Sporting Life Football Recommended Bets Study 2020

When my Dad took the sporting Life Newspaper when I was a boy all I can remember about it was the pages of Racing and Greyhounds. I dont remember seeing football coverage at all so when the racing post took over and the Sporting Life became a multi sport on-line website the powers that be must have gone down the local bookies and recruited the first punter they saw for their football tipster as the results for 2020 in their recommended football section are dismal!! It is plain as day which end of the office the golfers are propping up. 58.31 point loss on the year makes for a very good time for the bookies. In the months that there was a profit the average was 10.86 points this being bolstered by a November Profit of 34.40 points (Perhaps the footy guys were on holiday and the golfers stepped into the breach) Which ever way you look at this the prospect is gloomy and more could be gained by actually laying these bets at the exchanges.
Anyway as usual I will list their figures below but be warned it is not happy reading.
Jan 6.24 points profit
Feb 5.43 points profit
Mar 5.35 points profit
Apr No Bets
May 7.00 points profit ( Just BundesLiga bets)
Jun 27.79 points Loss
Jul 12.94 points loss
Aug 6.75 point profit
Sep 5.03 point Loss
Oct 49.70 point Loss
Nov 34.40 point profit
Dec 28.02 point Loss

I did think that when I was compiling these figures that the guys had made their recommendations, not taking into consideration the fact that crowd factor makes a difference but it was a steady decline after May.
I did think that these tips might be worth the fun factor but after seeing Junes results I did think BetOrNot!!!

Keep trying lads

Simon Holt (Sporting Life Tipster) More In-depth study

Further to my previous blog post about the Sporting Life Recommended bets. Simon Holt (@SimonHolt3) had an outstanding May with his racing tips and this post is just about breaking down the figures into which category of race made the most points profit. His profit to advised odds for May was 41.3 points and was all flat racing tips over various distances and an even spread of handicap and Non-handicap races.
Starting with his Handicap race tips, he tipped horses in a total of 18 handicap races with 5 winning tips (28%) gaining 11.8 points profit at S.P. and 24.5 points profit at Advised Odds. If we drill this down further into race distances his profit was greatest when he tipped horses in 5f sprints, achieving 12 points profit from 2 winners out of 3 tips at advised odds in handicap races and 8.8 points from the same strike rate in Non-Handicap races. The tables below show the races in which he had success and those which failed!!

the whole spreadsheet can be downloaded by clicking the link below