With over/under selections becoming more popular, especially in bet builders, it's good to understand the different ways the bookies may show their over/under selections.
Shots on target (SOT) and goal scorer price boosts are also extremely common, and the same terminology can be applied to those bets too.
The most common way for over/under markets to be shown is in decimals, such as over 2.5 goals, especially at the exchanges, but bookies are also adding whole number options, such as over 2 goals, and even 2+ goals. These additional ways of showing the same bet can make things unclear at times. The table below has been designed to show what selections mean the same thing, even if they're worded differently.
Over Selections -
Decimal Selections | Whole Number Selections | Whole Number + Selections |
Over 0.5 | Over 0 | 1+ |
Over 1.5 | Over 1 | 2+ |
Over 2.5 | Over 2 | 3+ |
Over 3.5 | Over 3 | 4+ |
Over 4.5 | Over 4 | 5+ |
Under Selections -
Decimal Selections | Whole Number Selections |
Under 0.5 | Under 1 |
Under 1.5 | Under 2 |
Under 2.5 | Under 3 |
Under 3.5 | Under 4 |
Under 4.5 | Under 5 |
Below are 2 examples of price boosts from bookies using different terminology, and how we'd lay them.
William Hill boosted the odds for Ronaldo to have over 1 shot on target (SOT). Using the table above we can see that over 1 = over 1.5. Using this information we know that we need to lay Ronaldo to have over 1.5 SOT at the exchange.
Next up we have Sky Bet, boosting the odds for Foden to have 1+ SOT. Again, using the table above we can see that 1+ = Over 0.5. So we would go to the exchange and lay Foden to have over 0.5 SOT.