Hello,
I have
2 basic strategies that I'm using both in
tennis & basketball.
The important of this strategy is to
lay low and
back higher.
Betfair offers in-play of every NBA Basketball Game. In example
Toronto @ Seattle pre match 2.20 on Seattle. Seattle goes up
20-10 in the first quarter, the odds on Betfair always overreact
and odds here would be ~1.50-1.60. It's almost certain that
Toronto will cut the lead to at least 5 forcing the odds up
to at least 1.70-1.80. So laying here at 1.50 - 1.60 is very good.
I have traded Basketball for some time now and I know they like to "
bottle" their lead.
Another nice trading match was
Miami @ Philadelphia some days ago.
Philadelphia lead half time by 22 points. Odds on Betfair
1.06.
Now the correct thing would be to
lay Philadelphia for a small sum.
Becouse in Basketball team's "ease" when they lead by many points.
Miami cut the lead to 77-81 and odds were now around
1.30. it was a
nice trading match and I'm very
sucessful with the
strategy.
And you can always try to lay a team before a match and put up a
back offer higher than the price you layed i.e layed at
1.90 and
when Betfair put it in-play you can back at
1.93. Basketball is like
Tennis, but in Basketball there are more swings, cousing the market
up and down. The
1.93 could easily
get matched just if the team
you've backed lead by 2 points. And in basketball nearly every team
trail by something during the match.
Andy
