Asian Handicaps - a Brief Tutorial
For football fans everywhere the outcome of a game is obvious, it’s a home win, a
draw or an away win. In league matches the relative strengths of the teams is close, often
providing a great deal of entertainment as games go to the wire. However there are many
cup matches where the relative strengths of both sides are miles apart and these matches
in particular offer themselves to the punter in the form of Asian handicap betting
opportunities.
Asian handicaps have become a great favourite with punters in recent years, especially in
the field of football. What’s so good about them ? – well they can turn a non
event, where one team is vastly superior to the other, into an interesting betting medium.
An example best illustrates how these handicaps function. Let’s assume a ficticious
football match of ManU versus Crewe Alexandra. Football enthusiasts know that, barring
miracles, ManU will win comfortably. So the layer offers the match with ManU handicapped
by 1.5 goals, for example. All of a sudden the match becomes more interesting as a betting
medium, punters are now betting on the prospect of ManU winning by more or less than 1.5
goal difference i.e. Manu score (-1.5) versus Crewe Alexandra. This is what is at the crux
of Asian handicaps, a weighting that redresses the balance in uneven competitions.
Perhaps it’s pretty obvious that there is no such thing as half a goal and, in these
cases, there are only two outcomes, win or lose. Where the handicap offered is a whole
number then the outcome is per a “normal” football contest, win, draw or lose.
In general Asian handicapping is particularly prevalent on betting exchanges as some
punters like to take a view as layers whereas other punters like to take a price in this
form of betting.
Asian handicaps are mostly used in football betting although there is no reason why they
cannot be used in any other form of betting where there are two sides to the contest.
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