What is Middle Betting?
Middle betting is a strategy where bettor place wagers on both sides of the same bet, exploiting the middle range of the bet, capping their potential losses, and giving themselves an opportunity for a big payout.
What is an Example of a Middle Bet?
Let's look at Brandon Aiyuk's receiving yards prop.
FanDuel is offering Aiyuk Over 59.5 yards at -110. Caesars is offering Aiyak Under 60.5 yards at +102. You bet both.
FanDuel Over 59.5 (-110): You place a $102.82 wager.
Caesars Under 60.5 (+102): You place a $97.18 wager.
There are only three possible results.
Aiyuk nets 59 or fewer receiving yards: The Caesars under hits and the FanDuel over misses. You lose $3.70.
Aiyuk nets 61 or more receiving yards: The FanDuel over hits and the Caesars under misses. You lose $3.71.
Aiyuk nets exactly 60 receiving yards: The Caesars under hits and the FanDuel over hits. You win $192.60.
Middle bets are particularly entertaining because of their limited downside and exceptionally high upside. In the above example, your losses are capped at $3.71, but your upside is $192.60.
Middle Betting Disclaimer
Odds can change quickly on sports books. Before executing each leg of the bet, always make sure the odds are the same as you see here, and that the books allow you to bet these amounts.
How to Find Middle Betting Opportunity?
Middle bets are not so easy to identify. Finding a middle bet requires comparing odds across multiple sportsbooks and multiple betting markets, calculating the middle range, calculating wager amounts, and placing your bets, all before the lines move.
Outlier has done the work for you, displaying an actionable and updated feed of middle betting opportunities with middle ranges, wager amounts, and payout scenarios.
Now that you better understand middle betting, it's time to lock in some middle bets and cross your fingers that the middle hits.
Middle Betting Tutorial