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Sports Information Services are information providers that sports bettors utilize to minimize the randomness of sports betting. Most sports information services are based around three key functions: real-time betting lines (odds), tracking of “market movement”, and injury updates and reports. Many sports bettors have found that by utilizing these features they can attain a consistent winning percentage well above 50%.

Live Odds
The backbone of every Sports Information Service is the speed and scope of its live odds display. By displaying the real-time betting lines of multiple sportsbooks, Sports Information Services allow their users to find the best line for the wager they want to place. It is possible for a bettor's winning percentage to increase by 3-4% simply by researching and utilizing the best line before placing a wager. For example, some sportsbooks offer better lines on one sport versus another, while other sportsbooks may giver better underdog lines than others, while still others offer excellent desposit bonuses that can be taken advantage of. This information can be invaluable to a serious sports bettor looking to maximize his or her every dollar.

Market Movement
Tracking market movement is a near-universal feature of Sports Information Services. While many names exists for the phenemonem (steam move, steam play, syndicate play, etc.), the basic premise is idential: observe and report when multiple sportsbooks experience a shift in their betting lines. The idea behind tracking market movement is that it may be possible to single out a wager placed by a betting syndicate, as their bets are large enough to trigger a massive movement of the betting lines across multiple sportsbooks. Many bettors believe that by following these moves they will be aligning themselves with the most sophisticated sports bettors in the world and thus will reap the same profits as those bettors.

Injury Updates
Injury updates are of extremely high importance to serious sports bettors. There are many outside influences that can cause a betting line to move throughout the day, but nothing can cause it to move as drastically as a major game-related injury. For this reason, one of the most important features of any Sports Information Service is providing timely and accurate injury updates. If a Sports Information Service can get injury news to its users before the general public is aware of it, then there can be great value to those bettors in placing their wagers before the lines shift in response to the injury news. Even if the injury news is not first reported by a Sports Information Service, it may still be valuable to have that injury information as soon as possible after the line moves, as sports bettors use this information to determine if the public has over- or under-reacted to the injury.

List of Sports Information Providers
• DonBest - One of the oldest and most established names in the business

• SportsInsights - An established low cost provider of Sports Information and proprietary Betting Systems

• G&J Update - Sports Information with an emphasis on aesthetics and ease of use

• Sports Options - A newcomer to the field of Sports Information with excellent injury coverage

• Vegas Insider - The only Sports Information provider to receive lines directly from the Las Vegas casinos

• SBR Lines - A free (but delayed) live odds product from Sportsbook Review