Analyzing Betting Trends: How To Predict The Next Big Winner

• July 29,2024
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• Arnaldo Brito

Analyzing Betting Trends: How To Predict The Next Big Winner

Sports betting is forever evolving, with new features added almost daily. However, when looking for the next big winner, it’s hard to look past these three significant betting trends in recent times.

eSports Betting

It’s easy to dismiss eSports Betting because it’s “just video games.”

However, the level of growth that this exciting industry has attained in the past couple of years should quickly dissuade anybody from having such a perception. According to reliable statistics, 2 billion people played video games in 2020. Beyond the adrenaline of playing, the excitement ramps up if people compete against each other. That’s how video games turn into eSports, which means playing video games competitively. In 2019, over 440 million people watched eSports. That’s an audience to rival many mainstream sports today. And since we live in a top-notch gambling era where one may wager on absolutely anything, it should be no surprise that many gamblers are turning to eSports as their prime source of profitable betting action. Current betting trends are showing more and more people getting interested in eSports betting, and these are two of the reasons why:

It’s easier to edge over the bookmaker when betting on eSports. That’s because not as much is known about the world of eSports compared to traditional sports betting. There are star teams and star players perennially dominating most eSports tournaments. It makes it easier to predict games and win bets.

Live Betting

A punter may place a bet in two ways: betting before a sports contest begins, also known as pre-match betting, and is the most popular way, or live betting, which means placing a bet on outcomes from a sports contest already underway. Live betting, aka in-play betting, is a relatively new feature introduced by sportsbooks worldwide. The most important benefit of live betting is that it gives the punter a chance to make predictions based on the current action in a game. Any small occurrence changes, to various degrees, the flow of a game and can affect the outcome. Therefore, a live-play punter has a beautiful opportunity to react on the spot and make bets based on what they see in the game. More and more punters have realized this advantage and embraced in-play action. The next few years will see live betting become a staple of sports betting rather than some advanced concept practiced only by the most experienced sports punters.

Micro Betting

Another trend to watch out for is micro-betting. It has been a long while since the industry moved away from a strict focus on straight-up betting or betting on overall outcomes from a game. In recent years, punters have been keen to mix their games with unique markets within their favorite games. The next evolution, following from in-play betting, is micro-betting. It is where a punter attempts to predict small, particular outcomes from a contest.

An example would be which team or player scores the next goal or which team will have a player cautioned next. In the NBA, a punter watching a live game could wager on whether the game’s subsequent free throw will be successful. These types of bets represent novel ways for punters to make wagers and enjoy the sports they follow and are bound to be a mainstay of betting shortly.