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Floorball is often an overlook type of sport. It may not reach the biggest audiences like football, basketball, tennis or even ice hockey, but it’s exciting nonetheless. Betting on floorball might prove to be hard and confusing, but fear not, after reading this article it may become slightly easier.

Stylistically Similar to Ice Hockey

First things first, to understand how to bet, you will have to understand a bit about the sport. It is very similar in its rules and style to ice hockey, but is played on hard surface, indoors, for a 3 periods each lasting 20 minutes. Teams of five players and a goalkeeper do their best to score goals, or defend. The average goals scored highly depends on the leagues and matchups, but more about that later on.

Born in Sweden & Popular with Bettors Worldwide

This type of sport is most popular in Sweden (the “founders” of this sport), Finland, Czech Republic, Germany and Switzerland. Many other European countries rank very high in the world’s best teams, however you will see the biggest leagues there. Not surprising is the fact that also aforementioned teams make up the top 10 of the official IFF World Floorball Championships rakings. Floorball is gaining popularity in many continents and countries across the globe, and might see better recognition from the bookies in near future.

A Focus on Floorball Betting Fundamentals

Now about the interesting part you are here for. Betting on floorball is very seasonal, as there is a very finite amount of competitions which are regulated officially and gain enough recognition for bookies to even offer any odds. Most of the time these bets will be outrights or championship winners, where you will have to do a bit of homework who has been doing the best in the league. Generally, if the team is doing well in the first few months of the season, they will finish the season winning it. It is rather rare to see an underdog overcome a clear favourite, either it is a match or a league setting. Now when it comes to a bit more specific bets like total spread or handicaps, you should keep in mind that the games tend to be either very close in their score, (handicaps 1-3, looking at you) or completely spread out with the goal difference being close to 6. Once again, you will have to scout who is the leader by visiting the team social media outlets or looking at their current standings. Luckily for you, bigger floorball events are held by the regulator, IFF (International Floorball Federation). And they have a rather handy site to compare the teams and statistics. As it goes for total goals scored, as everyone knows, you need to be in it to win it. Bigger events with serious teams will have anywhere from a total of 4 goals to a total of 14 and more. But the average sits around 7-10, so if you see any of the more popular teams playing, be sure to bet on total of 7.5 over, as this might be your winning bet. When it comes to period totals, in most cases the goals are distributed very evenly. Totals range from 2-4, safest bet would be 2.5 over. This sport is rather unique in the fact that there is almost no difference in the statistical probabilities between the male and female leagues, I would even say that the female leagues prove to have more goals and bigger point spread, so would be more reliable for those big handicap bets.

As is with every type of sport, nothing is exact science, but scouting out the current favourite never hurts. I would highly recommend you not to overlook a good betting market for this sport, as it might prove to be your lucky day.

Make money from your rugby knowledge

Rugby is not a simple sport. Newcomers often find the complexity of the rules baffling, and judging by a lot of televised rugby, so do the commentators! But when it comes to betting, complexity is the punters friend. Knowledge is power, and if you know your rugby, you will have an advantage, enabling you to tackle those rugby betting markets with confidence.

Know your tournaments

Rugby is built around tournaments, and each tournament has its own particular demands. For example, the most popular northern hemisphere club tournaments such as the Aviva Premiership, the Top 14 and the Pro 14, take place at the same time as internationals, so the fortunes of individual teams can fluctuate wildly depending on how many internationals they have on their books, and the quality of their replacements.

The main southern hemisphere club tournament, Super Rugby, takes place across four continents so travel, jet-leg and at some venues, severe altitude differences are significant factors (along with the near total dominance of the top New Zealand sides).

And home advantage comes into play again with international rugby, particularly in tournaments such as the Six Nations and the Rugby Championship, where, with national pride at stake, the in-stadium atmosphere can be more intimidating for visiting sides.

Know your teams

Yes, New Zealand is better than Canada, but that level of knowledge won’t take you very far. If you want to win at rugby betting you need to know every team like the back of your hand. You need to know their style of play, their strengths, their weaknesses, their squad depth, their fitness levels; everything, essentially. No matter how much you love your rugby, this can sometimes be a tedious process, but think of it as the price you pay for success. If you want to come up with those profitable nuggets, you’ve got to dig.

Applying your knowledge

The importance of building up your knowledge of the teams you will be betting on is that it enables you to instantly spot a good bet.

Take the weather, for example. Wet conditions make it harder to play running, expansive rugby. If you happen to know that Team A has a grinding forward-based game plan while Team B prefers to spread the ball wide and play a more progressive style, then a forecast of heavy rain will tilt the scales in favour of Team A and could help you spot a good bet.

