Jim05 wrote:I don’t know how it works with Sportsbet but apparently in a SGM if you include 1 leg that is from a different team you get extra. For example I’ve just done a dummy
Port win $1.74
Rockcliff leading possessions GR1 $6
Georgiades leading goals GR1 $12
Payout $101
However change Georgiades to Myers from Geelong who is also $12 and it turns into $226
Correct, it's what is referred to in the industry as an 'accumulator dependency'.
The bookies got wrecked several years ago when some mathematicians teamed up with some political polling groups and worked out fairly quickly that there were a few key seats that would swing the entire election. Eden Monaro for example always fell to the party that happened to win the entire election.
The bookies also knew this, and as such, they had overall markets of roughly $1.90 libs, $1.90 labor, and similarly $1.90 a piece in the Eden Monaro seat, seems fair...... until you multi them up.
Take the libs to win both and you get $3.61, take labor to win both, also at $3.61, sit back and wait for your bet to cash in. (Effectively you've taken $1.805 for the seat to fall to the party that wins overall).
Now repeat that for a number of other key seats and before you know it, even if there is the odd seat that breaks the rules, you make bulk cash.
After that bookies just blocked anything that could be linked for a number of years.
More recently they've sharpened up the algorithm that spits out prices in the same game multi and that gives them protection.
EG: If you pick Hawkins for first goal scorer, then also add in Hawkins anytime goal scorer, the second leg won't increase your price, as it's already happened for the first leg to get up.