The old saying that information is power never more applies than it does to sports betting. At the end of the day, the professional odds compilers base their prices on information and they are some of the best in the business. All prices are underpinned by the information that gets analysed beforehand. Prices are based on other factors too of course.

But often the Internet along with other news sources can be invaluable to any punter who is looking to make money from betting. Unfortunately this is something that cannot be avoided. You must have a very good grasp of odds and probabilities and why you think a particular price is wrong. Quite often you may need to use information in ways that you hadn’t otherwise thought of.

For instance, let us say that Wigan Athletic are at home to Liverpool in a Premier League game on the Saturday. On Monday afternoon Wigan are priced up at 3.50. But there is one huge question mark over this match and this is that there are injury doubts to Steven Gerrard and star striker Fernando Torres. Now it is clear that Liverpool do not perform anywhere near as well when these two players are either absent or not performing well.

So it then may be worth having a pre-emptive bet on Wigan when the news breaks on Monday afternoon that it is possible that both of these players could miss the next game. The fact that this is still in doubt may not do anything to the price but the price of a Wigan victory should be dramatically lower than 3.50 and will be reflected accordingly near kick off time should both these players not figure in the game.

Quite often the high street firms are vulnerable to team news with their fixed odds coupons. Many firms do not alter their prices as their coupons were printed and distributed at the start of the week.

This means that alert punters who are on the ball so to speak with regards up to date team news can be in a great position to exploit this particular situation. These facts and data can sometimes often be found on the actual websites of the clubs themselves.

In fact even at the time of me writing this article, Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres were injured for Liverpool which led to them losing 1-0 at Sunderland in the League and also 2-1 at home to Lyon in the Champions League. The correct theoretical prices of the two teams in both of these matches would have been seriously affected because of the injuries to these two key players.

In fact the number of injuries and to who can be even more pronounced in the lower leagues than it can in the Premier League. This is for the simple reason being that smaller clubs simply do not have the back up of large squads behind them and if you specialise and concentrate on one particular league then you can often find situations in which the absence of key players can be pivotal in how a game plays out.

It only takes the loss of a key player like the club captain or a key defender or keeper and the possible result can alter drastically. So use the power of the internet to try and beat the bookies.

This article was written by Carl “The Dean” Sampson

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