Backtesting
Q: What is backtesting? A: Backtesting means putting a football quant rule back into historical matches, historical odds, and historical results to judge whether the strategy may have a stable edge.
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Betting Exchange
Q: What is a betting exchange? A: A betting exchange is a betting platform where users trade directly with each other, while the platform provides matching and charges commission.
Read detailsBitcoin
Q: What is Bitcoin? A: Bitcoin is the first successfully operating decentralized digital currency, using blockchain and proof of work to support peer-to-peer value transfer.
Read detailsChina Sports Lottery
Q: What is China Sports Lottery football betting? A: It is a legal sports-lottery football betting market in China and one of the core markets SoccerQuant uses to discuss odds, backtesting, bankroll management, and quant strategy.
Read detailsCorrect Score
Q: What is correct score? A: Correct score asks the bettor to predict the exact final score of a football match.
Read detailsHalf-Time/Full-Time Result
Q: What is half-time/full-time result? A: It asks the bettor to predict both the half-time result and the full-time result.
Read detailsHandicap Moneyline
Q: What is handicap moneyline? A: It is a football bet type where a pre-match handicap is applied before judging win, draw, or loss.
Read detailsHistory of Quantitative Investing
Q: What is quantitative investing? A: Quantitative investing uses mathematics, statistics, and computing to build systematic models for investment decisions, from portfolio theory to multifactor models, high-frequency trading, and machine learning.
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Q: What is the Kelly formula? A: The Kelly formula is a bankroll management method that uses true probability and odds to calculate a theoretical staking fraction.
Read detailsMixed Parlay
Q: What is a mixed parlay? A: A mixed parlay combines multiple selections, sometimes across different bet types or matches, into one ticket.
Read detailsMoneyline
Q: What is moneyline? A: It is the basic football bet type that asks only whether the home team wins, the match draws, or the home team loses.
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Q: What are odds? A: Odds combine price and probability in football betting. They define payout and imply the market's probability view of a result.
Read detailsPareto Principle
Q: What is the Pareto Principle? A: The Pareto Principle, also called the 80/20 rule, describes how a small minority often controls most resources, output, or value.
Read detailsQuantitative Strategy
Q: What is a quantitative strategy? A: A quantitative strategy turns betting or investment judgment into repeatable rules, then tests those rules with data, backtesting, odds, and bankroll management.
Read detailsTotal Goals
Q: What is total goals? A: Total goals asks the bettor to predict the total number of goals scored by both teams.
Read detailsValue Investing Strategy
Q: What is a value betting strategy? A: A value betting strategy looks for bets where the mathematical expectation implied by the odds is higher than the estimated true probability threshold.
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