Football Accumulator Tips

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What is An Accumulator Bet?

An accumulator – also referred to as an ‘acca’ – is a bet in which several selections are combined, and the odds multiplied to calculate a potential payout. For example, just backing a strong favourite such as Manchester City to beat an enormous underdog in a Premier League match won’t pay much. However, adding them to your betslip, along with several other short-priced favourites, such as Liverpool, Arsenal and Tottenham, dramatically bolsters your odds.

There is no limit to the number of selections you can make, but you need all of them to come in correctly to cash out a winner. The odds are greater the more matches you add, boosting the winnings up for grabs. These are the most popular types of accumulator:

A win accumulator requires you to find four or more football matches and select the winners in each game.
A BTTS accumulator is where you bet on four or more ‘both teams to score’ results.
An over/under goals accumulator is where you bet on whether a match will see over or under a certain goal line – over/under 2.5 is the most popular selection.
A correct score accumulator offers much larger odds for punters to correctly predict the exact scoreline across several different matches.
An anytime goalscorer accumulator demands you to select multiple players to score in their respective matches in order to win.

Nowadays, there are a multitude of different accumulator bets outside of the usual offering which can be constructed across a variety of UK bookmakers. The likes of Sky Bet, Paddy Power, bet365, BetMGM and more all possess the ability for users to combine multiple selections from different markets into one bet. These can include any assembly of players to be carded, player shots on target or other player prop bets, often referred to as Bet Builders.

How to Build A Winning Acca Bet

Building a winning accumulator can come down to a number of different factors depending on the particular area you’ve selected. When it comes to choosing leagues, you might want to investigate the likelihood of a certain bet within that division i.e. how many fixtures have seen over 2.5 goals in the Champions League this season.

Digging further into specific matches, bettors may analyse how often a certain market such as both teams to score has landed using head-to-head historical data. In relation to clubs, you can get as granular as the selection requires. Using an anytime goalscorer as an example, you may identify that a midfielder for your chosen team scores frequently against clubs positioned in the league’s bottom half of the table, or that an underdog’s plucky striker carries a phenomenal record against one of the division’s elite sides.

All of these methods can improve your chances of landing a successful accumulator, as instead of playing the odds with your acca you’re now making far more informed decisions.

What is Acca Insurance and How Does it Work?

Acca insurance is a promotion offered by a number of bookmakers which refunds unsuccessful accumulator bets should one selection be the difference between winning and losing. Stakes are typically returned, in part or entirely, either as cash or a free bet, preventing punters from losing their stake due to one painstaking selection.

You can find bookmakers who offer acca insurance through a simple Google search on the subject. This should provide you with the result of a detailed list of every single UK bookmaker holding this promotion as part of their services. Alternatively, navigating your chosen bookmaker’s website or app and adding selections to your betslip will see that bookie advertise this feature as an added incentive to bet with them should they offer it.

Live Betting Accumulator Tips

Live betting can be a way to enhance your accumulator bets as the in-play odds are often much larger than those offered pre-match. Since a match has already started this can mean that the game’s circumstances are having an effect on the odds; maybe one team is absolutely dominating another in terms of possession, shots and other handy stats, therefore making them much shorter in price to win now than they were ahead of kick-off.

This can be a particularly useful tool for any shrewd punter who can manipulate the odds using their detailed research. If a team is currently drawing 0-0 in an awkward away match against a similar strength club but you know that they score most of their goals in the second half of matches, placing a bet before that first goal goes in could maximise your potential profit. Doing this across several different matches and involving multiple selections from different betting markets of course increases your risks, but will also exponentially improve your odds as a result.

Statistics in Successful Acca Bets

Building an accumulator strategy using team and player statistics will often improve your chances of winning. Depending on the type of accumulator you’re creating, different methods can yield varying results.

When it comes to team-based accumulators within the win-draw-win, BTTS or over/under goals markets, studying historical data within a particular competition, under a certain manager, based on head-to-head results or current form can provide different routes for you to follow. These statistics can help inform you of the likelihood of an outcome and allow you to compare this against the odds being offered, determining whether you’re getting a value selection or not.

For player-based accumulators which can span first or anytime goalscorers, player shots on target selections or players to be carded, many of the same bases for research can be applied. Individual performance data from a small sample – the past few games for example – or across a larger range – an entire season or even previous campaigns – can apprise your bet’s chances of winning.

What Happens If a Match in My Accumulator is Postponed?

If you’ve placed an acca containing a postponed or abandoned match, then the bet will void that selection, decreasing the odds accordingly. If you’ve chosen only four selections – the minimum to qualify your bet as an acca – this will defer your bet to the next type of acca down from this; for four selections your bet would become a treble, for three selections your bet becomes a double, and from a double it would become a single.

Accumulators vs Single Bets: Which is Better?

Deciding whether a single bet or an acca is better depends on your desires and the circumstances surrounding your selections. Single bets may be preferred if you’re short on time when placing your bets, or if betting on a player/team, game or league which is riskier and carries larger odds as a result. Accumulators are better for low-risk, high-reward players who enjoy combining multiple selections for enormous returns.

Pros for choosing a single bet is that they are self-contained, only requiring one outcome to produce a winner, thus meaning the chances of winning are increased in theory. Another is that a single bet is easy to follow as a punter only needs to rely on one outcome as opposed to several. The biggest con for a single bet is that because of the often shorter odds it requires a bettor to place a higher stake to make placing the bet worthwhile.

A pro of an accumulator bet is that odds are much higher without increasing the risk of a big stake. A con for choosing an acca bet is that with those increased odds the probability of landing a winning bet plummets as you’re now relying on several outcomes as opposed to just one.

Best Football Accumulator Bets

When it comes to placing big-win bets, there aren’t many with more potential than a football accumulator. While spreading your bets across a range of results is high-stakes, it’s also high-reward. Get all the football betting tips and accumulators ahead of the latest round of fixtures from our in-house experts.

Our tipsters analyse the form, fitness and fixtures from leagues across Europe and beyond to bring you insider insights into all the top football competitions. We follow every kick, card and cross to tot up the most likely outcomes and winning bets every week.

Weekend Accumulator Tips

You will find all of our weekend accumulator tips here. Our experts comb through all the statistics to bring you all the potential winners and losers from the biggest leagues and tournaments from across the footballing world. Whether you want to pick a few games from the weekend’s Premier League action or throw in a few high earners from Spain’s La Liga, it’s all here. Most games take place over a weekend, though there can be a few British midweek fixtures during the winter months. Our experts’ top tips will always arrive ahead of time, meaning you can get all your bets placed well before the first whistle. What’s more, an accumulator can be made up of matches from around the world – so even on those quiet weekends when there is no British football league action, you can still bet on games elsewhere – as far-flung as South America, the MLS or the Australian A-League.

How Often Do Our Acca Tips Win?

No legitimate tipster site will promise constant wins, and every punter knows that accumulators are hard to land. However, like with our other football tips, we have a good record of success with our bets. You can track our progress on our blog, or keep up to date with all our past and future tips on our Twitter page.

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