Football & UK/Irish racing · on Telegram

Football and racing research, with every Model Pick on the record.

BetSmart is a pair of Telegram bots: research you can run yourself on players, teams, referees, racecards and form, and a small number of Model Picks. Every Model Pick is recorded before kick-off and settled win or lose, and the whole record is free to read in the bot.

⚽ Football 🐎 Horse racing
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Two bots

Football and racing, each in its own bot.

Each bot runs its own models and its own research tools, and each is delivered on Telegram.

Football research and Model Picks

Player, team, fixture and referee research on demand, plus Model Picks: singles where our model's estimate of the chance is higher than the bookmaker's price implies. That is an estimate, not a proven advantage, which is what the record is for. Some days there are none, and then we say so.

  • Player and team markets searched by form, minutes and matchup /finder
  • Form, shot maps, goal timing and referee profiles /fixture /team /player /ref /lineup
  • Boards and tools /value /screener /slip /acca /watchlist
  • Write a rule and backtest it on our history /strategies
  • Every Model Pick on the record, wins and losses, free to read /scorecard
Football plans

UK & Irish racing

Selections for UK & Irish racing, each with the bot's estimated chance, the price, and the case for the horse written out in plain English.

  • Racecards with form, trainer, jockey and course research /racecards /horse /trainer /jockey /course
  • Each-way tips show the place terms and what a placed-but-beaten bet returns
  • Follow the horses you care about /follow /tracker
Racing plans
Research

Research you can run yourself.

Everything below runs inside Telegram, when you ask for it. It shows you the numbers; it doesn't tell you what to bet.

Team & player research

Form, goal-timing profiles, shot maps, home/away splits and head-to-head records, pulled on demand. /team /player

Referees & lineups

Card tendencies by official, and lineups once the teamsheet is out. /ref /lineup

Racing form tools

Trainer, jockey, course and form research, and a list of the horses you follow. /horse /follow /tracker

Price comparison

Compares each bookmaker's price with the rest of the market and lists the ones that stand apart. A price that stands apart is not the same as a bet worth taking. /value

Strategy Lab

Test your own rules against past games and see how they would have done. A backtest describes the past; it is not a forecast. /strategylab

Your filters, your volume

Set minimum odds and leagues for what the bot sends you, and choose how many messages you get: Everything, Standard, Quiet or Nothing. /filter /alerts

Members only

And a research desk on the web.

The same research on a full screen: football players, fixtures, lineups, teams and referees; UK & Irish racecards with trainer, jockey, course and pace data; and a Strategy Lab to test your own rules against past games. It's research, not tips: past numbers for you to read, with bookmaker prices shown beside them unless you switch them off.

Members log in with the Telegram account they subscribed with. The demo is the same desk running on invented data, so you can see what it does first.

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How we keep score

One record, and losses count exactly like wins.

We don't show you a selection of winners. We keep one record, of one kind of pick, and you can read every line of it before you pay anything.

What a Model Pick is

A single on a match market where our model's estimate of the chance is higher than the bookmaker's price implies. It is the only kind of pick the record counts. Everything else (short-priced picks, player props, strategies, and the racing bot's selections) is outside this record.

Recorded before kick-off

Every Model Pick is stored with its price before the match starts. A pick made after kick-off doesn't count.

Settled win or lose

Each one is settled at the price it was posted at, 1 unit flat: won, lost or void. The record states the date it counts from, and every correction we have made to a result is listed in the bot under /corrections.

Too early to call

The record is still too small to tell skill from luck. So we don't claim the picks make money, and the record always shows how many bets a number is based on and the range of results it is consistent with.

See the full record in the bot → Free, no subscription. If the bot opens on its welcome screen, send /scorecard.
What this is not. BetSmart is not a bookmaker — we take no bets — and it is not a way to make money. Nothing we publish has been shown to make a profit over time. Results swing hard over short runs and losing runs happen. Only ever bet what you can afford to lose.
Pricing

Read the record free. Pay only if the tools are worth it to you.

The record and the corrections log are free in the bot, with no card. The paid plans are the research tools and the data: we sell those, not a profit promise.

Free

£0

No card required.

  • The full Model Pick record, wins and losses /scorecard
  • Every correction we have made /corrections
  • Take a break at any time /selfexclude, and help /care
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Both sports

£42 /month

or £420/year, 17% less than paying monthly

  • Everything in the football plan and the racing plan
  • Membership of both members' channels
  • The research desk on the web, for both sports
Subscribe to both

Single sport

£29 /month

Racing only: £24/month

  • Football: /finder, /fixture, /team, /player, /ref, /lineup
  • Football boards and tools: /value, /screener, /slip, /acca, /watchlist
  • Football: the live corner count against the live corner price, when you ask /corners
  • Football: write a rule and backtest it on our history /strategies
  • Racing: every selection, with the case for each horse
  • The research desk on the web, for your sport
Football — in the both-sports plan Racing — subscribe

The football-only checkout isn't taking payments yet. Until it is, football comes with the both-sports plan.

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Questions

The things worth asking.

When it runs, the free pick is at most one Model Pick a day, chosen at 10:00 UK by a fixed rule: the Model Pick our numbers rate most likely to land, at a UK bookmaker's price. Nobody picks it by hand. On days when no Model Pick passes that rule there is no free pick, and we say why. The card at the top of this page shows whether it has started and what today's decision is.

By statistical models applied the same way to every game. No neural network or language model picks the bets. Each Model Pick shows our estimated chance, the price, and its minimum odds, which is our own break-even price.

No. The record is still too small to tell skill from luck. You can read all of it, wins and losses with the sample size beside every rate, free in the bot with /scorecard.

Correct. Winning most bets at short prices can still lose money once the bookmaker's margin is paid. That is why our record shows how many bets a rate is based on, and the range of results it is consistent with.

It depends on the fixtures and the prices. Some days have Model Picks and some have none, and when there are none we say so. You can set minimum odds and league filters for what the bot sends you.

No. BetSmart is a research and tips service, not a bookmaker. We take no bets and hold no money for betting.

Yes. Betting carries real risk and no run of picks is a promise of anything. Bet only with money you can afford to lose, and stop if it stops being enjoyable.

Send /selfexclude in the bot. Picks and tools pause until the break ends. GAMSTOP can also block UK gambling sites for you, and GamCare's helpline is 0808 8020 133.

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Before you pay

Read the record first.

Open the bot and send /scorecard. It's free, it shows every Model Pick, wins and losses, and it's the best way to decide whether any of this is worth it to you.

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