Predictions
Types of predictions

How could predictions help the sports betting industry?
In betting industries a bookmaker adjusts the odds in his (betting company) favor. He aims to guarantee a profit by achieving a 'balanced book' for sports matches. The bookmaker does not generally attempt to make money from the bets themselves, but rather by acting as a market maker.
On the other hand, there are sports advisers or sports analysts (tipster) making their living from this activity. A sports pick, also called a tip, is a piece of betting advice from a betting expert, analyst or tipster. They prove that they have a real edge over the bookmaker, by betting well enough themselves to live off their winnings. They learn from their loss, when selling their own advice or picks and while amateur customers start to be worried. A tipster may also contribute to bookmaking in betting industries and direct the profit in favor of the betting firm. Our aim is to design artificial intelligence algorithms to develop a whole system as an automatic sport analyst and predict soccer matches.
There are three key parameters for evaluating a tipster's performance,
YIELD: the accuracy of prediction in a month. This is the most important measurement of an adviser's performance.
ROI: ROI is the Return On Investment, it is the ratio between the profit during a given period and the initial investment.
AVERAGE ODDS: The amount of profit earned for every betting is given by the odds. The average of odds from all tips from an adviser reflects the profitability of the analysis.
Currently the best advisers achieve 60% Yield rate and they guaranty 8% monthly betting ROI with the average odds of 180%. Note that every adviser focuses on regional matches and analyzes a single match per day. Our analysis shows that we can easily get 20% monthly betting ROI using machine analysis.





