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Sports betting practitioners have to be well-versed in the techniques pertaining to betting on NFL games. Therefore, when football fans intent on making money step up to the window at a sportsbook, they have to know what they’re getting into. One of the nuanced, multi-pronged betting maneuvers is the point-spread parlay. It’s worth examining exactly what it means to seek this route to a football-based payoff.

The parlay itself involves taking multiple teams as part of one betting play. Anyone who bets on two or more teams in a parlay must see both or all of those teams win in order to collect on the bet. If even one team in a parlay fails to win, the parlay is lost and the house makes off with the cash.

What’s even more specific about a parlay is that it can be divided into two forms: the money-line parlay and the point-spread parlay. The money line refers to straight-up winners, without any reference to point spreads. The point-spread parlay is, in a sense, a more challenging yet satisfying way to test your expertise on football because it does not involve picking a straight-up winner. In each part of a point-spread-based football betting parlay, one must make a determination about the strengths and weaknesses of two teams, relative to the Vegas or sportsbook line. Picking teams to cover spreads – large or small – is a far more substantial test of your pigskin betting instincts.

Precisely because it’s a lot harder to pick teams against the spread than straight-up, point-spread parlays will typically pay more than money line parlays, while also offering a fixed set of odds. The only way you can make more money on a money-line parlay is if you correctly bet on one notable northbet.com underdog in a two-team parlay, or (perhaps) two significant underdogs in a three- or four-team parlay. All in all, the point-spread parlay will consistently demand more from sports bettors, but that also means this betting play can provide a greater payoff than its cousin, the money line parlay.