A Guide to Football Bet Builders

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In this article, we will look at one of the most popular innovations recently in online football betting which you might have guessed from the title is the bet builder feature. While this article will mostly focus on the how to build a bet and the best situations to use the bet builder, we will also take a look at the request a bet function that football online bookmakers offer. This is kind of a niche market but some people really love the request a bet option so it is worth discussing. Let’s first begin by explain in the concept of bet builders!

What are Bet Builder Bets?

A bet builder or build a bet as it may be may be called on some sites is an exciting new feature that most bookmakers now offer their customers but what is a bet builder? Well, what Bet Builder wagers involves is basically making multiples but for one event. So, until recently, if you wanted to do a double, treble or accumulator you could not include two or more selections from the same event. Bet builder however allows you to do just this! You will see a whole market called bet builder on your chosen bookmaker’s site and here you will be given options of the different football betting markets you can combine to build your bet.

How to Build a Bet for Football

So, before we look at bet builder tips etc. Tet’s look at how to build a bet. For this example, I will be using Bet365 bet builder feature but don’t worry if they are not your preferred site all the best bet builder sites follow a similar style.

There we have it. As you can see the process of making bet builder bets is quite easy but don’t worry, we still have the most important part still to come: Our bet builder tips.

Bet Builder tips

So now that we know how to build a bet let’s look at some of the best bet builder tips. If you paid attention to the example, you might already where I am going with this. In my opinion the most profitable way to use the bet builder feature is to combine a result pick with total goal betting markets. The key however is to play it safe and mostly stay away from the 2.5 mark, we also want to mostly use this strategy when we are backing a favourite whose price might seem a little too short.

A perfect example of this is the recent Tottenham v Norwich football match where Tottenham went off as favourites with betting odds of between 1/3 and 1/2 (depending where you bet) but if you used the bet builder and combined a Tottenham win with under 4.5 goals your price would have jumped all the way to Bet Builder odds of 11/10. Before this game Norwich had gone 17 out of their last 24 premiership games without scoring and Tottenham have also been less than prolific. So, with this bet builder you win if Tottenham win 1-0, 2-0, 2-1 or 3-0. Tottenham won 3-0 so the bet cashed and you can now see why some good bet builder tips can really increase your profit on a football match,.

Another to add to the bet builder tips is to have fun with it. Sometimes you might just want to watch one game and have a long shot accumulator rather than having to wait all day for multiple matches to be played. When you build a bet for one game you can get the enjoyments of an accumulator condensed into 90 minutes. My personal is combining a player to be booked, with an anytime goal scorer and an overs bet. This way you are really just hoping for a fun and entertaining game.

There are countless other bet builder bets for you to use, so feel free to an experiment!

Best Online Bookmakers With Bet Builder Feature

As the bet builder feature is quite a new feature, we will very quickly run through some of the sites that had the feature that impressed us.

Just like the three before it Unibet offer a pretty great selection of markets if you wish to build a bet on their site. A nice feature Unibet bet builder includes is that it lets you add 12 (!) selections to your bet builder. So, if you are feeling lottery levels lucky Unibet could be your ticket to the good life.