Pointers

1. Our “Explorer” Facility

As we mentioned on our Home page, the SoccerPAT facility was initially devised to allow us to identify where we could make money using the predictions generated by our “Predict-A-Win” (PaW) Program, where those predictions are posted weekly on our Soccer-Predictions.com website (and have been since 2003). Subsequently, we also extended its coverage to allow us to see how we would have fared had we relied on the Bookies’ expectations for our betting. After that, it was just a short step away to incorporate comparisons between the success or otherwise of betting against either the PaW calls or the Bookies’ expectations, and then to incorporate “reverse” call comparisons against the PaW and Bookies, such as calling Draws instead of Short Odds Home Win calls. All of that is now fully onboard in the SoccerPAT “Explorer” facility.

To check out for yourself what the outcome of different betting scenarios would be, all you have to do is click on the “Explorer” link in the website’s top menu bar, where the following Bet Types are built in:

1. 1X2 Betting,
2. Double Chance Betting,
3. Win Only Betting, and
4. Under/Over Betting.

Within those Bet Types, the following lists the many match scenarios that are also handled by the “Explorer”:

1. Where the Home or Away team is obviously much stronger (as the Bookies will almost certainly agree with).
2. Where the teams are evenly matched, further divided into whether the average of the Win Quotients of the teams is high, medium or low.
3. Just for the Relegated/Promoted teams or the Staying teams, or for all teams together.
4. For all Divisions or selected Divisions.
5. For mid-week, weekend or the full week’s matches.

However, to save you a lot of research work, we provide you with a shortcut to seeing what betting parameters have made lots of money so far this season on singles betting alone, some for ‘straight call’ betting but many for ‘reverse call’ betting! The route to seeing that information is simply to click either on the “Research” link also in the top menu bar or, alternatively, on the “SoccerPAT Research Outputs” box that sits under the top menu bar (and which shows what the “Top 3 Net Returns” for specific betting scenarios were up to the end of the previous week).

Once you have accessed the “SoccerPAT Research Outputs”, you can then immediately begin to play with the inputs to test out whatever betting parameters you wish to explore, and for whatever seasons are available to view. The records displayed there show only the possible betting successes (i.e., where the input parameters return 5% or more on the total amount laid out to date - although the actual return on the MAXIMUM AMOUNT STAKED to date could well be much higher). From within the “SoccerPAT Research Outputs” you can also check out the result of ‘multiples’ betting for all the examples shown, where some of the results are phenomenal!

For those who are interested, we also have a list of failed input parameters - i.e. where the input parameters return less than 5% on the total amount laid out to date. This will save you wasting a lot of your own time testing out what are useless betting options that we have already identified.

So here is a summary of what we offer you on this website:

1. Access to our “Explorer” facility, which will enable you to establish for yourself what the list of matches is for the current week against every single one of the example sets of winning betting parameters we have identified from the previous weeks in the season. This should then help you to determine what, if anything, you should be betting on in the current week.
2. A specific SoccerPAT Research Outputs success from last week that, overall, has done well so far this season.
3. An updated list each week of the best sets of betting parameters for making money so far this season, shown in our SoccerPAT Research Outputs. And there may be many other sets of parameters that have not yet been found but which you can discover for yourself by playing with the SoccerPAT “Explorer” facility!

Now, although we have tried to make using the “Explorer” facility as intuitive as possible, we recognise that you might be more comfortable if you could view some introductory videos in order to get the hang of what you need to do. We did produce some videos years ago, but they are now well out of date and are based on an earlier version of the SoccerPAT facility that was not as good as the version we now have. We are therefore currently in the process of producing entirely new videos, which will be available soon. Having said that, the videos that we show at the moment will give you a flavour of what the “Explorer” facility does, where every white box in the display is a variable that you can change to whatever you wish to use instead.

2. Questions To Think About

To focus your mind a bit, we challenge you to provide honest answers to the following questions about 1X2 soccer betting:

1. Is it worth employing a consistent way to making betting selections each week, or is it just as viable to make selections based on gut feeling (taking into account, of course, what you understand as the recent past performance of the teams involved)?
2. If you had applied your current betting strategy consistently each week last season as well as in the season before that, would you have made a profit in both seasons?
3. For retrospective analysis purposes, would it be worthwhile for you to have access to a predictions system that is completely consistent in its approach from week to week?
4. Would betting on all the Bookies’ favourites (i.e. those matches with the lowest Odds, up to 1.50) have made money for you last season and the season before that?
5. Is there an alternative range of Bookies’ Odds (beyond 1.50) that offer much better chances of making money across a whole season than betting on the Bookies’ favourites?
6. Can the Bookies ever be beaten by employing straight 1X2 betting?
7. Are there ways to bet against the Bookies’ 1X2 expectations (i.e. ‘reverse’ calling) that stand a good chance of making worthwhile money over the whole season?
8. Is it safe to attempt ‘multiples’ betting in some cases, or would losses always occur?

You can get the answers to almost all of the above questions by using our “Explorer” facility. Not only does can you test the usefulness (or otherwise) of our PaW predictions against the actual results, you can also check out how the Bookies’ expectations stack up against the actual results. And you can even contrast the outputs of the Predict-A-Win (“PaW”) Program’s predictions for the matches against what the outcome would have been if, instead, the Bookie’s expectation had been used as the guide for betting. You can get free access to the PaW Program’s weekly prediction postings by going to the Soccer-Predictions.com website.

Since our “Explorer” facility operates based on the principle of consistency being applied to both making predictions and determining selections, what it cannot do is answer the question as to how much would have been lost or made in any season if there was no such consistency applied. However, it appears perfectly obvious (from all the reports available on the subject) that the majority of the 97% of Bettors who lose money to the Bookies each season do not apply consistency in making predictions or determining selections. We have therefore concluded that nothing more needs to be said in defence of using a properly structured system for betting purposes if there is to be any hope of making money with 1X2 betting.

So, if your current betting strategy is not producing winning results for you, what have you really got to lose by taking advantage of the unique soccer predictions analysis tool that we can provide you with – namely, the “Explorer” facility?

Remember, if you are not aware of what using our “Explorer” facility would so easily tell you about where the 1X2 betting losses sit, you can only expect to keep losing to the Bookies!