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Nippon Professional Baseball League Predictions
Inform your Nippon Professional Baseball league predictions ahead of this week's biggest matches with Pinnacle's weekly update, including analysis, team news, and the...

Timing a bet: Attempting to create value
Betting markets are highly efficient which can make it difficult to uncover value. This article discusses whether the timing and structure of an event can create unconventional...

The dangers of weighting probability from intuition
Do you know why betting on your favourite team is a bad idea? It’s for the same reason lotteries are so popular and people find judging the likelihood of rare events, like a...

La Liga Predictions
Inform your La Liga predictions ahead of this week's fixtures with insight from Pinnacle's odds alongside team news and analysis...

Guide to the 2022 NFL Draft
The much-anticipated 2022 NFL Draft is just a week away. Here is Pinnacle’s one-stop guide to what and who to look out for across the three-day extravaganza.

NBA Predictions: This weekend’s biggest NBA matches
Inform your NBA predictions ahead of this week's biggest matches with Pinnacle's weekly update, including analysis, team news, and the latest basketball odds.

Why the favourite-longshot bias is not a bias
For many years, there has been a debate about how to figure out the true odds of an event simply by examining the market price. This article looks at why the favourite-longshot...

MMA Betting: Five key factors to consider
MMA has seen exponential growth in recent years which has led to the increased popularity of MMA betting. But what factors must be considered to make an informed bet? Read on to...

Part two: Do bookmakers take positions on point spreads?
Part one of this article introduced the idea that bookmaker’s take positions on point spread markets due to the betting market’s overconfidence on favourites. Part two uses...

NHL Predictions: This week's biggest NHL matches
Inform your NHL predictions ahead of this week's biggest matches with Pinnacle's weekly update, including analysis, team news, and the latest odds...

Part one: Do bookmakers take positions on point spreads?
The point spread is one of the most popular betting markets for bettors. While this market is meant to “levelling the playing field” for the teams taking part, the bookmaker...

Applying Wisdom of the Crowd to sports betting
If you are looking to establish a predicted outcome for a difficult conundrum, it is reasonable to assume that surveying a large number of people for their prediction will...

Getting yourself Into Sports Betting: The Best Types of Bets for Beginners
Sports betting is popular, but many people are unclear of how to get started. It might be a little frightening if you've never played at an online casino before due to the...

The Expected Goals Philosophy book review
Expected goals, or xG, is a metric which has increasingly etched itself into mainstream soccer terminology during the last five years but is not fully understood by some of the...

The Hot Hand effect: The nature of winning streaks
Have you ever experienced the feeling of being on a roll? Where everything you touch turns to gold? You might have even convinced yourself that athletes and sports stars are the...