Soccer Betting - Soccer Betting Odds

Soccer betting is a great way to help you get acquainted with the world's most popular sport. Worldwide, there is no other sport or game that draws as much attention as soccer. Enemies put down their weapons and set aside their hatred to play an important game of soccer. The importance of this game around the world cannot be overstated. The game is only recently gaining in popularity in the United States, although it still lags far behind sports like professional baseball, basketball, and football in terms of attendance and revenue. Soccer betting will not only help you understand the game better, soccer betting will probably help make the game more popular in the United States as a whole.



The soccer betting scheme is not unlike the betting scheme in most other sports. Bookmakers set the soccer betting odds in advance of making the betting public. The bookmakers take the same factors into account in setting soccer betting odds that they do in setting the odds for other sports: weather, field conditions, momentum, home field advantage, injuries, etc. Indeed, when you are looking at the soccer betting line, it looks almost identical to a betting line that might appear in baseball or hockey.

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The bookmakers calculate a number for each team; negative numbers are given to the favored team while positive numbers are given to the underdogs. The number is usually a three-digit number, like -150 or +180. If a team is listed as being -150, that means that you have to bet $150 dollars to win $100. Conversely, if a team is listed as being +180, that means that if you bet on that team, and you win, you get $180 dollars for every hundred dollara bet. In this way, soccer betting is very similar to betting on a sport like baseball, as the two schemes work in exactly the same way.




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Like in other sports, you can also wager over/under or totals in soccer betting. This is basically making a wager on how many points will be scored total by both teams during 90 minutes of play. In most cases, penalty shoot-outs don't count in computing the totals. You can also place side bets on individual players, like how many goals a player will score or how many saves a goalie will make. These are also very similar to the side bets that you can make when betting on other sports.




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by Marcus Franz at 1800-sports.com on April 25, 2006


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