Oddsmakers are very skilled at coming close to this number in most situations, so it can be challenging to determine 🏧 whether your score will go over or under, but it’s also easy depending on the game and whether you think 🏧 a team will rise to the occasion and blow their opponent out of the water.

Totals betting is great for new 🏧 bettors or bettors that don’t follow sports as closely. You don’t need to predict the winner of the game, you 🏧 don’t need to know the teams in-depth, but you definitely need to know them well enough to figure out if 🏧 they will over or underperform in the matchup.

Totals betting is offered for many different sports as it lends itself to 🏧 different styles of play – you can find totals betting odds on all professional sports, collegiate sports, and combat sports. 🏧 Outside of regular team sports, the rules can be a bit different, but we’ll explain that below and outline how 🏧 totals work for each sport.

Totals Betting Odds Explained

While it’s not difficult to figure out how totals work, you also need 🏧 to pay attention to the odds that are associated with each side of the totals wager. The oddsmaker’s goal is 🏧 to predict the exact amount of points both teams score, and most times they are dangerously close to being accurate, 🏧 so you do have your work cut out for you to decide if you want to bet over or under 🏧 that score.