If you are a regular sports bettor in the UK, then the chances are that you have placed an accumulator bet, or acca at some stage. An acca is a single bet that chains multiple bets together. Calculating the winnings from an acca can be time-consuming, and cause headaches or even migraines! This is where our accumulator bet calculator comes in.
We can take the strain out of acca bet calculations with our handy tool!
The maths with accas can become quite horrendous, especially if your acca has a large number of selections. You may also make mistakes working out your calculations manually, such as chaining your winnings to the next bet in your acca as opposed to your returns. Getting your sums wrong could lead to unrealistic expectations and disappointments when your accas wins!
Our accumulator bet calculator is faultless and takes all the guesswork and manual number-crunching out of working out your acca payouts, or at least your potential acca payouts. Just use our online bet calculator accumulator tool to get an accurate prediction of how much you stand to win.
An accumulator bet is a bet where multiple single win or each way bets are ‘chained together’ to create a single bet. The most attractive aspect of an acca is that odds will usually be quite high. The least attractive aspect of an acca is that all your selections have to come in in order for your overall accumulator bet to win.
Say you are a football fan and you want to bet on a series of EPL matches at your favourite online bookmaker. You feel that Bournemouth will beat Chelsea, Man City will beat Leeds, Newcastle will beat Arsenal, and Nottingham Forest will beat Southampton. You could placed four £1 single football bets as follows:
Total return – £8.99
As an alternative (or additionally), you could have placed a £4 acca as follows:
Total return – £76.16
The acca won over eight times what the four single bets did. The only downside to the acca is that all four teams would have had to win for the acca to win. With the four singles, some return is guaranteed unless all four single bets fail.
One thing that is important to note is that many UK sports books will offer ‘acca insurance’. This is where your stake is paid back to you as a free bet should your acca fail by a single selection. There is usually a limit as to the minimum number of selections an acca can have so that is qualifies for acca insurance. This is usually four, so you can use our tool as a 4 fold accumulator bet calculator in this case.
Our tool can be used multiple ways. When you load the tool, make sure that the ‘Accumulator’ button is selected. The banner across the top of the stake should say ‘Accumulator’.
The first thing you should enter is your unit stake. This is the amount of money you are starting your acca off with. Then choose how many legs your acca has. This can be anything from a single (you can use our online bet calculator tool for singles, doubles and trebles too, but it will default to fourfold as a 4 fold accumulator bet calculator).
Don’t worry if you start using our tool for a fourfold and then decide to add an extra leg. You will not have to start all over again as your previous entries will be saved and the extra leg added.
You can use our tool as an each way bet accumulator calculator by selecting the ‘each way’ option. Please be aware that for an each way acca only the place part of your bet goes towards the next bet in your chain should your selection place but not win. If any bets do not place or win when you are using our each way bet accumulator calculator then your acca is a losing one.
Choose your odds format – fractional, decimal or American. Again, don’t worry if you change your mind about the odds format halfway through entering your details as the odds you have entered so far will be converted automatically.
Once you have everything set up you can begin entering your odds. If you are using the each way bet accumulator you can enter the each way terms (usually 1/4, or a quarter) for each wager in the sequence.
If you are working out potential winnings, just leave the result section as ‘won’. If you are working out actual winnings select from one of five options – won, placed, lost, dead heat or void.
The final box is for horse racing and is for the rule 4 deduction. This is the amount of money per pound deducted if the race had sufficient entrants and at least one non-runner. Ignore this box if you are using our tool as a football accumulator bet calculator, for example.
When you have done all this, hit the ‘Calculate’ button. Your total stake, return and profit will now be shown.
Each-way accas can get very complicated. If you have a number of selections, then you will be placing win and place bets on them all, so you are in effect placing a win acca and a place acca.
If you create a £10 each-way accumulator bet, then £5 of your bet will go towards your win acca, and £5 towards your place acca:
All these considerations have to be taken into account when calculating the returns or potential returns from an each way acca, which is why it is a lot easier to use our each way bet accumulator calculator as opposed to working everything our manually.
Football accumulator bets are one of the most popular types of accumulator bets. With a football accumulator bet, you’ll combine multiple bets on football matches into a single wager. The potential payouts for football accumulator bets can be quite large, especially if you’re able to combine multiple bets with high odds.
To calculate your potential winnings for a football accumulator bet, you’ll need to use a football bet accumulator calculator. These calculators work in a similar way to regular accumulator bet calculators, but are specifically designed for football bets.
As well as our win and each way bet accumulator calculator we have provided a number of other calculators for you to use. They can be used in many ways, so with a little inventiveness you can use each as a draw no bet accumulator calculator, or a lay bet accumulator calculator. Links to all our calculators are listed below:
We always work hard to bring you the best free bet offers available at sports betting sites in the UK. You may even be able to use a free bet offer at some UK bookies for an acca, and indeed some free bet offers in the UK can only be used on accas (usually a minimum of four selections, which is where our 4 fold accumulator bet calculator becomes invaluable!).
Listed below are the best offers currently available in the UK.
Remember to always read the terms and conditions of any free bet offer before claiming it.
An accumulator bet is a type of bet that involves combining multiple selections into one bet. All selections must win for the bet to be successful.
Our tool is a calculator that takes the hard work out of working out winnings (potential or actual) from an acca. It can be used multiple ways, for example as an each way bet accumulator calculator, draw no bet accumulator calculator or even a lay bet accumulator calculator.
To use your accumulator bet calculator, you need to enter the odds for each selection, the stake you want to bet, and whether you want to place an each-way bet or not. The calculator will then calculate your potential returns based on the odds and stake you entered.
An each-way accumulator bet calculator is a variation of the standard accumulator bet calculator that takes into account each-way bets. This type of bet is popular in horse racing. You can also use our tool as a horse bet accumulator calculator.
A football accumulator bet calculator is a type of accumulator bet calculator that is specifically designed for football accumulators. It takes into account the odds of each selection and the stake you want to bet.