If you are new to the sportsbetting business this is a guide you should read. Of course every sport has a different way of handicapping and odds making yet, this guide should help get a good grip of how things work for NFL betting.
Handicap: points given to teams to level the betting field. These are advantage points.
Point Spread: It is used in high-scoring sports like NFL football and NBA basketball and it is the handicap used to make games competitive for bettors.
Handle - Total amount of money wagered on bets.
Juice or Vig - Percentage of profits earned by bookies from all the bets taken.
Parlays - A combination bet. Instead of making separate bets on different games, a single parlay bet is placed in the hopes to predict the outcome of all games chosen. Pay out is better.
Middling - Additional bets after the line moves, on the opposite side of the game, this is done to make sure you won’t be losing money, but winning both bets and ending up even.
And last but not least…
Odds - It is also called “the line”. The opening line is usually set up by a big Las Vegas casino. The lines in sportsbetting and especially for NFL odds required lots of research and a lot of issues need to be taken into consideration when setting up a line, for example NFL player performances, injuries and statistics in both prior and current seasons, weather forecasts and even the personal lives of the players.
Make sure you also do your own research before betting. Oddsmakers will move the line in response to betting patterns: if too many are coming to one team they will make sure to even the line up, meaning that the line you bet on an hour before a game may not be the same line when the game starts.
I hope all these tips help you with your NFL betting, this year may be the luckiest one.
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