July

With the WC over, everything is pretty much in shutdown - the source sites that i use for the projects are not spewing anything out at the moment, so we really are at a blog standstill. With upcoming wedding and honeymoon, I'm away until august now anyway, where hopefully we'll see a good start to a new season.

Betting in earnest won't start until the tail end of september to give the new season time to get into the swing of things.

A nice bit of calm before the storm! Hopefully I'll get chance to update long term results this week as well.....

Tuesday

A nothing day really on monday, some winners some losers, optimised stakes staying in the 12% bracket.

Level stakes at 3%. Expecting some convergence of that at some point in the near future.

Project will be slow although not non-existent throughout the world cup.

One tiny bet gets past the filters today that will make no difference one way or another - so next update will be in a week's time when back from sin city.

Good luck all.

Monday

Well, vegas in a couple of days. Very excited now.

Quite a few bets on a monday. You often get a bit of a feel for something, and today's look like decent enough efforts. hopefully more progress will be made and we can move a day nearer to actually getting some solid selections out of this project!

Stay lucky.

Sunday

Saturday's results were very pleasing for the test. Back to 11% yield now for optimized stakes. Things are progressing nicely on that front.

Not even tempted to include today's serie B games in the project though - took one look at the prices and just laughed. The favour system is alive and well in italy, that's all I can say! Also deleted the hungarian games since its the last matchday and the test was producing some whacking great bets in dead rubber situations/where the other team desperately needs to win.

That leaves behind only 2 filtered bets, but there's limited point in including things in the test that I wouldn't be betting on in real life, I think.

Just drags the test period out a little longer though!

Stay lucky

Saturday

So, after 3 bets in about 4 days, it looks like a much more exciting day for the beta tests today. 8 bets all in all. There was a bet yesterday that won and took the project at optimised stakes back into a small profit, but with the strange end of season results being included I think that's very positive.

Let's see how today goes! There's 4 bets in Romania who are on their last game of the season I think, so again, probably duff bets that would inevitably be ignored. Don't want to get too bogged down in being too subjective at this stage though.

More beta

Only one bet in the last couple of days, a small loser.

So the project is still at a negative stage at the moment.

One bet only for tonight's games. Slow at the moment, although an ideal time to start this project, a poor time for actually collecting data!

Here's hoping patience will be a virtue.

Tuesday

1 bet yesterday and 1 loser takes beta into an overall loss position. However as stated before I'm confident - including the end of season matches would not be prudent.

I'm near as dammit certain that future seasons will see me leave the first bets until both teams involved have played 4 home and 4 away fixtures, and start to wind down activity when both teams are within the last 4 games of a campaign - just for a safety buffer.

There will still be the odd torquay, I have no doubt.

No bets on beta today so its still the waiting game, its very quiet worldwide this midweek, so no update tomorrow.