As 33/1 Scunthorpe testified last season, any team is capable of winning League 1. Naturally, the bookmakers will make teams like Leeds United and Nottingham Forest market leaders but, in truth, even these so-called big clubs are limited by the quality of player they can attract.

Relegated teams such as Leeds, Southend and Luton are often overrated by the bookmakers, who expect them to bounce back at the first time of asking, despite losing players and money after suffering the drop. Likewise, newly-promoted teams often go well at big prices, as was the case with Southend two seasons ago. It helps to have a prolific striker like the Shrimper's Freddie Eastwood, or Billy Sharp who bagged so many for Scunthorpe last term.

As with the Championship, you can often find an edge on the bookmakers in this division, due to the heavy focus that firms have to take on Premiership matches. Once again, the so-called 'name teams' will be under-priced from the opening stages, despite the fact that player-for-player, they're no stronger than the majority of teams in the division.

It's also worth keeping an eye on the First Goalscorer betting in League 1 matches. Free-scoring midfielders are likely to stay at a decent price even if they're on a rich vein of scoring form with the same applying to an even greater extent with free-kick and penalty-taking defenders. There's less opportunities to bet In-Play on matches in this division with each team featuring a handful of times on television.