98club.info - no longer verified and closed service
98club.info was a mixed Greek/English football advisory service focusing on the 1X2 betting market. Verified by Sports-Tipsters from the 22nd August 2014 until the last tip on the 8th February 2015. A week later Sports-Tipsters checked its website to find that it had closed down. Presumably this had something to do with the fact that it was starting to lose its earlier profitability. In fact, whilst the record closed with a yield of 1.25% from 155 tips almost all of that success arose from 5 early winning 10-point stakes. Latterly, average stake size had dropped to only 2 units since the start of 2015, and if analysed to level stakes the record was in fact a losing one (-2.97%), a clear sign of absence of forecasting talent. Of course 155 tips is a very small sample to make such a judgement. However, of much greater significance is that the tipster chose to abandon the service (allegedly this was for "personal reasons", which of course is the default explanation) after such a short period. One can draw one of two conclusions from this. Either he abandoned it becaue he was not selling any subscriptions, or he abandoned it because he realised he was not as confident at predicting the outcome of football matches as he originally thought he was. Such a tale is the typical story of what happens to online tipsters. Almost all are rubbish and worthless: a) because they can't forecast; b) because they wrongly think they can; and c) because they charge people fees on the back of this delusion and denial without properly testing their factual basis for their overconfidence in the firat place. As usual, I make no apology for being so acerbic.
