Question purely out of interest

[Improver?]

I read on a website (I forget the name) that the bookies on average only make an average of 2% profit on football compared with 18% on horses or do you think thats a load of rubbish. Im alot better on football thats why giving up for good would be annoying.

[MarcusMel]

You can check out the overround values for yourself.

[Win2Win]

Over the course of a season they make around 1.5% on everything.

[mathare]

Premiership books are usually a 6% or 7% overround. This increases to maybe 10% or 12% for lower leagues and perhaps the foreign leagues. 2% sounds too low for the average figure.

18% for the horses is believable though

[Win2Win]

He was talking actual profit, not theoretical overround.

[mathare]

He was talking actual profit, not theoretical overround.Good point :)

2% still sounds a bit low for the footy to me though

[Win2Win]

I wouldn't mind 2% profit from a billion turnover :)