Overview: a Plan for the Size of Sports Bets

If you are new to betting on sports games, you probably want to understand what are the ways to increase your chances of winning. One of the options is a level plan for the size of bets.

Such a plan is one of the aspects of sports betting, its availability will give you the opportunity to improve your level of organization and concentration, and this is the key to long-term and stable success.

With the level plan for the size of bets, you have a real and quite feasible opportunity not to fall under the power of the “shoot from all guns” method, when you swing from one bet to another, not knowing what to bet on, and are ready to bet on anything from that, that at least a little seems to you profitable.

Bets on sports games – this is not such a simple occupation, as it may seem at first glance. And the most difficult thing here is the ability to make profit on an ongoing basis, because this requires additional knowledge, and not just general information about the sport that most people have.

In fact, what distinguishes your regular games on bets early Saturday morning from the actions of any online bettor known to you is simply discipline, and the plan for stake sizes is one of the aspects of this discipline.

The plan on the sizes of bets helps to be defined with what quantity of money you will place on the bet chosen by you. There are three main ways to do this, and today we are going to review the tiered rates. This method is very widely distributed among professionals.

Its key idea is to place each bet with the same amount. Regardless of the probability of winning, regardless of your calculations or someone else’s opinion. If you are on a level plan, you use all the odds that bookmakers offer you without thinking.

Each of the players on bets acts in their own way, but most of the major bettors use the level plan for the size of bets, and as a good example of the benefits of such a plan, one can consider the handicap betting on American sports.

A fairly good level of winnings for earning income on the American handicap (taking into account their bets for constant decimal probability 1.91) is 55%.

If the player on the American handicap can maintain a level of 55% of the winnings within a year, he remains in the black. If an American handicapper falls below this level of winnings, he falls into a situation in which he struggles to “swim” out to a break-even position.

Some people can argue about using a level plan with a single bet of N-th amount, convincing that probabilities with a coefficient of 2.50 will give you a win at 2.50.These people are attracted by the possibility of getting a big win, but in reality, it will rather bring you to a quick big loss.

Probably, for every beginner in the bets on sports games, the starting point should be a level plan of bets. It is easy to use, easy to understand, and it is the most secure for your bets. In addition, many will tell you that if you can’t make a profit on the level plan of rates, it makes no sense to move on to other, more complex plans, since they certainly will not help.

It is the level plan that will help the beginner learn how to make profit at the rates. For example, your level plan can be very useful to you in a situation where on the same day you see two bets that you think will win, or even be overrated.

How to use a plan?

So, you have two sports bets.

And you really like them. And the A bet, and the bet B is rated with a coefficient higher than the whole, but you think that the bet B will not reach and will be lower than the whole. So, what is the best way out in this situation? Put more on bet B? No, not just in case you want to bet wisely and according to your level plan.

The risk is obvious – you bet the planned amount on bet A, and it wins. Let’s say your sum is $10 according to the plan. But you wanted to increase the amount at the bet of B? Suppose you do this, and put $25. Bet A won, and bet B lost.

So, you had two bets with good chances to win, and if you acted correctly, your success would be guaranteed. However, now it turns out that you yourself led to a loss of $5, betting on the best bets of the day – and the truth is that people do it often, and usually not by ignorance, but out of greed!

On the level plan, you would bet $10 for bet A and $10 for bet B. Let’s say A won with a coefficient of 2.25. Bet B lost with a coefficient of 2.10, but due to the difference in the coefficients that you got – and also due to the fact that you acted reasonably and according to plan – you ended the day in positive territory.

Of course, this scenario describes an ideal combination of circumstances, in practice everything will not be so beautiful, but it’s only one of a million scenarios, and it reliably describes the reliability of the level plan, its ability to help you increase the chances of victory, its ability to preserve and multiply your income from bets.

If you are not particularly friendly with discipline, a level-based bet plan is vital for you to enhance and systematize your knowledge about betting in order to achieve the level of professional players at the rates.

We will also talk about the importance of having a structured plan for bet sizes. Closely related to the management of the bank (in fact, they go hand in hand), the plan for the size of bets is vital to stop you not only in a situation where you are going to make bets that are beyond your bank, but when you are picked up and carried a wave of luck and profit.

Different methods of bet planning

A large number of different plans for determining bet sizes are available to sports betters. Some of them are incredibly simple, others are rather complicated. Some are practically safe, and in some they will have to take a serious risk.

Below we will describe those that are worth paying attention to (in the near future we will look at them in more detail in separate posts).

The unit size (Unit Stakes) – quite suitable option for the beginning – is a set of several units. Each unit represents a certain number, the percentage of your initial balance.

You can determine the number of units that you place at the bet you choose, depending on the level of your confidence in it. The main advantage of this plan, perhaps, is that it is easy to compile (the size of the unit does not change), and with increasing your confidence / chances of winning you can easily raise the bet itself.

Kelly Criterion – suitable for those who have already gained experience in sports betting – The Kelly Criterion can be very useful in converting your chances into your money. If you know your chances of winning, this plan will be able to convert them into significant amounts of money. It’s simple – the more your chances, the more you win:

The amount at the bet = (Probability of winning in decimal numbers X percentage chance of success)/((Probability of winning in decimal numbers X 100) is 100).

The amount of a bet, calculated in this way, is usually quite large, sometimes reaching up to 15% of your bank, but successful bettors simply reduce the results (by 50%, 70%, and some by 90%), this reduces the risks.

Martingale System is a plan created specifically for roulette (Red/Black bets), in general, is not recommended for us to use, but some people in their experience prove the success of the consistent application of this plan. The idea here is to double the amount of your bet every time you get a win.

On paper this method works very well – in the end you win and cover all your losses in one fell swoop. However, the risk grows exponentially from loss to loss. Starting with a bet of $ 10, it is implied that at the 6th bet you will receive $ 640 already with the previous 5 losses – and as much as $ 10240 at the tenth bet! Probably, such a plan should still be avoided, but you can also try, if you have a fairly large bank.

RatchetStakingPlan (strategy% of the bank) – this plan is relatively simple and to some extent guarantees you constant success. Why? Because the size of your bet is proportional to the size of your bank. As soon as your bank rises, your bet immediately increases (usually by about 3%). However, if you lose several bets in a row, your bet size does not decrease (based on the fact that because of the reduction you will have to recoup longer).

Find your advantage

All the above examples of plans are designed to help you in making a profit. However, if you can’t determine the winner, none of the plans will do it for you, and it will not matter much which one of the plans you choose. The key task in betting on sports games is an attempt to approach as close as possible to the forecasts of bookmakers.

Choose what suits you

Want good advice? Evaluate your past results at bets in accordance with the methods described above (and not only them). Having done this, you will see which method suits you most, and if it gave you a large number of suitable results, it is likely that in the future it will benefit you and, accordingly, profit. But do not forget about the ease of use – some of the methods require a lot of manual labor to enter data, and this is not always convenient.

This topic is quite extensive, but once you understand it, you will significantly increase your chances of making a significant profit in the betting games. Over the next few weeks, we will look more closely at each of the above methods, consider the details and the mathematical component – for potential opportunities and shortcomings.

The only key point that you must learn is discipline – always, at any time. And from this rule there should not be a single exception.