Having a bet on the football or the races is one of the most popular pastimes for a Saturday afternoon when there's a raft of matches and races to choose from. We all have our methods for picking our teams, horses or markets that may bring success or frustration over that one selection that failed to come in.
You can study the form guide or have a shot in the dark all you like, but some days you have a winner on your hands and some days you simply don't. However, online betting could be about to change with the introduction of AI technology in the world of horse racing. AI systems such as Beth can now be used to calculate the horses with the best chances of winning a particular race. Key criteria such as form, pedigree, weather, grounding and the racecourse in question are all considered by a powerful algorithm that allows the tool to provide prospective punters with an accurate and well-informed prediction.
Beth enables bettors to catch earliest racing prices to ensure that they can receive maximum value on their punts for racing action. The system removes bias from the equation, so old foils of preference and favouritism can't be a factor that holds back your bet. It has the opportunity to change the way people bet on horse racing, and it will be interesting to see whether it spreads to other forms of sport, notably football.
The variables involved in football are obviously substantially different from that of horse racing. However, the form guide and past performance criteria are certainly ones that would be worth investigating. Football is a notoriously strange game that sometimes sees prolific sides, used to prospering, fall from mighty heights while underdog sides take the title. The sport is also particularly difficult when it comes to intuition and records: some teams tend to struggle at certain grounds more than others or have a particularly strong record against a side that would seemingly hammer them on paper. It can be the same story with players.
A striker might not score for weeks, yet may have particular good fortune against one opponent and go on to score a hatful over the duration of one mere afternoon. AI technology would be extremely useful in this facet of gambling, especially for accumulators when there are so many teams and angles to consider when placing a wager. Having a system that can churn out the best results based on a number of key criteria may give bettors the perfect chance to get the edge on the bookies.
Of course, football's an unpredictable sport and even the best teams can lose on any given day. It's why we love football and will continue to watch it and bet on it, even if the way we do it may change slightly in the future. The next few years will be interesting as developments continue to be made in the world of online betting with AI potentially at the forefront.
