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November 6th Update I

Very quick update for tonights Powerstats:

Back Frankfurt @ odds greater than 8
Back Pacos Ferriera @ odds greater than 3.3

November 6th

Another frustrating day yesterday for the XKR application. From the races I saw on Betfair mobile I seemed to have a fair number of decent priced selections run well but not win. The day ended in a 12 point loss, making it the third losing day in a row and a worrying 40 point loss for it this month. The 40 point loss is exaggerated though due to my coding error on Tuesday but it's not good all the same. Of course losing runs always come after an increase in stakes and this one is no exception! Long time to go before the end of the month and just for good measure I've added a couple more feeds into the mix, roll on todays racing... :o)

Losing day as well for the in play app. To be fair, I got up yesterday morning and it was already £50 down on the day after some random South American game overnight. There was a huge amount of in play games yesterday as it was Europa League night, the profit and loss ebbed and flowed and in the end I was sitting on a loss of £66 for the day so no real damage done. It had a really decent start to the month last weekend so I've been expecting a bit of adjustment to the overall profit anyway really.

Nothing through from Punters Profits, I've looked at their systems and I'm just going to follow their NH System Portfolio, couple of no bet days as far as that system is concerned.

Even though it's FA Cup weekend there should still be a number of Powerstats through, I'll post them later as soon as I have them.

November 5th

A game of two halves yesterday, Brian. The in play football app was sitting on a tidy £136 profit at half time in the various Champions League games but as the final whistles went around Europe that had turned into a £105 loss.

It was the same story for the XKR app as well. By late afternoon it had built up a nice 20 point profit for the day, a series of nightmare races in the evening card at Kempton turned the 20 point profit into a 4 point loss for the day. Maybe there's mileage in switching the thing off when it makes your money for the day!

No recommended bets through from PunterProfits yesterday. I still need to take a good look at their site really to get to grips with it a bit more, I just don't have the time at the moment.

So a frustrating day yesterday, let's hope we bounce back today.

November 4th

Frustrating day yesterday for the XKR app. I increased my stake for it as I plan to do this as each month goes by (providing it shows a profit!) but in my haste I didn't double check my code. By the time I realised half way through the afternoon, I had bets all over the place, some with the wrong stake, some taking Betfair SP and some horses with huge liabilities on them as it hadn't checked whether a bet had been made on the horse using the correct stake before. It was a mess!! There wasn't a lot I could do, I fixed the code (I knew what was wrong straight away) and tidied up the bets as best I could but I generally had to just let things run. My frustration was then compounded further by a couple of my heavily backed long priced horses (16/1 and 10/1) going short odds on in running (1.1 and 1.5ish), just one of those days really. The day ended in a heavy 24 point loss mainly due to errors in the code earlier in the day, it would still of been a losing day I think but not as bad. I'll mark it down as a 24 point loss but will make a note that operator error didn't help :o)

On the plus side, the in play app had another flying evening with a profit of £246, the Champions League owed me some money from weeks gone by so it was pleasant to see the bets go my way on the night.

I joined PunterProfits yesterday for just £1, JP follows them over on his blog and by all accounts they make decent steady profits. It's worth following them for a month and then I'll take it from there. I could do with following another horse racing service. Nice to see JP doing well with The Form Guru, that service was too up and down for me and to be honest I didn't like the way they ignored all my mails to cancel my subscription after my initial freebie month, left a bad taste in my mouth.
I'll post how I'm doing each day with PunterProfits, I was a little late joining yesterday so never received the daily email. I tried logging on to the site but whether I'm just a bit thick or it's not obvious, I couldn't see any of the daily selections posted anywhere?!

Nothing from Powerstats this week, I thought there were more league games but there's only a few.

Right, fingers crossed my coding works ok today :o)

November 3rd

Really busy at the moment so will have to keep this post short and to the point! Been away for a few days so only got a chance to go through things this morning.

The in play app made a £135 loss on Friday followed by a £315 profit on Saturday. Saturdays profit helped it over the £1k mark for October and it finished up £1157
It also got off to a flyer on Sunday, the first of November, with a £479 profit followed by a small(ish) loss of £58 yesterday.

The XKR app finished the month on Saturday with a 20 point loss. Over the course of October it made 126 points, a very welcome return. Whether that's a one off, a good month, a bad month, an average month - I don't know, only time will tell. The app suffered a hiccup on Saturday evening though and as I wasn't around it hasn't run for the last couple of days.

Powerstats had a poor weekend with a loss of -40 points pushing it back into a loss for the season.
Powerstats Running Total -28 points (10 points per selection)

Should be some powerstat predictioins this week, will post them as I have them.

October 31st

Small 1 point profit on the night for the stats thanks to Southend's last min goal :o)

Another losing day for the in play app though with a £135 loss, last day of the month today, needs a good day today to finish the month off.

