Wager Mage
Wager Mage
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Straight up and moneyline can be used interchangeably in terms of the bet they represent, but you won't often hear someone say, “The Padres are 4-3 on the moneyline in road games this year.” Straight up won't show up on a bet sheet, but it is common in sports betting writing regarding trends and analysis.
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Read More »Beyond different types of bets and odds, sports betting features plenty of lingo to learn. If you’re reading betting analysis on a matchup, you might see something like, “This season, the Chiefs are 5-2 on the road ATS and 4-3 SU.” That sentence has two pieces of lingo. First off, ATS is a commonly used abbreviation for “against the spread.” A spread is a type of betting line that requires a favored team to win by a certain margin for the bet to win, or an underdog to not lose by more than that margin. To say the Chiefs are 5-2 on the road against the spread means that if you bet on the Chiefs against the spread on the road in every game to that point, you’d have won five bets and lost two. It doesn’t mean the Chiefs won all five of those games but, rather, they covered that margin. The second piece of betting lingo of that sentence is SU, which stands for “straight up.” Straight up, in this case, is used as the Chiefs’ record on the road in the absence of a spread. This would just be referred to as the Chiefs’ record on the road in regular sports media coverage. In betting lingo, the Chiefs are 4-3 straight up on the road. Against the spread and straight-up, records aren’t always correlated very strongly. For example, the Chiefs could have been favored by six points in a game on the road but only won by three points. That’s a win straight up, but not a win against the spread. Conversely, if the Chiefs were a six-point underdog but only lost by three, that would be a loss straight up, but a win against the spread. If a bettor says they are picking the Lakers to win straight up, that means they took the Lakers to win on the moneyline. So any Lakers win, regardless of score, will be a winning bet. Straight up and moneyline can be used interchangeably in terms of the bet they represent, but you won’t often hear someone say, “The Padres are 4-3 on the moneyline in road games this year.” Straight up won’t show up on a bet sheet, but it is common in sports betting writing regarding trends and analysis.
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