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A ParlayAPI glossary entry

Same-game parlay (SGP)

A same-game parlay is a multi-leg bet in which all legs come from the same game - for example a team's moneyline plus a player's receiving-yards over. Because legs within one game are statistically dependent, books price SGPs with correlation models rather than by multiplying leg odds.

In practice

A QB's passing-yards over and his top receiver's receiving-yards over win together far more often than independence would suggest, so a book pays an SGP containing both much less than the naive parlay multiplication. The gap between the naive product and the offered SGP price is the book's correlation haircut - sometimes fair, sometimes very much not, which is why comparing SGP prices to independent leg prices is revealing.

Where it shows up in ParlayAPI

ParlayAPI's SGP demo shows correlated pricing on live games. The building blocks - per-leg prices for game lines and player props from many books - come from the standard odds endpoints, so you can compute your own naive-product baseline and measure any book's correlation adjustment.

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