When you see a football match priced at Home 2.10 · Draw 3.40 · Away 3.60, those are decimal odds — the payout per €1 staked, including your stake returned. Subtract 1 to get your profit: a €10 bet at 2.10 pays back €21 (€10 profit).
1X2 markets cover three outcomes: 1 = home win, X = draw, 2 = away win. Most recreational books carry a margin of 4–8% built into these prices. Pinnacle operates at around 2%, which is why BetEdge anchors all fair-value estimates to Pinnacle's closing line — it's the sharpest freely available reference price in the market.
Over/Under goals (e.g. Over 2.5) pays if three or more goals are scored in 90 minutes plus injury time. Asian handicaps offer fractional head starts (e.g. Away +0.5 goals) that eliminate the draw outcome entirely, making the market binary.
Where BetEdge adds value: our model compares every bookmaker's 1X2 price against the Pinnacle-implied fair probability. When a market is soft by more than our post-tax threshold, a pick is published with the edge percentage logged in the track record before kick-off.