Outright bets tend to be quite popular before the football season starts, but are also available during the campaign, with outright odds constantly changing in line with teams' latest results. League winner and top goalscorer are among the more notable outright bets, but top 4 finish, top 6 finish, team to get relegated and team to stay up are quite popular as well.

Winner - Lucky punters who took Leicester to win the 2015/2016 Premier League campaign at 5,000/1 outright odds were laughing all the way to the bank a year later, and this is one of many reasons why winner market always attracts huge volume of bets. Make sure to study all the teams carefully, then find the latest prices right here on this page and try to correctly predict who will win one of the world's most interesting league championships this season.

Top 4 Finish - The top 4 race in English Premier League often proves just as interesting as the title chase and with Champions League football the reward for successful participants, it is not that surprising this is the case. Man City, Man Utd, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool are the usual suspects, but Spurs, Saints, West Ham and Everton also harbour top 4 hopes season after season, meaning that you can test your knowledge of English football by attempting to predict the outcome of the top 4 finish market.

Top 6 Finish - If you expect one of the dark horses to impress in the upcoming season, but don't think they have what it takes to challenge for Champions League positions, they you should definitely back them in the top 6 market. Top 6 positions in English Premier League guarantee European football next season, and that should not be underestimated.

To Avoid Relegation - Newly promoted sides automatically become favourites for the drop, but at times they are well equipped for the Premier League standard and have a decent shot at staying alive. If your boyhood club have just gained promotion to the elite division, chances are you will want to back them to avoid relegation, and there will be many other fellow supporters looking to do the same.

Relegation - From the very start to the season, some teams show they are just not prepared for the Premier League standard of football, instantly becoming the main candidates for the drop. If you recognise one such side before the online bookmakers do, it would be wise to back them in the relegation market before the odds on them dropping to the Championship are slashed beyond recognition.

Different Odds Types

There are three different ways in which the odds can be displayed on most betting platforms, and as a customer of many betting sites you are going to be able to configure the betting platform to display all of the fixed odds and also the live odds in the way you are most familiar with. Below is an overview of each of those three different ways that odds can be displayed.

Fractional Odds

UK and Irish Bookmakers tend to use Fractional Odds as the way that they display all of their available betting opportunities, and they may first appear rather strange if you are not used to seeing odds displayed in that way.

The way to remember how fractional odds work is that the figure on the left hand side of the slash will be what you can win when you place the figure on the right hand side of the slash. So for example if you see odds offered of let's say 4/1 then you will win 4.00 for every 1.00 wagered on that betting opportunity. Your stake will also be returned so in total from that winning bet you will get 5.00 back in total.

If you see fraction odds of 1/7 then you will need to wager 7.00 to get 1.00 in winnings paid back to you along with your stake, anything that returns a payout of less than your stake is an odds-on chance!

Decimal Odds

Another way that you may see betting odds displayed is as decimal odds, this is actually one of the easiest to understand ways of being offered odds!

Take for example when you see odds on offer of 3.25, if you make use of and take those odds then you will get 3.25 paid to you if your bet wins for a 1.00 stake, unlike fraction odds you winning payout of 3.25 includes your stake.

US Odds

The final way that you may see odds being displayed and offered at some betting sites are as US Odds, these may be known as Money Line Odds also. This way of displaying odds and using odds is actually quite easy to understand for you will see a figure displayed alongside the betting opportunities either as a positive or as a negative.

For example if you see a bet with US Odds on offer displayed as +400 then when you place a 100.00 bet on that type of wager you will win $400 for your $100. However, if the figure is a negative for example -400 then you would need to wager $400 to win $100 on that betting opportunity, if it is a winning bet of course!