STATISTICS IN ONLINE BETTING
Let's have a look at some of the most important factors that you should consider when choosing an event to bet on - statistics. Even if analyzing the statistics or history of a head to head match can't help you too much considering that most of the matches can be very unpredictable (especially if you bet on sports like tennis or volleyball), it still remains one of the easiest ways to make you take a decision regarding an outcome.
One of the things that you need to keep in mind is that statistics should be used just as an informative tool and no more. The biggest mistake is to place a bet on a specific team or market just because of the favorable statistics.
For example, in football, there can be many examples of teams that had a good history against a specific team:
o Team A won the last 5 head to head matches against Team B in the last few years.
By seeing this history you will be automatically influenced to think that Team A has higher chances to win again, and it can be true in some situations, but this shouldn't be the only argument. Team B/Team B could have changed most of the key players or the coach, there can be financial issues at the team or scandals that may affect the playing style. Also, you must take into account the form of the teams, rankings and recent development.
Unlike football - which is a team sport easier to analyze, tennis is an individual sport - more complicated and which needs more attention when checking the stats. Evolution of the player, surface, type of tournament, bad matchups, schedule, weather, injuries, personal life - all these criteria and even more can have a big impact on the outcome of a tennis match. For example, in football - a top team can still have good results even if it loses 1 or 2 key players because of injuries, but in tennis - an injury can have a strong impact on the tennis player and can affect his moral, the results and development even after recovery.
The point is that statistics can be helpful if you use them as tools and combine them with other criteria when doing a complex analysis of a team/player and its winning chances. Also, analyzing statistics is different for each sport, for example - while with some sports it can help a lot to know the head to head results, with others it doesn't help at all.
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