About Tipzy

Tipzy is an independent verification service for sports tipsters. It collects picks that tipsters have already published in public, settles them against final results, and reports what actually happened — win rate, return, closing line value, drawdown — alongside whatever the tipster claims about themselves.

Nothing on this site is a tip. Tipzy does not sell picks, does not run a tipping service, and has no stake in whether any tracked tipster wins or loses.

Who runs Tipzy

Tipzy is built and run by one person, writing as Alexandros Petrou.

I'm a statistician with a degree in mathematics and a long-standing inability to look at a winning run without asking whether it's a pattern or a coincidence. It usually is a coincidence. That question is the whole reason this site exists.

I've spent about seven years building data and software for the betting industry — feeds, models, the plumbing behind other people's products. That is how I know that a published record is not the same thing as a verified one. Tipsters publish their own results. Almost nobody settles them independently.

So I built the thing that does: the scrapers that collect published picks, the pipeline that grades them against final results, the closing-line capture, and the calibration work that checks whether the numbers mean what they appear to mean. The methodology page describes all of it, including where it fails.

Alexandros Petrou is a pen name. This site publishes measured records about named tipsters, some of whom sell picks for a living, and the pen name keeps that work separate from a personal identity. It is a pen name and not a fiction: one real person writes under it, is reachable at [email protected], and will verify identity to a journalist or a regulator who asks. Nothing else on this page is withheld — the legal name is the only one, and this paragraph is the reason for it.

Not everything on the site is written by hand, and it says so where it isn't. Twice a week Tipzy publishes a post generated from the settled record data; those posts are marked as generated and credited to Tipzy rather than to a person. A named byline appears only on pages that were actually written or reviewed by one.

Independence

Tipzy is not owned by, funded by, or affiliated with any bookmaker, tipster, or tipping platform. No tipster pays to appear in the records, to be ranked higher, or to have a figure changed. There is no arrangement under which a record's numbers can be bought, suppressed, or edited by their subject.

That applies to the person as well as to the site: I don't work for any bookmaker, tipster or tipping platform whose numbers appear here.

Where the data comes from

Every record is built from picks the tipster published themselves, on a public page, before the event started. Tipzy reads those pages, stores each pick as it was published, and grades it after the match against the final result. The methodology page describes the collection, matching and settlement steps in full, including the cases where the method has limits.

Two things follow from that, and they are the reason the records are worth reading:

The picks are not self-reported. A tipster cannot delete a loser after the fact. What Tipzy stores is what was public before kickoff.
Claimed and measured are shown side by side. Where a source publishes its own headline return, that claim sits next to the figure produced by grading its picks. The gap between them is the point.

How Tipzy makes money

Two ways, both disclosed where they occur:

Bookmaker listings. The bookmakers pages carry affiliate links. If you open an account through one, Tipzy may be paid a commission.
Referrals. Tipsters who send visitors to their own record page can be credited for them.

Neither touches the numbers. Record pages, league pages and the research study carry no affiliate links, and no operator has any input into what those pages report. A commercial relationship with a bookmaker never affects how a tipster's picks are graded.

If a number here is wrong

Report it. Use the contact form and say which page, which pick and what you believe the correct value is.

A pick graded against the wrong result is corrected and the record recomputed.
A pick attributed to the wrong tipster is moved or removed.
Where a correction changes a headline figure on a record, the record is recomputed in full rather than patched.

Tipzy would rather hold a smaller corpus than a wrong one, so a pick that cannot be settled honestly is dropped rather than guessed at.

If a record is about you

Records describe picks that were published publicly, and they are held to a minimum sample before they are indexed at all — a record with too few settled picks says nothing useful about anyone and is kept out of search results.

If a record is yours, you can claim it and add your own account of it. If you believe a record misrepresents you, use the contact form and it will be reviewed against the stored picks.