Sports spread betting is the most exciting way to bet. Punters look at a prediction and then decide whether to bet higher or lower. Sounds easy enough - and it is. But read on for some handy hints that will soon see you betting like a pro
With spread betting, the more right you are, the more you win – brilliant huh?
Each time your bet does well during the event, say your team wins a corner, you clock up more points – and as Brucie says: "Points make prizes!"
So how does the points and prize system work? Well, it's actually very simple.
During an event, the team or individual you've backed can clock up points for achieving specific criteria laid down by the leading sports spread firm, Sporting Index. For instance, if you invested in a player's performance, they can earn the following points:
Goal scored: 25 points
Goal assist: 10 points
Shot on target: 5 points
Forcing a corner: 3 points
Free kick won: 3 points
Pass to own player in opposition half: 2 points
Free kick conceded (including offsides): -3 points
Yellow card: -10 points
Red card: -25 points
A good example of how many points can be accumulated was seen when Manchester United played Liverpool on 21 March.
Sporting Index estimated Wayne Rooney's performance would be around 70-75 points for that match. Therefore, if you thought Rooney was going to play well, you could have bought his performance at 75. If you staked £10, then for every point bigger than 75 – the more correct you were – Sporting Index would multiply your stake by that amount.
In the actual match, Rooney recorded 78 points, so you would have won £30 – the difference between 75 and 78 x £10 = £30.There is unfortunately a downside. If Rooney had recorded 73 points you would have lost £20. That is the nature of sports spread betting. You can win a decent amount of cash, but you can also lose more than your original stake.
What makes spread betting unique and exciting is that you don't have to rely on the team winning by a correct score or a player scoring the first goal, like in fixed-odds betting. As long as your investment performs well, then a profit is guaranteed. Imagine watching your profits stack up each time Cesc Fabregas passes in the opposition's half – he doesn't even have to score!
As with any type of bet, though, a sound knowledge of the subject is vital, along with a spot of research, and the ideal place to unearth killer stats is the guardian's Chalk Boards.
This superb facility enables you to dissect a team or player's performance and find the key areas in which they excelled or flopped. You can also delve back as far as the 2006-07 season to spot key patterns and clues, which can be incredibly revealing.
For instance, in the aforementioned match between United and Liverpool, Steven Gerrard's player performance spread was estimated at 55-60 points. At first, a buy (higher) than 60 might sound tempting, but had you used the Chalk Boards to look back at his last three Old Trafford outings, you would have seen that he had underperformed.
Three of the main areas a player can record points in are goals scored, shots on target and assists. In Gerrard's last three Premier outings at United, he only scored one goal, had one shot on target, and had no assists. On March 21, it was the same story, as he failed in all three areas.
Anyone who knew this prior to the match and sold (went lower) than Sporting Index's quote of 55, would have watched him record only 33 points – a difference of 22 points and a profit of £220 to a £10 stake.
But it isn't just football that punters can get involved in.
Since 1992, Sporting Index has covered a huge range of sports including cricket, golf, racing, rugby and tennis, and there are new markets emerging all the time.
With the domestic cricket season fast approaching, anyone who spots an out-of-form batsman may decide to sell his runs – something that is impossible to profit from with fixed-odds betting.
Say Sporting Index predicted how many runs Kevin Pietersen would score in both innings of a Test combined, and offers a spread of 90-97 points. If you thought Pietersen would flop – as he did in the past year – then you could sell his runs (go lower than 90). Should Pietersen hit 25 and 10 for a total of 35, the difference would be 55 (90-35), for a whopping £550 profit to a £10 stake.
But let's return to football, seeing as the Premier League is reaching its climax, while the FA Cup and World Cup wait around the corner.
With teams either hitting form in the drive for promotion, or cracking under pressure, punters have the chance to buy or sell that team's points total. For instance, if you thought that in-form Spurs could snatch fourth place in the Premier League and book a Champions League spot, then a buy of their points could prove wise.
As for the World Cup, many will fancy England to do well without necessarily winning the event, and may be interested in Sporting Index's team performance market in the group stage.
England have been given a spread of 108 – 114 points (win: 15 points; draw: 5 points; goal: 10 points; clean sheet: 5 points; red card: -15 points).
Should England win all three group matches 2-0, 2-0 and 4-0, then a buy of their performance for a stake of £10 would return £260 as their total would be 140, which is 26 points bigger than 114.
Spread betting also makes 'dead rubber' matches in the group stage very exciting as there is an opportunity to sell a team's performance once they've been knocked out – the players are usually thinking holidays at that point right?
There are also markets in which you can buy or sell yellow and red cards for matches that get tasty – Mexico v Uruguay could see red on 22 June.
Sporting Index really is the place to spread bet as it has a superb website offering guidance and help in all its markets, along with 'stop loss' accounts which cap the amount won or lost. They also have a useful results archive where you can see how many points teams and players scored in the past.
Everything you need is only a click away, so don't be shy and give it a try at sportingindex.com
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