US & other team sports

Basketball is the reference point for this site, and its habit of pricing a game through points rather than a bare result explains how most other team sports reach British punters.

After basketball come ice hockey, baseball and American football; esports, kabaddi, field hockey, floorball, handball, volleyball and water polo lie further out. Spreads, totals and player markets do the work that win-draw-win does in football.

British bookmakers show fractions or decimals, never American odds. A fraction a/b becomes a decimal by dividing a by b and adding 1, so 5/1 is 6.00. A separate licence category exists for virtual events; it tells that a product is licensed and tells nothing about its rules.

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