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Why Super League is not just “the other rugby” I made the mistake exactly once. It was a February evening in 2018, I had been pricing union all winter, and I treated a Wigan-Saint Helens fixture as if the handicap mathematics translated cleanly from one code to the other. They do not. I lost a […]

What makes the Premiership a different pricing animal I have a folder on my desktop labelled “Premiership 2018”, and inside it sits a spreadsheet with every match I priced that season alongside what the books closed at. The reason I still open that folder, eight years on, is to remind myself how dramatically the way […]

Why the Six Nations is the British punter’s calendar event Every February the kitchen table in my flat becomes a triage station. Three laptops, two phones, a notebook from the previous tournament and a half-cold cup of tea. By the time the anthem starts on the first Saturday I have already moved roughly forty per […]

Articles Rugby Handicap Betting Explained — Reading the Line on Mismatched Sides What a handicap solves when one side is heavy favourite The first rugby handicap I ever bet on was an England side travelling to Rome in the early days of… Best Odds Guaranteed on Rugby Markets The Saturday morning my bet paid out […]