This is something i cannot think of, i can't just bet on something i don't know about specially on a sport's i don't know unless it's just seeing if the luck is on my side. Well, i tried to bet on a team i don't really know (Germany Basketball Bundesliga), since i can still bet even the game already started like who will win on the X quarter, and i did win without even knowing who are the players, i just check the previous end quarter scores lol.
This just means that the match was straightforward. If two teams were maybe closer to each other and there were other factors that played into factor, maybe you would have gone it wrong. But obviously you were able to bet accurately.
If the performance of the teams are straightforward like this is good and this is bad then it is easier to analyze and predict who can win.