Free NFL teaser calculator with real 2025-26 sportsbook pay tables. Work out payouts, adjusted spreads and the cover rate each leg needs, spot Wong teasers that cross the key numbers 3 and 7, and see the modeled win probability, edge and expected value of the full ticket before you bet it.
A teaser is a parlay where every spread is moved in your favor by a fixed number of points, usually 6, 6.5 or 7 in the NFL, in exchange for a much smaller payout. A 6-point teaser turns a -7.5 favorite into -1.5 and a +2.5 underdog into +8.5. Every leg must cover its teased number for the ticket to cash.
Worked example: a 2-team 6-point teaser at -120 with $100 staked returns $183.33 ($83.33 profit) if both teased spreads cover. The -120 price implies a 54.5% ticket probability, which works out to 73.9% per leg. That per-leg hurdle, not the payout, is the number that decides whether a teaser is worth betting.
Teasers are priced from fixed pay tables that differ by book, and the differences are big enough to flip a ticket from playable to poor. At -120 (DraftKings, Caesars) a 2-team 6-point teaser needs 73.9% per leg; at FanDuel's -134 it needs 75.7%. That gap is roughly the whole historical margin of a classic Wong teaser, so shopping the price is the single highest-value habit in teaser betting.
Published 6-point NFL prices for 2025-26:
| Sportsbook | 2-team | 3-team | 4-team |
|---|---|---|---|
| DraftKings | -120 | +160 | +260 |
| Caesars | -120 | +160 | +260 |
| BetMGM | -130 | +160 | +250 |
| FanDuel | -134 | +140 | +240 |
Market-average prices for 2 to 10 team NFL teasers at 6, 6.5 and 7 points, with the cover rate every leg must hit for the 6-point ticket to break even. Note how the per-leg hurdle barely drops as you add teams: more legs never make a teaser easier to beat, they only add ways to lose.
Methodology: per-leg cover probabilities come from a discrete margin model, a normal distribution centered on the spread (sd 13.2) with extra probability mass at the key numbers 3, 7, 6, 10, 4 and 14, calibrated to the published NFL margin frequencies since 1989. Modeled Wong legs land at 73-75%, deliberately a touch under the 76.1% from Stanford Wong's 1990s backtest, because sportsbooks have repriced teasers since. Pay tables are the books' published 2025-26 prices. Last updated August 14, 2026.
| Teams | 6 points | 6.5 points | 7 points | Break-even per leg (6 pts) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | -120 | -130 | -140 | 73.9% |
| 3 | +160 | +140 | +120 | 72.7% |
| 4 | +260 | +230 | +210 | 72.6% |
| 5 | +400 | +350 | +300 | 72.5% |
| 6 | +600 | +500 | +400 | 72.3% |
| 7 | +1000 | +900 | +700 | 71.0% |
| 8 | +1500 | +1200 | +1000 | 70.7% |
| 9 | +2000 | +1500 | +1200 | 71.3% |
| 10 | +2500 | +2000 | +1500 | 72.2% |
NFL games cluster on a few final margins: a field goal or a touchdown decides an outsized share of them. In the published data since 1989, 3 points is the most common margin at 15.4% of games and 7 points is second at 8.7%. A teaser only earns its price cut when the 6 points you buy capture that mass, which is why moving a spread through both 3 and 7 matters far more than the size of the move.
Push rules also matter. Teasing a whole-number spread (say -8 down to -2) leaves a real chance the game lands exactly on the teased number. At most books a standard-teaser push reduces the ticket to the next-smaller pay table, and a 2-team teaser with a push and a win is refunded. Sweetheart teasers are the exception: pushes lose. This calculator models pushes explicitly instead of pretending every leg is a coin with two sides.
| Final margin | Share of NFL games since 1989 |
|---|---|
| 3 | 15.4% |
| 7 | 8.7% |
| 6 | 5.8% |
| 10 | 5.8% |
| 4 | 5.2% |
| 14 | 4.9% |
Stanford Wong's "Sharp Sports Betting" defined the only teaser with a documented historical edge: 2-team, 6-point teasers where every leg crosses both 3 and 7. That means favorites of -7.5 to -8.5 teased down to -1.5 or -2.5, and underdogs of +1.5 to +2.5 teased up to +7.5 or +8.5. In Wong's backtest of 1990s data, qualifying legs covered 76.1% of the time against a 72.4% break-even at the old -110 price.
