Why, the ability to look thru form and other sports based statistics is great if your moving into high-frequency-gamberling, no wait I see what they did there.<p>That said it is known that host countries do better as tehy also said "According to Goldman, home countries outperform their expected haul by 54%"<p>Makes you wonder when betting shops and banks will end up converging.<p>But if they were that good and knew there were right based upon some solid maths that they would be able to predict the results then they woud of put there own money were there mouth is. Banks and GS don't do that, they only like to make the predictions and put other peoples money weer there mouths are. Same as a casino in many way, playing the odd's at your expense, only when you win they win and when you lose they win.