Tips for Tikay

[OverTheBorder]

Second Clue

He has been in the news recently (a lot)

Mr Pistorious I believe

[MereNovice]

September 2014 Figures

Closed bets: 95
Amount wagered: £2,125.95
Profit/loss: £472.17
ROI: 22.21%

Number of "sports" bet on: 16
Most popular:  Football (29), Golf (12), Horses (11).

Most and least profitable sports (based on monthly profit/loss) are:

Sport               Profit  Amt Bet       ROI   No.
Baseball   625.00   160.00   390.63   3
Football 526.01   515.16   102.11   29
Golf     63.51   169.00   37.58   12

...

NFL -157.27   205.00   -76.72   4
Misc.   -160.00   260.00   -61.54   6
Cricket   -170.00   170.00   -100.00   5


Number of tipsters: 30 including 4 new tipsters.


Overall statistics (since February 2012)

Total closed bets: 3,928
Amount wagered: £120,006.67
Profit/loss: £3,731.57
ROI: 3.11%

Number of "sports" bet on: 32
Most popular: Horses (983), Football (968), Golf (347), Cricket (255).

Most and least profitable sports (based on aggregate profit/loss) are:
        
Sport               Profit  Amt Bet       ROI   No.
Football   2,655.45   30,052.62   8.84   968
Horses   974.47   31,429.61   3.10   983
Baseball   802.20   1,676.00   47.86   34
...

RU   -406.14   3,974.87   -10.22   202
Golf   -417.88   9,392.64   -4.45   347
Formula1   -445.27   1,482.39   -30.04   79


The complete list is here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aia1Hxq-NDNWdFk3UmlTSXMzTjRBTVNfOWRndVFsZHc&usp=drive_web#gid=4


Total number of tipsters: 160


Number of different bookies/exchanges/agents: 44

Most and least profitable bookies (based on aggregate profit/loss) are:
        
Bookie          Profit     Amt Bet   ROI     No.
BoyleSports      2,510.40   4,515.45   55.60   115
WilliamHill      1,197.20   21,060.94   5.68   690
Ladbrokes      1,180.75   14,353.20   8.23   485
...

PaddyPower      -500.80   7,644.29   -6.55   359
Coral      -643.24   7,481.20   -8.60   261
BetFred      -1,068.91   9,114.57   -11.73   304


The complete list is here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aia1Hxq-NDNWdFk3UmlTSXMzTjRBTVNfOWRndVFsZHc&usp=drive_web#gid=7


The archive of all bets prior to 2014 can be found here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aia1Hxq-NDNWdHVrekx6T0REUXVNOWw5YTVWa0pWZGc#gid=7

[redarmi]

September 2014 Figures

Closed bets: 95
Amount wagered: £2,125.95
Profit/loss: £472.17
ROI: 22.21%

Number of "sports" bet on: 16
Most popular:  Football (29), Golf (12), Horses (11).

Most and least profitable sports (based on monthly profit/loss) are:

Sport               Profit  Amt Bet       ROI   No.
Baseball   625.00   160.00   390.63   3
Football 526.01   515.16   102.11   29
Golf     63.51   169.00   37.58   12

...

NFL -157.27   205.00   -76.72   4
Misc.   -160.00   260.00   -61.54   6
Cricket   -170.00   170.00   -100.00   5


Number of tipsters: 30 including 4 new tipsters.


Overall statistics (since February 2012)

Total closed bets: 3,928
Amount wagered: £120,006.67
Profit/loss: £3,731.57
ROI: 3.11%

Number of "sports" bet on: 32
Most popular: Horses (983), Football (968), Golf (347), Cricket (255).

Most and least profitable sports (based on aggregate profit/loss) are:
        
Sport               Profit  Amt Bet       ROI   No.
Football   2,655.45   30,052.62   8.84   968
Horses   974.47   31,429.61   3.10   983
Baseball   802.20   1,676.00   47.86   34
...

