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From the Stone Age to the Golden Age of betting in less than 15 years. But it didn't happen by accident!
Leighton Vaughan Williams / 22 December 2009 / Leave a comment
Leighton Vaughan Williams signs off his current blogging efforts for Betting.Betfair with a look back at 15 years of tremendous change in the betting landscape... Read more »
'The Cleverness of Crowds' © Leighton Vaughan Williams
Leighton Vaughan Williams / 17 December 2009 / Leave a comment
Got a question? Ask a group of people and you should get a strangely accurate answer... Read more »
The Betfair Prof: "Did a £5 private wager almost cost the allies the Second World War?"
Leighton Vaughan Williams / 10 December 2009 / Leave a comment
The Betfair Prof, Leighton Vaughan Williams, tells all about one of the more absurd suggestions ever made on betting.betfair! Read more »
The Betfair Prof: "Can the Wisdom of Crowds Help You Win the Lottery?"
Leighton Vaughan Williams / 30 November 2009 / Leave a comment
Derren Brown, the magician, is no stranger to the use of the idea of the wisdom of crowds as part of his entertainment package... Read more »
The Betfair Prof: "England are the third best football team in the world. And it's not just Betfair traders who are saying so!"
Leighton Vaughan Williams / 24 November 2009 / Leave a comment
You heard it here first: England are the third best football team in the world... Read more »
The Betfair Prof: "How Benford's Law might help you beat the odds!"
Leighton Vaughan Williams / 16 November 2009 / Leave a comment
Leighton Vaughan Williams tells us whether or not it's possible pick the fakers from the tossers! Read more »
The Betfair Prof: "Can the future influence the past? Serious scientists are asking the question!"
Leighton Vaughan Williams / 02 November 2009 / Leave a comment
Why are objects the size that they are? The answer is quite simple. It's the size of the molecules and atoms that make them up. Read more »
The Betfair Prof: 'Could the crowd have prevented 9/11?'
Leighton Vaughan Williams / 26 October 2009 / Leave a comment
The attack by al Qaeda on the World Trade Centre and on the Pentagon in September 2001 came as a surprise. But the information was out there. Read more »
The Betfair Prof: "Can orange juice help forecast the weather?"
Leighton Vaughan Williams / 16 October 2009 / Leave a comment
Whoever would have thought the economics of orange juice could be so interesting! Read more »
Why was the Arc triumph of the greatest racehorse such a bad result for the bookies?
Leighton Vaughan Williams / 06 October 2009 / Leave a comment
Why do favourites winning mean bad news for the bookies? The Betfair Prof explains... Read more »
The Betfair Prof: "Sell in May, Go Away, Buy Again on St. Leger Day". Or not?
Leighton Vaughan Williams / 29 September 2009 / Leave a comment
The Betfair Prof looks at the famous Mark Twain quote and gives us his take on a sure fire way to make some cash, or not, as the case may be... Read more »
Money talks. But not always!
Leighton Vaughan Williams / 24 September 2009 / Leave a comment
The Betfair Prof, Leighton Vaughan Williams, tells us that money talks, most of the time... It's a few days since I backed Treaty Flyer to win the 3.40 'rippleeffect.com Handicap Hurdle' at Bangor-on-Dee. Generally available at [8.0] (a little longer on Betfair), the eight-year old chestnut mare was two pounds... Read more »
The Betfair Prof: "I need to laugh, and when the sun is out, I've got something I can laugh about" (Lennon and McCartney)
Leighton Vaughan Williams / 08 September 2009 / Leave a comment
Why it might pay to keep an eye on the weather... Read more »
The Betfair Prof: "Should we sack the manager?"
Leighton Vaughan Williams / 07 September 2009 / Leave a comment
What decides whether or not a manager's time is up? The Betfair Prof tells all... Read more »
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