Vig Calculator

This vig calculator is designed to give bettors a clear, quantitative look at what a sportsbook has built into any line — and just as importantly, what the line would look like if that built-in edge were stripped away. You can use it to analyze a standard two-way spread or total, compare moneylines, or even break down multi-outcome futures and prop markets by entering the odds exactly as posted by … Read more

What is Vig (and Why Must You Defeat It)?

What is vig? Before I got serious about sports betting, that was a question about one of the obscure, jargon-y phrases that I knew separated the sharks from the whales. If you knew what vig meant, then you probably also knew what the inside of the smoky back room of a bar on the wrong side of the tracks smelled like. Even after I learned that vig was short for … Read more