Apps that connect to your sportsbook, and what each one is for
A handful of apps can read your betting history for you. Most of them are built to help you bet better. Lessen is built to keep you in control.
The tracker apps
Pikkit, Juice Reel, Vault, Action Network, and OddsJam all do this. They show your profit and loss, your win rate by sport, and how your bets compare to the closing line.
They do that job well. But the job itself is to make you a better bettor, and a better bettor is one who keeps betting. Every number in them is pointed at the next bet, which is the wrong direction if you're trying to stay in control.
Built the other way
Lessen uses the same kind of connection for the opposite reason.
Instead of showing you where you're profitable, it shows you what a month of betting actually costs you, which hours cost you most, and what to do in the hours where you usually lose control.
Why this came late
Betting data has mostly been sold to people who want to bet better. That's where the money was. Pointing the same data at people who want to stay in control came later.
The research field made this turn first. In 2010, a Harvard Medical School group argued that gambling research had to move from self-report to actual player-account records [1], and account-data studies since have shown why: in one study, people who spent more had a harder time guessing right [2].
The connection
Same for every app: it reads your settled bets.
Tracker apps
Turn it into profit, ROI, and win rate.
Lessen
Turns it into real spend, your riskiest hours, and a plan.
What does your betting really cost?
Lessen reads the bets you already placed and shows you the real number. 7 days free. On Google Play now, iPhone coming soon.
Sources
1. Shaffer, H. J., Peller, A. J., LaPlante, D. A., Nelson, S. E., & LaBrie, R. A. (2010). Toward a paradigm shift in Internet gambling research: From opinion and self-report to actual behavior. Addiction Research & Theory, 18(3), 270–283. Read the study
2. Auer, M., & Griffiths, M. D. (2017). Self-reported losses versus actual losses in online gambling: An empirical study. Journal of Gambling Studies, 33(3), 795–806. Read the study
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