Betting Psychology

Every bettor can use basic psychological strategies to make smarter and more rational decisions in their sports bets.

That’s why we’ve created a comprehensive guide to the most important psychological strategies in sports betting. Squares fall victim to basic psychological traps, sharps don’t!

Each article in this series walks you through a different psychological principle that’s been scientifically proven to affect our decision-making process and then details how it relates back to sports betting.

• How the Gambler’s Fallacy Can Help
• The Availability Heuristic
• The Green Lumber Problem
• Avoiding Gambler’s Fallacy
• Hindsight Bias
• How the Confirmation Bias Affects Sports Betting
• The Hot Hand Fallacy
• Sunk Cost Fallacy
• The Ostrich Effect
• Outcome Biases
• The Action Bias
• The Overconfidence Bias
• The Conservatism Bias 
• The Disposition Effect
• The Herd Mentality