single bet calculator
Right — have been messing about with this thing for maybe a few months now and it's stuck on my phone, so thought I'd write something up since a lad on another thread asked me the other day. Am in the UK, mainly bet football and racing, small stakes, so take it how you like.
The reason I started using it was genuinely pretty stupid — I could never work out what an e/w return would be once you get five places instead of three. I'd just wing it and get a shock. Now I stick my stake in first, every time, even a straight one-selection punt.
Their single bet calculator tool is the part I'm on daily — you put in the price and your stake and you get profit and total return with no faffing, fractions or decimals. Same tool covers the fiddly ones — doubles and trebles returns, lucky 15 and lucky 63, a yankee, which is where most people I know mess it up. If you want a look, it's over at working out lucky 15 — free, no signup.
The thing that genuinely shifted things for me were the more serious tools. They've got an implied probability calculator and it makes obvious how much the bookie's taking, plus a kelly criterion calculator — I stick to fractional kelly since full stakes are far too aggressive. The dutch tool gets used a fair bit for when I'm spreading across selections.
Couple of gripes. Its interface is very functional, let's say — zero flash, it's clearly function over form. Phone-wise it works though the lucky 63 breakdown need a bit of scrolling. And no app, it's a website and that's it — doesn't bother me but worth saying.
So yeah. Costs nowt, barely any ads, does the job. If anyone honestly works out returns on a calculator app, give it a go — it's saved me a fair few arguments with the bookie.