Betting odds calculator

Three questions, one page. What do I have to hit at this price? What is the worst price worth taking for what I believe? And what does a multi-leg ticket actually need? Everything runs in your browser — nothing is sent anywhere and there is nothing to sign up for.

1. What do I have to hit?

Every price implies a win rate. Beat it and the bet makes money; miss it and no amount of being right about the game saves you.

American odds, e.g. -110 or +150
break-even
52.38%
what you have to hit to make money
profit per $1 risked
$0.909
what a winner returns, before stake sizing

2. What price should I accept?

The inverse, and the one that decides whether a good read makes money. Put in what you think it wins and this is the worst number worth taking it at.

%
your own probability, in percent
worst price worth taking
-122
for a 55.00% shot
EV at -110
5.00%
your price from step 1 — positive — worth taking

3. Teasers and parlays, leg by leg

Every leg has to win, so the bar rises fast. Pick a tease size and the leg rate is filled in from the measured sample; or type your own to price a parlay.

tease size — fills in the leg rate below

The 6-point window hit 73.88% over 2,871 legs, 1999–2025, graded at the closing number. 10 and 13-point teasers are deliberately not offered: they win far more legs and the advantage vanishes against a control, so their rates would flatter a ticket that is not actually an edge.

how many must all win
%
per-leg probability, in percent
what the book pays, e.g. +180
worst ticket price worth taking
+148
for 3 legs at 73.88%
all 3 legs win
40.33%
every leg, no exceptions
EV at +180
12.91%
positive — worth taking

Every number above is in the address bar. Copy the link and it opens for someone else already filled in.

Why break-even matters more than the pick

The difference between −105 and −120 is over three percentage points of required hit rate. That is larger than almost any handicapping edge that genuinely exists, which is why shopping the price is not a refinement — on most bets it is bigger than the opinion.

what each common price needs you to hit
PriceBreak-even
-13557.45%
-12054.55%
-11553.49%
-11052.38%
-10551.22%
+10050.00%
+12045.45%
+15040.00%
+20033.33%

The same arithmetic is why a coin flip loses at −110 and why a 55% bet is still a bad one at −140. If you only remember one number, remember that a standard price needs 52.38%, not 50%.

Where the numbers in the third box come from

The default per-leg rate of 75.71% is the measured win rate of qualifying 7-point NFL teaser legs over 3,677 of them since 1999 — see the teaser guide for the window and the price ladder. Change it to whatever you are pricing; the math does not care what the legs are.

For the distribution underneath all of it, and why 3 and 7 are the two numbers that matter, start here.

Common questions

How do I convert American odds to implied probability?

For a negative price, divide the number by itself plus 100 — so -110 becomes 110 / 210 = 52.38%. For a positive price, divide 100 by the number plus 100 — so +150 becomes 100 / 250 = 40%.

What win rate do I need at -110?

52.38%. A coin flip loses money at -110 because you risk $110 to win $100, so breaking even takes more than half your bets.

How do I work out a parlay's true price?

Multiply the legs together. Three legs at 75.71% each win 0.7571 x 0.7571 x 0.7571 = 43.4% of the time, which needs about +130 to break even. Compare that with what the book is paying — if it is less, the ticket loses however good the legs are.

Last updated 2026-08-26. Every figure is measured from public NFL play-by-play and closing lines; the sample size is printed beside each one so it can be checked rather than taken on trust.

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