Spread betting

Quoted from 99agrant

For those of us that dont understand spread betting can you explain what that means?

Quoted from moosey_club

As far as my understanding goes...

Each player has a goal minute factor value  based on their likelehood to score, ie a striker has a higher factor as on paper he is more likely to score.
If you want to back that player you select your amount to stake ie £1 and then multiply that by the players goal minute factor value, so if Hearn was valued at factor 20 (no suncream jokes) you would pay £1 bet  x 20 factor = £20 total bet.
Now for every goal that player scores in that game you get your £1 stake x the minute value of the goal in return so yesterday £1 on Hearn would break down;
£1 x (first goal) 57 mins = £57
£1 x (second goal)  60 mins = £60
£1 x (third goal) 70 mins = £70
£1 x (fourth goal) 86 mins  = £86

Which adds up to a tidy sum. In effect any player you back you want to score in the second half as late as possible for the greater return or in Hearns case yesterday score lots of second half goals. Defenders, midfielders, have a much lower goal minute factor value with Pearson quoted as only 2 recently which as some have suggested is excellent long term bet value based on his record.

I think thats it anyway.