Optimizes bookmaking strategies for market prices.
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Study proposes new methods to convert betting odds into accurate probabilities for sports forecasting.
In the UK betting market, bookmakers often offer a free coupon to new customers. These free coupons allow the customer to place extra bets, at lower risk, in combination with the usual betting odds. We are interested in whether a customer can exploit these free coupons in order to make a sure gain, and if so, how the c…
A hybrid machine learning model predicts soccer match scores for FIFA Women's World Cups.
Kelly criterion, that maximizes the expectation value of the logarithm of wealth for bookmaker bets, gives an advantage over different class of strategies. We use projective symmetries for a explanation of this fact. Kelly's approach allows for an interesting financial interpretation of the Boltzmann/Shannon entropy. A…
Study confirms mispricing in sportsbooks but finds data issues affect results.