How much does a professional analyst cost? - Part 1

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How much does a professional analyst cost? - Part 1

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April 19, 2025

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In today's blog article, we bring you another taboo-busting topic: How much is so much, or how much is a professional tipster worth? In this blog article, you will find answers to the questions that I am sure you have been asking yourself. You will learn about the pricing of individual tipsters, what a tipster is no longer worth and what a tipster is still worth, how much the betting sites that can be used determine their pricing and what a realistic selling price is for a tipster site that sells tips from full-time and professional tipsters. LET'S GET STARTED!

1) The sports betting chain

To understand the theme, it is important to place the characters. There are the professional tipsters, there are the tip archiving sites, there are the tip donation sites and there are the end users who buy and receive tips from one of the players just listed.

Professional tipsters:

These are individuals - or teams of individuals - who use some method to map out the betting shops' mistakes and select sports betting options that have been "mis-sold", i.e. offered odds that do not reflect reality. That's why if you follow the picks of a full-time bookmaker, the odds posted can drop dramatically in a short period of time. The higher the value in a tip, the faster its odds or betting option will fall. For example, if you receive a tip with an Asian handicap of -1 at odds of 2.10 and you want to bet on it after 60 minutes, you will most likely be able to bet on it at much lower odds, for example at odds of 1.85. And the closer you get to the start time, the more you can expect a drop. Of course, this is not the case for every single sporting event, only the ones that are really worth betting on because they have so much value. And that's exactly what professional bookmakers do, out of the thousands, or even tens of thousands of options offered by bookmakers, they pick the 60-100 picks (on average, that's how many picks a bookmaker sends out) that are really worth taking.

How are the tips selected? - For those who have made money from sports betting and have really "made it" , it can even feel like "magic", for me when I bet on tennis (blog article) I've often had the same feeling and respect for such knowledgeable tipsters, but of course it's not luck or magic. These full-time tipsters are in most cases programmers rather than sports fans. This might be disappointing for some people, because I admit: When I first started betting on sports, I was under the illusion that there must be some people who read the news 6-8 hours a day, buy the printed press and "guess" what to bet on. You can forget about that, if a professional bookmaker has been making a profit at the bookmakers for years, then there is hard maths and computer science involved, with odds monitoring, not just hunches. The best tipsters are often the best IT people - and that's no joke.

In the world of sports betting, there is an objective metric that I assume you use a lot, but from this perspective you may not be familiar with it: the odds. The odds that bookmakers (sportsbooks) offer on which outcome depends on what they think the odds are based on what they think the realistic chance of it happening is. The professional bookmakers do nothing more than monitor the odds using their own software and if the values they have entered match the outcome, they send out the sports analytics.

Of course, there are exceptions, because if you've been in touch with a professional bookmaker you'll have noticed that even the odds can drop dramatically on matches that they've recently added to their offerings. - The oddsportal.com site I mentioned in my previous blog article is very good for this) This may be because, although there are indeed a vast majority of professional tipsters who use software to determine the right value picks, there are cases where they make such a decision manually, based on their own judgement. I used to follow the work of a full-time bookmaker of Brazilian origin for a very long time, who could beat the bookies when they were just putting out the betting on the matches that the bookmaker was then sending out the tips for. So there are exceptions when the bookmaker works from his own well and not from odds monitoring, but that is usually the case in the smallest leagues, such as the Brazilian third division and others. The reason for this is that these are such unknown sporting events that they are only a hair's breadth away from the amateur and professional leagues. I have received a lot of basketball tips from minor leagues in Peru and similar countries and the live coverage was really shocking: the quality of the basketball court, the size of the projector... It was absolutely nothing like the big sporting events I usually see when I watch a sports channel on TV. It's a completely different world and in such a world, those local professional tipsters have insights that are well up to the work of the more "advanced" tipsters who monitor the bigger teams.

The tip archiving sites:

The sports betting industry is not easy. Even though there are professional tipsters, in most cases they don't set up their own website/channel to sell their work, because it's one thing to sell something and another to produce a product. There are a few exceptions, but in 99% the full-time tipsters use so-called tip archiving sites. The tip archiving site does the marketing and provides a platform for the tipster to publish the tips there. The tipster can then be paid through the tipster archiving site and obviously the tipster archiving site keeps its profits because it provides a platform for the tipster and the tipster benefits: They don't have to do their own marketing, they don't have to maintain a website, a business, they just have to do what they do best: tip. The tipster archiving sites do not actually take responsibility for the performance of the tipsters they publish, but they do (in most cases!) keep a fraud-free record of the tipster's work and provide some assurance about the current tipster's track record.

The tipster sites:

In most cases, tipster sites pay full-time tipsters in advance to tip archiving sites, whose tips are then redistributed. If all the tipster site does is to resell the tips it has bought, this is obviously unethical as it adds no value to the work. What is also very common practice is that the process is automated, i.e. the tips purchased are not even checked and sent out by live staff, but by computers in text messages. And that's the biggest problem, because it's inevitable that tips are delayed for hours, and I'll say this for 100%, many tips don't even go out. So effectively the work of tipster sites would not be needed in 95% or so, since they do not produce anything extra, and in fact they only make the tips they buy worse.

We are categorised as a "tipster site" somewhere, but if all we did was redistribute the tips we bought, I wouldn't have started the business. In fact, FBO.is a bit of each category and thus forms a whole. We offer a real money-back guarantee, which is not offered by professional tipsters or tipster archiving sites. We give real education, which is not given by any group in this chain. Because of our size, we can provide a level of customer support that professional tipsters don't (yet) and tip archiving sites don't (already) have. Last but not least, professional tipsters tend to get complacent once they have a stable customer base at tip archiving sites, falling into the same mistake as tipster sites do, of seeing their followers as just a number. What do I mean by that? - It's fine for the tipster to publish the tip, but then there is effectively no additional section built into the system to keep the end user (i.e. the bettor) in a profitable model. We send out each tip with timestamp authentication and if the odds on a tip change quickly etc, we don't sit back, we set up a notification for ourselves and follow the match live and if there is an occasion when we can bet on the posted values, we notify our customers. In fact, there is even a difference in the notification between us and the rest of the chain: as soon as we get a notification that the tipster we are following has sent a tip, our system sends a notification to our customers that a tip is expected within one minute, they should log in to their betting office. So in effect we can share the tip from a full-time tipster at the same speed as if our client had paid directly, but we still give them a lot of extra commitment, which gives our work value. And we haven't even talked about our "subscriber control panel" whereby our clients can set and save on the website their betting values, their results (how much they bet etc) and have all the sports analytics they post entered into the system instantly and our staff can monitor if everything is in order... We haven't even talked about that.