Asian Handicap: the Asian handicap is a form of betting on soccer in which teams are handicapped according to their form, so that a stronger team must win by more goals for an individual betting on them to win. Example:“team a” is -½ & -1, while “team b” is +½ & +1. If you are placing a wager on “team a” in an Asian handicap, you are placing half of your wager on “team a” at –½ and half on “team a” at -1. If they win
by exactly one, you would win your –½ half wager and push on your -1-half wager. If you placed the wager on “team b” and they lost by 1, you would push on the +1 and lose the +½.The Asian handicap can be expressed as either two numbers split (-½ & -1) or as a quarter number. In the above example it would be “team a” -.75The following is the two display versions of the Asian handicap:
-.25 | = | (pick & -½) |
-.25 | = | (pick & -½) |
+25 | = | (+½ & pick) |
-.75 | = | (-½ & -1) |
+.75 | = | (+½ & +1) |
-1.25 | = | (-1 & -1 ½) |
+1.25 | = | (+1 & +1 ½) |
Any time that there is a quarter number or two numbers, the wager is split.