My friends can be so much helpful in sharing updates, theories, leads and even codes of their own bets, all of that can actually help reduce the stress of starting from scratch to do your own research and predictions but yet, without them, I can still cope and do better but it's going to make me put more work in searching for helpful leads that can contribute to a solid prediction. If you make your to only depend on your friends help, that means it will cause a disaster for you when they are not there or no longer helping you. I can't be in such situation.