Basketball betting
Many users use basketball as their main betting discipline. This ball game really looks attractive and the bookmakers offer an extensive line with a lot of events. Basketball has a whole list of advantages over other sports, which cause such close attention.
Recently, many bookmakers have been actively working in this direction, so new championships are being added, and the line of betting options is expanding. What makes basketball so attractive for all interactive betting lovers? Let's take it apart.
Content
- The transience of fights
- Having two possible outcomes
- Low influence of related factors
- Wide range of competitions
- Wide line of bets on players
- A busy calendar year
- Motivation of teams
- conclusions
The transience of fights
If we talk about other sports, especially large ones, they turn out to be quite protracted. Football with all the extra minutes and breaks lasts about two hours, hockey about two and a half, so you have to wait a long time for the end of the match. If we talk about basketball, then it consists of four game segments lasting about 10-15 minutes, as well as breaks with a total length of 20-25 minutes. Even if you take and add up all the overtimes, and also add everything else to it, it still only turns out about an hour and a half.
In addition, the transient nature of each individual game segment can be noted. As a rule, the fourth quarter turns out to be the most protracted, and even that lasts 20-25 minutes. This allows people who like to play live to make more bets. As a rule, the game segment ends quickly, and the user receives the calculation and immediately has the opportunity to make a bet for the next quarter.
Read about how to bet on quarters in basketball in a separate review.
Thus, in one day, you can make a large number of bets, which, with the right approach, will bring a rather serious profit to the user.
Having two possible outcomes
In many sports, users are faced with the following problem – everything goes according to the desired plan, but instead of a confident victory, a draw happens, which destroys all hopes of success. This is often very frustrating in handball, where the chance of a draw is quite low. If you look at the statistics, then in basketball, a draw according to the results of regular time does not happen so often.
For this reason, the bookmaker decided to meet the needs of users and offers them to make bets on only two possible options – “victory of the first team” and “victory of the second team”. This protects against the risk that the main time of the match will end in a draw, and in overtime the chosen team will win.
The positive point here is that with only two possible options, the overall chance of the bet being passed increases significantly. This becomes especially convenient when the favorite meets with the outsider of the fight. In such a situation, quite often a strong team is in no hurry to deal with the enemy and relaxation often leads to a draw at the end of normal time. However, in the decisive five-minute period, the leaders turn on to the maximum of their capabilities in order to take the victory into their asset.
You can learn more about the specifics of betting on the favorite in basketball here, and a ready-made strategy for betting on the underdog is available in another post.
Low influence of related factors
Basketball is a sport that is traditionally held in halls, on closed grounds, so it does not matter what the weather is outside, whether there is a heavy wind or rain. In arenas, conditions are created under which nothing affects the flight of the ball, everything depends on the skill and professionalism of the players. In addition, some sports, such as beach volleyball or tennis, often suffer from weather disasters, since it is simply not possible to hold fights in the rain, you have to pause, postpone and reschedule fights, which may not affect the mood of the players in the best way. It's hard to imagine a situation in which a basketball game will be rescheduled.
Also, the players themselves are in almost optimal conditions, they do not suffer from heat or cold, they feel comfortable in the room, they do not have to protect their eyes from the scorching sun. It is in such conditions that all the strongest sides of each individual basketball player are best manifested, therefore, the outsider of the match rarely wins in basketball. Most often, the favorite gains victory due to the skill of his own performers.
Wide range of competitions
As practice shows, it is basketball that has the most motley bookmaker line among all sports. First of all, this is due to its popularity among both men and women. As a result of this, a situation arises in which almost every championship that currently exists has its own women's division, on which it is also proposed to make interactive bets. For many users, it doesn't matter who exactly enters the site, the main thing is the final result. And from this point of view, women's volleyball is even more convenient, since the favorites there make mistakes an order of magnitude less often than in men's.
More features of women's basketball and betting on it can be found in the dedicated review
Also, a very large number of competitions implies a division of participants by age. Therefore, in one day you can watch a huge number of matches for participants under sixteen, eighteen, twenty years old. Such a spread gives the user the opportunity to choose for himself which of a large number of events he wants to place a bet on, which is more preferable for him. However, it should be borne in mind that youth basketball is less predictable and more risky.
Wide line of bets on players
In many sports, users have the option to place a bet on the achievements of each individual player. For example, that this or that athlete will score a goal, give an assist or achieve a similar result. However, in other sports, this line is rather narrow, since there is not a huge number of possible options for events. In football and hockey, this is a goal and an assist, in other sports, as a rule, points are earned. But in basketball there are much more opportunities, since there are several separate options for events – you can bet on shots, points, block shots, passes and interceptions, you can choose the option you like.
Read about bets on the statistics of players in basketball and other sports in a special review.
This spread, among other things, allows you to involve almost all players. For example, it is logical that in football goals are most often scored by strikers, so there are practically no bets on defenders. But there is in basketball, where they are responsible for block shots, but some defenders are also effective and gain a large number of points. Agile point guards and hitters tend to focus on steals and assists. True, you won't be able to make more than one bet on each game with an express train, but you can choose all the options of interest in single bets.
A busy calendar year
There are users who have chosen one team for themselves, on which they place bets, the matches of which they are looking forward to. But in football, teams usually play only 1-2 games a week, and as a result, the total number of events is not too large. But basketball is completely different. For example, the National Basketball League competitions have a very busy calendar, in which some teams play 3-4 matches a week. In Europe, there are international tournaments, which also dilute the national championships. In some periods of time, CSKA plays 3-4 matches a week, taking into account the ULEB Euroleague and VTB United League.
True, each coin has two sides that you need to be able to use. Often, a grueling calendar affects the team negatively, it gets tired and stops acting with its former freshness, the chance of defeat increases. But the opponents are in good physical shape, and besides, they had a rest after the last match, then you should definitely try to bet on them, even if they look like an outsider of the upcoming event. The physical shape of the players greatly affects the success of their actions on the field, accurate passes and shots.
Motivation of teams
It so happened that all basketball competitions have such a system that each team must fight to the very end. Teams first fight for the playoffs, so almost everyone has the opportunity to be among the lucky ones to the very end and break through to the stage of games through. Even if the team is at the top of the tournament table, it has no right to relax. The fact is that further seeding in the playoffs depends on the position at the end of the regular championship or the group stage. To get the weakest possible opponent, it is advisable to take the first place.
As a result, there are practically no passing matches, in which the favorite or outsider of the competition simply serves the number and does nothing useful. Each misfire can be very expensive, so teams rarely put up a weak line-up, trying to play with the main backbone. The only exceptions are very strong teams that have a set of players on the bench who could themselves become the basis. For example, CSKA has the most stellar and key performers in the Euroleague, and in the VTB United League those people who get less playing time there get their chance.
conclusions
As the above analysis shows, basketball has a number of features that make it a fairly profitable option for making interactive bets. The main advantages are the duration of the fights, which allows you to make a large number of bets per day, as well as an incredibly rich line, which, among other things, offers a choice among the gender of the participants, as well as the age category. Also, given the location of the competition, the season of games lasts almost all year round and in any month you can find interesting events in this sport.
