Learning to bet on MLB season specials odds takes some time but is more accessible than other futures props.
Two things make betting on any long-term future difficult, and MLB Season Props are no different. Therefore, you must take extra time to do the research necessary for success. You won’t miss out on anything if you hold off on betting another day or two to put the work in. Ideally, you’d leave yourself a week to make the correct call.
You need this time to physically sit down and watch every game that week that the team you want to wager on is playing. We recommend doing this for every team you plan on betting a long-term future on.
The reason is that throughout a 162-game season, so many things can happen that you need to do your best to control what you can. Betting on a single baseball game, you have nine innings of things that can go wrong to derail your wager. In MLB futures, you will have months of things that will challenge your success. Some have nothing to do with baseball, like off-the-field arrests or injuring yourself at home. So, we control what we can and hope for the best.
How to Approach Futures Betting.
Do not, for example, blindly wager on the best team in the MLB to finish the season over the current win total. Overperforming teams don’t usually maintain high success throughout the season.
When a lousy team comes out of the gate hot with a first-place record through the first month, that doesn’t necessarily mean much for where they eventually end the season. So don’t get too excited and wager over on a team’s win totals after a hot start. In those situations, you want to wait until the first sign of a slip-up and pound the under. The odds will be at their peak, and you can undercut them if you time your move correctly.
The same goes for good teams that are off to bad starts. Don’t expect their downward spiral to continue based on their win/loss record. Instead, wait for signs of life and jump on the over like a trampoline made of cash.
When teams see results far different from expectations, their record will usually normalize by the time the regular season ends.
This is the law of averages and is something that sports bettors should familiarize themselves with.