Bundesliga Picks and Betting Tips

If you’re a soccer fan and want to get more into the German Bundesliga, betting is a great way, and we’ve got the best Bundesliga picks for the 2021/2022 season right here! The 18-team German Bundesliga is one of the biggest, most popular soccer leagues in Europe, comprising 18 teams, chief among them the reigning champions, Bayern Munich.

The German Bundesliga has been growing exponentially over the past few years, recently becoming the third-richest league in the world, behind only the EPL and La Liga. They exceed both of those leagues in several important metrics, however.

One of those areas in which the Germans have started to make headway against the rest of the field is in attendance. They average about 44,500 fans per game in the Bundesliga, a full 6,000 more than they do in the EPL, an impressive feat no doubt. But they also eclipse the other leagues in another crucial aspect of the game: goals.

No wonder they have the highest attendance: they’re clearly playing the most exciting brand of football, as no other league produces more than the 3.04 you can expect to see at a Bundesliga match.

The 58-year history of this league has generally been dominated by Bayern Munich (31 titles, nine runner-up finishes) and Borussia Dortmund (eight titles, nine runner-up finishes). That’s especially true over the last few years, with one of those two teams winning the league in each of the last 13 campaigns, with the other often finishing second.

If you’re a soccer fan just getting into betting, our Bundesliga expert picks are a great place to start. Whether you’re on the go making wagers from your mobile phone or getting your picks in from the comfort of your own home, there are tons of great German soccer picks to make good money from!

But what makes a good Bundesliga pick? For us, a good pick is not only one that has a good chance of hitting, but one that is also offering you some good value for the risk you’re taking with your hard-earned money. A bet on Bayern Munich or Borussia Dortmund is usually a pretty safe one considering their long and successful track records.

Other good picks can be found by staying up to date with Bundesliga league news such as players being called up to national teams, player injuries, unfavorable scheduling for certain teams, historic rivalries, star players against their former side, pinpointing goal total trends, a lesser team that has a top team’s number, and many more. Check out new free Bundesliga picks every week during the 2021-2022 season!

How Do We Come Up With Our German Bundesliga Picks?

With the legalization of sports betting spreading like wildfire across North America, there are a ton of places purporting to come with proper free Bundesliga picks, so it’s important to be able to separate the real from the fake. At BetPicks.ca, we ensure that our picks are not just Bundesliga picks, but Bundesliga expert picks.

All of our experts live and breathe soccer and the Bundesliga of Germany so we stay up to date on all of the necessary news so that we can give the public the best picks that offer the most value based on research, precedents, trends, and of course, just a little bit of luck.

Our experts watch as much Bundesliga soccer as possible, which is the best way to improve your betting prospects for any sport. We also follow all the social media accounts that provide us with all of the latest injury and player news, which allows us to get a jump on the odds before oddsmakers can adjust. Analyzing different stats and how they affect results is another big part of how we make our soccer free picks at BetPicks.ca.

Markets

There are a bevy of different betting markets to consider for each Bundesliga soccer match, and we’ll break them all down right here for you.

• Full-Time Result 3-Way: This is basically like a regular Moneyline bet except because it’s soccer, there are three possible results instead of two. You can beat on either team to win, or you can bet on a draw. Sometimes all three options will be offering + money, which is always a treat. If it’s a tournament game that goes to extra time, whatever the result was after regular time is how the bet will be settled. If you bet on a team to win in full-time and they win in extra time, that’s still a losing bet.
• Handicap: Like spread betting for other sports, this type of wager is focused not just on who will win, but on how much they will win by. If you see Bayern Munich with a -1 handicap, that means they need to win by 2+ for you to win your bet. If you see RB Leipzig with +2, it means your bet is a winner as long as they don’t lose by more than 2.
• Total: Bet on how many total goals will be scored in the game, no matter by which team. You can also bet on each team’s goal total for a given match, but this is less common than one on the overall match.
• Double Chance: If you’re not confident in either side winning, you can go for a double chance bet, which is basically a 2-for-1 bet. For example, if we have a game between Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund, your options for Double Chance bets will be: Bayern or Dortmund to win (it won’t be a tie), Bayern or Draw (Bayern won’t lose), Dortmund or Draw (Dortmund won’t lose). It gives the bettor more safety, but at significantly worse odds.
• Correct Score: To win this kind of bet, you have to guess the score of the match exactly. It’s a pretty tough one, but because of that, is one of the most lucrative markets if you can get just a few right over the course of a season.
• Futures: These are bets that concern long-term results such as who will win the league, who will score the most goals in a season, whether a team will be relegated, whether a team will make Top Four, etc.
• Player Prop: Instead of betting on the result of the game, you can instead bet on how a certain player will affect it. You can bet on whether a player will score, whether they’ll be booked, whether they get an assist, when a player will score, etc.

