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Vigorish (Vig)

Also known as: juice, margin, overround, hold

Vig is how sportsbooks make money. Add up the implied probabilities of all outcomes at a single book and you’ll get a total greater than 100% — the excess is the vig. To estimate the true probability of an outcome, you remove the vig by dividing each side’s implied probability by the combined total.