Knowledge Base
Glossary
Plain-English definitions for the terminology used across Tactical Review.
- Accumulator
- a bet that links multiple selections together; all must win for the bet to pay out.
- Asian Handicap
- a handicap system that gives one team a virtual advantage or disadvantage to eliminate the draw, expressed in half‑ or quarter‑goal increments.
- Bankroll
- the total money you have set aside for placing bets.
- Bet Builder
- an online tool that lets you combine different outcomes from a single match into one custom wager.
- Betting Exchange
- a platform where bettors back and lay outcomes against each other, functioning like a marketplace rather than a traditional bookmaker.
- Bookmaker
- a company or person that sets odds and accepts bets from customers.
- Cash Out
- a feature that lets you settle a bet early, locking in a profit or reducing a loss based on current odds.
- Correct Score
- a betting market where you predict the exact final score of a match.
- Double Chance
- a bet that covers two of the three possible match outcomes (home win or draw, away win or draw, or either side to win) in one wager.
- Draw No Bet
- a market where you back a team to win; if the match ends in a draw, your stake is refunded.
- Evens
- odds of 1/1, meaning you win the same amount as your stake if the bet wins.
- Favorite
- the team or player considered most likely to win, shown by lower odds.
- Fixed Odds
- the odds set by the bookmaker at the time of your bet, which stay the same regardless of later changes.
- Goal Line
- a market where you bet on whether the total number of goals will be over or under a specified figure.
- Half-Time/Full-Time
- a market where you predict both the result at half‑time and the final result of a match.
- In-Play
- bets placed after the match has started, with odds that update as the game unfolds.
- Juice
- the commission or fee a bookmaker includes in the odds, effectively the price of taking a bet.
- Line
- another word for the spread or handicap that a bookmaker sets for a match.
- Margin
- the bookmaker’s built‑in profit margin, reflected when the implied probabilities of all outcomes add up to more than 100%.
- Matched Betting
- a technique that uses free bets and promotions to guarantee a profit by covering all possible outcomes.
- Odds
- the number that indicates how much you can win relative to your stake, representing the likelihood of an outcome.
- Over/Under
- a bet on whether a specific statistic, such as total goals, will be above or below a set value.
- Push
- a tie result where the bet is refunded because the outcome matches the line exactly.
- Stake
- the amount of money you risk on a single bet.
- Value Bet
- a wager where the odds offered are higher than the true probability of the outcome, suggesting a potential edge.
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