When looking for the odds on a particular Italian Lega Basket Serie A team to win the championship, one is actually looking for the odds on that team ‘to win outright’.  OddsJet compares Lega Basket Serie A outright winner odds from several reputable sportsbook companies.  This allows OddsJet to display the best odds for every team to win the Serie A basketball outright so basketball bettors may maximize their potential returns when hoping to predict the finals winner.

Italian Lega Basket Serie A Futures and Ante Post markets explained         

Lega Basket Serie A Outright winner betting is by far the most popular Lega Basket futures betting market.  Futures markets, also called Ante Post markets, are those that involve a wager that is placed well in advance of the eventual result.  That result is usually contingent on a longer term result over the course of an entire season, rather than a single game.  In general, the highest paying odds for Ante Post and futures betting markets will come before a season begins.  As the Lega Basket season progresses and certain teams rise in the standings or progress in the playoffs, the odds will tighten and pay less for those teams in position to win the trophy.

Examples of Italian Lega Basket Serie A outright winner odds expressed in American, Decimal and Fractional formats

For American odds format, there are two sets of expressions to remember, but both involve the figure of $100. First, negative numbers express how much one needs to wager in order to win a profit of $100.  However, due to the nature of outright betting on Lega Basket Serie A, rarely would any one team be such a heavy favorite that their odds would be below even money.  Most odds will be above even and thus will come as a positive figure, expressing how much potential profit would be returned for a bet of $100.   For example, when you see odds of +350 on the Olimpia Milano to win outright, you would need to stake $100 in order to receive a profit of $350, yielding a total return of $450.

With Decimal odds format, the odds express the full potential amount that will be returned on your wager including the stake amount.  For this, simply multiply the Decimal odds by the stake. For example, if Torino is listed at 6.50 to win outright, a $100 bet would return a total of $650 including your stake, so the potential profit would be $550. 

For Fractional format, the odds express the amount of potential profit that will be returned on a wager.  For example, with a wager of $100 and odds of 35/1 on Brindisi to win outright (said 35 to 1), one could see a profit of $3,500 (35 divided by 1, multiplied by $100) plus the stake amount for a total potential return of $3,600.