RU   -406.14   3,974.87   -10.22   202
Golf   -417.88   9,392.64   -4.45   347
Formula1   -445.27   1,482.39   -30.04   79


The complete list is here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aia1Hxq-NDNWdFk3UmlTSXMzTjRBTVNfOWRndVFsZHc&usp=drive_web#gid=4


Total number of tipsters: 160


Number of different bookies/exchanges/agents: 44

Most and least profitable bookies (based on aggregate profit/loss) are:
        
Bookie          Profit     Amt Bet   ROI     No.
BoyleSports      2,510.40   4,515.45   55.60   115
WilliamHill      1,197.20   21,060.94   5.68   690
Ladbrokes      1,180.75   14,353.20   8.23   485
...

PaddyPower      -500.80   7,644.29   -6.55   359
Coral      -643.24   7,481.20   -8.60   261
BetFred      -1,068.91   9,114.57   -11.73   304


The complete list is here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aia1Hxq-NDNWdFk3UmlTSXMzTjRBTVNfOWRndVFsZHc&usp=drive_web#gid=7


The archive of all bets prior to 2014 can be found here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aia1Hxq-NDNWdHVrekx6T0REUXVNOWw5YTVWa0pWZGc#gid=7

Bit late innit?

[MereNovice]

Blonde time now appears to be 26 minutes ahead of BST.

[tikay]

Blonde time now appears to be 26 minutes ahead of BST.

!

Many thanks, as always Vince.

[Tal]

Blonde time now appears to be 26 minutes ahead of BST.

I think Fred is trying to close out the weather bet ASAP

[horseplayer]

Second Clue

He has been in the news recently (a lot)

Mr Pistorious I believe

Well done

[TightEnd]

Kansas City is a baseball City, but starved of success. Last night was their first play off game for 29 years.



 A mixture of bad management and the difficulties of winning in baseball as a small market team in a sport without a salary cap meant success was rare

They hosted another small market team, the Oakland Athletics, of "Moneyball" book and film fame, in the American League wildcard last night. This year the A's had eschewed their parsimonious principles and sensing an opportunity to win the World Series had invested heavy in short term signings notably one of the best post-season pitchers around, Jon Lester, who started last night

This was a heavy duty pitching match up, as for KC "Big Game James" James Shields was pitching. Expectations were for a tight low scoring game, with both teams pitching and defense heavy and strugglnig to hit

Oakland went into a 2-0 lead but by the end of the 5th KC had recovered to lead 3-2

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Veteran Royals manager Ned Yost then made a surprising move. With Shields only 88 pitches into his start, and with 2 Oakland runners on base and no outs in the sixth, he pulled Shields and inserted rookie starter Yordano Ventura in relief. This was both controversial and unconventional. Starters are not normally used in relief, a specialist task and especially not rookies.

At this point, the passionate crowd of 40,000 Royals fans booed. Actually booed the manager who had led them to the play-offs

Yost had got it wrong. Brandon Moss hit a three run homer and a single followed to leave the Athletics 6-3 up going to the 7th. Ventura was pulled and trudged back to the dug-out.

It was an incredible scene. A crowd that had to a man and woman stood from the start and shouted themselves hoarse were completely silent. The commentators remarked on it and themselves were quiet for a moment. You could hear a pin drop. Not sure I have ever seen anything like it.

Oakland added a further run and in the 8th were 7-3 up. The Royals were dead and buried. They were 20-1 to win in the markets

Back they came, tying the game up at 7-7 with no fewer than seven stolen bases and a bunting strategy that is very unfashionable these days and the game went into extra innings. The crowd was by now going nuts

The 10th and 11th innings passed scoreless until Oakland went ahead again 8-7 in the 12th

It was now or never, the Royals were three runs away from elimination

Hosmer brought it to 8-8

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and Colon made his way to second base with a single and another steal

Up stepped Salvador Perez. In the second half of the season Perez could hardly hit the ball. His defense was superb, but he was batting way down the order, a walking out

He connected, squibbing a line drive just inside the foul line past third base. Colon scored and the Royals won 9-8 from 7-3 down

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The place went mental. The Royals became the first team to ever come back from 4+ runs in 8th or later to win a winner-take-all playoff game.

