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Support SAG at Wikipedia - Betlines Added

Posted by Aegist on October 4th, 2007

Sports Arbitrage Guide is designed to be an all purpose, comprehensive guide through sports arbitrage. I think it has succeeded reasonably well in its goals, providing a unique, informative, thorough, impartial source of information on arbitrage. But it is all my own work, so maybe I am biased. This is where all of you come in.

Is SAG a good source of information? Does it inform people about sports arbitrage reliably? Thoroughly? Honestly? I would like to hear some feedback below in the comments on what you actually think of SAG, so that if there is something better I could do I will know about it. As well as that, if you do happen to believe that SAG is quite possibly the single most relevant website online with regards to sports arbitrage trading, then please go to the wikipedia entry on arbitrage betting and participate in the discussion there, and/or add a reference to SAG in the main article.

There has been a link to SAG from the ‘External Links’ section of that article for over a year now, but for some reason someone has repeatedly removed the link in recent months, calling it link-spam. So, either I have done something wrong with SAG and it isn’t at all what I intended it to be, or there is just one guy with a chip on his shoulder. I have started the discussion on this topic in the discussion section of the article, I have expressed why I think SAG is the most relevant website online to be referenced as an external link from the article on arbitrage betting, and now I will leave it up to you, the users and readers of SAG to agree or disagree with me, and to add the link to SAG back in, or leave it forever out of the wikipedia article.

Betlines

I have recently added Betlines to the Alert Services page. An interesting looking service, it is reasonably cheap ($100USD for its most expensive level) and it provides a unique angle on surebetting: Inter-market surebets and inter-market surebet calculators. Now, I have seen inter-market surebets before with SportsPunter. Outside of Sportspunter though, I am not aware of any other service which finds arbs of this nature.

Inter-market surebets are surebets which are created from odds provided on the one sporting event (as usual) but from different bet types. So normally you will have, say, 3 way odds and the surebet will be made from a bet on the home team, a bet on the away team and a bet on the draw. A simple example of an intermarket surebet, would instead be betting on the home team 3way odds, and then betting on the away team with a +0.5 handicap. The 3way odds and the asian handicap odds are different markets, yet combined they still cover all potential outcomes, thus they are a true surebet.

That is a simple inter-market surebet, and I think a few services will deal with that particular setup. SportsPunter was the first service I encountered that started dealing with more complicated inter-markets, such as the Home 3way - draw 3 way - +/-0.25 Asian Away. That particular setup of a surebet involves calculating the results of a draw where half of one of the stakes will be returned, and therefore makes the entire calculation far more complicated than usual. Betlines seems to take the whole inter-market surebet concept all the way though, and has gone out of its way to set up a whole series of complicated surebets which no other service even attempts to look at, and more importantly, it actually has a list of calculators set up which can handle the more complicated arbs.

I think in the current marketplace of arbitrage alert services, inter-market surebets are increasingly important to factor in to your trading.

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