The mobile apps and websites offering legal sports betting in Kansas provide a huge selection of wagering options. You should find more than 300 bet types on individual NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL games at these sportsbooks.
These are the main betting types that are available at Kansas online sportsbooks:
Spreads
Point spreads are available on football and basketball games. A Kansas sports betting site gives the team it deems to be stronger a points handicap, and you can bet on the team that will cover the resulting point spread.
For example, you might be offered odds of -110 on the Kansas City Chiefs -2.5 against the Arizona Cardinals, or -110 on the Cardinals +2.5. If you bet on the Chiefs, they would need to win by 3. If you back the Cards, they could win outright or lose by 1 or 2 points for the bet to cash. Kansas sports bettors will also find run lines on baseball, puck lines on hockey, and handicaps on lots of other sports.
Totals
The sportsbooks set a total points line on each game, allowing you to bet over or under. For example, you might find -110 odds on over 9.5 runs in a Kansas City Royals game and -110 odds on under 9.5 runs. as well. If you bet on the over, you need both teams to combine for 10 or more runs. A bet on the under requires the teams to combine for no more than 9 runs. You will be offered loads of alternative totals too, plus totals on individual team outcomes, quarters, halves, periods, innings, half-innings and groups of innings, to name a few.
Moneyline
This is the simplest option for anyone interested in sports betting in Kansas. You simply need to predict which team will win a game, which fighter will win a bout, which player will win a tennis match, and so on. The sports betting Kansas sites assign odds to either team based on the purported likelihood of them winning. For example, you might find -175 moneyline odds on the Royals to beat the Oakland Athletics, and +145 moneyline odds on Oakland to win the game.
Prop Bets
You can bet on game props, team props and player props at Kansas sportsbooks. Game props include a prediction on the highest scoring quarter of a football game, whether a baseball game will require extra innings, or whether both teams will score in a soccer game. Team props might include the first team to 20 points in a basketball game, while player props focus on an individual statistic, such as over/under on the number of passing yards a QB will throw for. Many Kansas bettors will place prop bets on Patrick Mahomes' over/under total for yards in each game throughout the 2022 NFL season.
Futures
Futures are long-term bets on events like the winner of the Super Bowl, the World Series or the NBA Championship. You can also bet on teams winning their conferences or divisions, whether they will make the playoffs or over/under totals on how many regular season wins they tally. Futures are available on individuals too, such as the potential winner of the Heisman Trophy or the Cy Young award.
Parlays
Parlays combine more than one bet into a single wager. For example, you could bet on the Kansas City Chiefs, Kansas Jayhawks and Kansas State Wildcats all to cover the spread on a particular weekend. All three teams need to cover for the bet to pay out. If they do, you should enjoy a large win, as the profit multiples from each additional leg of a parlay being added to your wager.
Teasers
A teaser is a parlay featuring alternative point spreads or total points lines. You move the lines in your favor by a certain number of points, giving you a higher probability of winning the bet. In return, you accept a smaller potential payout than you would receive from a standard parlay.
Live Betting
All mobile apps and websites offering online sports betting in Kansas allow you to wager on games after they have started. This is known as live betting or in-play betting. The odds and lines change in real time to reflect the score and the general performance levels of the opposing teams during a contest.