Football Formula – Final Review

9th October 2011

Inspector John Reviews Football Formula

This review was suspended following Day 56 after it was felt that the service was not making any progress after foundering in the Doldrums for long periods.

The start was fine. On the first day, with only two bets on two matches, a profit of 15.9 points was made and there was profit for the next four of the five days (the one-day loss was 0.5 points), taking the total profit in six days to 52.1 points. Could this be it…could this be my first five-star review?

Sadly no. The 52.1 points profit was to be the highest it achieved and after 14 days it had collapsed to almost zero, powered by a massive 36-point loss on Day 14. It did pick up and was making 36.44 points by Day 21, in arrears four days later, then back up to 39.53 points profit by Day 30.

This was its last peak and three days later it went into recession for the rest of the review (at one time losing 121.19 points) before closing with a 65.03 points deficit.

The Football Formula service organisation was good. Emails arrived a day in advance, easy to read, included start times of every match and there was only one day when there were no selections. What I did find daunting was, in the first half of the review, the amount of points invested in any one day. The second day of the review no less than 36 points were risked, although it did make 4.84 points, but that is a big wedge to risk on any one day, in my opinion. By the middle of September the investments were reduced substantially and, if you recall the betting “strengths” explained in the Introduction: 10pts maximum bet Super Confident bet that we cannot see losing, 8pts Very Confident bet that we expect to win, 6pts Confident bet that should win and 4pts Good value bet that has a good to fair chance of winning, these slowly went out the window as we saw bets of 1.7 points and 2.2 points as the author attempted to build his bank steadily, but it just did not work. By the 18^th September, when this came into play, the bank was already light by 73.93 points and it did not help when on the first day of these new “strengths” it lost 13.4 points.

To summarize: the starting bank was 300 points; using the suggested staking plan this closed on 234.97 points, a 65.03 points loss; using level one-point stakes this closed on 126.14 points, a loss of 173.86 points. The cost of the service is £90 for a 90-day subscription, but there is a 28-day membership for £45.

It is a shame that the average profit of 45 points per month proofed by Betfan did not materialise. It appeared to be achieving this early on, but fizzled out like a rocket in the rain. It is obvious the three authors of the Football Formula are dead keen and put their heart into it, but it is results that count and not enough good ones counted during this review.

Best Regards

Inspector John reviewing Football Formula