The Rugby World Cup is the top national Rugby Union competition, held once every four years. When looking for the odds on a particular national team to win the Grand Final and become World Cup Champion, one is actually looking for the odds on that team ‘to win outright’.  In other words, one is looking for odds that the team in question will win the World Cup outright.  OddsJet compares World Cup outright odds from several of the most trusted betting sites.  This allows OddsJet to display the best odds for every team to win the World Cup outright so bettors may maximize their potential returns when hoping to predict the Grand Final winner.

Rugby World Cup Futures and Ante Post markets explained  

Rugby World Cup outright betting is by far the most popular futures betting market.  Futures markets, also called Ante Post markets, are those that involve a wager that is contingent on a longer term result that becomes final after an entire tournament, rather than a single game.  In general, the highest paying odds for Ante Post and futures betting markets will come before the tournament starts.  As the Rugby World Cup progresses and teams drop out, the odds will tighten and pay less for those teams in position to win the final.

Examples of Rugby World Cup Outright 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 the World Cup, 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 +385 on New Zealand to win outright, you would need to stake $100 in order to receive a profit of $385, yielding a total return of $485.

With Decimal odds format, the odds express the full potential amount that will be returned on your wager and the first 1.00 of the odds represent your returned stake amount.  To calculate your full potential return, simply multiply the Decimal odds by the stake. For example, if England is listed at 9.25 to win outright, a $20 bet would return a total of $185 including your stake, so the potential profit would be $165.    

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 28/1 on South Africa to win outright (said twenty-eight- to-one), one could see a profit of $2,800 (28 divided by 1, multiplied by $100) plus the stake amount for a total potential return of $2,900.