with these varieties of questions coming up, only time will tell if I won't get relegated this season
You know, I was thinking the same thing the other day. It's much easier (at list I look at it that way) to predict result in a sport that you are familiar with. But when you have to do the research in a sport that you know nothing about, it's hard and it comes down to pure luck.
The only difference with sports you're familiar with is that sometimes you get a bit cocky, and you barely depend on research and can just tell like let's say it's football for instance, you know that a team is only have decent run of for form while you can decide that the form is just a fluke and confidently pick against them, however, for sports that you need to research on, it's usually a games of odds vs their form, and you really don't know if there is an important factor that could make them win or lose a game, we mostly just go with flow and trend.