Floorball is often an overlook type of sport. It may not reach the biggest audiences like football, basketball, tennis or even ice hockey, but it’s exciting nonetheless. Betting on floorball might prove to be hard and confusing, but fear not, after reading this article it may become slightly easier.

Stylistically Similar to Ice Hockey

First things first, to understand how to bet, you will have to understand a bit about the sport. It is very similar in its rules and style to ice hockey, but is played on hard surface, indoors, for a 3 periods each lasting 20 minutes. Teams of five players and a goalkeeper do their best to score goals, or defend. The average goals scored highly depends on the leagues and matchups, but more about that later on.

Born in Sweden & Popular with Bettors Worldwide

This type of sport is most popular in Sweden (the “founders” of this sport), Finland, Czech Republic, Germany and Switzerland. Many other European countries rank very high in the world’s best teams, however you will see the biggest leagues there. Not surprising is the fact that also aforementioned teams make up the top 10 of the official IFF World Floorball Championships rakings. Floorball is gaining popularity in many continents and countries across the globe, and might see better recognition from the bookies in near future.

A Focus on Floorball Betting Fundamentals

Now about the interesting part you are here for. Betting on floorball is very seasonal, as there is a very finite amount of competitions which are regulated officially and gain enough recognition for bookies to even offer any odds. Most of the time these bets will be outrights or championship winners, where you will have to do a bit of homework who has been doing the best in the league. Generally, if the team is doing well in the first few months of the season, they will finish the season winning it. It is rather rare to see an underdog overcome a clear favourite, either it is a match or a league setting. Now when it comes to a bit more specific bets like total spread or handicaps, you should keep in mind that the games tend to be either very close in their score, (handicaps 1-3, looking at you) or completely spread out with the goal difference being close to 6. Once again, you will have to scout who is the leader by visiting the team social media outlets or looking at their current standings. Luckily for you, bigger floorball events are held by the regulator, IFF (International Floorball Federation). And they have a rather handy site to compare the teams and statistics. As it goes for total goals scored, as everyone knows, you need to be in it to win it. Bigger events with serious teams will have anywhere from a total of 4 goals to a total of 14 and more. But the average sits around 7-10, so if you see any of the more popular teams playing, be sure to bet on total of 7.5 over, as this might be your winning bet. When it comes to period totals, in most cases the goals are distributed very evenly. Totals range from 2-4, safest bet would be 2.5 over. This sport is rather unique in the fact that there is almost no difference in the statistical probabilities between the male and female leagues, I would even say that the female leagues prove to have more goals and bigger point spread, so would be more reliable for those big handicap bets.

As is with every type of sport, nothing is exact science, but scouting out the current favourite never hurts. I would highly recommend you not to overlook a good betting market for this sport, as it might prove to be your lucky day.