Psychological Problems that Prevent Successful Sports Betting

In the turbulent sea betting on bettor sport, a lot of pitfalls await, which can easily not only knock you off course, but also let the “ship” to the bottom. These stones are psychological problems that prevent successful sports bets.

Fixation

Fixation is a psychological anchor that binds a person at the subconscious level to some abstract quantities. An example of fixing in betting on sports can be a bookmaker line with quotes – it does not allow looking at the match without binding to the opinion of bookmakers. For example, before the game “Barcelona” – “Juventus” you can lean towards the fact that the Italian team will not lose at least, but after seeing the coefficient for this (3.0), you start to doubt, as the quotation frankly frightens off. In fact, this factor in this case is just the opinion of the analysts of the bookmaker office, who tend to make mistakes in exactly the same way as the players. Therefore it is useful to first disassemble the match without binding to the line, and only then – check with the quotes.

Player error or representativeness

Bettors and players in the casino have a habit of seeing in small sequences of numerical values the regularities that only long series are actually exposed to. How many begin to bet on the “red” in the casino, if several times in a row dropped out “black”, and in the bookmaker office have their own peculiarities of bettor behavior, based on a false assessment of statistical trends.

It is necessary to remember how in 1913 several players were ruined at the casino of Monte Carlo. After 15 times on the roulette there was a “black”, all began to actively bet on the “red” on the principle of “Martingale”. Alas, but no one was able to “catch up” the red color, as to the general shock and amazement he fell out only after 26 black numbers.

In the case of players in the BS, this problem is also present, although in sports any series depends not only on statistical laws, but also on the motivation of the players. If the team does not score five matches already, then its players will strive for the hammered year in the sixth meeting with special zeal.

If six-day matches of the Premier League ended on a total Under 2.5 goals, then the evening inexperienced bettors will necessarily put Over 2.5, even if West Bromand Southampton is playing – especially low-level teams. Such “regularities” players in the bookmaker office can be seen very often.

Diversification

Conventionally, a person is inclined to choose five identical candies in different wrappers for one approach to the box, but if he is offered to do it for five consecutive approaches, the choice will not be so diverse.

In betting shops recently the choice of various types of bets is so wide that often players forget that the players themselves go to the football field not in order to “break the handicap” or “total”, but in order to win. And if for the bettor who bet on the minus handicap of Chelsea in the match against Garabagh, the score 1-0 in favor of the British will be a disaster and a failure, then for the players themselves and the coach is quite a normal result, for which they give the same three points, as well as for a devastating victory.

Availability trend

This feature of psychology is directly related to sports betting, because it involves excessive exaggeration of some factors that have a special emotional coloring. Conditionally, you can bet on winning the “Monaco” just because you accidentally looked at the last few matches of the team, in which it scored many goals, but did not pay attention to the fact that the Monegasks in those matches played at home, and now – on the road against the uncomfortable opponent.

The problem of statistics

This is not a psychological, but a statistical problem, but it has become so plentiful that it became one of the stereotypes “recorded on the subcortex”. We often pay attention to the average performance of teams, when we estimate the likely number of goals in the match and “total”, although it has nothing to do with the total Over passing. For the simple reason that in one match the team can play 8:1 and break through “total Over 7.5”, and then play 0:0, 1:0, 0:2 and 0:1. As a result, she scored 13 goals in her last five matches, and her average score was 2.6 goals, but Over 2.5 in those matches was “punched” only once.

Unwillingness to bet on total Under

Probably the biggest psychological problem of bettors. Evaluating the potential effectiveness of the match, the player unconsciously wants to see a bright football (basketball, hockey) with a large number of goals and is looking for basically bets on the “total Over”.

In nature, the desire to enjoy the fan laid to goals, not to admire the robust game of defense, because on “total Over” players bet 5 times more often than in the “less than”, and the opposite bet “both score” Many bettors do not perceive.