Soccer over under betting
December 17, 2010 in First Hand Info, Top Tipsters
There have been plenty of over under football betting tips on this blog. Now it’s to time to explain over under betting. Over under bets can be taken on lots of sports. Bookies offer over under bets on an ever increasing number of sports and events. It’s not just soccer but, American football, rugby, runs in cricket and points in ice hockey.
Financial markets are also very popular for over under betting. Spread betting financial market is also basically a type of over under betting. Over under betting also lends itself to betting on politics. The number of votes in a political campaign is predicted by the bookmaker and the punter can try to beat the bookmaker by predicting that the result will be over or under.
Lets see what over under bets are available on a soccer game. Over under bets are available on goals, corners and bookings points. For European football the over under prediction by the bookie is normally ’2.5 goals’. Obviously it’s not possible to score half a goal. The reason bookmakers give a prediction of ’2.5 goals’ is it makes a split between two goals or less and three goals or more.
How to select which over under goals bets to take
It’s all about the stats. There are various websites around the net that give free football betting stats. It’s possible to get up to the minute head to head data for goals, corners, and bookings. Choosing the right two teams in a match helps with making reliable over under soccer predictions. A team that scores an average of less than three goals and does not concede many corners (under 5) playing against a similar team would be a good ‘under 2.5 goal’ prediction. A team the scores three or more goals on average playing against a team the concedes 3 or more goals would also be a good match up.
How else can goal over under betting be used to make profits
It is possible to trade over under bets using a betting exchange like Betfair. Betfair allows members to bet that something will happen (like with normal bookmakers) and bet that something won’t happen by laying. On Betfair its is possible to wager on different scorelines, for example, ‘over under 1.5 goals’, ’2.5 goals’, ’3.5 goals’, ’4.5 goals’ and so forth.
During a soccer match the odds for over under results change. As the odds change it is possible to trade the movements for profit by making back and lay bets. This results in a bet that produces a profit. Trading can produce regular profits in this manner. One of the main sources of income from soccer betting is by placing a back bet at larger odds than a lay bet on the same predictions. This produces a risk free profit no matter how many goals are scored. This process of creating risk free bets is called sports arbitrage betting. There are various sports arbitrage tips available to help individuals learn the basics of creating risk free trades.
