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Before the advent of the digital age, sports betting was a combination of placing bets on your favored team and listening to the advice of tipsters. Things have changed rapidly; big data has exposed the unreliability of these methods. Collecting data in huge amounts from a broad variety of sources gives greater insight across all levels. Does access to more information and statistics actually help punters select more accurate picks?

The answer is it is a good start.

Online Future

Your bookie will be in the palm of your hand. Your phone will allow you to place bets through apps — in real time.

Tipsters will no longer be human — they’ll be data-based, betting on punter’s behalf using fast, powerful technology collated from huge amounts of data.

How will we Get There?

We are already there.

The sports betting landscape is changing; the industry is moving online. Sports bettors are becoming familiar with apps that to predict the outcome of games and other factors. They accumulate data and trends, run them through complex algorithms and can make accurate predictions.

This is already changing the way many bettors plan their picks — they use the data offered before placing bets.

And the software is becoming more and more sophisticated all the time.

Humans are Not Robots

This technology of course cannot take into account the unpredictability of human behavior. But the big data mined online makes the odds all the greater.

With the emergence of this technology from pre-event betting (as sports picks are selected now) to a move towards real-time picks during an event.

Apps are poised to become the new bookies but more advanced and with more information than any human brain could ever retain.

Predictive Technology is Fast Gaining Ground and this is a Good Thing

With tech companies entering the game, it will all be based on algorithms.

There numerous things that attract punters to sports betting as a form of entertainment. And it is now becoming more and more accessible thanks to apps and the internet. What’s more having the technology to make more accurate picks gives both experienced and inexperienced bettors the chance to become more excited about the potential to select picks and win, it also helps them build up their knowledge of the sports associated with betting at the same time.