Bookmakers odds comparison: who prices most, who prices best

How the bookmakers odds comparison works

Bookmakers odds comparison starts with the feed: prices arrive with the fixtures, refresh every 2 hours and more often close to kick-off. For each outcome the highest price across the books is the best price. That figure sits on the board, in the pick lists and in the edge printed beside every pick.

The figures above cover the priced matches of today and the next two days, so they move through the week. A book that prices every top-flight match and holds the best line on a third of the outcomes is doing two different jobs well, and the table separates them.

Matches priced counts fixtures where the book posted at least one of the three markets. Lines counts every market row it sent. Best counts the outcomes where its price was the top one, split by market, and share divides that by all compared outcomes.

Reading the leaderboard, the price strip and the margin table

The leaderboard ranks the books by best lines held, with the bar scaled to the leader. 1xBet leads at 30% of outcomes right now. The partner cards repeat the same numbers for the books with a Bet button and add the outcomes each one leads on: home wins, draws, overs or BTTS.

The price strip shows the next top-flight fixtures with the top price on each 1X2 outcome and the book that holds it. The payout line under each one is what those three prices return together. Above 100% would be an arbitrage, and 98% to 99% is typical when the best lines come from different books.

The margin table is the slow view. Margin is the average 1X2 overround a book builds into its prices, payout is its inverse, and the three best columns show where each book competes hardest. Click a heading to sort the table by that column.

Partner bookmakers and how the links work

Partner bookmakers are the ones we hold a commercial agreement with. Their logo, their price and the Bet button open the book through a counted link that pays a commission when an account is opened and used.

That commission never touches a probability, a pick or a grade. The model has no knowledge of which book paid what, and the best price is marked whoever offers it. On any given day the leader changes, as the leaderboard shows.

Every book on the page is a partner, so the table never carries a price we cannot send you to. The best price is still marked whoever holds it, and the leaderboard shows how often each one does. Together they are the whole bookmakers odds comparison; no other price enters the model.

Why the best price beats any single bookmaker

A single book's three prices on a 1X2 line carry a margin of 4 to 7%. The best price on each outcome across several books cuts that to under 2%.

Over a season of flat stakes that gap is roughly the difference between a 3% loss and break-even for a bettor who picks no better than the market.

Across the coming three days of priced matches the best price pays 94.1% of stakes against 92.7% at the average single book, a gap of 1.5 points. That is the one edge open to everyone, which is why the comparison table sits on every match page.

A couple of accounts are enough to capture most of it. The books lean different ways on the same match, so the best price on the home win, the draw and the away win is rarely at the same one. The margin calculator turns any book's three prices into its overround.

Responsible gambling

Odds comparison and predictions are tools for people who have already decided to bet, and the record pages are there to keep expectations honest. Even the best-calibrated picks lose about 1 time in 7, and the 10 odds accumulator loses 9 times in 10 by design.

Set a budget you can lose and keep stakes flat at 1 to 2% of it. Use the deposit limits, loss limits and time-outs that every book in the comparison offers in its account settings.

The responsible gambling page lists the warning signs and free, confidential help lines. The site is for adults of legal gambling age only, 18 or older in most countries.