The daily sheet
Written aheadSunday 20 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.
Landed 9 of 12.
Best price at Betano, the 6 books average 1.31.
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.
One leg qualified in the experiment lane and a day of one leg measured minus 17.8% in holdout, the worst shape on the ladder, so the experiment lane publishes nothing rather than publish it alone.
The folds 2 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 290 refused
Every market the rule turned down today, with the number behind each.
The desk's acca 2.52x
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.
Refused today 6 refused
What we refused today, and why. Kill outcomes grade too, including the ones we get wrong.
Other sheets 13
The model board and the graded record