Super Bowl 52 Coin Toss

For two weeks, serious and even semi-serious bettors will pore over stats, trends and history to find some edges for Super Bowl bets.

At least there's not much handicapping involved in one of the most popular bets: the coin toss.

Super Bowl bettors split from coin toss to champion. Field Level Media. Bettors can begin the day wagering on the coin toss (52 percent backing tails at DraftKings) and end it predicting the. RELATED VIDEO: Meet the Inspiring People Selected to Be Honorary Coin Toss Captains at the 2021 Super Bowl 'I'm so proud of all these guys out here,' he said of his teammates.

There have been 268 NFL games played this season, including playoffs, and you likely haven't paid attention to the coin toss in any of them. Most NFL broadcasts begin with one team lining up for the kickoff. The announcer usually informs viewers who won the toss and if they chose to receive or defer. No big deal.

But then the Super Bowl comes around, and the coin toss is an event. And bettors being bettors, they want to get action on it.

Which side are bettors taking for Super Bowl coin toss?

The Super Bowl coin toss props are already up at BetMGM. Heads and tails have the same odds, at -105. Go figure.

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Even though it's by definition a 50-50 proposition and there's no real edge to be had, bettors typically favor the same side every year.

'The coin toss is a very popular Super Bowl prop bet,' BetMGM sports trader Darren Darby said. 'Customers love early action and the coin toss gives them a chance to win before the game even starts. Tails is often the most popular side of this prop, as the old saying goes, ‘tails never fails.''

It's no surprise then that tails is the leader in the early betting for Super Bowl LV. BetMGM said 51.9% of bets and 52.8% of the money is on tails for the coin toss. Tails has come up 29 times in the Super Bowl coin toss, with 25 times for heads.

Bettors can also bet on if heads or tails will be the call by the assigned captain (77.8% of bets are on heads) and if the team that wins will defer or receive. Coin toss prop bets have been approved at BetMGM books in Indiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and West Virginia while regulators in Colorado, Iowa and Virginia have not approved them.

The strangest betting pattern on the coin toss so far is that 59.9% of the money on which team will win the coin toss is on the Kansas City Chiefs. Bettors must have a hunch that the Chiefs are the luckier team than the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

The history of odd Super Bowl props

Super Bowl props take over sports betting talk for two weeks. With just one game and two weeks to talk about it, bettors need more action than just the point spread.

That's how props came to be. When the Chicago Bears played the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XX 35 years ago, a blowout was expected. William 'The Refrigerator' Perry was a sensation, so to get a little extra action on the game, books posted odds on whether Perry would score a touchdown. He did, and a craze started.

There are already several props at BetMGM, on individual players' yardage total, who will win Super Bowl MVP and who will score the first touchdown for each team. There will be several more added, including some that you'd never see on any other NFL game.

The Super Bowl is different in the betting world. You'll know that when everyone is huddled around the TV, sweating the result of a coin being flipped.

Super Bowl 54 Coin Toss

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For two weeks, serious and even semi-serious bettors will pore over stats, trends and history to find some edges for Super Bowl bets.

At least there's not much handicapping involved in one of the most popular bets: the coin toss.

Super Bowl bettors split from coin toss to champion. Field Level Media. Bettors can begin the day wagering on the coin toss (52 percent backing tails at DraftKings) and end it predicting the. RELATED VIDEO: Meet the Inspiring People Selected to Be Honorary Coin Toss Captains at the 2021 Super Bowl 'I'm so proud of all these guys out here,' he said of his teammates.

There have been 268 NFL games played this season, including playoffs, and you likely haven't paid attention to the coin toss in any of them. Most NFL broadcasts begin with one team lining up for the kickoff. The announcer usually informs viewers who won the toss and if they chose to receive or defer. No big deal.

But then the Super Bowl comes around, and the coin toss is an event. And bettors being bettors, they want to get action on it.

Which side are bettors taking for Super Bowl coin toss?

The Super Bowl coin toss props are already up at BetMGM. Heads and tails have the same odds, at -105. Go figure.

Super Bowl 54 Coin Toss Confusion

Even though it's by definition a 50-50 proposition and there's no real edge to be had, bettors typically favor the same side every year.

'The coin toss is a very popular Super Bowl prop bet,' BetMGM sports trader Darren Darby said. 'Customers love early action and the coin toss gives them a chance to win before the game even starts. Tails is often the most popular side of this prop, as the old saying goes, ‘tails never fails.''

