Exploring teaser options to adjust spreads and totals in your favor

Posted on by Clare Louise

Novices betting football often restrict themselves to the money line, spread, and game total wagers without exploring alternative bet types. However, implementing more advanced bets like teasers into your playbook proves instrumental for long-term profits. 

Teasers involve buying points to increase spreads or totals in your favor in exchange for lower +EV payouts. Understanding the inner workings of different teaser varieties unlocks immense potential to magnify win rates. 

How betting teasers functions?

A teaser allows a bettor to add extra points to a team’s margin or the total. Common NFL teaser options include:

  • 6 Point Teasers – Buy 6 extra points for your team/total 
  • 7 Point Sweetheart Teasers – Buy 7 points restricted to only 3-4 legs
  • 10 Point Monster Teasers – Buy 10 points with only 2-team legs 

To demonstrate via example, if the Cowboys are -6.5 point spread favorites, a 6-point teaser could boost them to +0.5 underdogs. Likewise, a 48-point total could tease up to 54. The tradeoff is teaser payouts are lower than standard bets. But as we’ll cover, the math still overwhelmingly favors them in certain combinations known as “working teasers”.

Why teasers offer positive expected value? 

Sportsbooks don’t hand out extra points freely – they come at the cost of much lower +EV payout ratios designed to maintain their edge. However, certain sweet spots exist where the point adjustment swing provides disproportionate win-rate boosts versus the stricter pricing. Common examples include:

  • Teasing favorites from -8 down to -2 or picking them in range
  • Teasing big underdogs from +14 up to +20 spreads 
  • Teasing low totals up from 37 to 43  

The combinations create wiggle room to still win bets even if the teased team/total doesn’t cover the original number. By grabbing UFABET points across key thresholds where football game distributions are most heavily concentrated, win rates jump substantially.

Advanced teaser strategy advice

Follow these proven strategies to optimize teaser placement:

  • Stick to working sweet spots for spread/total adjustments 
  • Mix in 7-point NFL sweetheart teasers with extra juice
  • Be cautious around teasing across key numbers like 3 and 7
  • Consider buying half points further to tease across thresholds 
  • Always tease through zero, never from a positive to more positive
  • Add higher probability spread and total legs together to reduce risk

Teasers require balancing risk-reward with payouts but deployed selectively cut through significant house edge across other bet types.

Teaser opportunities by league 

Teaser opportunity nuances exist across the highest-volume football leagues:

  • NFL – 10-point teasers tempt fate over adjusting too far while 6-pointers see immense praise 
  • College football – Greater volatility from 18-22-year-olds makes added juice 7-pointers shine with wiggle room
  • Canadian football – Higher scoring with a bigger field makes teasing totals extra effective

By tailoring approaches, teasers prove consistently profitable across football leagues.