How To Bet

Now that you understand all of the different options you have, it’s time to get on to how you can use that information to help make smart and successful Bundesliga picks. You know what each betting market is offering, which will help you to make your decisions when making German soccer picks.

If you’re not an expert, it’s best to stay away from markets such as Correct Score unless you have a lot of money you can blow. A great way to reduce risk when you want to bet on an underdog is to bet on their Double Chance market, thereby protecting you if they play well, but only well enough for a draw. A draw is often a big result for the underdog in leagues such as Bundesliga.

When betting on top teams like Bayern and Dortmund, it’s rare that their full-time market will be offering odds worth your time, but as we mentioned earlier, no league features more goals than the Bundesliga, so a -1 handicap bet one of those two is usually still a safe option.

Betting Strategies

It’s always smart to use a strategy when getting into any project, and making German Bundesliga picks is no different. Luckily, we’re willing to share a few of our favorites with you here to help get you started off on the right foot.

The first of these is to focus your energy. 18 teams is too many to become an expert on, but if you take one team (one of the bigger teams or perhaps your favorite team) and lock in on them, you can become an expert in short order. Watch the games, follow the social media feeds, stay up to date on injury news and trends for that team, and betting on them will become much more lucrative.

We also suggest diving into the goal totals for your German Bundesliga picks. Some teams are built to score a lot of goals while not worrying about letting goals in themselves, while some are built to be strong defensively and win tight one-goal battles. Knowing which teams are which will help hugely in profiting from Bundesliga betting.

Another strategy we like to employ is to keep a close eye on the non-league schedules of certain teams. Teams like Bayern and Dortmund will often have midweek fixtures in the Champions League against stronger competition than in the Bundesliga, so following their schedules and seeing when they might have an especially busy schedule could be a good (and rare) time to fade the big dogs.

Parlays are a popular way to increase the profit when sports betting. Instead of betting on several different markets individually, you can shove them all into a single bet, called a parlay, where your odds will grow exponentially with each additional market added. If you choose three markets for a parlay, your bet will only win if all three of your picks win, not if you get two out of three, which is why parlays are such a tough proposition.

There’s no partial winning, it’s a big payday, or it’s zero. Soccer parlays offer exponentially more lucrative odds than single bets do, but the fact that it’s all or nothing makes it a lot more risky. The best way to use parlays is to combine a select few sure things with really low odds and combine all of the ugly odds from those markets into one big parlay bet with much more inviting odds.

The 2021-2022 Bundesliga season began on August 13th, 2021, and will conclude on May 14th, 2022 and was relatively unhindered by the COVID crisis, which allowed for teams to play in front of full stadiums of raucous fans again.

As always, each side in the 18-team Bundesliga plays the other 17 teams twice each, one home and one away, for a total of 34 season games. Bayern Munich will look to make it 10 straight division titles, with Borussia Dortmund once again likely to come second best to their bitter rivals.

Like most other European soccer leagues, the Bundesliga operates in a promotion-relegation format with the bottom two teams in the Bundesliga being relegated to 2. Bundesliga, and the top two teams of 2. Bundesliga being promoted into the Bundesliga.

In recent years, sides such as Borussia Dortmund, Wolfsburg, RB Leipzig, and Bayer Leverkusen have made attempts at the hegemony atop the league, but with Bayern Munich going for their 10th straight title, it’s clear that the Bundesliga is Bayern’s world, and the rest of these teams are just living in it.

It’s more exciting to see who will join Bayern in the Top Four and earn entrance into Champions League than it is to follow who will actually win the league, because let’s face it, unless a Chelsea-level collapse occurs, that’s not happening any time soon with world-class players like Robert Lewandowski, Thomas Muller, Serge Gnabry, Alphonso Davies, and Manuel Neuer still roaming the pitch for Bayern.

I have been writing on sports betting for the past half decade, and have especially locked in on the beautiful game the last couple of years. Along with the EPL and La Liga, Bundesliga represents the best in the soccer world, so I stay locked in on everything Bundesliga!