When you think of online sportsbooks, your mind probably goes to betting on sports. However, there are some sportsbooks that go beyond sports betting. Some of them also have TV prop bets in the betting offer.
As the name itself suggests, TV props are based around things happening on TV. They can be focused on things like TV series viewership, weather forecast, award ceremonies, and so on.
Viewership-Based TV Prop Bets
These props are using the Over/Under model, similar to the one used in basketball betting. With basketball O/U bets, you get to bet on whether the total number of points is going to be higher or lower than a certain margin.
With TV viewership prop bets, you get to bet Over/Under on the total number of live viewers. Depending on the TV show, the number can be measured in millions.
For example, the final episode of Game of Thrones (The Iron Throne), which was aired in 2019 had over 13.6 million viewers only in the United States. Before it was aired, some sportsbooks had the prop bet in their offer which was based around the viewership figures of that episode.
Predicting the Next Episode
TV series are scripted but not much is revealed to the public until the air time. This is why betting on what’s going to happen in the next episode/season is a fun TV prop bet.
You can bet on whether a character will die, get arrested, get married, or whatever. You can also bet on which actor/actress is going to get a role in the next season.
Apart from trying to read the minds of scriptwriters, you can also bet on even more trivial things. For example, a popular type of TV prop bet is the one in which you get to bet on the minute in which the lead character is going to appear for the first time in the next episode.
Oscars/Grammys Betting
Betting on which movie is going to win the Oscar at the next year’s ceremony is one of the wagers that belongs to the TV prop bets category. Speaking of Oscars, you can also bet on who’s going to win the Academy Award for the Best Actor/Actress, and similar.
Pretty much the same goes for Grammy betting, as well as all the other award ceremonies popular within the United States.
Weather Forecast Betting
There are some online bookmakers than let its players bet on the weather in some parts of the United States. Is it going to be sunny tomorrow in New York? Is heavy storm going to hit California this week? These are all the weather prop bets we’ve come across at online bookies.
In order to decide to odds for weather forecast bets, the oddsmakers take all sorts of factors into consideration. What the weatherman is saying is one of those factors, together with the historic climate data, time of the year, and so on.
If it’s the middle of the summer, you can be sure that the odds on a snowfall are going to be very, very long, even if it’s Alaska that’s in question.
WWA Betting
Let’s face it – WWA is scripted, which is why WWE betting definitely belongs to the category of TV prop bets.
Luckily for wrestling fans, almost every respectable internet sportsbook treats WWE as a proper sport. As a result, WWE is often featured in the betting offer of top online bookmakers.
You can bet on who’s going to win WrestleMania, which team is going to win Royal Rumble, etc. Another betting option is to bet on which sportsperson/celebrity will sign for WWE this year.
For example, there are some sportsbooks that let you bet that Conor McGregor will sign a contract with the World Wrestling Entertainment by the end of the calendar year.