Football
Betting 101
Football is one of the greatest sports to bet
on. There is more money bet on the game of football than
any other sport, but before you go out and start betting
on football with your online sports book,I
have included a listing of the different betting options
available at the majority of online
bookmakers.
Straight
Bets
The object with straight bets is to pick one
team or one event.
When betting on one team against the spread, the normal ratio
is you need to bet $11 to gain back $10. What this means
is that for you to break even you would need to win your bets
52.4% of the time. Anything better then that should result in
profit assuming that all bets are the same. Straight bets can
be made using the point spread or moneyline options.
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Point
Spread Bets
Point spreads are a number assigned to a
specific team and set by the bookmakers. The
goal is to entice the same amount of money to be bet on both
sides of a particular game. Favorites will have a -(minus)
sign followed by a number, while the underdogs will have a +
(plus), followed by a number.
Here's an example NFL line:
New York + 7
New England -7
New England is the favorite and must win by 8 points or
more to win. If they win by exactly 7 points, the game is a
"push" or tie, and you get the amount of your bet back. If New
England wins by 6 points or less, or loses the game
outright then you would lose your bet.
Moneyline
Bets
With moneyline bets, the point spread is not a
factor. Basically all you have to do is pick the winner. Since
not all teams are created equal, everyone would bet on the best
teams. So, sports
books offer benefits for betting on bad
teams, while giving a penalty for betting on the good
teams.
Those benefits are in the form of adjusted
odds. Let's take a look at an example:
New England -175
New York +200
Notice the '+' and '-' signs. The '-' sign for
New England means if you bet $175 on New England, as the
favorite, you would only win $100 (plus your original bet). If
you took the underdog, New York, and bet $100, if New
York won, you'd win $200 (plus your original bet).
If everything was totally even, both the + and -numbers should
be even. The differences in these numbers is where the
online sports
books make their money. In our example,
they are taking in $200, but only paying out $175.
Over/Under
Bets
Over/Under bets or Totals are a very
popular wagers among many football bettors. Your betting
goal is to try and predict if the total points scored by both
teams will be more or less than the number posted by your
online sports
book.
For example:
New England/New York: Total = 46
This means after the game, add up the total
points for BOTH New England and New York scored. If the
total is 46 or more and you bet the "over", you're a winner!
But, if both teams scored less than that, you'll lose your
wager.
Your payoff is also $10 for every $11 wagered, since
over/unders are considered straight bets. However, you can bet
an over/under as part of a parlay.
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Parlay
Bets
This is a bet where more than one team
must win in order for you to win your bet. Since
it's harder to predict multiple events than it is for a single
event, you'll get paid more than "even money" if you win a your
parlay bet.
A parlay is most often bet using the point
spread for two or more games. Let's use the "lines" for the
following two games:
Game 1:
New England -7
New York +7
Game 2:
San
Diego -3
Denver +3
Our "two teamer" may be New York for game
one and Denver for game two
for our "two-team parlay". If New England wins by 8 points
or more AND Denver lose by less than 3 points, then we'll
win our parlay. Any other result and we lose.
Please note that usually your sports
book will allow you include over/unders with
your parlay bets.
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