It's no surprise then that tails is the leader in the early betting for Super Bowl LV. BetMGM said 51.9% of bets and 52.8% of the money is on tails for the coin toss. Tails has come up 29 times in the Super Bowl coin toss, with 25 times for heads.

Bettors can also bet on if heads or tails will be the call by the assigned captain (77.8% of bets are on heads) and if the team that wins will defer or receive. Coin toss prop bets have been approved at BetMGM books in Indiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and West Virginia while regulators in Colorado, Iowa and Virginia have not approved them.

The strangest betting pattern on the coin toss so far is that 59.9% of the money on which team will win the coin toss is on the Kansas City Chiefs. Bettors must have a hunch that the Chiefs are the luckier team than the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

The history of odd Super Bowl props

Super Bowl props take over sports betting talk for two weeks. With just one game and two weeks to talk about it, bettors need more action than just the point spread.

That's how props came to be. When the Chicago Bears played the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XX 35 years ago, a blowout was expected. William 'The Refrigerator' Perry was a sensation, so to get a little extra action on the game, books posted odds on whether Perry would score a touchdown. He did, and a craze started.

There are already several props at BetMGM, on individual players' yardage total, who will win Super Bowl MVP and who will score the first touchdown for each team. There will be several more added, including some that you'd never see on any other NFL game.

The Super Bowl is different in the betting world. You'll know that when everyone is huddled around the TV, sweating the result of a coin being flipped.

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Field Level Media

February 05, 2021 at 8:33 pm.

Super Bowl LV is already unlike any of its predecessors as the world's most-watched annual sporting event takes on a unique shape during a global pandemic.

That certainly includes the sports betting market. While retail sportsbooks are expected to take a hard hit due to COVID-19, the record number of U.S. states with legalized online sports betting is driving record numbers for regulated sportsbooks.

More than two days before kickoff, BetRivers.com reported the Super Bowl to already be the heaviest wagered-on NFL game of the season. The FanDuel Sportsbook is now available in 12 states and along with many of its competitors is offering hundreds of betting markets for Super Bowl LV.

The Kansas City Chiefs remain the 3-point favorites at most books. That includes DraftKings, where the defending champions are being backed by 69 percent of the bets. However, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have now split the handle — or total money — wagered on the spread line. And the Bucs' +140 moneyline has drawn 58 percent of the bets and 51 percent of the handle.

Before covering against the Buffalo Bills in the AFC Championship Game, the Chiefs had failed to cover at BetRivers.com in nine consecutive games. They enter the Super Bowl 7-10-1 ATS this season. Meanwhile, the Bucs have covered in seven of their past 10 games, including each of their past two playoff victories.

The money has started to also flow toward Tampa Bay at BetRivers, where the Chiefs are still being backed by 68 percent of the spread line bets, but that's down from 73 percent last week. Kansas City's -162 moneyline is also being backed by 55 percent of the bets and handle at the book, up from 43 and 47 percent a week ago.

At FanDuel, Tampa Bay's moneyline is being backed by 54 percent of the bets and is bringing in more action than the Chiefs in nine of the sportsbook's 12 states.

The one area where bettors aren't split is the Over/Under.

There was so much action on the Over at FanDuel, the total points line has moved from 56.5 to 55.5. The Chiefs have hit the Over at BetRivers.com in exactly half of their 18 games this season, with the sportsbook also seeing the total move from opening at 57.5 down to 55.5 by Thursday afternoon with the public backing the Over at 70 percent.

The Over remained at 56 at DraftKings as of Friday, with the Over being backed by 70 percent of the bets and 73 percent of the handle.

Of course, the Super Bowl spawns the widest variety of betting options on an annual basis — from squares to office pools to the seemingly endless number of prop markets being offered by online sportsbooks.

Bettors can begin the day wagering on the coin toss (52 percent backing tails at DraftKings) and end it predicting the color of the Gatorade the winning coach will be showered with. Orange has the shortest odds at +125 by FanDuel, with purple providing the +900 longshot odds.

Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes remains the overwhelming favorite to win MVP honors. He's being offered at -106 by DraftKings, where he is being backed by 35 percent of the bets and 48 percent of the handle. Behind him is counterpart Tom Brady (+210), who is being backed by 29 percent of the bets and handle.

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But why go the conventional route when you can grab +30000 odds at FanDuel on Brady scoring at least three combined rushing and receiving touchdowns?