Teaser: a parlay of moved lines
A teaser is a multi-leg bet where every leg is shifted a fixed number of points in your favour, at a single reduced price for the whole slip. All legs must still win. Football teasers usually move six, six and a half or seven points; basketball teasers four, four and a half or five, and the price falls as the points rise and as legs are added.
The book is selling points wholesale rather than one at a time, and charging for them in the parlay price instead of in each leg's odds. Because the slip is priced as a unit, the cost of the points is invisible per leg — there is no line item showing what six points cost on any individual game.
The teased line is a real line and settles like any other, which means teasing onto a whole number creates a push where none existed before. Teasing a −8.5 to −2.5 removes the push risk; teasing a −9 to −3 creates it, and whether that helps depends entirely on the book's push rule.
Which is where it goes wrong. Most people take teasers on legs chosen for the teams rather than for the numbers, then discover the push rule only when a leg lands exactly on a teased whole number. The rule is not the same everywhere and is never shown next to the price.
What to do with it. Read the push rule for the specific leg count before placing any teaser that can land on a whole number.
The archive
What the published price did in US sports
11,262 games in US sports that are over and carried a price when we wrote them up, between November 24, 2025 and November 6, 2026. Each count sits beside what it is out of, and the share is the one divided by the other.
| What | How often | Out of | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| The shorter price won | 7,058 | 10,936 | 64.5% |
| The favourite covered the handicap | 3,373 | 7,003 | 48.2% |
| The total went over | 5,518 | 11,236 | 49.1% |
| The home side won | 6,361 | 11,262 | 56.5% |
How they ended
Over 16,021 finished games in US sports whose result line says how it ended — the feed's own one-line verdict, not a reading of the play.
| What | How often | Out of | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Went past regulation | 1,212 | 16,021 | 7.6% |
| Settled on a shootout | 161 | 16,021 | 1.0% |
| Called before the end | 9 | 16,021 | 0.1% |
286 games landed exactly on the number — the handicap or the total — so they are in the counts they are out of and in neither result.
The prices counted here are DraftKings', as they stood when we last wrote each game up — one snapshot per game, near kick-off for almost all of them, and never a closing line. So this says what the published line did, not how it moved on the way there.
A season that happened. Nothing here predicts the next game, and none of it is advice.
Counted November 6, 2026.
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