If you bet on football with a cool head, not getting caught up in the hype, then the South African top flight's results archive on OddsRun is a goldmine. This is a league where the margins are razor thin. Draws are a regular occurrence, and the bookies often over-price big club superiority, only for the scores to stay stubbornly tight.
On this page you can look back over past results, compare how games have played out over time and get a glimpse of what the bookies thought would happen before kick off, using those all-important archive odds.
When you scroll through the past results for the PSL you'll spot a pattern: 1-0, 0-0, 1-1 - and don't be surprised if a lot of games go the full 90 without a second goal being scored. That's why in the PSL most bettors tend to focus on:
OddsRun's data reinforces that idea: on average there are less than 2 goals in each game, and the BTTS (both teams to score) market is pretty low. And let's be honest - 0-0 is a surprisingly common result for the PSL.
The PSL is all about the big brands - the "glamour teams" that draw in the punters. As a result, their archive odds and closing odds can be super interesting to study.
The top team of the modern era. Sundowns games often have a "control" vibe to them: they can win without needing to fire in a ton of goals. When you look at the past results you see a lot of professional, tightly managed scorelines rather than wild games.
The team with national pull. Pirates matches tend to attract a lot of money, so you can expect the odds to move fast - especially if they've got their strongest XI on the pitch. In the PSL one moment can decide a game, so Pirates odds can get a bit crazy-fast.
One of the biggest brands in African football. Chiefs games are the perfect example of "reputation betting": the bookies will often price them up on the strength of their name rather than the actual team. And that's where the archive odds come in handy - if Chiefs are favourite but the results show they're actually pretty dodgy, you know what you're getting yourself in for.
Other key PSL teams you'll see popping up in the betting and results:
A winning results archive gets a massive boost when it includes the names of the people who put their stamp on the league's biggest clubs - simply because all these names still have a lasting impact on how fans and punters without a clue see fixtures (and therefore the cash that flows into the books).
Why this actually matters on a betting/results page: in the PSL, where results are usually pretty tight and draws are more common than we'd like, what the casual fans think can actually skew the odds. The clubs with big star power tend to bring in the money even when the actual match up is pretty even.