AJ Sports Tipster is a long standing sports betting tipster service that is being offered through the Betting Gods stable of tipsters. Covering multiple sports, it has the potential to offer decent bang for your buck.
Introduction to AJ Sports Tipster
One of my favourite things to talk about when it comes to betting is the importance of a betting portfolio. Covering as much as possible with your bets simply means that when one thing is failing, another should theoretically, be picking up that slack. And I can assure you that even the best tipster services will have these period. But something that I often gloss over is that it can be very expensive. With most services costing around £30-£50 per month, even a modest portfolio will be £150-£200. That’s a lot of cash.
With that in mind, I am often on the lookout for services that cover a broad range of sports. It stands to reason that if you can get tips for multiple sports for the price of one, you get the chance to cover more bets for less money. And that is exactly why today’s review subject, AJ Sports Tipster, stood out to me. Because AJ covers a huge number of betting markets. Whilst Betting Gods list 5 of them in the main sales page, there are actually a huge number covered. Which helps you to spread your bets.
There is however a seemingly glaring problem. AJ Sports Tipster is on a bit of a rough streak at the moment. Which may beg the question of why exactly I’m looking at this. After all, if a service is losing money, why on earth would there be any reason to recommend it? Well, the answer to this is actually quite simple. Whilst it may be struggling in the here and now, there remains some potential to still be quite good. And if anyone can help with this, it is Betting Gods. So, let’s get into what is likely to be a bit of a controversial one.
What Does AJ Sports Tipster Offer?
The core offering of AJ Sports Tipster is exactly why this is appealing to me. Normally when I’m writing about a new service, I’ll say things like it is simple. That it has a strong focus. None of that is applicable here. In arguably the least likely statement that I thought I’d make when talking about a service… this is appealingly messy. Now, I’m going to have a lot to argue here, so let me explain a bit.
First things first, let’s talk about the sports that AJ bets on. In theory, these can easily be broken down. AJ Sports Tipster covers tennis, baseball, basketball, American Football, actual Football, and ice hockey. All of that is pretty impressive solely as a statement in and of itself. I mean, we’re talking about six sports covered by one tipster service.
But that isn’t enough. I want to break that down even more. In Betting Gods’ proofing there are bets for Major League Baseball. Then for basketball, there is the NBA, the WNBA and the NCAA which is college level basketball. Obviously, American football covers the NFL, but also the NCAAF (American college level American Football).Football and tennis are, I think pretty self explanatory. But it gets wild again when you talk about ice hockey, because AJ covers the National, Kontinental, and Swedish Hockey Leagues. AJ Sports Tipster does it all.
And whilst there is plenty of variety in the sports that AJ bets on, there is also a lot of variety in the betting markets that are used too. There is simply too much to list here, but the proofing Betting Gods provide shows a huge variety of bets on any given sport, typically with a focus on the niche. All of which suggest positives for AJ Sports Tipster.
Despite this, the average odds are actually quite low. You would probably expect there to be some sort of value at play with so many moving parts, yet AJ Sports Tipster rarely seems to end up advising odds that are higher than evens. Of course, you can shop around to improve on this. Betting Gods don’t proof to BOG and I dare say with an odds comparison site you could squeeze a bit more out of it. But that is something that might take a bit more effort than it’s worth.
You see, in keeping with the theme of “eclectic”, the spread of tips is a bit all over the place. AJ has frequent no bet days, which is fair enough. However, you may then suddenly find a day when you’re placing 6 bets on a given day. This culminates in an average of around 75 bets per month or 2 and a bit per day.
One of the things that should be an unequivocal positive about AJ Sports Tipster is the way it is manged. Selections are typically made available around 9pm. In theory, this gives you time to get bets on, but factor in the amount of betting on US sports and it is less of a boon. The reality is that it doesn’t actually leave you with a whole lot of time.
As is always the case with products from Betting Gods, their involvement is spot on. There is of course the standard option to receive selections directly via email, there is also a member’s area that you can log into to view selections there. Really though, the best option is to use the Betting Gods app. This sends tips from AJ Sports Tipster directly to your phone and is the fastest way of receiving them. Something that is quite important here in my opinion.
Now, let’s talk about the stakes. AJ likes to typically stake 2 points per bet. Something that is very pertinent for reasons that I will explore later. On occasion, there are 1 point bets, and they may go as high as 3 point bets. But these numbers are outliers. What is concerning however is that a betting bank of just 75 points is recommended for AJ Sports Tipster. That gives you an effective drawdown of about 36 bets. Less than a month of betting.
In theory, this shouldn’t be a problem for AJ Sports Tipster. After all, as Betting Gods point out, this is a service that has an average strike rate of 52.63%. That’s a respectable number and all things considered, really looks good. Unfortunately, looks can be a little deceiving.
How Does AJ Sports Tipster Work?
Something that I think you unfortunately just have to get used to when it comes to Betting Gods products is that you don’t get a lot of information on how a service works. Sometimes, this isn’t necessarily a huge deal. For example, a horse racing tipster service that clearly exploits value. But in the case of AJ Sports Tipster… where do you even begin trying to understand how AJ is finding all of these different types of bets?
