The daily sheet

Written ahead

Saturday 19 September · locked before kick-off, graded after · the record

The measured board 5 legs

How the rule works

One rule, applied to the whole card, and only what it allows. Each side's last six completed games, twelve in all. Over goal lines priced 1.35 or better with at least four bookmakers quoting, kept only where those twelve games cleared the line nine times or more. Highest count wins, ties go to the longer price, one leg per fixture.

Every other lane on this sheet is a judgement with its evidence attached. This one is a rule. It was tested against past results before it was published, it reads the same card as the lanes below, and every decision it made against the rest of that card is listed underneath.

Alverca v Rio Ave Free Outside our record's ten leagues
Over 1.5 1.29 1.35

Landed 11 of 12.

Best price at Betano, the 6 books average 1.30.

Northampton v Rotherham Our record covers this league
Pro
Osasuna v Rayo Vallecano Our record covers this league
Pro
Portsmouth v Blackburn Our record covers this league
Pro
Angers v Estac Troyes Our record covers this league
Pro
Open the other 4 Seven days for £1

Break-even is the share of bets the price has to land to come out level. It sits beside the count so you can hold the two up against each other.

The folds 3 folds

Built from the legs above and from nothing else. A double and a treble, never longer: every leg you add multiplies the bookmaker's cut, and a single leg standing alone is the worst shape we have measured.

A fold is a bigger price for a smaller chance and nothing else. These shapes are here only because the legs came through the rule above; folding the legs this page used to publish is how it lost money all month.

Left alone today 672 refused

Every market the rule turned down today, with the number behind each.

The desk's acca 2.99x

Pro The research desk: a card written on every fixture this morning
The model proposes, the desk reads the game and can veto. Both had to agree.

3 legs, one per fixture, each with the research that cleared it and the bookmaker on the price. Combined at 2.99x.
Seven days for £1 opens this slip, and every slip in the archive with its result.
Returns 2.99x Waiting for the result

The bigger price 4.02x

Pro The model, aimed at a price rather than a strike rate
It will lose more often than it wins, about two days in three. Stake it accordingly.

3 legs, one per fixture, each with the research that cleared it and the bookmaker on the price. Combined at 4.02x.
Seven days for £1 opens this slip, and every slip in the archive with its result.
Returns 4.02x Waiting for the result
Refused today 12 refused

What we refused today, and why. Kill outcomes grade too, including the ones we get wrong.

12 refusals with the reason for each, graded right or wrong. Seven days for £1 opens them.
The days ahead1 days

What the board has already locked for the day ahead. Provisional, re-priced every morning.

Other sheets 13

The model board and the graded record

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