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What You Should Know About Using Bet Builders For Champions League Betting

• Ken Anucha
• February 27, 2025

The online gambling market, particularly when it comes to sports betting, has evolved tremendously over the last decade or so. With more and more markets regulating the scene, and the long-awaited opening of the US taking place in 2018, it’s become more popular than ever.

Luckily for the players, most of these are competitive markets not beholden to any kind of state-owned monopoly, encouraging them to evolve and improve. Given that the market size eclipsed $63.5 billion back in 2022 and is expected to keep growing through to 2030, it’s clear that the levels of competition are high.

One of the more recent results of this intense competition has been the inception of the Bet Builder. Looking around, it’s clear that platforms believe in the power of the Bet Builder because so many have it now. So, here’s what you should know about this clever little tool and how to make the most of it for some of the biggest upcoming events.

What is a Bet Builder, and How Does it Work?

A Bet Builder is essentially an evolution of an accumulator only made possible by modern betting software. With regular accumulators, you can only combine selections of the same market – and maybe one or two closely associated markets – to form a single bet. Bet Builders expand your odds.

Bet Builders have become a new way for a sport bet specialist to offer customers more options and customisation choices to truly craft their own bets. While the options don’t cover every possible outcome listed on the wider events page of odds, the options that can be combined in a Bet Builder are far greater than regular accumulators.

In any given game of football, you can combine player shots on target, the result, handicap scores, total goals, under/overs, fouls, goals and assists, first goalscorer, last goalscorer, anytime goalscorer, cards, and many more markets. This way, a bettor can get the majority of their predictions into one bet for enhanced odds.

By way of a loose example, many like to back Harry Kane amidst his record-breaking run in the Bundesliga. However, his prowess in front of goal has his anytime scorer odds set quite low. With a Bet Builder, punters can pad those odds with Dayot Upamecano to commit a foul and Jamal Musiala to fire over 1.5 shots on target.

Events to Target for a Bet Builder

As the UEFA Champions League progresses towards the quarter-finals, the best players in the world further separate themselves as being in a class of their own. We’ve already seen Real Madrid masterfully pick apart Manchester City, but as has been proven by Club Brugge’s success, it’s tough to call the results in games at this stage. 

This is where Bet Builders can come in very handy. While teams can be inconsistent and outcomes are impossible to predict, players tend to stay with their tendencies and follow their stats. For the Champions League so far, you could look to Lautaro Maetínez of Inter getting an average of 4.3 shots per game, or Arsenal’s Kai Havertz collecting 2.4 fouls per game.

It’s these more niche stats that can be bet on and stacked up with a Bet Builder. For many with more speculative bets, like goalscorers or match outcomes, the odds can be padded nicely by taking odds on things like player shots and player fouls under the averages of the players. 

Bet Builders are the latest evolution of online sports betting, and, with a savvy bettor at the helm, can unlock a great chance to tap into more informed odds for the increasingly important Champions League games to come.