Football Asian Handicap Betting Guide
The Asian Handicap is a football bet which is made up by a bookmaker to try and make the two teams in their view more equal and in effect you are taking on the judgement of the bookmaker. There are a number of different types of AsianHandicap bets which are explained in the following paragraphs.
An Asian handicap is a market where a handicap is applied to the match in order to make the prices more equal. The handicap line varies from Scratch, (0, also called Level Ball) up to any number of goals in order to balance the odds and give each of the two team's relatively similar price. The handicap line increases from Scratch in 'Quarter Goals' or 'Quarter Balls', expressed as + or - 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, 1, 1 1/4, 1 1/2 etc. to reflect the expected superiority of one team over the other.
The favourite in a match will have a negative handicap represented with a (-) symbol and will have to win by more goals than the handicap in order to be a winner. The outsider in the match will receive a positive handicap represented with a (+) symbol which will be added to the final score.
Whole ball and half ball handicaps: The handicap is applied to the final result of the match and the team with the most goals after the handicap has been applied will be the winner. If the number of goals for each team is level after the handicap has been applied, it will result in a push with the stake being returned.
Split Ball Handicaps: A split ball handicap is where the level of favouritism is between a half ball and a whole ball. The handicap is presented as 0: 1/4. In this instance, your stake is being split equally between the whole ball and half ball handicaps.
For example: England 0: 1/4 Paraguay If you place a £100 bet on Paraguay + 1/4 you actually have two bets split as follows, £50 Paraguay + 0 goal and £50 Paraguay + 1/2 goal. If the match finishes as a 0-0 draw, then after applying the handicap the scores would be as follows; Paraguay plus zero would result in England 0 - 0 Paraguay - your £50 part of the bet on Paraguay minus plus zero would be a push and the stake returned to you. Paraguay plus a half a goal would result in England 0 - 0.5 Paraguay - your £50 part of the bet on Paraguay plus a half goal would be a winner.