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Sitting in bed watching on a buffering stream I had goosebumps and I was shaking. It had been the most electrifying few hours of sport had seen in ages

In the stadium strangers hugged strangers, stewards cavorted with hot-dog vendors. The commentators' voice cracked.

Terrific stuff

The Royals now travel to Anaheim to play the four game American League Divisional Series starting Thursday. Baltimore play Detroit in the other game, basically semi-finals to win the American League and get to the World Series

Our 18-1 ticket is alive.

a few videos of the game are at 

http://m.mlb.com/video/v36715251/al-wc-royals-advance-to-alds-on-perezs-walkoff-hit/?partnerId=as_mlb_20141001_32629426

Recommended viewing!

[Marky147]

BoB <3

[tikay]

What a great story that is, thanks Rich.

I stalled a little here, when I tried to picture the scene......


Sitting in bed watching on a buffering stream I had goosebumps and I was shaking

Do you ever sleep?

[horseplayer]

[TightEnd]

So what else happened yesterday?

- The Lahore Lions needed to to beat the Perth Scorchers convincingly to qualify for the CLT20 and on a turgid pitch in Bangalore struggled to 124-6 off their 20 overs. At that point they needed to restrict the Scorchers to 78 or fewer to qualify. Hope sprung eternal when the Scorchers fell to 40-6 with the ball turning square, but troops corraled by Mitchell Marsh they recovered to win, eliminate Lahore and give us a loss of £10

- Watford beat Brentford 2-1. Our spy at the game, Mr Rinswun, commented afterwards that Watford had won with a questionable penalty and a "worldie" goal.
With Norwich losing at home and Forest drawing, Watford are now 3rd, equal on points with the top two

- Dover beat Aldershot 3-0 to further climb away from the Cnference drop zone

[horseplayer]

My Uncle at Norwich game

"Charlton very organised, Vetokele a class above ran himself into the ground looked a bit tired by end always a threat"

Start scoring again Igor dont worry about playing well

[TightEnd]

Just 32 of the 232 teams to have earned 1 point or fewer from their opening 2 Champions league group games have advanced out the group.

Manchester City are still 5/6 to qualify, have to host Bayern and go to Rome and Moscow

Roma have to play Bayern twice, but host City and Moscow

Watching last night, City were sluggish, especially Yaya Toure who isn't showing anything like last season's form where he scored all the goals getting beyond the front men and was very difficult for the opposing midfield to track his runs

Thought Roma, until they tired, were really good value. Attacking strategy, and created Pjanic on the streets of Manchester (but not Swansea, Humberside or Carlisle) at times

I can't see why City are favourites over them to qualify out of the group given form, the 232 team sample size mentioned at outset and the games to come

http://www.oddschecker.com/football/champions-league/champions-league-group-e/to-qualify

William Hill 4/6 City 11/10 Roma looks wrong to me

either back Roma or lay City around 1.8....

anyone disagree?

[TightEnd]

Rookie Watch: Who will win Offensive, Defensive Rookie of the Year?

the video is good

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000403419/article/who-will-win-offensive-defensive-rookie-of-the-year?campaign=Twitter_atl

hello there, we are on Benjamin at 20-1, Cooks at 10-1

"1. Kelvin Benjamin, Panthers wide receiver: He's made big plays weekly for an offense that hasn't shied away from making him its centerpiece. On pace for 80-plus catches and more than 1,300 yards, Benjamin is fifth in the NFL with six catches of 20-plus yards. It's worth noting that he's done much of this against the opponent's top cornerback. Benjamin's toughness, his ability to win battles at the point of catch and his immediate impact on Carolina's offense is one of this season's better stories.

2. Brandin Cooks, Saints wide receiver: Cooks roared out of the gate as our favorite rookie after Week 1. Used all over the field, he's fit in well with a Saints attack that forces defenses to pick between the versatile first-year pass-catcher and tight end Jimmy Graham. His 23 receptions lead all rookies, but Cooks is more than a receiver, showing the ability to be used on jet sweeps, in the backfield out of the Pistol and both inside and out as a wideout. In short, Sean Payton's dream"