The Sports Investor Final Review

  Hi Bloggers

          I had been reviewing The Sports Investors Lay of the Day from February 16th to May 1oth, the service started of very slowly for the first 5 weeks and spent most of the time showing a small minus, from the 26th March the results seem to pick up and it looked promising in fact it had  its longest winning run of 11 during this time, so i let it run the full 84 days. Well the good results continued for around 4 weeks and to morning prices which is what the service recommends were showing a profit of 9 points, then on the 26th April it hit its longest losing run of 4 which completely wiped out the profit. Here are the results for the review period:

            Morning Betfair Prices:    79 Selections/54 Winning Lays = 68.35% Strike Rate,  P/L= minus 3.90 points,    ROI minus 4.94%

             BFSP: 61 Selections/39 Winning Lays = 64.10% Strike Rate, P/L = minus 1.60 points, ROI minus 2.62 %

Of course in my review i was working to the services recommended 5 point stakes so the losses would have been 19.50 points and 8 points respectively.  Now before the trial the only results we are shown on the website are from December 9th 2009 so we only have 2 months to check on and they are shown to the early Betfair prices:

             Morning Betfair Prices (December 9th 2009 to February 15th 2010):

              64 Selections/48 Winning Lays = 75% Strike Rate, P/L + 12.23 points, ROI + 19.11%

     Now those figures are more like it but its only 2 months hardly time to make an informed opinion, if we joined the review figures with the previous 2 months its hardly impressive stuff lets take a look:

            Morning Betfair Prices (December 9th to May 10th) :

              143 Selections /102 Winning Lays = 71.43% Strike Rate, P/L + 8.33 points, ROI + 5.82%

        The average profit on this for the 5 months works out at 1.67 points per month, so what does the service charge well as my introduction it was 295 pounds per year which is 24.58 per month, so in order to gain a profit of 8.82 pounds a month you would have to stake 20 pound per Lay, which is beyond alot of regular punters. To be fair to the service i monitored another week it had a nice winning run of 5 but then had 2 losers which meant that the Morning Betfair Prices showed a very small loss of 0.45 and BFSP took a bigger hit of minus 11.85 points due to 2 of the winning lays being over the odds and not being a bet.  So what are the good things about the service well most e-mails are sent out early in the morning and a brief description of why they think the horse will lose which is a good touch, the prices of losing lays are low working out at an average of 3.21.  I suppose the the fact that it is One Lay A Day not to many bets, but this could also be a bad thing because it is kind of obliged to find a selection even when maybe there is nothing outstanding that day, so you are not always getting the strongest lay, yet there could be a day when there is 2 or 3 good lays and they have to make decision on which one. When i first started the review the service was always updating its results on its website regularly, as of today the last time the results were updated was the 21st April and even then the last 4 selections have all the wrong dates, they also have Sinbad The Sailor down as Won it should be loss it finished 4th in its race, a little bit sloppy .

      So what rating am i going to give this service, well i recently done 2 reviews of Laying system/services one Betfair Miracle(4 stars) i passed and the other Losing To Profit(3 stars) i put in neutral both had way better strike rate made alot more points profit and a way higher ROI, so i am going to award this service 2 stars. Just to sum up it looked a  promising service but failed to deliver during the review there is not alot of previous results to go on and even taken results since December P/L  returns were low and you would have to be a large stake layer to get anything out of it, you  clearly  need to have to have a strike rate  of 75% or very close, to see a reasonable return which it has failed to achieve.

Rating:

Regards

Sgt Dave

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The Sports Investor – Weekly Review Days 80 to 84 

Hi Bloggers 

              Oh dear not a good finish to the trial with 3 out of the 5 selections winning there races at morning prices and BFSP had 2 out of 3 winning, i will be doing my Final Review summary shortly.

Morning Betfair Prices:

 Results for May 6th  to May 10th= 5 selections/2 winning lays =  40.00% S/R

 P/L for May 6th to May 10th=  minus 27.70 points

Selections from February  16th to May 10th = 79 Selections/54  winning Lays = 68.35% S/R

 Running Bank after Day 84 = 80.52 points (100 points starting bank)

    BFSP

Results for May 6th to May 10th = 3 selections/1 winning lay =  33.33% S/R

 P/L for May 6th to May 10th= minus 13.70 points

 Selections from February  16th to May 10th= 61 Selections/39 winning Lays = 64.10 % S/R

 Running Bank  after Day 84 =  92 points(100 points starting bank)

                                                     Best Regards

                                                         David

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The Sports Investor – Weekly Review Days 73 to 79 

Hi Bloggers 

               Better than last week but still a losing week but only slightly on the morning Betfair prices but BFSP lost out on 3 winning lays because of being over 4.00 and took a bigger hit.  It really has gone all wrong for the service in the last few weeks especially on BFSP  and of course at a crucial stage as the review draws to a close with just 5 days left. Anyway i shall be doing a five day week review on Tuesday next week followed by my final review posting shortly after.

