US & other team sports

Readers who know soccer odds meet something unfamiliar in American leagues, because the markets rest on points rather than on a three-way result. This section explains how British bookmakers carry them over.

Four leagues dominate: basketball, American football, ice hockey and baseball. Esports, kabaddi, field hockey, floorball and the court and pool games (handball, volleyball, water polo) trail behind, and a points spread with totals and player lines stands in for the plain win-draw-win.

Prices in Britain are fractions or decimals, never American odds, and converting is simple arithmetic. A licence for virtual events is a separate category: the product is licensed, while its rules are another matter.

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