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Football has a great variety of spread bets available, one of these being supremacy in goals. The company will make one team favourite and quote it first.
A quote on a game might be :- Scotland/Malta 1.1 to 1.5
They make Scotland favourite and superior to Malta by a margin of 1.1 to 1.5 goals.
If you think Scotland will win by more than 2 goals, you could BUY them at 1.5, giving your unit stake.( let unit stake = £20 for each 1/10 of a goal )
If the final score was 4 - 1 in Scotlands favour, then the margin between the teams in goals = 3. 0
So calculate your bet --- 3.0 - 1.5 = 1.5 which is 15 tenths of a goal, therefore 15 x £20 unit stake = £300 profit.
However, if the final score was 0 - 1 in Malta's favour, then you would lose. The goal margin is -1 (i.e. Scotlands supremacy over Malta = -1 goal )
So calculate your bet :- 1. 5 - ( -1 ) = 2.5 goals which is 25 tenths of a goal, therefore 25 x £20 unit stake = £500 loss.
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Quotes may also be given on the total goals in this match. If you think a game is likely to be high scoring and a quote on the total goals is 2.5 to 2.9 as the Spread, then you would bet high hoping for 3 or more goals.Again these are in tenths of a goal.
You would BUY at 2.9 giving unit stake.
If however, you expect a low scoring game, then you would SELL at 2.5 and give unit stake.
Bets on total corners in a match can be made in the same way. If you think you can beat the spread, then BUY if you expect lots of corners in an attacking game, or SELL if you expect a negative game with few corners. Corners are also bought and sold in tenths.
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Another example of supremacy might be in tennis.
The spread betting company will quote a spread on the superiority of one player against another in a match. A lot of supremacy bets are in tenths, so be careful with your unit stake when placing your bet.
Eg. Novotna/Navratilova - 2 to 4
In this case the company thinks that Novotna is superior to Navratilova and they expect her to win more games in the match by between two to four games.
If you expect Novotna to be superior in games by more than this then BUY at 4.
If you expect Novotna to win less games in the match than Navratilova then SELL at 2.
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In rugby, spread betting companies offer supremacy bets on the margin of points win in a game.
They might quote :- Wigan/St.Helens at 12 to 14, because they think that Wigan will win by that margin.
So if Wigan win by a score of 30 - 16, 30 - 17, or 30 - 18, then the companys' prediction and spread was correct.
If you want to bet -- maybe you think Wigan are far superior than St. Helens -- by more than 14 points, then you can BUY at 14, giving your unit stake per point.
If you think Wigan are not as good as the companys' spread, --- that Wigan might win but not by as much as they say, or you think that St. Helens might win, then you can SELL at 12, giving your unit stake per point.
Let us imagine some results for this spread of -- 12 to 14 , with a unit stake of £5 point.
Eg. 1 --- Wigan win 28 - 3 , -- therefore the superiority is 25.
If your bet was BUY at 14, then you would win
25 - 14 = 11 points x £5 = £55 profit when you sell the points back to the company.
If your bet was to SELL at 12, then you would lose
25 - 12 = 13 points x £5 = £65 loss when you buy the points back from the company.
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Eg. 2 --- St. Helens win 15 - 10, -- therefore Wigans superiority over St. Helens is in effect a deficit of ( -5)
If your bet was BUY at 14 @ £5 point, then you would lose
14 - ( -5 ) = 19 points x £5 = £95 loss when you sell the points back to the company.
If your bet was to SELL at 12 @ £5 point, then you would win
12 - ( -5 ) = 17 points x £5 = £85 profit when you buy the points back from the company.
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Match betting is similar to supremacy in that, one participant must do better than another. A good example of match betting is available in Horse racing.
The spread betting company will offer a quote on two horses in a race. This quote might be Horse 'A'/Horse'B' -1. 5 --2. 5 and this is the distance in lengths the company expects Horse 'A' to finish ahead of Horse 'B'. In this case they make Horse 'A' their favourite.
The difference in this bet is that ----- It is the distance between the two horses in lengths at the end of the race that counts regardless of their finishing positions and regardless of the other horses in the race.
So if you BUY horse 'A' at --- 2. 5 lengths at £40 per length unit stake, and this horse finishes 6th, yet horse 'B' finishes 11th in the race, the bet is calculated on the distance between 'A' -- 6th and 'B' ---11th.
Let's imagine that this has actually taken place, and the margin between them is 6. 5 lengths. Then the make-up of the bet is ---- 6. 5 - 2. 5 = 4 lengths x £40 = £160 profit.
What if horse 'B' had finished ahead of horse 'A' by 3 lengths? Then you would have lost. The make-up of the bet in this case is ---- 2. 5 + 3 = 5. 5 lengths x £40 unit stake = £220 loss.
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MATCH BETTING-- YOUR CHOICE
This is a similar type of bet as the match bet above, in that the company might select two horses in the same race, but this time the company think these horses are very evenly matched. So they leave the choice of favourite to you.
The company will offer a quote of perhaps 0. 5 (1/2 length ), as their spread to cover costs etc., so when you BUY one of the horses, your selection must finish in front of the other by more than 1/2 length for you to win.
An example of this was at Royal Ascot in the Prince Of Wales's Stakes.
A match bet was offered on ------- Dubai Millenium/Sendawar ------ 0. 5 Your Choice.
If you had made a bet to BUY Dubai Millenium at £50 per length, then you would have made a good profit.
The result was that Dubai Millenium finished ahead of Sendawar by 11 lengths. The positions in the race ( 1st and 4th ) are, for the purposes of the bet , irrelevant. It was the margin between them that counted.
So if you had made that bet ----- 11 - 0. 5 = 10. 5 lengths x £50 = £525 profit.
NOTE :-
Most companies have a maximum make-up distance when settling these bets -
i.e. 12 lengths -- flat racing, and 15 lengths -- jump racing. If a horse fails to complete a race, then it will be deemed to have lost by the maximum make-up. Always check the rules of the company you bet with.
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