Baseball Parlays - Team & Total in same game

[Dan Kelly]

I have a book who will take a baseball parlay with the team and total from the same game - a lot of books will not do this. There has to be an advantage in taking a total according to the team. What are the best ways to identify these plays?

Maybe we can do a season long thread here on these bets, come up with some ideas and see how they do.

[gryfyn1]

I have never had an issue doing this with the ML. only the RL.

. Even the SBR book lets you do it.

[JR007]

think you would have to see how the derivitives are priced, ie ( team totals and first five), a lot of work, tough enough to win one bet let alone two.......

[Dan Kelly]

Here is one I just made - reasoning that the only way StLouis wins is if they pitch well - 1 unit pays 3.84

		[Ticket #: 116024715] PARLAY (2 TEAMS) RR (1P-2T) 04/04/2012 @ 04:05 PM MLB [997] STL CARDINALS +159 ( K LOHSE -R / J JOHNSON-R ) 04/04/2012 @ 04:05 PM MLB [998] TOTAL u7-115 (STL CARDINALS vrs MIA MARLINS) ( K LOHSE -R / J JOHNSON-R )

[DoubleRedDragon]

you got both bets wrong gl

[allabout the $$$]

thats a regular parlay

[LT Profits]

I have NEVER heard of a book that does not accept same game ML/Total parlays in baseball. It is the RL/Total parlay that is basically a no-no everywhere.

[Dan Kelly]

I had a guy - it was about 20 years ago - that wouldn't take these parlays, and then a long time after that it must have been my first interweb book didn't take them, so for a long time I just mistakenly assumed that no one would take them. I seldom do parlays, don't see the advantage - I prefer straight bets with reduced lines, the books already have a huge edge.

Last week I was playing around on my 6month old bookmaker.eu account and saw I could do that and thought 'about time'. So I just checked 5dimes - where I have had an account for about 3 years and I assumed I could not do these parlays - I swear I had tried to make the bet a couple of years ago and was not allowed (maybe I used the run line, I don't remember but that is unlikely because I know better), so anyway that is all pretty stupid and boring, but I still like the idea of the thread.
I don't like the Cards much tonight, but I do like the notion that for them to have a chance to win, the game has to be low scoring.

I like the idea of figuring that if a team wins will the total go over/under OR if a game goes over/under which team will win - of course, you can do this in any sport but baseball seems the best suited to this type of analysis.