I normally do not like futures betting. I don’t like to have my money on hold for six months waiting for an outcome. This season was even worse because the thought of making a futures bet in August only to have the season cancelled in December would have meant having a large chuck of my bankroll on hold with nothing to show for it.

However, now that the playoffs are about to start a futures bet on the Super Bowl will only take a month to decide. With that thought it is time to delve into some futures odds. I am using the odds from Drafktings, Fanduel and William Hill. The odds are exact result outcomes. This means I am picking the winner and loser of Super Bowl 55.

One reason that I do like to place some money down now is that the odds are not true odds. By this I mean that the odds do not reflect the likelihood of an outcome but instead they reflect the need of the sportsbooks to limit liability. If a sportsbook has taken too many bets on the Chiefs to win it all then they will lower the odds on the exact outcome. This creates different odds at different sportsbooks and provides me with an opportunity to line shop.