I was asked by a reader what the best virtual private server (VPS) is to deploy a betting bot. There is no simple answer - but I would like to talk about the criteria to select a VPS and also bring in my personal experience.
News on Quantitative Betting and Trading
If you would like to automate your sports betting or trading strategy, it might make sense to hire a coder to create a betting bot. This article guides you through the process of outsourcing the programming tasks.
This post explains how we created a script to collect BSP starting price data from a betting exchange, analysed the data using a clustering method which in the end revealed a successful betting strategy.
In this article I would like to discuss advantages and disadvantages of using starting price bets as part of a betting strategy. Multiple betting exchanges offer this type of bet but here I will focus on the Betfair Starting Price (BSP).
This article might serve as a starting point if you wish to record odds from Betfair for backtests or development of betting or trading strategies.
We have just launched this website about using a quantitative approach towards sports betting and trading. Within this article we would like to outline what we would like to offer our visitors in the future.
Betting Strategies
We test betting and trading strategies on historical data:
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Genetic Programming to Create a Betting Strategy
40.26 Points Profit per Month -
Back the Newcomer in Horse Racing
36.25 Points Profit per Month -
Lay the Draw in Football
12.24 Points Profit per Month