American football spread betting allows you to back your predictions, no matter what they may be, to stand a chance of winning a handsome profit in return.
American football spread betting markets are as vast as you’d imagine. Whether you’re looking to bet on the Quarter Bets, the Team Totals or the Point spread. You can do it all here with SportsSpread.com!
What Is American Football Spread Betting?
American football spread betting is a form of betting that differs from conventional fixed-odds betting. With spread betting on American football, you are betting on how emphatic your prediction will be.
Spread betting differs from fixed-odds betting because your winnings can continue to grow until the final whistle blows. This can have a negative impact as your losses can also continue to grow if your prediction is incorrect.
How American Football Spread Betting Works
Let’s give you a quick example of how spread betting on American Football works. We’ll say for this example the San Francisco 49ers are playing the Buffalo Bills and SportsSpread has predicted that there will be a Total Points Spread of 45 points in the game.
You’ve been closely following both teams and you believe that this game has the potential to score a lot of points. If you believe that the game will have more than 45 Total Points, you would opt to BUY the spread. However, if you think it will be a low-scoring game, you would opt to SELL the spread because you can’t see there being more than 45 points scored.
If your prediction is correct, you’ll earn your stake back for every point you’re right by.
If you BUY the spread and the game has 55 points overall, you will win your stake back x10 (because there were ten points scored more than what SportsSpread had predicted). The following formula is going to be based on a £10 stake.
Settled Score (55) - Spread (45) = 10
10 x Stack (£10) = £100 Profit
Alternatively, if you opted to SELL the spread and the game scored lower than SportsSpreads predicted 45 points, let’s say 25 points, you would win 25x of your stake (£10.00)
Spread (45) - Settled Score (25) = 20
20 x Stack (£10) = £200 Profit
Now, as much as we’d love all of your predictions to be correct, there will be times when the bet doesn’t go the way you’d like. This is how it would look if the reverse was to happen.
Settled Score (35) - Spread (45) = -10
-10 x Stack (£10) = £100 Loss
It’s important to understand that spread betting can win you a handsome profit, however, there is a risk that you’ll lose multiples of your stake in the event of the prediction being incorrect.
The Difference Between American Football Spread Betting & Fixed-Odds Betting
Spread Betting is fast emerging as a popular form of sports betting because of the potential payouts that can be awarded in the event of a correct prediction.
Fixed-odds betting gives you money on your return no matter how emphatic your prediction might be. Whereas spread betting rewards you on how correct you are. If you bet a team will score more than 35 points, you will win your stake back for every point they score above 35.
In fixed-odds betting, if you were offered odds of 2/1 that a team was going to score more than 35 points, you would be rewarded £20 (based on a £10 stake) if you were right. With spread betting, if you BUY the spread at 35 points at a stake of £10 and the team goes on to score 45 runs, you will make a £100 profit.
One thing to be mindful of with spread betting is that if your prediction is incorrect, you stand to lose more than just the money you stake.
Most Popular American Football Betting Markets
Match Supremacy Spreads
This is the most popular market in American football spread betting. SportsSpread will set a points spread for each of the teams, meaning the favourite has to win by more than that markagin and the losing team can’t lose by more than the margin that as been set.
In this market, you can predict whether the total combined score of both teams in a game will be over or under the market spread that SportsSpread set.
This market allows for a great opportunity to return a handsome profit because of the unpredictability of points in a game.
What does BUY and SELL mean in American Football spread betting?
When you BUY or SELL in American football spread betting, you are betting on the outcome to be higher (BUY) or lower (SELL) than the stated value. For example if you believe the outcome will win by more than predicted spread, you would BUY. If you believe the outcome will be lower than the offered spread you would opt to SELL.
What’s the difference between fixed odds and spread betting in American football?
Fixed Odds Betting: In fixed odds betting, you are wagering on a specific outcome with set odds. You predict whether a team will win or lose, and your potential winnings are determined by the odds at the time you place the bet. It doesn't involve a point spread adjustment.
Spread Betting: Sports spread betting involves betting on the margin of victory or defeat. The bookmaker sets a spread, and you bet on whether the actual outcome will be above or below that spread. It introduces a level of complexity & strategy compared to fixed odds betting.
What is American football supremacy spread betting?
Supremacy spread betting in American football is where you bet on how dominant one teams performance will be over the others. If the bookmaker makes one team the favourite to win by 2 - 4 points and you believe it will happen you would BUY the spread. alternatively, if you believe the favourite will lose or win by less than 4 points, you would opt to SELL the spread.
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