The initial idea with this project was to create a football score predictor. While looking for resources where I could get data to train my model I got a little sidetracked. I stumbled upon a website that gave odds from different bookmakers. That's where I noticed something interesting (leading to my sidetracking). It was possible to make risk-free bets - Arbitrage Betting. Basically, you can bet on all outcomes, leveraging the odds of different bookmakers to minimize or even eliminate any potential losses. Of course, some scenarios would pay out more than others, and it was not possible for all games. But for me this was an interesting enough concept, I had to find a way to take advantage of.
So my predictor app transformed into an odds analyser. Using TagUI to do some Robotic Process Automation, I would scrape the site for the odds of all the matches of the day and save the data in a CSV file. I would then run a Python script to calculate the output of placing my bets using this arbitrage betting technique. This updated data would be saved to another CSV file and uploaded to Google Drive. I would then receive a notification through Telegram and email. At a certain time an event would be fired and the file would be formatted in Google Sheets, using Google Apps Script, to present the best games for me to bet on. I would again be notified through Telegram and email when this was done.