Originally Posted by
pip2
The sheet consists of nearly 300 single queries, many of which are of dubious value even in good seasons, and I don't think this is a good season, so there are many more queries from that sheet that are perhaps only for this year of dubious value. At any rate, 300 queries is a lot to deal with as it is, and when you consider that each of those queries probably needs to be scrutinized carefully with an expert eye, at this point in time in your sdql career you are probably just as well off without it.
If you have gone over the thread, you will have seen a number of queries that eventually ended up on the sheet. Certainly enough of these to keep you busy building up your sdql capacity. Have you visited Killersports and tried a simple query?
As an experienced gambler you might have more of an edge than an experienced programmer. I got on one nba gambling site near the beginning of the season and was running queries in response to requests from some of the gamblers on that site, and I really appreciated the opportunity to get a glimpse of what kinds of things they were interested in looking at. One of the few queries I have written that doesn't completely suck, came from writing a query to match a situation as described by one of those guys.
At any rate, the best advice I could think of for you would be to start thinking up all the situations that you as a gambler have always wondered about as far as perhaps those situations might make good bets. And then, one by one, try to figure out the sdql to describe those situations and get the results that show whether there is really a bet there.
I think it might be debatable how valuable a tool sdql is. But to me there is no debate as to whether its valuable or not. There is a set of queries I run daily just to get a quick run down on who is playing b2b, 4in5, is just back from a long road trip, etc, and that quick rundown by itself makes sdql valuable to me. But I'm also pretty sure that's just the very tip of the iceberg in terms of value.
And there is a lot of room for using your own imagination to increase the value, which makes it at the very least, quite an entertaining hobby.