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For this market SportingIndex simply predict the total number of points that will be scored in a rugby match.
Here's an example. For a match between Leicester and Saracens, SportingIndex might reckon on a relatively free scoring game with plenty of points and, as a result, their total points prediction might be 56-59.
If you expected an open game, you would bet high at 59, for the stake of your choice, in this case say £5 per point. Had you been proved correct and the game had finished 42-28, a total of 70 points, you would have made 11 times your stake: (70 - 59) x your stake = 11 x £5 = £55. Had the game proved to be a relatively dour affair with a final result of 26-14 (and therefore a total of 40 points) then you would have lost 19 times your stake: (40 - 59) x your stake = -19 x £5 = -£145.