I have been going through over 1000 public strategies in the football backtesting tool Betamin Builder, and found the consistently worst performing strategies. I then made them into a lay set of x14 strategies to see what they would do and they made +23% increase on the bank in just 5 days. I am quite surprised by that, but since we know how hard it is to find winning strategies, maybe it is easier to find losing strategies and just lay them. In my previous attempts to find good lay strategies, I had created my own strategies based on football logic of what I thought would be bad value and that the market would overbet on and drive into negative value that is good for lay bettors. Those strategies did work, but they had a lot of variance that sometimes broke my bank. This time I have not created new strategies, but chosen old strategies that have thousands of real bets behind them proving their negative value.
The SS total bets column shows how many real bets they made.
The SS yield column shows how much ROI they made.
These strategies are proven losers. Maybe it is easier to find losers than winners.
I and the accounts I mange for others have shown instant success with these so I wanted to share them early to try and jump start 2026.
You can either wait for 3 months to see how my bots do, or you can jump in now.
I feel like sometimes I wait too long to share my strategies and then people miss out, so I am sharing exactly what I am doing now and for my managed accounts.
Those 100 GBP Whitaker staking bank bots track each strategy and feed into the main bank 5k GBP bot BML02.01 with a 1 GBP level stakes tracker bot BML 02.02 for ROI checking.
The 5k bank is +1.2k already. The 1 GBP bot is showing +27% ROI from 25 bets.
It might be lucky early days, but after a tough December, it is good to see any sign of positivity.
Maybe it is easier to find losers than winners, and then lay them.
You can automate this with the Bf Bot Manager on Betfair Exchange, or you can manually lay these picks on Betfair or by signing up with a betting agent that gives you access to Betfair white label exchanges for residents of Betfair restricted countries.
For BFBM automated bettors, here are the bots for download: 1k bank settings
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eoLJ_tmnuD2RQT0AK4zmW_TI83ghwhd0/view?usp=sharing
(Edit the main bank 1k GBP bot BML02.01 to edit your bank size. All the bots must be running for the set to work.)
Tom’s Betaminic Lay Strategies List for 2026 x14
Colossus 16 Home Leagues (Updated 2021-11-17)
Colossus 20 Away Dog (Updated 2021-11-17)
TOM WHITAKER HD2 Home underdog draw
ALL LEAGUES Home Team Not scoring / TODAS las LIGAS Equipo Local SIN marcar (Updated 2021-10-20)
X 4 + (Odds Bands Removed) All Leagues (Updated 2023-9-16)
Under Home Underdog and Away Winner Streak (Updated 2021-11-17) All 111 Leagues
How to follow a Betaminic strategy:
- Click on the link.
- Click on the green tick mark on the top right of the strategy data summary box. (Requires a free Betaminic account. Register here.)
- Picks will be sent to your email box 36-48 hours before kick-off in most cases. (Requires an active Betamin Builder Subscription.)
Learn more about the Betamin Builder:
- On their How it works page
- On their FAQ page.
- Watch my Betaminic first time user guide video https://youtu.be/y5pjnYZ2GQQ
- View my free guide on my website page https://bettingsystemsguide.com/betaminic-historical-odds-and-statistics-database/
- Read my books about using Betaminic Winning Betting Systems and Big Data Betting
If you want to look at the data I used to find these strategies, then here is the 2025-12-26 snapshot of all the public strategies on Betaminic’s Betamin Builder.
All 1,000+ public strategy data is in the “snapshot” sheet and the lay strategies I chose are in the “Edit 6 lays” sheet.
The thing I really love about Betaminic is actually the research process. It is fun for me to look at all the data, the snapshots I make myself and the online database with its charts and monthly results, and then to make my own strategies with its filters and historical odds going back to 2012. I have used it for a while now and I really feel like I have mastered the tool and know it inside out. I hate just following other people’s tips blindly. I much prefer to see all the filters and data behind what I put my money on. It is a very different kind of betting experience.
But for now, if these lay strategies can continue their current run, that would be a great start to 2026.