Great day for XKR with 34 point profit.

Here's the rest of the weekends Powerstats, be back Tuesday :o)

Saturday 31st October
Away Win predicted Wolfsburg v Mainz. Back Mainz at odds in excess of 7.0
Home Win predicted Burnley v Hull. Back Burnley at odds in excess of 1.91
Home Win predicted Man United v Blackburn. Back Man United at odds in excess of 1.17
Away Win predicted Portsmouth v Wigan. Back Wigan at odds in excess of 3.0
Away Win predicted Ipswich v Derby. Back Derby at odds in excess of 4.0
Away Win predicted Preston v Crystal Palace. Back Crystal Palace at odds in excess of 3.75
Away Win predicted Morecambe v Lincoln. Back Lincoln at odds in excess of 3.2
Away Win predicted Bordeaux v Monaco. Back Monaco at odds in excess of 6.0
Away Win predicted Marseille v Toulouse. Back Toulouse at odds in excess of 6.5
Home Win predicted PAOK v Xanthi. Back PAOK at odds in excess of 1.53
Home Win predicted Roda JC v Twente. Back Roda JC at odds in excess of 5.5
Home Win predicted Naval v Leixoes. Back Naval at odds in excess of 2.1
Away Win predicted Inverness C v Morton. Back Morton at odds in excess of 5.0
Away Win predicted Alloa v Clyde. Back Clyde at odds in excess of 3.6
Away Win predicted Peterhead v Stirling. Back Stirling at odds in excess of 2.25
Home Win predicted Ath Bilbao v Ath Madrid. Back Ath Bilbao at odds in excess of 2.6
Away Win predicted Besiktas v Ankaragucu. Back Ankaragucu at odds in excess of 8.5

Sunday 1st November
Away Win predicted Ein Frankfurt v Bochum. Back Bochum at odds in excess of 4.33
Home Win predicted Oldham v Huddersfield. Back Oldham at odds in excess of 2.63
Away Win predicted Rennes v Valenciennes. Back Valenciennes at odds in excess of 6.0
Home Win predicted Kavala v Panthrakikos. Back Kavala at odds in excess of 1.62
Home Win predicted Olhanense v Rio Ave. Back Olhanense at odds in excess of 2.35
Away Win predicted Pacos Ferreira v Leiria. Back Leiria at odds in excess of 3.25

Monday 2nd November
Away Win predicted Genk v Cercle Brugge. Back Cercle Brugge at odds in excess of 4.75

October 30th Update I

Couple of predictions for tonight:

Friday 30th October
Home Win predicted Mouscron v Standard. Back Mouscron at odds in excess of 5.25
Home Win predicted Southend v Gillingham. Back Southend at odds in excess of 2.0

October 30th

Another losing day for me. The in play app went down with a £61 loss, it's now at £977 profit for the month, can it break (and stay above!!) the £1k barrier over the next two days I wonder....?

XKR Auto also had another losing day to the tune of 12 points. That's three losing days on the trot, the first time that's happened since I started running it just over a month ago. Hopefully it'll bounce back today. The app is now running exactly how I want it to though, it's just a case of sitting back and seeing how it does, maybe add a few more feeds. Thanks for the comments Loocie, interesting stuff, good to know someone else out there has their head buried in code and databases as well! Link now added to your blog.

There's bound to be a load of Powerstats this weekend, I'll post them later and that'll be the last you hear from me for a few days as I'm off away.

October 29th

Poor day all round yesterday really, the in play football app lost £289 and XKR lost about 15 points.

I've totally re-coded the XKR app so it should run a lot more efficiently now. For anyone that cares or reads this, it was originally writing various text files all over the place, these were then read by other 'threads'. I've now coded the app so that nothing is written locally, all data is held in arrays of classes and passed to each thread as the thread starts, it should run a lot faster and efficiently, we'll see :o)

Not a lot else to report, oh, keep meaning to mention I watched The Damned United last weekend, good film and well worth viewing.

October 28th

Fine day yesterday for the in play football app with it's second best day of the month pulling in £475. Nice profit from the Alcorcon v Real Madrid game where the home team had a stunning 4-0 win, Alcorcan play in the third tier of Spanish football, the same division as Real Madrid's youth team, Castillas! That game not surprisingly turned the Betfair football forum into meltdown mode :o)  Went to Fratton Park as well last night to watch our destruction of Stoke, just wish we could turn our cup success into points in the league...!

Losing day though for XKR with a 10 point loss on the day. After Monday's great return it was no surprise, you won't win everyday, just so long as the overall profit line is going up then that's all you can ask for.

As I posted yesterday, there are no Powerstats this week. Friday will be the next possible day for predictions.