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What Does Super Heinz Mean In Sports Betting and Wagering?

by Doc's Sports - 10/10/2014

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A Super Yankee is a truly crazy British bet that allows you to combine five teams into 26 different parlay bets of varying sizes. Think that sounds wacky? You’ll love this, then - a Super Heinz is the same basic bet, yet instead of five teams you pick seven. Instead of 26 different bets, then, the Super Heinz combines 120. I should note, too, that between a Super Yankee and a Super Heinz is just a normal Heinz - six teams and 57 combinations.

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So, to bet a Super Heinz you pick seven teams that seem attractive to you. Those teams are then combined into every possible variation. You bet all 21 different two-team parlays that you can construct using seven teams. You bet all 35 different possible three-team parlays. There are also 35 possible four-team parlays, and you get them all. You also get all 21 five-teams parlays, the seven different possible six-team parlays and the one seven-team parlay to top it all off. 120 different parlays. Each one would pay off at the same rate as parlays typically do, so the more of your selections are correct, the more likely you are to make a profit.

You can’t complain that the Super Heinz wouldn’t be fun to cheer for. It would be crazy. Unfortunately, what you can complain about it that it represents really lousy value in most cases. There are a lot of problems with the bet, but two stand out above the crowd.

First, parlay bets involving pointspreads are just not attractive mathematically. It’s all about the true odds. Unless you have a significant edge in each game you are betting - and almost all people don’t almost all of the time - then the true odds of winning a parlay are significantly higher than the potential payout when you do win. Over the long term, then, you would reasonably expect to lose money betting parlays. They are stacked against the average square bettor quite significantly - which is why sportsbooks love to offer them, and make them easy to play with parlay cards.

The other problem is just the sheer volume of bets you are making. Even if you did have an edge in some of the games you aren’t going to have an edge in all of them. When you make your combinations with a Super Heinz, then, there are going to be some bets that are suboptimal and have negative expectations - even if some could be winners. Successful betting is about only making bets that make sense and offer value. When you are buying in bulk like this you are inevitable buying some dud bets. That’s essentially throwing money away, and that makes it harder to win in the long run.

Add it all up and you come to an inevitable conclusion - the Super Heinz is almost always a sucker bet.

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