First impressions of the website - not so happy with the colour. Not really pleasing to the eye. Nevertheless, the design is good. Less clutter and more efficiency.
In the live betting section, I found an interesting toggle. It allowed me to switch between sports for which there was live streaming and those for which there is just live info using graphics.
While this made it easier to navigate, the fact that there were no in-game stats for live cricket matches didn’t go down well with the cricket fan in me.
There was, however, one interesting sports betting feature that caught my attention. A system bet calculator.
As a football betting fan who enjoys placing accumulator and system bets on Premier League and La Liga every year, I can assure you this betting feature is the most valuable and unique.
Only if I had found Bet Plays a few years ago, I would have probably ended with more profits from my Football bets.
What’s a system bet calculator and why should you care about it?
Let’s find out.
Bet Plays System Calculator
The best part of the Bet Plays sportsbook is its football coverage. And the most popular types of bets among football punters are the system bets.
As you know with system bets or combination bets, you win a return on your stake even if some of the selections in your bet are correct.
For example, in a 2/3 system bet, there are a total of 3 selections and even if 2 of them are right, you stand to win a return on your bet.
Whereas, in a 2/4 variant of the system bet, you don’t lose all of your stake even if two of your predictions are right.
This is completely different from a multi-bet where you win only if all of your predictions are correct.
So, whether it is 2/3, 2/4, 3/5, or a 4/6 system bet, the System Calculator from Bet Plays helps you calculate your winnings for different possible outcomes in just a few seconds.
It is a lot easier to use this feature than you can imagine. You don’t have to open up the calculator and fill in the odds and the bet amount and then click Calculate.
The System Calculator option is available in the bet slip when you place a system bet and automatically reads all the values from your bet slip and calculates the different outcomes.
Bet Plays Results
Want to find out the results from past cricket matches in the easiest way possible?
The Results feature from Bet Plays lets you do just that. Now, this isn’t a feature that punters haven’t seen or heard before on other betting sites.
But what makes Bet Plays different is the efficiency of this feature. You can easily select a date range for a specific sport to find the results from all the matches that were played during that period.
To make it even simpler, there is a ‘keyword’ field where you can enter the name of the team and click Show. And you’ll see a list of all the match results containing that keyword.
What is the use of this feature?
You already know the results of the matches you’re following. You’ve probably read in detail about the match on some sports news site and know everything you have to about the game.
So, why does the Results feature even matter? What does it offer?
Betting odds that were fixed pre-match for the different outcomes of the matches.
That’s what you get with this sports betting feature. And no, this isn’t commonly available everywhere.
You can find the scorecard for matches in archives on sports news sites. But the odds that were offered for the competing teams are archived in the Results feature at Bet plays.
To improve your betting game, the most important skill you need is to make better predictions than the bookmaker. And to get an idea of which teams the bookmaker considers favourites and how successful the betting site has been in their predictions, the archived odds for matches in the Results feature are a great resource for research.
Bet Plays Cricket Betting
Betplays offers a great variety of markets for cricket betting. For international matches, we found over 90 different betting options. What is great about the pre-match cricket betting odds on Bet Plays is the cashout feature offered for various markets.
Here are the popular cricket betting markets that offer cashout -
- Result (2-way)
- Highest Opening Partnership
- Most Match Sixes
- Most Run Outs
So, when you bet on which team will score the most sixes in the match and once the game is live, you feel like your choice wasn’t right, Bet Plays gives you the option to cash out your bet amount.
Another unique aspect of the Bet Plays sportsbook is how the cricket betting odds are presented for the most popular markets like Top Team Batsman, Top Team Bowler, and Player of the Match.
While other betting sites offer a list of players and betting odds under the market Top Team Batsman, Bet Plays offers three different odds for each of the players.
So, for Marcus Stoinis, you will find three different selections - Team 1 Top Batsman, Team 1 Top Bowler, and Player of the Match.
And you can choose only one of these selections.
As far as the variety of markets is concerned, Bet Plays does not disappoint.
However, the coverage of cricket events isn’t as extensive as I expected.
I could not find odds for many of the domestic leagues from other countries like South Africa and New Zealand. In the Results section, I found that Bet Plays had offered odds for Vijay Hazare Trophy and Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy in the past but there were no odds for the upcoming domestic matches in India at the time of writing the review.
Bet Plays Football Betting
The sportsbook covers a great number of Football events from around the world including leagues from India. And no, ISL is not the only Indian Football league covered at Betplays.
At the time of writing this review, I came across live odds for a Mizoram Premier League match along with live animation.
Like cricket, there was a cashout feature for Football betting markets as well. Here are some of the live Football betting markets on Bet Plays that offer cashout -
- Result
- Double Chance
- Handicap
- Total
- Asian Total
- Asian Handicap
- Next Goal
In the pre-match section for World Cup betting, there were over 1200 betting options for each fixture.
The sportsbook also offers a variety of outright betting markets for the Qatar 2022 event. Here are some of the popular outright markets offered on Bet Plays for the World Cup -
- World Cup 2022 Outright Winner
- World Cup 2022 Top Scoring Player
- World Cup 2022 Winner (Double Chance)
- World Cup 2022 Name The Finalists
- World Cup 2022 Golden Ball
- World Cup 2022 Golden Gloves
Moreover, you can also bet on the winner of each group of the World Cup 2022.
Bet Plays Live Betting
There are live odds for a number of different sports events on Bet Plays every day. Cricket fans would be a little disappointed given that there is no live scorecard, streaming, or ball-by-ball updates.
However, for live football betting on Bet Plays, there is live animation and a great range of in-play betting markets. I would definitely recommend Bet Plays for football betting for the sheer variety of odds offered.
The live streaming feature only covers the e-Sports events streamed mostly on Twitch. And while live animation is offered for a number of Football, Tennis, and Handball events, it is not available for every live sports event.
Again, Bet Plays falls short when you look at its live coverage of sports events.
The overall live betting experience with Bet Plays is average in my opinion. They need to introduce a bigger variety of live cricket betting markets, offer in-game stats for all the live sports events, and offer live streaming to enhance the live betting experience on the website.
