Super Goliath Bet Calculator

Super Goliath Explained

Super Goliath, Goliath bet with Singles – both of these are terms used for the same thing – possible the biggest and most complicated combination bet on offer. Because of how a Super Goliath works, this kind of bet is exceedingly rare. Even some top betting sites do not immediately make Super Goliath betting offers - which is something to keep in mind before trying to make one.

Either way, calculating a Super Goliath is no easy feat, which is why BettingFellow has made this handy Super Goliath bet calculator. This page will also serve to provide as much information as possible about this type of bet and how to use the calculator.

What is a Super Goliath bet?

A Super Goliath is a full-coverage combination bet featuring 8 betting selections, combined into every possible accumulator that can be made between them. Thie difference between Goliath vs. Super Goliath is that a Super Goliath also includes the selections placed as singles.

As we mentioned earlier, not many bookies even recognize it as a standard-issue combination bet. For those that do, it is a mammoth of a bet consisting of 255 separate bets. So how does a Super Goliath bet work? Let’s imagine our selections are called A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and H. Now we’ll look at all of the resulting combinations and what a Super Goliath consists of.

Note that we’ve chosen not to include some permutations. This was done to keep the list clear and easy to understand. The important thing is that you understand how the permutations of different accumulators are made.

Why Use a Super Goliath?

Due to its sheer size, a Super Goliath is not a bet you could (or should) make on an everyday basis. Super Goliaths, like almost all full-coverage combination bets, were originally made for horse racing. The idea was to make use of a large chunk of a horse racing event, like in Cheltenham betting. In such events, there is a very limited number of bets you can wager on, so you want to make as much profit as possible from a relatively small number of selections.

Super Goliaths take this idea to their extreme, squeezing out 255 bets from 8 selections. If you were to make 255 regular bets, the research and work required to make solid predictions would be immense. Super Goliath predictions, on the other hand, require research and analysis for just 8 matches, races, or whatever else you’re betting on.

Of course, this means that the potential profits from a Super Goliath are as massive as the list of bets that make one up. This, of course, comes at a cost: the 255 constituent bets must all have the same stake. If you were only staking £1 per bet, that would still add up to £255. Seeing how most top online bookies do not accept stakes below £0.1, the bare minimum you would be able to make a Super Goliath with is £25.5.

Of course, the steep profit margins of a Super Goliath make sense – it does include an entire 8-leg accumulator, not to mention a host of other very risky bets. Which begs the question – if we’re going for risky plays, why not just use a very long accumulator? It would offer a better stake-to-returns ratio.

Well, that’s possibly the biggest advantage of Super Goliath bets. The stake is spread so much that, statistically, you’re almost sure to win at least something back. A Super Goliath not winning anything is about as likely as a Super Goliath winning all selections, if not less. However, the system does require the odds on all 8 selections to be 2.00 or longer. Otherwise, you might end up losing money even if you win more than half of your bets.

How to use the Super Goliath Bet Calculator

Now that you’re familiar with how Super Goliath bets work, working out the calculator should not be too difficult. Still, we’ll go through it step-by-step, to avoid any confusion.

The first thing to do is set up the calculator to your preference. This simply means picking the odds format that you’re used to, or the one that your sportsbook uses. At this point, you should also mark the bet as each-way if that’s what you’re looking to do.

Also, think about your stake and type it in the corresponding field. You have two options: you can either set your stake as a per-bet, meaning your total budget is 255 times larger than the specified amount; alternatively, you can provide you total stake, in which case the calculator will divide it by 255.

Now it’s time to move on to the selections themselves. Simply fill in the fields with the odds of the items you want to bet on. Just remember to use the same odds format you specified above. All you need to do to figure out your returns is to mark which of your selections won ad which lost.

As we mentioned earlier, all full-coverage combination bets were made to be used for horse-betting, and were only later adapted for other purposes such as football betting. Consequently, there are several additional sports if you’re making a horse racing Super Goliath bet. For starters, Dead Heat and Non-runners can also be selected as a possible result of your selections. Furthermore, the bet calculator can be set up to take into account Rule 4 odds adjustments, in case a horse in the race you’re betting on is withdrawn.

Super Goliath Bet Example

There are two major issues that you need to be thinking about Super Goliath bets: one is just how your returns will behave based on how many selections were winners. The other one is if singles are really worth the extra hassle when compared to a regular Goliath.

The reason Super Goliaths are so rare is that these 8 singles don’t have that much of an impact in the grand scheme of things. 8 more bets don’t seriously affect your stake when you already have 247 of them, and 8 singles don’t seriously affect the profits if you already have over 200 accumulators.

However, the singles do shift the profit margins somewhat. To make this shift easy to spot and understand, we’ll use the same example we used in our Goliath bet guide. The same rules apply: the selections were made for their convenience, not because they are a particularly good idea. Let’s take a look at what we’re dealing with.

Again, our stake will be a simple £1 per bet, adding up to a total stake of £255. Let’s take a look at the different outcomes, and how they’ve changed compared to when we didn’t use singles:

We hope that, through comparing our examples of Goliath and Super Goliath bets, one thing has become clear: there's not much difference. We'll leave it up to you to decide if increasing your stake by £8 is worth the best-case-scenario £19 increase in your winnings.