How to choose a betting program?

Actually, why choose it? Each betting program fulfills its goals and objectives, some monitor bookmaker lines, others count sports statistics. The best choice is not to drive yourself into the framework of one program, but to use all available software to the maximum.

Betting software

In fact, betting software is already a somewhat outdated format. Nowadays, you can get the desired effect without leaving your browser - from online statistical services, from fork scanners, and even the same Excel has already moved online and is available as a google spreadsheet. Let's consider today the types of betting programs and their alternatives. 

 Betting software can be divided into several categories: 

• For calculating sports statistics; 
• For monitoring bookmaker lines; 
• To search for arbitrage situations 
• To keep track of your own bets; 
• Betting calculators.

For calculating sports statistics

Most of these programs are based on Excel. With even a little knowledge of this application, you can do such things yourself using the formulas in it. Including online, in google tables. 

If you do not have such skills, you can purchase (or download for free) a program in which all these formulas are already spelled out. This, of course, can make the bettor's life easier, but you need to understand that the vast majority of such programs are offline. That is, you still have to manually enter data arrays, which the program will then process. 

It is also easy to run into completely useless programs (or even harmful, if you blindly believe them). Some of these programs supposedly provide accurate probabilities of any events and even predictions for matches. True, it is completely unclear how they calculate them and whether this information can be trusted. 

The only exceptions are powerful applications from large developers, such as betradar or betconstruct. Their main clients are bookmakers. A license for such an application costs tens of thousands of dollars, and their regular update costs from 1000 dollars a month. 

But we can advise a couple of interesting statistical programs:

• Oncourt. A program to help you place your bets on tennis. It contains an impressive statistical base on this sport, starting from the 90s of the last century! The database contains all matches, personal meetings, titles, rating of athletes, as well as game statistics and much more. All this helps a lot to make tennis predictions. The only drawback is that after the trial, the Oncourt application becomes paid. 

• Sfstats. A very solid program that provides statistics on matches for the most popular sports - football, hockey, tennis and basketball. The advantage of this program is that it gives not only banal average values, but is able to independently identify the number and probability of rare outcomes. For example, the exact difference in goals, total goals scored, halves won, and so on. A great app to make predictions with high odds. The disadvantage is the absence of a Russian-language version, without knowledge of English it will be difficult to understand it.

To monitor bookmaker lines

In the early days of online betting, users had to manually track the lines of bookmakers. Considering the speed of the Internet and prehistoric computers, one can imagine what kind of "pleasure" the players got from this process. 

Then online scanners gradually began to appear, the best of which is the oddsportal coefficient analyzer. They made it possible to collect all the information about bookmaker quotes within one site, which made life much easier for bookmaker users.

But in 2020, a revolution in the field of betting took place, a convenient extension for the BetMAX browser appeared. The extension scans the lines of dozens of bookmakers in real time, for dozens of sports and bet types!

It is enough to choose any outcome in your bookmaker's office, and BetMAX will offer the best odds that are given on it right now in a couple of seconds.

Here, for example, you can see how BetMAX found a dozen bookmakers in a second offering higher odds for a live event. And one of them is 17 points better! All the bookmaker's buttons are active, you can click to go to the site of the desired bookmaker, moreover, to the page of the desired event and instantly place bets. 

Imagine how much ROI growth you can get with 17 points ( or even more!) an edge on each event? Let's count.

Given: 1000 bets on football, 1000 rubles each, with an average odds of 1.57. Percentage of passability 65%.  

Profit in money: 650x1.57x1000 - 1,000,000 = 20,500 rubles, ROI +2.05%.  

And now the same thing, but with a factor of 1.74.  

Profit in money: 650x1.74x1000 - 1,000,000 = 131,000 rubles, ROI + 13.1%

Impressive, right? Plus 11% profit on every bet using just one BetMAX browser extension. By the way, the extension is absolutely free, works with most popular browsers and continues to develop. 

In 2021, the list of used bookmakers in BetMAX expanded by a couple of dozen, and new versions of the extension for Yandex Browser were released and Chromium. Installing BetMAX is straightforward and only takes a couple of minutes. The extension is completely safe and does not transfer any of your data. In general, BetMAX is a huge breakthrough in the betting line monitoring market and now it simply has no analogues.

To search for surebets

Such scanners appeared in the form of programs in the early to mid-10s, but over time, all fork services went online. A live service is easier to implement than an app, and more user-friendly for users. For example, directly from the scanner, you can go to the bookmaker's website and place the desired bets. 

Popular surebet scanners: 

• Surebet; 
• Allbestbets;
• Positivebet; 
• Oddstorm; 
• Arbmate. 

Almost all scanners have limited free functionality, offering only the lowest-profit surebets. To find more lucrative options, you need to subscribe to a paid subscription. Also, fork scanners are able to search for corridors and identify valuable odds.

To track your own sports bets

Taking into account the rates, the Excel application can also perfectly cope, you don't even need any special skills - you make several columns with parameters and everything is perfectly taken into account, you can carry out further analysis. But if you are too lazy to bother, then there is one decent program: Betting Tracker.

The program is also based on Excel, but has a lot of useful functions for bettors. Betting Tracker takes into account all bets in incredible detail, and besides, it counts all deposits and withdrawals in an unlimited number of offices, calculates bonuses, free bets, cashouts and cashbacks, displays graphs of the player's betting activity and can do much more.

Betting calculators

Those who regularly engage in betting constantly need to calculate something - the amount of the bet on the leverage of the surebet, the margin, their own ROI or the size of the next bet in the catch-up system. With all the formulas in mind, you can get by with a simple standard calculator. But not everyone knows the formulas, and it is often tiresome to perform so many manipulations of the same type. 

In this case, the Big Bet Calulator will come to the rescue.

This is a freeware program, again, based on Excel. With its help, you can easily calculate the bookmaker's margin, odds probabilities, break-even point, the amount of the next bet on the strategy. It also has a built-in converter of different types of odds, calculations of different types of surebets and much more. An extremely useful thing.

Conclusion

These are far from all betting programs; moreover, we have not even considered all of their categories. There are also programs that know how to place bets on betting exchanges, assistants in making batch bets for totes, various bots that detect patterns online, robots that help to automatically put a capper prediction on your bookmaker account (note, bookmakers do not like this!) and many other software. 

But still, we repeat, separate software is already a bygone era, the last century. Everything in the world is striving for online and, most likely, this striving will continue. Already now, almost everything is happening online, and in a couple of decades the world will come to the conclusion that the human brain will directly interact with the global world wide web and programs will become completely irrelevant.