{"id":16990,"date":"2017-10-21T15:19:54","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T20:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16990"},"modified":"2017-10-21T15:19:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T20:19:54","slug":"the-secret-betting-strategy-that-beats-online-bookmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16990","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Betting Strategy That Beats Online Bookmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Before committing any real money, the researchers tested the idea on 10 years of historical data on the closing odds and results of 479,440 soccer games played between 2005 and 2015. This simulation paid out 44 percent of the time and delivered a yield of 3.5 percent over the 10-year period. \u201cFor an imaginary stake of $50 per bet, this corresponds to an equivalent profit of $98,865 across 56,435 bets,\u201d they say.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/609168\/the-secret-betting-strategy-that-beats-online-bookmakers\/\">The Secret Betting Strategy That Beats Online Bookmakers &#8211; MIT Technology Review<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before committing any real money, the researchers tested the idea on 10 years of historical data on the closing odds and results of 479,440 soccer games played between 2005 and 2015. This simulation paid out 44 percent of the time &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16990\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[532,661,1148],"class_list":["post-16990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-analytics","tag-gaming","tag-probability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16991,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16990\/revisions\/16991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}