Using Social Media for Sports Insights and Wagering

YouTube is a brilliant choice for post-match analysis. You can watch experts breakdown what happened in a game in a long-form way that gives lots of detail. You can also follow YouTubers who make predictions on the outcome of a match and go into great detail about how they got to their result. This is a great way to improve your own form-studying strategy.

Live stream sessions allow you to interact with the content creators to ask your own questions. This provides the option for a great back and forth, where it’s possible to learn a lot.

Integrating Social Media Insights into Your Betting Strategy

Now that you know where to look for social media tips, tricks, and information, it’s time to find out how to put it to good use. Let’s have a look at some of the common mistakes to avoid, as well as how to combine your own findings with those of others.

Avoiding Common Pitfalls

Below are some of the most common pitfalls when using social media to inform your sports betting, alongside how to overcome them.

●    Recognizing Bad Information: Many people turn to social media for tips on which sports bets to place and some of those tips can be good. However, even the best tipsters don’t have a 100% strike rate, most don’t even have a 66% strike rate. So, be wary of anybody claiming to ‘guarantee’ you wins, profits, or frankly, anything! 
●    Getting Carried Away: Social media has a way of getting people all hyped up, just looking at trending tags on Twitter is a great example. While it’s tempting to go with the crowd and bet big when you see someone stirring up a storm on Twitter, it’s worthwhile taking a step back and asking if you’d be having the bet based on your own research alone.

Combining Data and Social Insights

Now that you know how to avoid the drawbacks of social media in sports betting, we can move on to the good bit. Let’s take a look at how you can use findings from social media to improve your own chances of betting success.

●    Cross Reference: If you find a good tip then compare the data that you found on social media with ‘traditional’ stats. This could be a horse racing tip you saw from a Twitter tipster, stacked up against the Racing Post Rating, for example. 
●    Using The Tech: There are lots of fantastic apps that make sifting through social media looking for tips a whole lot easier. SportSpyder and Action Network are two great tools that can help you to filter through your feeds, helping the best news reach you fast.