What Leagues are the Best for Starting to Bet in Basketball?

Basketball today is one of the most popular sports among players of bookmakers, as it’s easily submitted to statistical analysis.

Therefore, bets on it are very popular, but bookmakers are not fools.

How to start your way in the world of basketball betting or where to turn, if you realized that you are going on the wrong road?

The main rule is to start small. The more status a league, the more attention it is paid to bookmakers and the public. Find bugs and good opportunities for betting in these tournaments is difficult.

There are several categories of basketball championships that are regularly present in the line:

• national championships;
• matches of national teams;
• European Cups;
• NBA Championship (playoff and regular season).

Regular NBA Championship

The NBA championship matches are spectacular and unpredictable.

Bookmakers offer a huge assortment of different basketball betting options in each of the NBA matches. And if you use the advice of specialists, then there is an opportunity to achieve good results. But this probability is very low. Because this league is considered the most difficult and professional, and on it even experienced players merge.

The main difficulty in betting on NBA matches is the ability to read the motivation of each team. It does not matter if it’s a handicap or a total, you should be aware of how motivated each of the opponents is today.

To give mistakes to bookmakers at such a serious level as the NBA does not have to. Unlike other leagues in American sports, a unique statistical database is collected. With it, bookmakers can more accurately assess the influence of each player on the result, the style of play of each team and much more. To be a successful player in this league you need to devote a lot of time to analysis and own information.

In the playoffs it is important to pay attention to tactical moments, to understand basketball well and possible changes in the game’s figure. Bookmakers, as a rule, very quickly react to changes in pace and effectiveness. Sometimes the total movement from the match to the match is more than 3-4 points.

Recently, it is less profitable, as bookmakers have begun to better evaluate the motivation factor. But in some situations it still works.

Matches of national teams

National teams usually play in August and September. Perhaps the main factor to be taken into consideration is the physical and tactical readiness of the team.

Weaker teams try to reach the peak of the form at the beginning of the group stages. Experienced teams usually “swing” to the middle of the tournament.

If you decide to risk money in team matches, it’s important to be able to correctly assess the level of the team and wait for the moment when bookmakers will start overestimating it. In such short tournaments, the offices trust money and the balance of demand for both sides of the line. When the average team starts showing good results, sooner or later the public begins to believe in its final success and push the line towards revaluation. This is the best moment for the game against the middle teams.

Closer to the final part of the tournament, there are fewer good bets, as well as matches. Therefore, all the most interesting and profitable takes place in group rounds.

Eurocups

After the European basketball was divided into the zone ULEB and FIBA, the European cups became less statutory. Since the season 2016/17 in the men’s basketball 4 European Cup appeared:

• Euroleague
• Champions League FIBA
• European Cup ULEB
• FIBA Euro Cup

If earlier participation in the European Cup was considered an achievement to which one had to strive, now almost any European club can participate in it. Lack of financial interest, incomprehensible motivation of the majority of teams, a large number of passing games – all this makes the matches of European cups difficult to predict.

Given that the main tournament of the continent (Euroleague) from the season 2016/17 has turned into another league of 16 teams, finding positions for bets has become even more difficult. When compiling quotes bookmakers do not hesitate to adjust their estimates taking into account the tournament motivation and complexity of the schedule. Cash flows tell bookmakers about injuries. If before the line in the major bookmakers came out only a day before the game, now the money starts in 2 days or more, which helps to polish the line before raising the maximums on the day of the match.

It’s almost as difficult to make money on European club wagers as it was at NBA matches. It is a little easier to do this at less status tournaments FIBA, where less well-known European teams take part.

National championships

Bets on the national championships of European countries is one of the best opportunities to earn. Bookmakers in them do not try to think much over the lines. It is sufficient only to react quickly to the money transfers that bookmakers help to track services such as Betradar.

Any epidemic of injuries in the team will be reflected in a series of bets on one side of the line. If five years ago the information about the injury of the two leading players could recoup during the day, now the handicap is falling by 1-2 points in all bookmakers in 10-15 minutes. Who did not have time – he was late.

Now bookmakers do not wait until they get a couple of thousand dollars. Against a team experiencing personnel problems. They react instantly, preferring to believe the money that came to one of the offices that can move the market.

However, when you have several hundreds of teams for analysis and a few dozen leagues – you can always find your niche where you will know the market better than the bookmaker. Therefore, professionals in their field focus on European national championships.

The bets in basketball totals are less popular, as they require more serious study and more time for analysis. To persuade any player to react with money for injuries 3 players of the starting five will always be easier than convincing him that in such a match of possessions will be less than the bookmaker pawns in the line.

Therefore, in the total market there are more interesting positions and these markets are weaker than the handicap lines. You also noticed that the cost of buying 1 point of the handicap and 1 total point differs noticeably in the line?

Obviously, the less popular the league, the more likely it is to find something interesting in it. On our forum, even there is a special section of the resin-markets, to which only active users can access.

But to earn money in the championship of Spain will be more difficult, since there all teams are in sight and bookmakers know who, what lives better.

Summary

If you do not know which league to start betting on basketball, start with the championship of your country. Try to read the press, learn the statistics of the players and news of the teams. Then follow the principle of “who owns information – owns the world”. The more information you can get about the championship, the higher the chances that you can earn.

Do not start your game path from the top. Whether it’s the Euroleague or the NBA, in any of these leagues at the distance of the season it will be very difficult for you to succeed if you are a novice player. You can bet on the matches of these leagues, but their size should be much less than in those leagues where you consider yourself an expert.