Glossary
Sports spread betting
Sports spread betting pays out proportionally to how right or wrong you are, unlike fixed-odds betting where the return is set when you bet.
In sports spread betting, a firm quotes a spread (say, total goals of 2.7–2.9) and you buy or sell; your profit or loss scales with how far the outcome lands from the spread. It is higher-variance than fixed odds and offered by specialist firms rather than the high-street books.
It is a distinct product from the fixed-odds feed OddsRelay delivers: where a spread firm also runs a fixed-odds book, it is those fixed-odds prices that normalise into the feed, not the spread markets.
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