Many sportsbooks offer "match total specials" for a number of different sports, including football/soccer, American football and basketball.
With the match total specials lines, you can essentially bet on how many of a certain thing will occur over the course of a game. For instance, let's say that the Denver Broncos are playing the Los Angeles Chargers in a NFL game.
A sportsbook may have a number of match total specials line, including:
Total Passing Yards
Total Rushing Attempts
Total Tackles
These lines would include the totals for BOTH of the teams.
For instance, the total passing yards line might look like this:
Over 509.5 Yards, -110
Under 509.5 Yards, -110
So, let's say that you believe that the contest will be a high-scoring affair with plenty of passing.
In this case, you'd probably want to take the "Over 509.5 yards" line for -110.
Let's say that Russell Wilson ends up with 301 yards of passing, while Justin Herbert ends up with 350.
This would create a total number of passing yards of 651, which would easily go over the total.
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Basketball "match total specials" could include totals on things like rebounds, points and assists, while football/soccer totals could include things like corners, goals and even red cards.