Patrick Everson
FOX Sports Betting Analyst
With two Monday evening video games beneath our belts, the NFL’s Week 15 odds are within the rearview mirror. But that does not cease the Monday morning quarterback. Or on this case, Tuesday morning quarterback for sports activities betting lovers.
Week after week, the plenty of public bettors get pleasure from betting on parlays. And we perceive it. Betting slightly to win rather a lot is tempting, just like the lottery, or on this case, maybe a mini-lottery.
However, within the danger rooms of this nice nation, the next mantra is a continuing: Parlays are a bookmaker’s greatest buddy. This is how bookmakers actually earn their cash.
With that in thoughts, this is this week’s version of…
I may have, I ought to have
How superior would it not be to show ten {dollars} into greater than $5,600? If you had leaned on a few first landing scorer suggestions and added a trio of well-liked groups/video games into the Week 15 NFL odds, you would have executed simply that.
The following is a hypothetical five-step parlay compiled on DraftKings Sportsbook:
- CeeDee Lamb +1000 to attain the primary landing within the Cowboys-Panthers recreation
- Mark Andrews scores the primary landing within the Ravens-Giants recreation
- Eagles -5.5 vs Steelers
- Packers moneyline -161 vs Seahawks
- Bills-Lions Over 55.5 factors (-120)
Six minutes into the Cowboys-Panthers tilt, Lamb caught a 14-yard landing go for the primary rating of the sport, placing Dallas up 7–0. Andrews did the identical for the Ravens, though it took till late within the first quarter to take action.
Putting up 5.5 factors at residence towards Philadelphia – who some bookmakers now have as second in odds to win the Super Bowl – labored nicely in Week 15. The Eagles outrebounded Pittsburgh 27-13.
Green Bay was a preferred public spectacle on the Sunday evening recreation. The Packers have been by no means threatened of their 30-13 highway win over Seattle.
And it could not get rather more lighthearted than Bills-Lions Over, as two high-octane offenses battled it out indoors at Ford Field. Late within the third quarter, Detroit quarterback Jared Goff and wideout Amon-Ra St. Brown linked on a 66-yard landing go to convey the Lions inside 14, 35-21.
That rating made the Over a winner. The two groups then put up one other 34 factors within the fourth quarter, with Buffalo holding on for a 48-42 victory. Ninety complete factors. Crazy.
Add all of it up and also you get a excessive odds of +56072, or nearly 561/1. So that 10 greenback invoice turns into a pleasant revenue of $5,607.20
It can’t be overstated that there’s a motive why the percentages are so excessive on some of these bets. And bookmakers need nothing greater than so that you can add increasingly more legs to your parlay tickets.
So wager accordingly. If you simply seize a weekly flyer for $10 or $20, to get slightly extra leisure by having slightly pores and skin within the recreation, then that is nice. If you are hoping to pay your automotive fee together with your parlays long-term, nicely, that is no good. Keep it affordable!
Patrick Everson is a sports activities betting analyst for FOX Sports and senior reporter for VegasInsider.com. He is a distinguished journalist within the nationwide sports activities betting trade. He lives in Las Vegas, the place he enjoys enjoying golf in 110-degree warmth. Follow him on Twitter: @PatrickE_Vegas.
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