NFL Pointspreads at the Sportsbook at SBG Global. Sportsbook NFL pointspreads are among the most popular of the sports betting odds. A pointspread is in a sense an equalizer. It makes it so the lesser quality team has a chance when points are added to their score at the sports book. Sportsbook pointspreads are easy to understand. Here is what it will look like at the sports book.
New England 40
Pittsburgh -3
In this example, Pittsburgh is a 3 point favorite and the total is 40 at the sportsbook. If you like the Steelers you must win the game by more than 3 points for the sportsbook wager to be a winner. If you like the Patriots then you must either win the game outright or lose by less than 3 points for your wager at the sports book to be a winner. If Pittsburgh wins by exactly 3 points then the bet is a tie or what is called a push, and all money is refunded at the sportsbook. The total of 40 is the total amount of points scored in the game. You can bet over or under that amount at the sportsbook and is a combined total of points scored by both teams.
Sports book oddsmakers set pointspreads in the hope that they will get equal betting action on the game. That is not always what happens, but that is technically their goal. If they get action on one side of the game they may decide to raise the sportsbook odds. In that previous example, if they get overwhelmed with action on the Steelers they might make Pittsburgh -3.5 at the sportsbook. In that example it is unlikely they would move the game though, since three is a key NFL betting number at the sportsbook. In other instances where the number was not three then it might be more likely the pointspread at the sportsbook would move a half point in the NFL or even a few points in college football betting so the online sportsbook does not get overloaded with action on one side.
Those are the basics of football pointspreads at the sportsbook. You will have pointspread options every week during the college football betting and NFL betting seasons at the sportsbook. There is little doubt that football is the most popular sport for gamblers to wager on and the pointspread is the most common way that most people bet on the games.
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