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  2. Colley Matrix - Wikipedia

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    The Colley Matrix has chosen a different national champion from the Bowl Championship Series or College Football Playoff champion four times: [7]: 117–118 2011 — Colley Matrix ranked Oklahoma State as first, [36] although the team did not play in the 2012 BCS National Championship Game and finished No. 3 in both the AP Poll and Coaches Poll.

  3. Sports betting systems - Wikipedia

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    Since sports betting involves humans, there is no deterministic edge to the house or the gambler. Systems supposedly allow the gambler to have an edge or an advantage. Sportsbooks use systems in their analysis to set more accurate odds. Therefore, the novice gambler may believe that using a system will always work, but it is the general ...

  4. Dutching - Wikipedia

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    A Dutch or an arb is profitable if the sum of the reciprocals of the decimal odds of each selection is less than 1, and each bet is sized such that the payout in each outcome are the same. Additionally, the profitability of a Dutch/arb can be expressed as 1-R, where R is the sum of the reciprocals.

  5. Kelly criterion - Wikipedia

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    Example of the optimal Kelly betting fraction, versus expected return of other fractional bets. In probability theory, the Kelly criterion (or Kelly strategy or Kelly bet) is a formula for sizing a sequence of bets by maximizing the long-term expected value of the logarithm of wealth, which is equivalent to maximizing the long-term expected geometric growth rate.

  6. Oscar's grind - Wikipedia

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    Oscar's Grind divides the entire gambling event into sessions. A session is a sequence of consecutive wagers made until 1 unit of profit is won. [2] Each session begins by betting 1 unit, and ends by winning 1 unit of profit.

  7. American Totalisator - Wikipedia

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    The company was founded by Harry L. Straus, a computer engineer from Baltimore, who became interested in developing a fairer system of calculating and displaying odds and payouts on parimutuel betting after an incident at a Maryland racetrack in 1927. When a horse listed at 12:1 odds won, but paid off at 4:1, Straus recognized the need for a ...

  8. Betting strategy - Wikipedia

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    A betting strategy (also known as betting system) is a structured approach to gambling, in the attempt to produce a profit. To be successful, the system must change the house edge into a player advantage — which is impossible for pure games of probability with fixed odds, akin to a perpetual motion machine. [ 1 ]

  9. Parimutuel betting - Wikipedia

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    Parimutuel betting, or pool betting, is a betting system in which all bets of a particular type are placed together in a pool; taxes and the house-take, or vigorish, are deducted, and payoff odds are calculated by sharing the pool among all winning bets.