CoachTony_Bets
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The betting problem rotation creates is one I understand from both sides.
As a coach: you never tell the opposition what you're doing. The press conference is a performance. The injury update is managed information. The selection is yours until the team sheet appears.
As a bettor: I'm trying to price a game that involves players I don't know will be playing until 75 minutes before kickoff.
The specific challenge Guardiola creates.
Manchester City under Pep have had over three hundred different starting line-ups. No coach rotates more aggressively. No coach is less transparent about rotation intention.
His press conferences: completely uninformative about selection. Deliberately so. Legitimate tactical information management that happens to destroy the pre-lineup betting market's informational basis.
The question: do you bet before lineup confirmation and accept the selection uncertainty, or do you wait and bet in the narrow window after the team sheet drops before prices fully adjust.
Both approaches have specific costs. What does everyone else do.
As a coach: you never tell the opposition what you're doing. The press conference is a performance. The injury update is managed information. The selection is yours until the team sheet appears.
As a bettor: I'm trying to price a game that involves players I don't know will be playing until 75 minutes before kickoff.
The specific challenge Guardiola creates.
Manchester City under Pep have had over three hundred different starting line-ups. No coach rotates more aggressively. No coach is less transparent about rotation intention.
His press conferences: completely uninformative about selection. Deliberately so. Legitimate tactical information management that happens to destroy the pre-lineup betting market's informational basis.
The question: do you bet before lineup confirmation and accept the selection uncertainty, or do you wait and bet in the narrow window after the team sheet drops before prices fully adjust.
Both approaches have specific costs. What does everyone else do.
