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As of Oct 9, 2:03 AM ET, moneyline tickets split 92% Stuttgart, 8% SC Paderborn 07 (licensed market-data feed, the same numbers as our betting splits board).
| SC Paderborn 07 win | Draw | VfB Stuttgart win |
|---|---|---|
| +380Bet at BetMGM → | +360Bet at theScore Bet → | -165Bet at BetMGM → |
| Total goals 3.5: O -103 (BetRivers) · U -108 (Kalshi) | ||
SC Paderborn 07WLLDWVfB StuttgartLLWWL| Team | GP | W | D | L | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Borussia Dortmund | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| Bayern Munich | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 10 |
| SC Freiburg | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 10 |
| FC Augsburg | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| Bayer Leverkusen | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| Mainz | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
Stuttgart has lost three of its last five matches. Paderborn has taken points in three of its last five and won its most recent one. Yet Paderborn, at home, is the +380 longshot and Stuttgart is the -165 favorite. That gap between what the teams have actually been doing and what the board says they will do is the entire story of this match for a bettor. Everything below is an attempt to figure out which side of that gap is right.
We are not going to recite a league table we do not have in front of us, so let the form lines and the price do the talking. Paderborn's last five, newest first, read win, loss, loss, draw, win. That is seven points from a possible fifteen and a team that just got a result. Stuttgart's last five read loss, loss, win, win, loss.
That is six points from fifteen and a team whose most recent outing ended in defeat. On raw recent production, the home side has been marginally better. The market still installs Stuttgart as a clear favorite, which tells you the books are weighing squad quality and season-long baseline far more heavily than the last month of results. That is usually correct. The question is by how much.
Soccer uses a three-way moneyline. Unlike American football or basketball, there are three tickets, not two: home win, away win, or draw, all settled on the 90 minutes plus stoppage time. A draw is not a push and your money does not come back. If this ends 1-1, the Paderborn ticket loses and the Stuttgart ticket loses, and only the people who bet the draw at +360 get paid.
That is the single biggest adjustment American bettors have to make. Backing a favorite in soccer means you must beat two outcomes, not one. Here the draw is priced at +360, meaning the market gives it roughly a one-in-five chance of swallowing both win bets.
Paderborn is +380 at BetMGM, meaning a $100 bet returns $380 in profit. Draw is +360, best at theScore Bet. Stuttgart is -165 at BetMGM, meaning you risk $165 to win $100. Convert those to implied probability (the chance a price needs to be right just to break even) and you get about 20.8 percent, 21.7 percent, and 62.3 percent. Those add to 104.8 percent, and the extra 4.8 is the house edge, the vig.
Strip it out and the fair market read is Paderborn 20 percent, draw 21 percent, Stuttgart 59 percent. The total is set at 3.5 goals, with Over -103 at BetRivers and Under -108 at Kalshi. A near coin flip at 3.5 is a loud signal: the market expects goals here, and high-scoring games produce fewer draws and more clean results for both sides.
Laying -165 gives you no cushion. At the fair 59 percent, risking $100 to win $60.61 returns an expected loss of about $5 per bet. Expected value is just the average result if you could replay this bet hundreds of times, not a forecast of one night. The underdog side is more interesting. Break-even at +380 is 20.8 percent.
We have a home team with the better recent form line, playing into a goal environment the market itself priced at 3.5. We make Paderborn closer to 24 percent. At that number, $100 on +380 is worth about $15 in expected profit. That is where the edge sits, and it only exists at the best price. If your book shows +350, break-even climbs to 22.2 percent and most of the edge is gone.
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SC Paderborn 07 to win, +380 at BetMGM. Stake it small. This loses roughly four times out of five by its own price, and that is normal for a dog play. The draw at +360 at theScore Bet is the defensible second angle if you want the same underdog thesis with a different exit.
We project 2-1 Paderborn in a match that lives up to the 3.5 total, with Stuttgart's defensive lapses from its three recent losses showing up again on the road. That is the read on this number, and the Desk posts a documented free play on days like this one right below.
VfB Stuttgart is the market favorite at -165 (best price at BetMGM) on the moneyline, with SC Paderborn 07 at +380. The draw is priced at +360. Lines move all day, so check the odds table on this page for the current best number at every book.
Yes. Soccer's standard bet is the three-way moneyline: home win, away win, or draw in 90 minutes. The draw is a real, often valuable outcome, and a draw makes both win bets lose, which is the biggest adjustment for bettors coming from American sports.
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