What Tools Are Available On SkyBet To Research My Bets?

If you are a serious punter then you will no doubt be as careful with your bets as you are with your money. Long-term profitability doesn’t simply come by a punter plucking out lucky bets from thin air time after time, but from a sustained period of winning bets achieved with the help of some detailed research into betting markets.

After all, how can you confidently place a bet on a market expecting to make a profit, if you don’t already understand all you can about that bet and the teams or individuals involved?

Ask yourself this question next time you win a bet, did you really research the fact that Crystal Palace would win 1-0 at Watford in the Premier League, or was it simply good fortune that landed you the win?

Many bookmakers realise the importance of statistics therefore for punters who are serious about betting profitably, or even betting for a living. However the level of service on offer in this respect does vary from provider to provider.

In this article, we are going to look at what SkyBet offers its customers in terms of the tools on the site (or on associated sites linked from the SkyBet sites) which can help punters conduct research onto their potential bets. It’s fair to say that SkyBet’s service is one of the more comprehensive stats and research packages available in the UK betting industry today.

Remember, if you are not already a SkyBet customer you can join today by taking advantage of the Sky Poker no deposit bonus, this will create a SkyBet account via the Poker site and you can then use this with the SkyBet site as a Sky customer.

When you have joined, these are the useful tools available to you and all SkyBet customers to help them pick a winning bet more successfully.

Free Betting Tips

One of the most obvious ways to conduct a little research into a betting market is to see what some experts think about the game. As part of their link up with Sky Sports, SkyBet offers a service where six Sky Sports experts will offer their views as to what some of the best bets are in the sporting world this week.

The pundits include Jamie Redknapp (who focuses on Football), Rob Lee (who is the incumbent presenter of much of Sky’s Golf programming, as well as the Golf pundit), Sir Ian Botham (who offers tips for England’s One Day Games, T20 matches and Test matches). In addition there is the resident horseracing expert and tipster, Alex Hammond, who provides a fresh tip each day  which is broadcast on Sky Sports News and also shown on the SkyBet website.

When these tipsters contribute a tip, this will be displayed on the SkyBet site, and you can also check the blog of each of these pundits (plus two more in Johnny Herbert for Formula 1 and presenter Ed Chamberlin, who offers tips across a number of sports) for further tips as to who each of these pundits fancies as a nap pick this week.

SkySports.com

Of course, with such strong links between the SkyBet site and Sky Sports, the official Sky Sports website, which the Skybet site has several links to across several different features, is also very useful for a wide range of research purposes.

The Sky Sports site offers an extensive range of sports with all the latest news, injury reports, tables, draws and more all of which are a goldmine for punters seeking information. It is a standalone sports site, so there is a good deal of sorting through the information to find that which you need to inform your bet, but as sports sites go, Sky Sports is a solid and wise choice.

Sportinglife.com

In the Extras section of the site, you will find a link to Sportinglife.com. Sporting Life is the daily horseracing newspaper, which has since expanded to become a full-blown sports betting site.

Why would SkyBet seemingly offer a link to a site that seems to offer a parallel service to the SkySports.com site? Well that is because Sky’s parent company have also bought the rights to Sporting Life several years ago, hence the ties between the two.

While Sporting Life offers a news and statistics package across a wide range of sports, the name is most closely associated with horseracing and as such, it is a particularly useful resource for researching this type of bet in particular.

Opta Stats

In the Extra’s section under the subheading Tools, there is a link which states Opta Stats and for those seeking statistics to back up their bets with reasoned judgement, this is the Holy Grail for the SkyBet site.

Clicking on the Opta Stats link takes you away from the main SkyBet site into a subsidiary site and here you can research the statistics from a wide range of sports including Football, Rugby Union, Rugby League, American Football, Baseball, Basketball, Ice Hockey and Tennis.

What is truly remarkable however is the sheer number of options available in each heading, in Football for example, you can bring up stats from any of six major European Leagues, as well as International football. Other sports have equally extensive lists of options related to their professional leagues too.

Once you have selected your sport and competition, you are then presented with a number of options as to what data you want presented. Again using football as an example, you can look at fixtures, results, the current league standings, a list of referees and how they have performed and a list of top goalscorers.

Yet that is not all. Click on the name of a team and you bring up a list of key statistics for that team, such as their overall league performance, home and away form, statistics to do with the team’s performance in general or how their attack and defence has fared.

There is a vast wealth of information available across the most popular sports to bet on with SkyBet and as such, if you research your bets thoroughly, the Opta Stats should be a quick link on your tool bar.

Horse Racing Form

If you want to check out the latest form guide to any horse racing, then SkyBet’s Horse Racing form is a great tool which allows you to check the details on any horse running in the UK and Ireland. This is a powerful tool, used in conjunction with the Sporting Life website, that provides horse racing punters with all the information they need about the horse.

Typical stats include the age of the horse, which horse was the Sire and Dam, the sex of the horse, the trainer and owner, detailed information on how the horse has performed in the races it has competed in and any future races that the horse has been entered for.

Latest Football Results and Scores

Want to check out the latest football results? Well SkyBet offers a service which shows you the latest football results in the main leagues in England, as well as an option to view the score of any matches from football and a number of other sports currently being played via the Live Scores link near the foot of the Extras section.

As you can see, SkyBet provides a large number of resources for punters to investigate any potential bet they wish to make and with close links to several other top sites, you have all the tools you need in one place to conduct any research you want to make your bets more profitable.