Talk:Asian handicap

Tie in basketball is possible!

There is an error in the sentence:

 similar to the odds for a basketball or baseball game where a tie is impossible.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.193.211.103 (talk) 10:58, 5 March 2008 (UTC) 

Is it true that an Asian Handicap always involves half/quarter goals? I'm sure i've seen bets stated as asian handicap where the handicap is a round amount of goals i.e. 1 or 2 goals. Not sure what happens if it's a handicaped draw though. SRL82.1.250.8 (talk) 18:25, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

I removed false information from the introduction, rewrote it and cited a valid reference. I further cleaned up the section on quarter handicaps and two way handicaps. Yes there can be a tie in basketball (rarely) and not all Asian handicaps involve quarter or half goals. Some are whole number. If match results in a draw after the handicap is factored in, it is a push. Money is returned. I have clarified this as well in the article. 216.93.191.243 (talk) 11:12, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

I think this line

"Explained: This handicap states that half of your bet goes on Newcastle winning by 1 goal, and half on Newcastle winning by 1.5 goals."

in the section entitled "Quarter Goal or Two Way Handicaps" is utterly misleading, if not formally wrong. I would rephrase it something like: "This handicap states that half of your bet goes on Newcastle winning or losing by less than 1 goal, and half on Newcastle winning or losing by less than 1.5 goals" What do you people think? 88.6.113.137 (talk) 13:37, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Description of quarter handicap is not correct

The odds for a quarter handicap are different from splitting half the stake on each.

Let's say you bet $100 on Home -1.75 at odds 2.29. If they win by exactly two goals, then the outcome will be:

• $50 is refunded (H -2.0)
• $50 wins at 2.29 (H -1.5)

For a total return of $164.50, or a $64.50 profit.

However, the payout will be different. Obviously, H -1.5 would not "by itself" have odds of 2.25 - they would be lower. In order to achieve the goal of "half win and half push", the stakes (risked amount) can't be what's equal, it has to be the potential profit for each leg - half of the profit has to go on either side. So if we're visualizing it as "splitting up the stakes", here's what we get:

• $35.71 on H -2.0 @ 2.80
• $64.29 on H -1.5 @ 2.00

If we get a half-win-half-push situation, then we get 1.00 * 35.71 + 2.00 * 64.29 = $164.29, which is exactly equivalent to the above. It's trivially obvious that it's identical in case of a full win (2.8 * 35.71 + 2.00 * 64.29 = $228.57), as well as in the case of a full loss.

The above explanation is true for those cases where the potential outcome is a half-loss (half push), since in those cases we would set the staked amount to be equal.

98.128.180.201 (talk) 00:29, 6 June 2022 (UTC)