Online Sportsbook Odds

The most frequent method of betting on baseball is through a money line. A money line is basically a bet on which team is going to win a game. Different with a point spread, it makes completely no difference how much a team wins by as long as they win the game. Of course, it would be very simple to make money over the long term if all you had to do was pick the better team, but it's not that simple. The sportsbooks have to have some way of evening out the chances of the two teams, placing a bet on a serious underdog as attractive as a bet on a heavy favorite, or they would go bankrupt. In football or basketball they do that with a point spread.

On the money line they do that by varying the cost of a bet. If you were to bet the same amount on two different teams, you would win more than you bet on the team that was an underdog, and make a profit of less than you bet if you chose the favorite.

MLB betting odds and lines at the BetUS Sportsbook and Bodog Sportsbook are also the most up to date live lines for all Major League Baseball games this season. All lines for both American League and National League, MLB games are in real time and BetUS Sportsbook and Bodog Sportsbook provides the latest point spreads or run lines, money lines, totals or over unders on all the MLB baseball games.

If betting lines and odds are your thing, this page will give you this week’s lines from BetUS.com Sportsbook. If there is a game you like click on the odds links which take you to BetUS.com Sportsbook and you can try out the simplicity of pro football betting online.

The point spread also called "the line" or "the spread" is used as a margin to handicap the favorite team. For betting purposes, the oddsmaker predicts that the favored team will win by a certain number of points. This number of points is the point spread. The favorite is always indicated by a minus sign (e.g. -5.5) and the underdog without (e.g.5.5). If you bet on the favorite, you win your bet if the favorite wins AND their margin of victory is greater than the point spread. If you bet on the underdog, you win if the underdog wins, ties, or if the favored team wins but fails to exceed the point spread. It is standard for point spread bets in most sports that you wager $110 to win $100.

A money line, used in baseball and hockey, takes the place of a point spread. Money line betting is simply wagering on the contest based on a given price rather than a point spread. The team wagered on has to win the game outright, regardless of the score. The minus sign (e.g.-130) always indicates the favorite and the amount you must bet to win $100. The line without the minus sign (e.g.120) always indicates the underdog and the amount you win for every $100 bet. Using this example, therefore, you would bet $130 to win $100 on the favorite, while for the underdog you would bet $100 to win $120.

The Total also called "over/under" is the number of points oddsmakers expect will be the total score for the contest (both teams combined, overtime included). You bet on whether the total points scored will be more or less than this number. As with point spread bets, you must generally wager $110 to win $100.