“Right,” you tut, eye already on the X button for the page, “you’re telling me it’s possible to find a betting system that works. We can imagine it now: you’re sitting at your screen, and the scepticism is rising off you like heat on a hot pavement. Systems aren’t a strategy, which are always at least somewhat dependent on outcome, and they’re not betting tips either: they’re an entirely different class that moves away from punting and towards pure mathematics. With a system, there’s no waiting-and-hoping there’s just placing bets and withdrawing the winnings - or at least, that’s what happens should all go to plan. So, let’s keep it simple: a betting system is a way of betting that is designed to generate a profit every time. The term isn’t well-defined, and what one person calls a betting system another might call a strategy, and another might call “an obvious scam because I, an intellectual, do not understand how probability works”. We had an interesting editorial meeting when we first started talking about creating our betting systems module: we first had to define what on earth we were actually talking about.
