Old statistics are very important in every game even in the gambling industries, it's the old statistics coupled with the current form of the team that's used to determine the kind of odds that's given to every team. Sometimes you wonder why a team that's in form and maybe at the top or second position of the league is playing against a team that's maybe in 14th position. Naturally you will think that the team at the top is supposed to get an odd that's not more than 1.50 odds but you start seeing something like 2.25 odds or even 3 odds and the team that's occupying the 14th position is having like 1.98 odds or 2.10 which is less than the top teams own. It's because the statistics shows that the team that's in 14th most of the time beats that team in top position irrespective of the form that particular team.