Clint Westwood
01-24-2009, 01:49 AM
Statistics and reports sites
www.rsssf.com
If you're after beefing up your soccer databases, I haven't seen much better than rsssf for a comprehensive listing of past games and results, and the team line ups. It covers a huge amount of leagues and competitions as well.
www.football365.com
Easier on the eye and still has a lot of good information, plus articles and news sections too.
www.4thegame.com
Similar to football365; full of reports and general information. The match reports they keep are a useful asset as well.
www.sportinglife.com
More like an on-line newspaper, but their real-time match reports and commentary are decent features.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport
Similar to sportinglife - reliable reports and good real-time match information.
www.livescore.com
About the only one-stop site I've seen that contains live score reports for matches all around the globe. It's pretty much a no-frills site that is only useful for checking the scores of various leagues simultaneously.
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Odds-comparison sites
www.betbrain.com
Lots of sports on there. Soccer is well covered and is easy to use. Sometimes they list unreasonably high (or low) prices for some sides and it skews their quick-reference information for the best price available, plus their use of averages for finding the 'most common' price for each team means that these can also be skewed as a result.
As long as you don't rely completely on their quick reference/summary page, and check each game individually, you can weed out the stupid 21.0's and the like, when all the other books are at 2.1 etc. It does the job pretty well otherwise.
www.oddschecker.com
Uses a much smaller sample of books and doesn't include pinnacle. It's still a decent reference guide though.
www.betexplorer.com
Has a good historical amount of data. Just make sure to check the figures quoted to make sure you are getting a reasonable/reliable result - they have some wacky lines mixed in there that can throw off their reports for best price etc. As long as you take the time to check properly it's a very handy site indeed.
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Please add any other good sites you might know of and recommend (or severely distrust!), folks.
www.rsssf.com
If you're after beefing up your soccer databases, I haven't seen much better than rsssf for a comprehensive listing of past games and results, and the team line ups. It covers a huge amount of leagues and competitions as well.
www.football365.com
Easier on the eye and still has a lot of good information, plus articles and news sections too.
www.4thegame.com
Similar to football365; full of reports and general information. The match reports they keep are a useful asset as well.
www.sportinglife.com
More like an on-line newspaper, but their real-time match reports and commentary are decent features.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport
Similar to sportinglife - reliable reports and good real-time match information.
www.livescore.com
About the only one-stop site I've seen that contains live score reports for matches all around the globe. It's pretty much a no-frills site that is only useful for checking the scores of various leagues simultaneously.
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Odds-comparison sites
www.betbrain.com
Lots of sports on there. Soccer is well covered and is easy to use. Sometimes they list unreasonably high (or low) prices for some sides and it skews their quick-reference information for the best price available, plus their use of averages for finding the 'most common' price for each team means that these can also be skewed as a result.
As long as you don't rely completely on their quick reference/summary page, and check each game individually, you can weed out the stupid 21.0's and the like, when all the other books are at 2.1 etc. It does the job pretty well otherwise.
www.oddschecker.com
Uses a much smaller sample of books and doesn't include pinnacle. It's still a decent reference guide though.
www.betexplorer.com
Has a good historical amount of data. Just make sure to check the figures quoted to make sure you are getting a reasonable/reliable result - they have some wacky lines mixed in there that can throw off their reports for best price etc. As long as you take the time to check properly it's a very handy site indeed.
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Please add any other good sites you might know of and recommend (or severely distrust!), folks.