Morning Betfair Prices:

 Results for April 29th  to May 5th= 7 selections/5 winning lays =  71.43% S/R

 P/L for April 29th to May 5th=  minus 4.75 points

Selections from February  16th to May 5th = 74 Selections/52  winning Lays = 70.27% S/R

 Running Bank after Day 79 = 108.22 points (100 points starting bank)

    BFSP

Results for April 29th to May 5th =4 selections/2 winning lays =  50% S/R

 P/L for April 29th to May 5th= minus 14.30 points

 Selections from February  16th to May 5th= 58 Selections/38 winning Lays = 65.36% S/R

 Running Bank  after Day 79 =  105.70points (100 points starting bank)

                                                     Best Regards

                                                         David

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The Sports Investor – Weekly Review Days 66 to 72 

Hi Bloggers 

               Well just as we are start approaching the winning post the service got hit with a bad week, both Morning and BFSP running banks still remain in profit despite the battering, lets hope that the service can hit a prolonged winning spell again and increase those figures. With 12 days left the service can still recover from this setback.

 Morning Betfair Prices:

 Results for April 22nd  to April 28th  = 7 selections/3 winning lays =  42.92% S/R

 P/L for April 22nd to April 28th =  minus 32.45 points

Selections from February  16th to April 28th  = 67 Selections/47  winning Lays = 70.17% S/R

 Running Bank after Day 72 = 112.97 points (100 points starting bank)

    BFSP

Results for April 22nd to April 28th = 5 selections/2 winning lays =  40% S/R

 P/L for April 22nd to April 28th = minus 19.45 points

 Selections from February  16th to April 28th = 54 Selections/36 winning Lays = 66.66% S/R

 Running Bank  after Day 72 =  120.00 points (100 points starting bank)

                                                     Best Regards

                                                         David

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The Sports Investor – Weekly Review Days 59 to 65

Hi Bloggers 

               There was 6 selections at Morning Prices  this week and 2 of those were losers for the service at 2.96 and 2.48 but it still managed to make a small profit on the week. As for BFSP this was a very bad week it lost out on two winning lays because there price was higher than 4.00 and it ended up on a minus for the week. Although the service  did not do so good this week overall is doing well for a one a day lay and lets see if can maintain  its form over the next 19 day, it could be an interesting Final  Review!.

Morning Betfair Prices:

 Results for April 15th  to April 21st  =6 selections/4 winning lays =  66.66% S/R

 P/L for April 15th to April 21st = +1.80 points 

Selections from February  16th to April 21st  = 60 Selections/44  winning Lays = 73.53% S/R

 Running Bank after Day 65 = 145.42 points (100 points starting bank)

    BFSP

Results for April 15th to April 21st= 3 selections/1 winning lays =  33.33% S/R

 P/L for April 15th to April 21st = minus 16.55 points

 Selections from February  16th to April 21st= 49 Selections/34 winning Lays = 69.44% S/R

 Running Bank  after Day 65 =  139.45 points (100 points starting bank)

                                                     Best Regards

                                                         David

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The Sports Investor – Weekly Review Days 52 to 58

Hi Bloggers 

               Not such a good week as last week but 5 out of 7 winning lays for both Morning Price Selections and at BFSP at 71.43% S/R is not to be sniffed at, the prices of the 2 losers were 2.25 and 2.75 at Morning Prices and 1.79 and 2.09 at BFSP. Anyway with another  26 days to run on the review things are looking interesting if the service can maintain the current form.

Morning Betfair Prices:

 Results for April 8th  to April 14th  =7 selections/5 winning lays =  71.43% S/R

 P/L for April 8th to April 14th = +8.75 points 

Selections from February  16th to April 14th  = 54 Selections/40  winning Lays = 74.07% S/R

 Running Bank after Day 58 = 143.62 points (100 points starting bank)

    BFSP

Results for April 8th to April 14th= 7 selections/5 winning lays =  71.43% S/R

 P/L for April 8th to April 14th = +14.35 points

 Selections from February  16th to April 14th= 46 Selections/33 winning Lays = 71.74% S/R

 Running Bank  after Day 58 =  156.00 points (100 points starting bank)

                                                     Best Regards

                                                         David

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