US & other team sports

Away from the turf, American leagues are the sports that British punters most often pick up through a bookmaker’s front page. This section looks at how they are translated into fractions and decimals.

Basketball and American football head the list, with baseball and ice hockey after them. Esports, kabaddi and field hockey sit at the fringe beside handball, volleyball, water polo and floorball. All of them trade in spreads, totals and player lines instead of a plain win-draw-win.

Prices in Britain come as fractions or decimals, never American odds, and moving between the two takes only a little arithmetic. A further licence category exists for virtual events; it shows that such a product is licensed but is silent on its rules.

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