Push In Football Betting

Totals wagers are more commonly referred to as an Over/Under bet. The name of the wager is interchangeable and both are used in sportsbooks and in the media. A totals bet is one of the easiest and most popular bets to make in the sportsbook. The only more popular bet is picking winners. Betting totals are available for most major professional sports such as football, basketball, baseball, and hockey.

In most cases, when wagering on a total the bettor is simply choosing whether the total number of points scored by both teams will be over or under the listed total of points to be scored. That’s it. The winner and loser of the game don’t matter in a totals bet. The only thing that matters with this kind of bet is the number of points (runs, goals, etc.) scored.

Before a game begins betting over or under the total points scored is usually a -110 wager. Bettors will wager $110 to win $100 for a pre-game totals bet. If bettors wager a lot more on one side of the total, the moneyline might change before the actual point total moves. At a certain point, the sportsbook will reset the total and the moneyline will move back to -110.

Here’s an example from this past Super Bowl as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs, 31-9.

• The over/under, or total, for this game was 54.4 points. Bettors who wagered on the Over needed the total score to be 55 points or higher. Anything 54 points and below would have been a winner for Under bettors.
• With the Bucs having scored 31 points and the Chiefs having scored just 9 points, the total wound up being 40 points – well below the set over/under of 54.4 and a win for Under bettors.
• If the total of this game was 54.0 points and the final score added up to exactly 54 points (38-16, for example) the bet would be a “push” and bets would be refunded.

The punter receives the stake back as if no bet was placed at all. This is a push in football betting. If you have made a parlay bet, then you will find that the accumulated bets decrease by one. In other words, this “tied” bet disappears from the card and the parley bet payout is judged by the other bets in the parlay.

Atletico Madrid right-back Kieran Trippier will continue to serve a 10-week ban in England after the Football Association failed to push back his suspension for betting breaches. Tripper is still. The chances of a push when playing the moneyline in major sports is very small. Finally some sports, particularly soccer, offer three way betting. You can bet on either team to win or on a tie. Just remember that if you pick a team to win on a three way moneyline, a push.

Football Betting Line A betting line is a posted number that the online Sportsbook posts for each game in a certain sport. The betting line will have different wager options within the betting line. Bookmakers will post odds on who they think will win the game. The betting line will usually show a favorite and an underdog. Sports Betting PUSH Totals bets are popular in football and basketball because they allow you to wager on the total combined number of points scored by both teams.

Like all kinds of sports betting options, totals bets have expanded. Betting a total is no longer only available for pre-game bets. There may be totals available for partial games (quarters or periods), individual teams, and during in-play and live wagering. A partial game total might be a wager on how many points will be scored in a certain time period. Meanwhile, in-play bets could just be an adjusted total for the entire game.

Over/under bets

Even though Totals and Over/Under may be used interchangeably for scoring, there’s another way to make Over/Under bets. An Over/Under bet can also be a proposition bet where there’s a wager made on a specific occurrence. A boxing match is a good example since scoring isn’t quite the same as the major sports:

Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor

The fight will last 9.5 rounds

• Over (-110)
• Under (-110)

Floyd Mayweather defeated Conor McGregor by technical knockout in the 10th round and over bettors won this wager. Had either fighter won the match earlier the under would have cashed since the result would have happened in the ninth round or sooner.

Today there are Over/Under bets available for a number of sports beyond the major North American sports. Fights often have how many rounds will be complete while auto racing might have the number of laps finished by a driver. The possibilities for Over/Under wagers are prop bets are seemingly only limited by the imagination. Sportsbook operators continue to expand their betting menu with unique bets that include new Totals and Over/Under options.

Best sites to make an over/under bet

Push and pull spots are magnified buy low, sell high spots. This is a common theory is used in any field of investing, but how can this situation be applied to sports betting? Read on to find out how bettors can find push and pull spots when handicapping.

What is a push pull spot?

A push and pull spot is one my preferred angles when handicapping sports. The main difference between a 'buy low, sell high' and a push and pull is that a push and pull is a buy low and sell high going directly against each other. The market situation sets up when the market is heavily buying one team and selling the other.

The “pushing” of the value up and “pulling” of the value down stretches the market above and below the true price. Bettors who can spot the difference are able to squeeze out considerable value in their wagers.

Accumulating perception

Push and pull spots are most frequently created by accumulating perception. It is not a stretch to say that teams performing above average and winning will draw more money and attention than teams performing below average and losing, but the important thing to evaluate in push and pull spots is the odds movements in prior games.

Many bettors will only look at recent win/loss trends instead of identifying teams that are attracting money in the market. The “recency bias” exists in almost every sports betting market as bettors love to overreact to what they saw last, while market makers do not make short term adjustments. This is why teams being pushed are often overvalued, and why teams being pulled are offered at a discount.

Existing market precedence

Evaluating existing market precedence is an often ignored tactic by bettors. As mentioned above, understanding if a team is being bought or sold by the market is important. Equally important is finding a baseline for the market price.

• Read: Beating the betting market

A good place to start looking for market precedence is in recent matchups between the two teams during the same season. Each price in a betting market is initially set based off of a bookmakers’ rating.
Unless there are critical injuries or major adjustments within the team, the odds between two matchups of the same team should be the same price with the difference of venue change and home field advantage.

If a bettor can calculate home field advantage, they can often see the true bookmaker rating and adjustment for recent performance in the initial odds.

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Static prices

Looking at all of the games available to bet on for a single day can be overwhelming. If bettors do not have enough time to maintain a regression model, a good starting point for finding push and pull spots is comparing opening prices equal to current prices in games featuring a team performing well.

When odds remain static and do not move in games involving an over-performing team, it is often an indicator that a tug-of-war scenario is taking place - with money pushing and pulling the over-performing team in conjunction with the under-performing team.

How to bet on push and pull spots

Bettors should start by seeking out static prices in the betting market. An evaluation of the past five to seven matches should be done to see if one team is producing winning results while the other is producing losing results – remember to look for extreme streaks only.

If contradicting perception exists, begin to look for market precedence. Has the over-performing team been bet up or down in the recent matches? Has the under-performing team been bet up or down in the recent matches? If there is a contrast in the betting market, look for recent meetings between the two teams.

Adjust for home field and evaluate the difference in price. If the price is higher or lower, that is the market adjustment for recent performance. The handicap to determine value is then comparing the market adjustment for recent performance to the true market value. If it is too high, there is almost certainly value betting the team being pulled in the market.

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