We measure the margin Matchbook actually builds into its 1X2 football prices — not the one it advertises. 572 matches in the last 30 days, every price taken from our own odds snapshots. We have no commercial relationship with Matchbook or any other bookmaker.
Last computed:
Pinnacle 6.48%
8.52%
At a 1.74% margin, every 100 units you stake with Matchbook carry an expected cost of 1.74 units before any skill is involved — the lowest of any bookmaker we track. Someone staking 100 units a month pays roughly 21 units a year in margin.
Each point is the average margin of the matches whose last pre-match price we captured that week (weeks with fewer than 10 matches are hidden). The most recent point can still move slightly as late prices arrive.
Margin by competition, last 30 days, leagues with at least 20 priced matches. 'Market avg' is the average margin of all bookmakers we track on that league — how Matchbook compares to its peers, not just to itself.
| League | Avg. margin | Market avg | n |
|---|---|---|---|
| League One | 1.15% | 7.84% | 36 |
| Premier League | 1.21% | 5.92% | 24 |
| Championship | 1.23% | 7.44% | 45 |
| Brazil Serie A | 1.24% | 7.64% | 21 |
| Serie A | 1.29% | 6.19% | 20 |
| League | Avg. margin | Market avg | n |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jupiler Pro League | 2.27% | 7.81% | 21 |
| Brazil Serie B | 2.16% | 8.03% | 28 |
| Segunda Division | 2.10% | 8.80% | 22 |
| League Two | 2.05% | 8.46% | 36 |
| La Liga | 1.47% | 5.75% | 30 |
Measured from 572 matches in the last 30 days, Matchbook's average 1X2 margin is 1.74%. That means the implied probabilities of its home/draw/away prices add up to about 101.7% instead of 100%; the excess is the bookmaker's built-in fee.
Matchbook's margin of 1.74% is 4.74 percentage points below the sharp benchmark's 6.48% over the same matches. Among the 35 bookmakers we track with enough data, Matchbook ranks #2; the cheapest is Matchbook at 1.74%.
On the matches we priced in the last 30 days, Matchbook's highest margins were on Jupiler Pro League (2.27%) and its lowest on League One (1.15%). Smaller competitions almost always carry a higher margin at every bookmaker.
For every match, we take each bookmaker's most recent 1X2 prices from our own odds snapshots, convert them to implied probabilities (1 divided by the odds) and sum them. A fair market sums to exactly 100%; anything above that is the bookmaker's margin — the built-in fee you pay on every bet. We average that margin across all matches the bookmaker priced in the last 30 days. Nobody pays us for placement and no affiliate deal reorders this table: it is arithmetic on captured prices, recomputed daily.
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