The market adapted. At -120 the hurdle is 73.9% per leg, at -130 it is 75.2%, and at -134 it is 75.7%, at or above the historical hit rate. Later published refinements help at the margin: restricting to games with totals of 49 or less added about 1 point of per-leg hit rate, and road teams outperformed home teams by 3 to 4.5 points in a 7,992-game dataset going back to 1995. The often-repeated claim that Wong teasers weaken in weeks 15-18 has no published quantified study behind it that we could find; treat it as a soft caution, not a stat.
A sweetheart (or super) teaser moves each spread 10 points, typically 3 teams at around -130 with ties losing. The price implies an 82.7% per-leg hurdle, several points above what even ideal 10-point moves historically deliver, which is why sweethearts are priced like a fun bet rather than an edge.
The mistakes the calculator flags: teasing totals (final totals do not cluster on 3 and 7, so the points buy far less), paying up for 6.5 or 7 points (each extra half point buys low-frequency numbers while the price drops a full tier), stacking 4 or more legs (the hurdle stays near 72-76% per leg while the ways to lose multiply), and teasing through zero (points spent on margins that almost never happen).
A teaser is a type of parlay where you get extra points on the spread for each selection. In exchange for moving every spread in your favor (typically 6, 6.5, or 7 points), you accept a much lower payout than a parlay. All legs must cover their teased numbers for the ticket to pay out.
A 2-team 6-point teaser moves each spread 6 points in your favor. For example, a -7.5 favorite becomes -1.5, and a +2.5 underdog becomes +8.5. Typical 2025-26 pricing is -120 to -134 depending on the book, so a $100 bet at -120 returns $183.33. Both adjusted spreads must cover for the bet to win.
A Wong teaser, named for Stanford Wong's "Sharp Sports Betting", is a 2-team 6-point teaser where every leg crosses both key numbers 3 and 7: favorites of -7.5 to -8.5 teased down, or underdogs of +1.5 to +2.5 teased up. Qualifying legs covered 76.1% in Wong's 1990s backtest, which beat the old -110 pricing comfortably.
Only in narrow cases. The historical edge belonged to 2-team 6-point Wong teasers that cross 3 and 7, but books have repriced from -110 toward -120 and -134, where the per-leg break-even (73.9% to 75.7%) sits at or above the historical hit rate. Price shopping across books is now most of the edge, and this calculator shows the exact hurdle at each price.
The key numbers are 3 and 7, because field goals and touchdowns decide an outsized share of NFL games: since 1989 about 15.4% of games land on exactly 3 and 8.7% on exactly 7. A teaser that moves a spread through both numbers captures far more probability than the same 6 points spent elsewhere.
Both require every selection to win. The difference is a teaser gives you extra points on each spread in exchange for a much lower payout, while a parlay uses the original lines and pays far more. A 2-team teaser pays around -120; the same two legs as a parlay pay around +265. Teasers trade upside for a higher chance of winning.
At the 2025-26 published prices, a 3-team 6-point NFL teaser pays +140 to +160 depending on the book, so $100 returns $240 to $260. That implies a 38.5% to 41.7% ticket probability, which works out to a 72.7% to 74.7% cover rate needed from every single leg.
It depends on legs, points and book. At market prices, $100 on a 2-team 6-point teaser at -120 returns $183.33; a 3-team at +160 returns $260; a 4-team at +260 returns $360. The calculator on this page prices any combination from 2 to 10 legs at 6, 6.5, 7 or 10 points in your currency.
At most books a push on a standard teaser reduces the ticket: a 3-team teaser with one push is graded as a 2-team teaser at the smaller pay table, and a 2-team teaser with a push and a win is refunded. Sweetheart (10-point) teasers are different: a push loses the whole ticket. Rules vary by book, so check the house rules before betting.
Usually 6. Each extra half point moves the price a full tier (-120 to -130 to -140 at market prices), raising the per-leg break-even from 73.9% to 75.2% to 76.4%, while the extra half point mostly buys margins that rarely happen. Pay up only when the extra points cross 3 or 7 that the 6-point move misses.
Most books allow it, but it is rarely worth doing. The value of a teaser comes from moving through the margin key numbers 3 and 7, and final totals do not cluster tightly on any small set of numbers. Six points on a total buys much less probability than six points on a spread, which is why this page treats totals teasers as a warning case.
A sweetheart or super teaser moves each spread 10 points, usually in a 3-team format at around -130 with ties losing. The price implies an 82.7% per-leg break-even, which historical cover rates do not reach, so sweethearts are best understood as entertainment rather than a value bet.