English odds?

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 4:32 pm

I'm playing Football Manager 2006 and I don't ******* understand the odds.

My Team wins: 4 - 5. Draw: 2 - 1. Southampton wins: 3 - 1.

Explain please

Post by **Kaylee** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 4:36 pm

IIRC the figure on the right is your stake and the figure on the left is the return:

i.e. 4-1 means for £1 bet you would get a winning of £4 (plus your £1 as well).

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 4:49 pm

Yeah I think that's right - so a £1 bet on your team to win (if they win) would return £1.80 with your stake back, while a bet on Southampton would yield £4.

Basically I think Southampton are going down.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 8:03 am

You've basically got three different types of odds:

- Odds on = something is likely to happen. 4-5 is odds on.
- Evens = there's an equal chance either way.
- Odds against = it's not really expected. 3-1 is odds against.

The numbers reflect how much the bookies are willing to bet you on something happening. If they offer odds of 40-1 for something, it means that they're willing to give you back 40 times what you bet, should you win; because they reckon it won't happen.

3-1 means they don't think it's gonna happen, but they're not prepared to fork out a huge amount. Low odds is basically inviting lots of losing bets, to cover their expenses when they pay out.

4-5 means for every £5 you bet, they'd give you £4 if you win (plus you keep your stake, obviously). Means they reckon it'll happen.

Metal Vendetta wrote:Basically I think Southampton are going down.

Well, it's what we do.

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 8:19 am

Thanks for the explanation guys

In Sweden we bet like this:
Team A wins: the odds is 1.01
Draw: the odds is 1.9
Team B wins: the odds is 5.1

This means that you multiply the money you bet, with the odds.
Bet £10 that Team B wins - and if they win, you get £51.