- Jun 16, 2018
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Today for the first time I sat down and looked closely at my 'profit and loss' for 2020.
Betfair make this very easy. Sportsbet, not so much.
Anyway today I discovered that for 2020 I am miles ahead on AFL and miles behind on soccer, at least with betfair.
For the year 2020 so far, according to my betfair P/L:
AFL: +69 units
Soccer: -59 units
MMA: -8 units
Motorsport: +15 units
For those of you who don't use betfair, they have an option when you are logged in which tells you exactly how much you are up or down for all sports.
I only learned about this today. It is an excellent facility, I kinda wish I had known about it sooner.
Looking at my figures earlier tonight, I realised that I had no idea I was burning so much cash on soccer.
Yes, I've been betting on soccer way more this year than normal, especially the Belarus football league when nothing else was on.
And I have gotten into the habit of betting on EPL over the past year or so, since I've been living in Asia where the timezone works well to watch it.
But I wouldn't have guessed I was down almost 60 ****n units already this year on soccer.
Also the AFL +69 is deceptive: about 60 units of that are from the Coll/Rich draw in Rd 2.
(I had a feeling about that game, put a unit on it, what a celebration that one was).
The Motorsport +15 is also deceptive: that's all from last weekend when a guy I backed to make the podium did so by the barest of margins*
*Some other guy got a 5 second penalty, so my guy, who finished 4th, was given 3rd, lol.
So realistically I consider myself above average (at best) with AFL, and absolutely shithouse with soccer. I honestly did not know I was this bad.
With MMA and motorsport the sample size / turnover is too low to read anything into it.
Tomorrow I'll sit down with my sportsbet csv (excel file) and try to see if I can figure out the P/L for different sports for myself.
I know that for 2020 so far I'm up 8 units overall with with SB, which sounds okay, but if Betts had kicked one less goal today, I'd only be about even.
Which is all I'm looking for: If I break even on a turnover of a few hundred units in a calendar year, I figure I've done well. This is all just entertainment for me.
I don't really watch movies and I don't have netflix or anything like that. Sports is my way to 'unwind'. I like to bet on one team to beat another.
Given that SB are taking 10+% and betfair maybe 3% (?), if you can turn over 100+ units and break even, in a way you've kinda won...
...if you get what I mean.
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Now I want to know, how closely do you monitor / track your own results?
Do you have sports which bring home the bacon and others which burn it?
Are you trying to win overall with this? Are you happy just to break even?
Do you have goals like this or do you literally just punt for fun and pay no long-term attention to it?
(Sorry if there is already a thread like this, if so, feel free to merge)
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P.S.
Betfair make it so easy to track P/L, sportsbet do not.
In fact if you try to call SB to ask them about this, expect to spend 30 minutes waiting on the phone. That's what happened to me.
Betfair make this very easy. Sportsbet, not so much.
Anyway today I discovered that for 2020 I am miles ahead on AFL and miles behind on soccer, at least with betfair.
For the year 2020 so far, according to my betfair P/L:
AFL: +69 units
Soccer: -59 units
MMA: -8 units
Motorsport: +15 units
For those of you who don't use betfair, they have an option when you are logged in which tells you exactly how much you are up or down for all sports.
I only learned about this today. It is an excellent facility, I kinda wish I had known about it sooner.
Looking at my figures earlier tonight, I realised that I had no idea I was burning so much cash on soccer.
Yes, I've been betting on soccer way more this year than normal, especially the Belarus football league when nothing else was on.
And I have gotten into the habit of betting on EPL over the past year or so, since I've been living in Asia where the timezone works well to watch it.
But I wouldn't have guessed I was down almost 60 ****n units already this year on soccer.
Also the AFL +69 is deceptive: about 60 units of that are from the Coll/Rich draw in Rd 2.
(I had a feeling about that game, put a unit on it, what a celebration that one was).
The Motorsport +15 is also deceptive: that's all from last weekend when a guy I backed to make the podium did so by the barest of margins*
*Some other guy got a 5 second penalty, so my guy, who finished 4th, was given 3rd, lol.
So realistically I consider myself above average (at best) with AFL, and absolutely shithouse with soccer. I honestly did not know I was this bad.
With MMA and motorsport the sample size / turnover is too low to read anything into it.
Tomorrow I'll sit down with my sportsbet csv (excel file) and try to see if I can figure out the P/L for different sports for myself.
I know that for 2020 so far I'm up 8 units overall with with SB, which sounds okay, but if Betts had kicked one less goal today, I'd only be about even.
Which is all I'm looking for: If I break even on a turnover of a few hundred units in a calendar year, I figure I've done well. This is all just entertainment for me.
I don't really watch movies and I don't have netflix or anything like that. Sports is my way to 'unwind'. I like to bet on one team to beat another.
Given that SB are taking 10+% and betfair maybe 3% (?), if you can turn over 100+ units and break even, in a way you've kinda won...
...if you get what I mean.
----------------------------------------
Now I want to know, how closely do you monitor / track your own results?
Do you have sports which bring home the bacon and others which burn it?
Are you trying to win overall with this? Are you happy just to break even?
Do you have goals like this or do you literally just punt for fun and pay no long-term attention to it?
(Sorry if there is already a thread like this, if so, feel free to merge)
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P.S.
Betfair make it so easy to track P/L, sportsbet do not.
In fact if you try to call SB to ask them about this, expect to spend 30 minutes waiting on the phone. That's what happened to me.
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