I could kind of see it if AJ Sports Tipster looked at a small handful of things, but it doesn’t. Something that I’ve always said is that profiting in betting long term is ultimately about knowing more than the bookies. That can take a lot of different forms, but I’m yet to see somebody who simply knows more in the way that AJ seemingly does. On the one hand, he’s picking 52% of bets right. But at the odds involved, there seems to be questions about the sustainability.
Which is a bit of a concern. Because whilst I trust Betting Gods enough to believe that there is something going on behind the scenes here, I would really like to know what. Especially because, as I will explore in more detail soon, the results for this are a bit all over the place. As such, it doesn’t strike me as unreasonable to want to know why a tipster is betting the way they are, especially with such a seemingly scatter gun like approach.
With all of that said, there is the usual mitigation which comes with products from Betting Gods. Namely that the proofing is exceptional. It really lays bare everything you can expect from AJ Sports Tipster, both in terms of the highs and the lows. Whilst it isn’t a replacement for information on selection process (especially in this case), it does at least allow you to get an idea of whether this is something you could make work for you.
What is the Initial Investment?
If you want to sign up to AJ Sports Tipster there are two options that are available. Firstly, there is a monthly subscription. This is priced at £27 (plus VAT) per month and is billed after a 15 day trial period that will set you back just £1.99.
Alternatively, you can sign up on a quarterly basis. This is priced at £40 (plus VAT) for your first 3 months, after which the cost increase to £80 (again, plus VAT). Something worth noting however is that (at the time of writing) if you spend a bit of time on the AJ Sports Tipster sales page, Betting Gods do offer your first 3 months for just £30.
It is worth noting that Betting Gods do offer a 30 day money back guarantee on AJ Sports Tipster. Specifically, they say that “If you’re not happy then claim a full refund of any money paid in the last 30 days”. This is a generous offer and definitely expands on the standard 30 day money back guarantee that is offered through Clickbank.
What is the Rate of Return?
Ok. Let’s talk about the biggest problems with AJ Sports Tipster, and that is how much you can potentially earn. At the time of writing, AJ has produced a profit of just shy of 40 points. This might not be the worst thing in the world if proofing with Betting Gods hadn’t started in April last year. This means that realistically, if it continues in this vein, the service might make 50 points for the year.
Of course, that isn’t the best place to be starting with a tipster service. And it is only hampered more when you work out that the average monthly profits is less than 4 points. Here’s the thing though. Remember when I said those stakes were pertinent, you could effectively half the results to show how AJ Sports Tipster would have performed to level 1 point stakes. Then things look really bad.
Highlighting how much of a problem this actually is, is the ROI. This comes in at just 2.63% according to Betting Gods. Sure, it’s better than most savings accounts, but it really isn’t competitive with other tipster services. All of this is a very valid cause for concern.
Conclusion for AJ Sports Tipster
There isn’t a nice way of dancing round this. AJ Sports Tipster looks bad on paper. If only for no other reason than the fact that those profits are seriously lacking. Whilst I appreciate that a profit is a profit, here it hardly seems talking about. And I want to explain exactly why this is, because context can be incredibly important.
I always look at results using £10 stakes (as do Betting Gods). This means that the average monthly profit for AJ Sports Tipster is just under £40. If you’re paying for this monthly, you then pay out £27 per month. With VAT, that’s an actual expenditure of £32.40. Leaving you a grand total for your efforts that month of £7.60 (ish). For context on just how low that actually is, in April 2022, the National Living Wage will be £9.50 per hour.
So, why does this still hold some interest? Well… AJ Sports Tipster seems to be a bit of a matter of timing. There have been some really impressive months here. An even bigger number of admittedly quite average months too, but I don’t want to get hung up on that too much. The problem stems from the fact that there have been losing months where AJ has simply lost what he has earned.
The thing is, this is a service that comes very close to providing huge amounts of bang for your buck. AJ Sports Tipster could be something really quite special. It would allow you to cover a multitude of sports, specifically, ones that aren’t going to tread on the toes of “main” tipster services in a portfolio. That is appealing.
And it is clear that there is something to this. Whilst the profit and loss admittedly doesn’t paint the best picture, there is little denying that a strike rate of 52% suggests that there is some method to AJ Sports Tipster. Which is probably why it’s still hanging on as part of the Betting Gods stable.
But it still isn’t quite enough. For any serious bettor, betting is a numbers game. No number is more important than your profit and loss though. And whilst I genuinely do believe that there is some merit to AJ Sports Tipster, it doesn’t count a single iota if you’re making less money in a month than you could make in an hour.
Probably not surprisingly, I wouldn’t actually look to recommend AJ Sports Tipster for that reason. But what I wanted to do, to at least some degree, is explore whether or not this is as bad as it seems to be. The short answer to this is no, at least in my opinion. In fact, with a turn of form, this could really be something worth a look. Here and now though, absolutely not.
