Most books have a rule regarding teasers ... if there is a "Push" or "No-Action" on one of the legs of the teaser, the teaser payout reduces to the next lowest level of teaser. For example, if you have a 4-team teaser, and one of the legs is a Push or No-Action, your teaser (and resulting payout odds) essentially becomes a 3-team teaser.
This rule is fine and fair for 3-teamers, 4-teamers, 5-teamers, etc. ... but what about when we have a 2-team teaser? What happens to a 2-team teaser if one of the legs of the teaser is a Push or No-Action ?
Well, in my experience, roughly half of the sportsbooks (including WSEX, BetOnline, Canbet, and many others) automatically No-Action the teaser and refund the bettor's money ... whether or not the 2nd leg of the teaser Wins or Loses is irrelevant ... as long as one of the legs of the teaser is a Push or No-Action, then the 2-team teaser is No-Actioned. This is the fair and proper way to handle a 2-team teaser where one of the legs is a Push or No-Action.
The other group of sportsbooks (including, apparently, SportsBook.com, Olympic, CRIS/DSI, and many more) handle the situation much differently. If a 2-team teaser has a Push / No-Action on one leg, and a Win on the 2nd leg, they will grade the teaser as No-Action (just as they should). However, the problem arises when the 2-team teaser has a Push / No-Action on one leg, and a Loss on the 2nd leg ... these books would grade this teaser as a Loss, and that is grossly unfair.
Why is grading this 2-teamer (with a Push / No-Action on one leg and a Loss on the 2nd leg) as a Loss so blatantly unfair to the player ? Because if the first leg of the teaser is a Push / No-Action, then the book basically gets a free roll against the player on the 2nd leg of the teaser ... that's why it's so unfair.
Last week, for example, if I had Redskins -2 as one of the legs in a 4-team teaser, then the Push on the -2 would result in my teaser reducing to a 3-team teaser ... which is fine. But if I had Redskins -2 as the first leg in a 2-team teaser, then I'm screwed ... I have no way to Win ... I can only Lose or Push ... if the 2nd leg of my teaser Loses, my teaser Loses ... if the 2nd leg of my teaser Wins, my teaser is No-Actioned ... I have no upside, and the book has no downside.
And as unfair as the above example is, it's even more unfair to the player to grade a 2-team teaser as a Loser, if that teaser has a leg that is No-Actioned. A prime example would be the situation that may occur this weekend with the Chargers game. What if the Chargers game is moved to Arizona or elsewhere? What happens if someone bet a 2-team teaser a couple of days ago, with Chargers -4 and Green Bay +9 ? Presumably, according to the rules of most books, the change of venue would cause bets on this game to be No-Actioned ... and presumably this rule would carry over to the teasers as well, which would cause the first leg of this particular 2-team teaser to be No-Actioned. If this happened, a player holding this 2-team teaser would be really screwed ... the first leg of this teaser would be No-Actioned, meaning that the best they could possibly hope for now from this teaser would be a Push ... once again, the book now has a freeroll versus the player ... if the Green Bay +9 teased leg Loses, the player Loses the teaser ... if the Green Bay +9 teased leg Wins, the teaser is No-Actioned and the stake refunded ... the player has no shot at all at Winning this teaser, only Losing or having it No-Actioned ... and the worst thing about this situation, is that the player is put in this no-win situation before the Chargers even step on the field - as soon as the change of venue is announced, this player would be automatically screwed.
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SBR, hopefully you can use your clout in the industry to put forward a uniform rule for 2-team teasers which is fair and equitable for both parties ... a 2-team teaser with a Push or No Action on one of the legs, has to be No-Actioned.