Of course, in some cases, the experts' predictions are correct, for example, in today's Copa America Final 2024 match, all the experts basically supported Argentina. Today's match has most of the bets in favor of Argentina and after a great drama, Argentina beat Colombia 1-0 to win the Copa America for the 16th time.
Sure, experts predictions are right sometimes, they can’t be wrong always, but that doesn’t mean anyone should completely depend on them. I don’t see anything bad in comparing your own predictions with their own, but it doesn’t make sense if you can’t make your own analysis and then place your bet. There are some people who will follow experts even if they know their predictions are kind of wrong or the chances of them winning are kind of low, which is not supposed to be like that. You don’t have to depend on anyone before placing your bet.
You are right and I completely agree with you, experts never meant predicted the outcome of games for gamblers to competely depend on that, I believe that the expert post such predictions as a way to make it easier for us to make our own analysis and come up with our own personal predictions, and whether our own prediction matches that of the expert or not, is no longer an issue since that prediction is the result of our own very effort.
But unfortunately, we have alot of lazy gamblers who prefer other people to do all the work for them, while they just go ahead and bet on that, hoping to make easy money, but like the experience have been so far, several of this people end up losing their bet, which is not surprising.