Roll back four years, and nobody had even heard of a football bet builder, request a bet or build a bet. Now, they are the most popular way to bet on football matches from all of the top leagues.
Even though accumulators and both teams to score bets are still popular, bet builders have taken over the ‘match betting’ landscape, with people chasing the big odds win from a small stake.
It all started when SkyBet let you message into their Twitter account and request the odds for a bet – now you can simply go onto your betting app and make selections from over 100 markets on one individual fixture.
What is a Bet Builder in Football Betting?
A bet builder is where you can make multiple predictions for a single match, and the bookies will instantly give you the odds for all of those things to happen. As bet builders become more advanced, more markets are added for you to choose from. You can bet on things like a player to get a yellow card, total amount of shots on target for a player in the match, total goals in the match, which team will win, how many corners will there be and how many tackles and fouls a certain player will make.
For example, Liverpool are playing Arsenal in the big Super Sunday fixture and you predict the following things will happen in the match:
- Mo Salah to score a goal
- Alexis MacAllistar to get a yellow card
- Virgil Van Dijk to make 2 or more fouls
- Declan Rice to have a shot on target
- Nine or more corner in the match
Go to your chosen bookmaker and add all of these predictions to your bet slip. You will instantly see the odds, and now it’s time to place your chosen stake.
The more likely these things are to happen, the smaller the odds will be, but the more selections you make, and the more unlikely they are to happen, the bigger the odds will be.
How can you win money on a bet builder?
Winning bet builders is not easy, but the rewards can be big if you get the bet right. Across Social Media, you will often see massive wins from small stakes where people have selected a lot of things to happen across a match, and they all come true. For example, if you predict three players to get a yellow card in a match and all three get booked, you’re likely to get odds of 30/1 or more, meaning a £10 bet would return over £300.
It is always good to start with small stakes until you get the hang of betting on this type of bet, and it is also a good idea to follow some bet builder tips to begin with, so you can see how the bets play out. Most major bookies now offer the bet builder function with the likes of bet365, SkyBet, Betfred and William Hill amongst the most popular, and because of the quality of the online betting apps these days, they are really easy to use when travelling for business too.
What are the most popular bet builders in football?
The most popular matches to bet on a bet builder are the big Premier League fixtures, which are live on Sky Sports or TNT Sports. People will place their bet builder, then sit back and watch the selections roll in (hopefully). The betting apps will keep track of your bet for you, so when a leg wins, it will tick that leg off the bet.
The Champions League is also a very popular competition to bet on and the bookies will offer a wide range of markets for these bets too. If you are sat watching a match from the Championship, League One or League Two, get some help with your bet builder with some stats or betting tips too.
Each weekend, there is a plethora of top-class football to bet on, and this isn’t limited to the English leagues and the Champions League. Saturday and Sunday evenings give us top-flight action from La Liga, Serie A and Ligue 1, and Thursday night throws up the Europa League fixtures. With Premier League interest in the final last year, the European competitions are prime examples of which matches to bet on a footy bet builder.