Longshot — fun stake only
The edge is there, but high variance cuts our confidence. Keep it small.
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Grade A · 83/100 · Lottery Ticket
Seattle Seahawks Super Bowl LXI Winner at +1000 on DraftKings: we devig 11 books on the same market to estimate a true win probability of 65.0% — fair odds -186. The gap between +1000 and -186 is the +615.38% edge: your long-run expected return per dollar if the market is right about true probability. At odds this long, even a strong edge cashes infrequently — variance dominates any short sample.
Across many identical wagers, you'd expect to gain about 615.4 cents on every dollar staked — that's the gap between +1000 and the consensus fair price (-186). Single-bet variance still dominates the short run.
No. The price still implies roughly a 9.1% chance the ticket cashes. +EV means the payout exceeds the true probability — most positive-EV longshots still lose individually. The edge only shows up across many similar bets.
Grading is a price-quality signal, not a prediction. Even an A-grade ticket can lose. Size within your bankroll, account for correlation between legs, and use Inside Angles above to spot factors the price hasn't absorbed yet.