US & other team sports

Team games bring variables that a tennis match lacks: squads, line-ups, home advantage. British bookmakers adapt American and other team markets to their own habits, and this section describes that adaptation.

Basketball and American football lead, with baseball and ice hockey next. The tail holds handball, volleyball, water polo, then floorball, field hockey, kabaddi and esports. Instead of a simple win-draw-win, these sports offer spreads, totals and individual player markets.

Britain does not use American odds. Prices are written as fractions or decimals, and a conversion takes one line of arithmetic. Virtual events are a licence category in their own right, which confirms that a product is licensed without describing its rules.

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