+23% profit increase on the bank in 5 days from x14 new lay strategies from Betaminic
Detailed Setup Guide for Manual Betting
Detailed Setup Guide for Automated Betting
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.
Detailed Setup Guide for Manual Betting
1 Click on each strategy link.
- Colossus 16 Home Leagues (Updated 2021-11-17)
- Home win (2020-06-01)
- Colossus 20 Away Dog (Updated 2021-11-17)
- Underdog home MP
- High fly bis
- TOM WHITAKER HD2 Home underdog draw
- ALL LEAGUES Home Team Not scoring / TODAS las LIGAS Equipo Local SIN marcar (Updated 2021-10-20)
- +4 Home Underdog World
- X 4 + (Odds Bands Removed) All Leagues (Updated 2023-9-16)
- DC Home WIn / Draw
- Tony Harts Drawing System
- Under Home Underdog and Away Winner Streak (Updated 2021-11-17) All 111 Leagues
- Underdog Home Win DNB
- Home Wins Over 3
2 Click on the green tick mark on the top right of the strategy data summary box. (Requires a free Betaminic account. Register here.)
3 Picks will be sent to your email box 36-48 hours before kick-off in most cases. (Requires an active Betamin Builder Subscription.)
4 When you get an email with a pick, go to Betfair Exchange or any other betting exchange that has lay betting on football and lay that selection.
For manual bettors I recommend laying to a fixed liability of 50 or 100 GBP.
Imagine a bank of 100 points, so 50 GBP x 100 points = 5,000 GBP bank
or 100 GBP x 100 points = 10,000 GBP bank
If you have a smaller bank of 2,000 GBP, then start with 20 GBP fixed liabilities and increase stakes as you pass the 3k, 4k levels.
Detailed Setup Guide for Automated Betting
1 Click on each strategy link.
- Colossus 16 Home Leagues (Updated 2021-11-17)
- Home win (2020-06-01)
- Colossus 20 Away Dog (Updated 2021-11-17)
- Underdog home MP
- High fly bis
- TOM WHITAKER HD2 Home underdog draw
- ALL LEAGUES Home Team Not scoring / TODAS las LIGAS Equipo Local SIN marcar (Updated 2021-10-20)
- +4 Home Underdog World
- X 4 + (Odds Bands Removed) All Leagues (Updated 2023-9-16)
- DC Home WIn / Draw
- Tony Harts Drawing System
- Under Home Underdog and Away Winner Streak (Updated 2021-11-17) All 111 Leagues
- Underdog Home Win DNB
- Home Wins Over 3
2 Click on the green tick mark on the top right of the strategy data summary box. (Requires a free Betaminic account. Register here.)
3 Connect your Betaminic account to your Bf Bot Manager software
(Requires an active Betamin Builder Subscription.)
3.1 First, login to your Betaminic Builder on the Betaminic website. Go to the “Bf Bot Manager” tab in the Betamin Builder.
3.2 Copy the first URL on that page by left-clicking on the green “copy” button. This is the “Recommended URL to Export Pending Picks for the next 6 hours”.
(If your Bf Bot Manager URL is not there, email support@Betaminic.com to ask them to “enable the BFBM link” on your account.)
4. In the Bf Bot Manager software, click on the “Manage Tips” button. (Requires an active BF Bot Manager subscription)
5. Click on the “Betaminic auto import settings” button in the Manage tips form.
6. Tick the checkbox to enable “Automatically import tips from your Betaminic account”
7. Right click and paste your Betaminic URL into this field.
8. Click “Save” to keep these settings and exit this form. Your Betaminic account and Bf Bot Manager should now be linked.
9. To test, exit the BFBM software and restart it. If any Betaminic picks are available for matches kicking off in the next 6 hours, they should display here. Note that it will only download tips if there are picks for matches that will kick off within the next 6 hours, but picks appear in the Betamin Builder up to 48 hours before kick-off.
10. If the software has imported any tips, you should be able to see them in the Manage Tips form.
Troubleshooting
If no picks appear in your “Manage Tips” form, check your Betaminic Pending Picks page to see if you have any picks for games due to kick-off in the next 6 hours. Only those tips will be imported. (This is for technical reasons connected to how Betfair manages it markets.)
If you want to force a test, you can copy the second “Alternative URL to Export All Available Pending Picks” URL from your Betaminc “Bf Bot Manager” page and enter that in the “Download tips from URL” form in the Bf Bot Manager “Tips form”.
Important: Please note that Betaminic is only responsible for generating picks in your Betamin Builder account. They are not responsible for making the Bf Bot Manager software or my bots work, so if you have problems with the bots or BFBM, please contact me or BFBM customer service since that is not part of Betaminic’s service.
11. Import my lay bots set.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eoLJ_tmnuD2RQT0AK4zmW_TI83ghwhd0/view?usp=sharing
(You can learn how to organize your bots into groups with this video: https://youtu.be/Gb1CF7XiSXM?si=9UuNY-14zQ66FM6G )
12. Edit the stake of the BML 02.01 bot if you need to. The default is a 1k bank.
Whitaker Staking uses the multiplier option in the Whitaker Staking rule, so the nominal bank is 100 x the level stakes setting so 100 x 10 level stakes settings = a 1,000 bank.
20 level stakes settings = a 2,000 bank
30 level stakes settings = a 3,000 bank
50 level stakes settings = a 5,000 bank
100 level stakes settings = a 10,000 bank
The bots use an ELSx5 setting over 1,000 bets.
These are the settings I think are best for these lay strategies at the moment.
If you don’t understand what these settings are, then leave them.
If you want to know more about Whitaker Staking settings, please read my website page: https://bettingsystemsguide.com/whitaker-staking/
13. Start the bots. All the bots need to run for the set to work.
The BML 01.01 to 01.14 bots are Whitaker staking 100 GBP banks to track each individual strategy. We should always consider strategies individually when choosing to stop or start bots and not the set as a whole.
The BML 02.01 is the main bank bot that does the big bets.
The BML 02.02 is a 1 GBP level stakes to liability tracker bot to monitor overall ROI.
Advice
Make your betting plan before you start your bots and stick to it.
What are your exit points?
Profit Exit Point: x2 or x3 of the bank? Stop when you reach that level, withdraw winnings and make a new plan at that point with fresh data.
Loss Exit Point: -100% of the bank? Whitaker staking runs on the idea that your risk 100% of the bank. If you are the kind of person who quits if the bank goes to 50%, then risk 50% of your funds as 100% of the Whitaker bank, not 100%. If you have 5k but will stop the bots if the bank goes down to 2.5k, then do not use a 5k Whitaker bank, use a 2.5k Whitaker Bank and let it use the entire 2.5k. It is calibrated that way.
Strategy Stopping Points: If any strategy gets to 1,000 bets and is in a loss, then removed that from the set.
Time Exit Point: 12 months? Give your betting plan a fixed period of time to run. Don’t be second guessing after each downturn. Make your plan and stick to it, and give the strategies a fair chance tor repeat and show their value trends.
If you have questions about the bots, see my support options: