit as i had originally put a bet on Birmingham to win at 18/1 and the draw at 6/1 and then running in play Liverpool went out to 4/1 at the start of the second half which i also bet on guarentin me a profit overall

only one way to see if a system works and thats to put real money on it, you will find out quickly if it works

I LAUGHED AT ALL THESE PAPER TRADERS ,I USED REAL MONEY TO TEST MY SYSTEMS AND IM SKINT,YOU PAPER TRADE LIKE THEM ,

imhere, things went for you last evening, and chances when Liverpool went 1-0 up I guess B'ham / draw prices went a lot bigger than the prices you took, also it was well into the second half before Liverpool touched 4/1. At half time Liverpool were 2.66 as that was when I got involved.

I generally assign 15k to a system, I find it less hassle than paper trading with decent staking I see if it works, and give it a good run, if it does in 15k then I assume its **, and look for something else. I am sure you could do it with less, but most of my systems work.

Thanks all for the help here.

RE: ImHere.

I agree with the reply you have received. Things went well for you. By "testing" a system I want to see if it's profitable long term. It isn't hard to back a huge underdog then sell of as odds drop etc.

The system is dependent on laying, and from what little research I've done seems profitable. Their is good volume in the market, which is one of the main problems with most of my older new redundant systems.

I'm thinking of allocating £1k to testing the system.

Also make sure you re-test the methods that appear profitable over a different time period, you may just have discovered something which isn't sustained across a season.

I'm always told there are NO winning systems - hope this helps

aye robot 10 Nov 13:52


It's probably work buying a couple of hunderd matches- just to see how everything fits together. It will cost you a bit of money but it's cheaper than losing bets.

Your other option is to reccord odds using Gruss, but you can ony every gather so much data and it will take a while to do. The good thing about fracsoft is that you can get a whole season's worth of price information immediately and once you've bought the market you can examine it from any number of angles.

You may well find that what you're thinking of doesn't work, but the process of researching it gives you other ideas- that's certaily my experience


How do you record in Gruss and can you record a whole match/race?

It's pretty easy to set up a spread sheet that will do this using the excel integration- you can record anything you like but if you're not careful you can end up with too much data. There are various threads about this on the Gruss forum if you search for them. The providers themselves will not support it as that would be in breach of their agreement with Betfair but as a customer you are allowed to put together a spreadsheet and record data for your own personal use.

betexplorer dot com has past results with prices useful for backchecking.