Couple More Questions

[Frizzle02]

Couple More Questions?

What does ATS mean?

Does Bodog do teasers? A

Are Teasers a good idea?

[badandy519]

Against the spread

I dunno

I dunno

[Grand_MasterB]

Yes bodog does do teasers. Teasers generally fall under the parlay category of betting. in a parlay you need every team to cover to win. The same is true for a teaser. however in a teaser you get to "tease" the point spread in your direction. Say you played a 6 point NFL teaser on the following games
Indy -8
Cinci +2
Atlanta Over 44

now when you tease it 6 points your bets would be
Indy -2
Cinci +8
Atlanta Over 38

and you need all three or four or however many to cover to win. Since it is easier to hit then a parly the payouts arent as good. generally around even money for a two team teaser as compared to around 2.5 - 1 for a two team parlay.

i never bet parlays... but if i want to get crazy and throw a whole bunch of stuff together on one bet once in a while i will do a low cash teaser just for fun.

[swiggidy]

I thought I had a brilliant idea, take some NBA teams that are +10 or higher, and tease them together so they are +17 or higher. I was 1 for 3 so I stopped. Although, everything I tried in the NBA failed.

I was more succesful in the NFL.
I prefered parlaying the money of two winners (i.e. no spread), as opposed to teasing two winners. For football, I believe a 6pt tease of two teams gives about the same payout as a parlay of two -300.

[Grand_MasterB]

yeah i just dont think that regularly betting parlays or teasers is a good idea. The bookies LOVE it when you do though. However certain situations sometime call for them. Primarily i do it in the NFL. Like i remember one week when i took chicago in a teaser when they were favored by alot over the 49ers. Bc no way can chicago score more then 20 a game to cover. Things like that. I like it in football more because the games are generally easier to guess a final score. Yeah a team thats favored by 3 might lose by 3 but its not like basketball where you can have 20 pt difference very easily if one team comes to play.