Speaking about future and investments, I don’t think of gambling as an investment because even if it can be based on statistics, it mostly has to do with randomness. Why not invest into a business or a skill, or something that can bring you money over time instead of planning to gamble with all you have. The top gamblers actually have real jobs, even if it is providing PAID expert predictions like in this thread.
Even the so called aspects do make wrong predictions on their best days so, what then is the reliability about.
Yeah, there are those historical records about results, head to head, last 5 games result, away and home records, club specifics and all that but still, these are agreeably randomized as these histories are broken from time to time. It’s been known only to stand as long as it gets and nothing more.
Those who have been known to classify gambling for an investment and not being the owners of the gambling firm in itself are thinking it wrong. You’ve got almost zero guarantee on results even with your best analysis at hand and that speaks of randomness and luck, which aren’t real qualities of an investment.