betting

[Silver Fox]

If you assume home games we're usually favourites at around 6/4 -> 18 games so far and away we're usually underdogs at around 9/4 -> 16 games so far.

10 home wins would yield £5 profit per game -> £50 -> less the 8 games we haven't won (-£80) would be a loss of £30.
9 away wins would yield £12.50 profit per game -> £112.50 -> less the 7 games we haven't won (-£70) would be a profit of £42.50.

So overall you'll be looking at a whopping £12.50 profit for your £340 investment.

Very rough I know, but betting on everything doesn't really work. The law of averages would imply you'd break even over time.

errrrm, £10 @ 6/4 will give you £15 profit, 9/4 £22.50

time well spent though

[RFCSPACE]

If you assume home games we're usually favourites at around 6/4 -> 18 games so far and away we're usually underdogs at around 9/4 -> 16 games so far.

10 home wins would yield £5 profit per game -> £50 -> less the 8 games we haven't won (-£80) would be a loss of £30.
9 away wins would yield £12.50 profit per game -> £112.50 -> less the 7 games we haven't won (-£70) would be a profit of £42.50.

So overall you'll be looking at a whopping £12.50 profit for your £340 investment.

Very rough I know, but betting on everything doesn't really work. The law of averages would imply you'd break even over time.

errrrm, £10 @ 6/4 will give you £15 profit, 9/4 £22.50

time well spent though

At least somebody picked up on it

Moral of the story, don't bet kids. Or screw all logic and just bet Reading to win every game and it will be profitable.

[Snowball]

If you want to have a look at how our odds have changed over the season then this is a decent starting point

http://thetilehurstend.co.uk/2011/08/03 ... ew-201112/

To make you really sick...

http://thetilehurstend.co.uk/2011/09/27 ... r-27-2011/

Reading's title odds were 66/1 then, with promotion odds of 12/1

Even worse, Stan James were offering 150/1 on Reading to win the title in December

I would have offered 10,000,000-1, as it was impossible to win it in December.

[Wimb]

If you want to have a look at how our odds have changed over the season then this is a decent starting point

http://thetilehurstend.co.uk/2011/08/03 ... ew-201112/

To make you really sick...

http://thetilehurstend.co.uk/2011/09/27 ... r-27-2011/

Reading's title odds were 66/1 then, with promotion odds of 12/1

Even worse, Stan James were offering 150/1 on Reading to win the title in December

I would have offered 10,000,000-1, as it was impossible to win it in December.

Nonsense, twasn't impossible, the rest of the league could have all folded leaving Reading as the only team left and therefore Champions by default

[The Prisoner]

Not quite in the spirit of the OP, but for the last 20 or so games I have put £4 or £5 on each of the most likely scorelines that we are involved with - 1-0, 2-0, 0-1, 0-0 or 1-1. I have been paid out on 15 games. With the average odds for correct scorelines being 10-1 (got 20-1 on Reading 0-1 Stevenage, but 1-0 home wins are usually only 7 or 8s) I have effectively doubled up 15 times and lost the stake 5 times. It's not spectacular, but it's a solid earner based on 75% of our last 20 games ending up with one of those scores. You could ramp up the risk-return by dropping the two drawing score lines as they have come up the least, but I think they will kick back in to return.

More in the spirit of the OP - the season we went down from the prem (started badly, picked up, lost a load, picked up, Fulham go on a run, we capitulate) - put £10 on the oppo from around Jan onwards, everytime i collected I put it on us to go down (which was about 7s when we picked up after the 10 in a row losses) and took around £1500 in winnings/compensation.

[Pepe the Horseman]

Must admit I LOLd in the face of a poster who asked what price we were to win the league not so long ago. Still think it might be asking too much, but fair play to anyone who had a punt.

[redscot]

If you assume home games we're usually favourites at around 6/4 -> 18 games so far and away we're usually underdogs at around 9/4 -> 16 games so far.

10 home wins would yield £5 profit per game -> £50 -> less the 8 games we haven't won (-£80) would be a loss of £30.
9 away wins would yield £12.50 profit per game -> £112.50 -> less the 7 games we haven't won (-£70) would be a profit of £42.50.

So overall you'll be looking at a whopping £12.50 profit for your £340 investment.

Very rough I know, but betting on everything doesn't really work. The law of averages would imply you'd break even over time.

errrrm, £10 @ 6/4 will give you £15 profit, 9/4 £22.50

time well spent though

At least somebody picked up on it

Moral of the story, don't bet kids. Or screw all logic and just bet Reading to win every game and it will be profitable.

Everytime Reading wins a game you get back your £10, so the total outlay is not £460 for the 46 games. For the last 7 games you would only invest £10 and reap a return that would make banks envy...

[Wimb]

Latest promotion betting roundup

http://thetilehurstend.co.uk/2012/03/08 ... ch-8-2012/