In selecting sports to specialise on you need to focus on those where your knowledge is strongest. Sportsbooks that still perform odds compilation in-house, hire specialists in each sport, expert quants to produce highly accurate models or train people in specific areas. If the odds compiler you’re up against only looks at one sport, you’re putting yourself at a serious disadvantage in trying to master half a dozen. It’s very important to immerse yourself in your chosen sports to augment your knowledge. Read newspaper articles, scour websites and trawl through social media to stay on top of all the requisite information.

 

It’s also worth considering which leagues are most likely to have pricing inefficiencies and which are likely to be very hard to win on. The English Premier League is a highly efficient market. The major Asian sportsbooks set the tone for the pricing of these matches and produce highly accurate Asian Handicaps and Total Goals lines from which most other prices can be derived. The high betting limits that most bookmakers set for such markets tells you that they are confident that there’s little chance of a price being seriously out of line. The EPL is one of the most highly analysed and scrutinised competitions in sport. It’s also one of the hardest for punters to win on.

 

What you’re seeking to find is a sport, or leagues and competitions within a sport, where you can find the sweet spot between markets where pricing inefficiencies still exist and where you can still place large enough wagers to maximise your edge over the market. It’s also crucial to find competitions where there are no integrity concerns, otherwise, selections that might seem to offer great value may in fact be no value at all. Rugby Union is a sport where pricing inefficiencies still exist. Yet, it is sufficiently popular that UK and Irish bookmakers must offer an array of markets, making it an ideal sport to bet on. Oval Sports Betting specialises in Rugby Union and allows you to cash in on the sport from a betting standpoint.