Bet on the victory in the second round of Lula or Bolsonaro

During these elections, several online bookmakers registered abroad allowed people to bet amounts that they believed a certain candidate would win in the Brazilian presidential election, and if they were correct, could win a financial return on the amount wagered. Since these companies' funds are at risk, their calculations of betting returns are complex and take into account several factors that can minimize losses.

VEJA carried out a survey of six gaming companies with the help of Professor Fábio Machado, head of the statistics department of the USP Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, and the data is available on the website this Wednesday 5 to 11 hours, showing the percentage of each candidate's approximate chance. This shows that on average, they think Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has a 69.3 % chance of winning the runoff, while Jair Bolsonaro has a 30.6 % chance of winning the runoff.

Casinos use a method of calculating bets they call odds, which is really nothing more than a multiple that affects the amount of the bet when you hit the ball. At Unibet for example, for each 1 euro bet on the victory of candidate Lula, the bettor wins 1.33 euros if he wins the elections and 3.25 euros in the case of a bet and Bolsonaro, which means that the bookmaker considers the event as more probable.

“Bookmakers' mathematics also involves interpretation, which is between mathematics and guesswork, but it involves their money, which is why they try to bring the value closer to reality. The logic of the players and the enthusiasm of the citizens show that different,” Machado said.

Bookmakers odds

The houses did not specify how their ratings were calculated, so for the VEJA survey, rough predictions were made based on the figures available at each site. “Statistics works on probability values of 0 to 1. A candidate's chances of winning are the inverse of the odds, which is why I divide the number “one” by an “odd” value. In the first example, two candidates The sum is 1.059. In many cases, this 0.059 surplus is called Juice, or how much the house won on betting,” Machado said. “To find the percentages, I took the house performance and developed a rule of three to see how each candidate's results matched up