Team news is another potential source of betting nuggets. Rugby is an incredibly technical game, as well as being physically demanding, and the absence of one or two key players will have a much more significant effect on a team’s chances than in other sports. This is why knowing the strengths and weaknesses of a team’s best players – as well as the ability of their likeliest replacements – can pay big dividends for the rugby punter.

Play the handicaps, but tread carefully

Rugby can throw up some pretty one-sided games, particularly in the international arena. In these games, the favourite is often available at eye-wateringly short odds, so unless you’ve got a million or two in your betting bank, you’ll have to play the handicap markets.

But here’s where it gets tricky. The bottom line in a game of rugby is to beat your opponents. Running up a huge score, even if a team is capable of doing so, is not usually the priority. So just because you think Team A can beat Team B by 30 points, doesn’t mean they will, particularly if the tournament they are playing in confers no additional bonus points for number of tries scored, or if they have a more important game coming up.

Few things are more frustrating in rugby betting than watching a team you have backed to cover a 20 point handicap taking their foot off the gas with a 15 point lead. If you aren’t factoring the motivations of the two sides into your handicap betting, you could come unstuck.

Check out the try-scoring markets

While most of your rugby betting will probably be done in the Handicap or Tournament winners markets, success can be found in some of the try-related markets.

One potential route to profit involves identifying when forwards offer good value to score. Some forwards are more likely to score than others, particularly those in the back row, but there is often value to be had by backing forwards in the try scorers markets, particularly in games that are likely to be forward-dominated.

Conclusion

As with any form of betting, you can’t make money from rugby without working hard. By doing your research and giving yourself a solid base of rugby knowledge, then applying this knowledge intelligently to the betting markets, you will maximise your chances of success.

Tennis is one of the biggest sports on the planet, played across all 5 continents, with the ATP (Men’s Tour) and the WTA (Women’s Tour) and the ITF (International Tennis Federation) governing over 200 tournaments between them, per year.

As a result, betting on tennis is an extensive but potentially lucrative vocation and knowing how to bet on tennis intelligently can be difficult.

Here is our guide to how bet on tennis more intelligently:-

• Utilise Tennis Offers

Tennis is no different to any other sporting event on the calendar and bookmakers are always looking to stay on trend by offering special deals that encourage people to bet on tennis. So look out for offers around the Grand Slams (Wimbledon/US Open/French Open/Australian Open) and the special offers, free bets and enhanced odds that will be there for punters to use. 

• Keeping Options Open

Having active accounts with several different bookmakers can ensure punters get the best possible odds available at any given time and the flourishing and competitive market between bookmakers means the  efficient punter should be always betting with the best possible odds

• Markets and Odds

Tennis is one of the very few sports that offers a straight win/loss market which instantly assists the punter in a two-horse race and odds can vary dramatically from bookie to bookie. Odds comparison websites (such as Oddschecker.com) are extremely useful when scouring the market for the best odds and the depth of the markets available make it an extremely handy tool to maximise winnings. Away from the glitz and glamour of the big events, most bookmakers do offer competitive odds on ATP, WTA and ITF tour events – ranging from outright winners of each event to how many games/sets/tie breaks each match will contain – multiplying winning opportunities for punters once more.

• Market Variety

With its unique scoring system, there is an array of tennis betting markets available. Most tennis matches have over 60 different permutations that punters can look to exploit. Ranging from set/game betting (how many sets/games a player will win), how many games there will be in a particular match (over and under market) and whether the match will contain a tie-break or not. This variety helps the punter cater for the often one-sided nature of tennis at the elite level. 

• In-Play Tennis Betting

In-play tennis betting has revolutionised the way in which punters operate in the tennis betting market. While it will never replace betting on the overall outcome of matches or tournaments, in-play betting provides an instantaneous and arguably more exciting avenue for generating profits. Betting on live tennis live can be highly profitable, is not time consuming whatsoever and allows the better, to become engrossed in the live action and develop a better understanding of the game. 

• Live Streaming

The advancement in popularity within in-play tennis betting has largely been down to the offer of live streaming on betting websites. Companies compete for the rights to show competitive tennis on the ATP, WTA and ITF tours on their websites and it has enabled customers to get a more rounded tennis betting experience.

• Tennis Knowledge Helps!

It perhaps goes without saying that tennis knowledge is essential when deciding what/who to back, as lots of external factors such as player form, court surface and players returning from injury can all play a key role. The world rankings are not definitive in terms of deciphering a bet as – lots of players have favoured surfaces (e.g Nadal on clay) where they tend to get their best results and big seeds can often fall to lesser known players if the surfaces don’t suit their games.

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