One of the easiest ways to become a better sports bettor is to ensure that you're always getting the best line. Various sportsbooks will sometimes price the same markets differently. These differences are typically small – five to 10 cents of juice or half a point on a spread – but they can make a tremendous impact on your bottom line. Even if you're saving just five cents on 100 bets each year, that's still a lot of additional money for your bankroll.
That's where Fantasy Life's NFL Odds Grid comes into play. The Odds Grid allows you to easily compare betting lines across four of the biggest online sportsbooks – DraftKings, FanDuel, BetMGM, and Caesars. By comparing odds across the industry, you can ensure that you're getting the best price on each wager that you make.
The NFL Odds Grid features three separate types of wagers: spreads, moneylines, and totals. Each wager will be priced separately by each sportsbook, so just because a particular location is offering the best price on one bet doesn't necessarily mean that they'll also have the best odds on the other bets.
In the NFL, point spreads are used to try to balance the scales between two uneven teams. If the best team in the NFL is playing against the worst, it wouldn't be particularly difficult to select which team is likely to win outright. By adding a point spread, the better team will now need to win by a certain margin of points for the bet to be a winner.
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Another way that the sportsbooks try to balance the scales is with moneyline bets. There are no point spreads in this type of wager; you simply need to pick which team you think is going to win.
However, the two teams can often be priced very differently. If you want to pick the favorite on the moneyline, they might be priced at -200. That means you would need to risk $200 to try to win just $100. If you were to bet on the underdog instead, you might then get plus odds such as +150. That means that a $100 wager would win $150 if the underdog were to successfully pull off an upset win.
- Total Bets
Total bets have nothing to do with which team is going to win but rather how many total points will be scored overall in the game. You can select whether you think the two teams will combine to go "over" or "under" a listed total. Most NFL totals are set in the forties, though some games between two good offenses can have projected totals in the fifties.
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Consensus Odds
- Found on all three tabs (spread, moneyline, totals), the consensus odds represent the industry average for the respective game. Please note that the consensus odds are derived from all sportsbooks available, and not only the four main sportsbooks that we have chosen to display separately on the odds table.