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Line Shopping for Best Futures Odds Pays Big

Scott Morris | October 14, 2019
sshopping for best futures odds makes you money

We have discussed in many previous articles the advantage of having multiple sportsbook accounts.

You can shop for individual lines that add up to make a real difference in your bank role.

By the end of the season you can improve your winnings by as much as 5-10% just by having the occasional half point advantage.

This philosophy also applies to futures. Futures odds vary more than individual game lines do and therefore you can make a handsome penny in the difference.

In this article I am posting the odds for the four teams left in the hunt for the MLB World Series title. I will use four of our top rated sportsbooks as example.

TeamYouWager.lvBetOnline.agIntertops.eu
Houston+160+150+150
Nationals+200+200+190
Yankees+225+250+225
Cardinals+1500+1200+1400

Scenario 1: If you want to bet $1000 on the favorite team (in this case Houston Astros), the winning bet would pay $1500 at BetOnline. Whereas, if you shopped a little and bet it at BetOdds or YouWager, you just made yourself an extra hundred bucks. If you have all four accounts funded, this extra hundred bucks you made took little more energy than logging into a few websites.

Sceanario 2: You want to put $500 on the longer-shot St. Louis Cardinals to win the World Series. You bet that particular future at BetOnline at +1200. The Cards win the world Series and you made 6000 bucks. Woo-hoo! But if you had multiple funded accounts, you could have bet that future at BetOdds or YouWager and won $7500! That is a $1500 extra payoff for simply shopping. Five minutes of your time. Do you make $1500 in five minutes at your job? Yeah, I don’t either.

The odds listed here are accurate as of me writing this article but are not in any way indicative of the line difference you will see between these particular books. People bet differently at these shops and it affects their live odds. Your job is to take advantage of the best odds available for you at a particular moment. There have been millions of dollars left on the table in the history of sports betting because the player don’t do simple line shopping.

Happy hunting!

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Football Sharp Action Report

9/14/25

odds by SportsBetting.ag

Patriots +2.5
Cowboys -5.5
Falcons +3.5
Jags +5.5
Jets +6.5
Lions -6
Rams -5.5
Cardinals -7

MLB Sharp Action Report

9/14/25

odds by SportsBetting.ag

KC +135
ARI +108
LAA +195

AP Top 25 College Football Poll

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AP TeamW/LSeason StartLive Odds
1Ohio State2-0+675+550
2Penn State2-0+700+575
3LSU2-0+1200+850
4Oregon2-0+1200+850
5Miami FL2-0+2800+2200
6Georgia2-0+650+650
7Texas1-1+600+650
8Notre Dame0-1+1000+1800
9Illinois2-0+15000+15000
10FSU2-0+3000+4500
11South Carolina2-0+6600+7500
12Clemson1-1+850+2000
13Oklahoma2-0+4000+2500
14Iowa State3-0+20000+15000
15Tennessee2-0+6600+5000
16Texas A&M2-0+3300+3300
17Ole Miss2-0+4000+4000
18S. Florida2-0+100000+20000
19Alabama1-1+900+1400
20Utah2-0+4000+5000
21Texas Tech2-0+10000+10000
22Indiana2-0+12500+10000
23Michigan1-1+3300+4000
24Auburn2-0+6000+4000
25Missouri2-0+10000+12500