Here is the weekly performance of the betting fund after the betting tips for the football last weekend, 19-21 January 08.  To see the detailed betting results for each game see the Fund page.  With a gain in the betting fund of 12% over the weekend the fund is now 102 days ahead of target.  However, I consider these 102 days as a reserve against 2 things. Firstly, there are no games during the summer months and therefore the fund will not advance whereas the target advances 0.51% every day.  I have marked where the fund needs to be at the start of next season on the About page.  Secondly, there is always the chance of getting hit with a bad loss.  When these hit they hit hard, sometimes up to 25-30% of the fund’s value.  This would translate to a setback of around £75-100. Though this would still leave us above target! 
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And finally after the Christmas games we’re back to normal again with the Premier League fixtures.  The model’s betting fund is currently 60 days ahead of target. Though as I only bet on the Premier League with this model it needs to be ahead by the end of the season as there will be no games in the off-season to earn money on.  You can see the progress of the fund against target here.
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The Alpha Fund used level stakes and was a pre-cursor to the percentage stakes Beta Fund.  Results over the past month have shown the Beta Fund to be superior and continuing to monitor the Alpha Fund serves little purpose.  I am therefore going to drop coverage of the Alpha Fund and the Beta will just be referred to as ‘the Fund’.

This week once again saw moderate gains.  The 6 winning match bets were soured mainly by away wins for Everton and Man City.  These two teams do appear underrated by the model as their relative rankings are low versus the rest of the league consisdering their recent results.
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