Online Sports Betting Statistics Updated November 2026

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100 Baseball Betting Statistics for 2026

You can miss the shape of baseball betting by looking only at a busy month. This page pairs monthly activity with annual accounts and separates stakes, transactions, payouts and retained operator win.

The sources cover Illinois, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey and France. Each jurisdiction retains its own definitions. Professional baseball is not automatically relabeled MLB, and none of these regional observations is presented as a worldwide market total.

Headline figures

How much baseball handle was recorded in Illinois?

Baseball's calendar makes a monthly series more informative than a single headline. Illinois separates online and retail handle, so seasonal activity can be examined without assuming the channels behave identically.

What handle was recorded early in the year?

The January online headline appears above. Handle is the amount wagered, not operator income or new customer deposits. These values come from the baseball column of the regulator's all-activity report. Parlays are separately classified in that report, so this baseball series should not be described as including every combination bet involving a baseball selection. Reusing the report for another comparison requires keeping both the channel and the category definition unchanged.

What handle was recorded in spring and early summer?

The monthly channel totals retain the regulator's calendar periods. They are not adjusted for the number of matches, tournament quality or days in the month. Such adjustments would require additional evidence and are not calculated here. The figures also do not identify whether a customer used multiple sportsbook accounts. Their purpose is to document the amount of licensed activity recorded in each channel, not to count people.

What handle was recorded later in summer?

The latest online headline appears above; the remaining summer values retain separate channels. The report version was generated in November, but each observation belongs to its named activity month. That distinction counts when refreshing a page: generating a new copy does not make the underlying activity new. These figures cover the Illinois regulated market only. They cannot establish total United States baseball betting, offshore activity or betting on a particular tour. A larger channel total also need not imply more unique players, because frequency and stake size can vary.

How many baseball wagers were recorded in Illinois?

A baseball wager count measures transactions, not fans. Pairing counts with handle provides context while keeping money and activity in their original units.

What wager counts were recorded early in the year?

The January online count appears above. These counts come from the wager-details page instead of the dollar-denominated handle page. A single bettor can place many wagers, and an account can remain active across several months. Consequently, summing these observations would not produce a count of unique bettors. The regulator's separate parlay classification also limits the scope of the baseball column. It is a reporting category, not a complete record of every baseball selection inside a combination.

What wager counts were recorded in spring and early summer?

The source reports each channel for each month. Counts help describe recorded activity but do not establish the money at risk or the eventual outcome of those wagers. A comparison with handle must use the same channel, month and reporting category. No average stake is calculated here, because the article's purpose is to preserve original observations instead of create additional derived statistics. The report does not disclose unique-user counts for this sport.

What wager counts were recorded later in summer?

The August online count is showed above. The remaining observations complete the summer channel comparison without merging retail and online records into a supposed customer total. A wager-count increase can occur without an equivalent increase in handle, and neither series alone explains bettor motivation. The downloadable report is reproduced from the official generator using the named month and sport-detail option. Its version date is stated separately from the activity period. These distinctions allow a later refresh to replace the right observation instead of comparing different measures under the same heading.

What baseball stakes and payouts did Maryland report?

Maryland identifies professional baseball as its own sport category. That label is narrower than all baseball but does not authorize renaming the entire series MLB.

What did the early-year baseball accounts record?

January's stakes headline appears above. The following values describe monthly professional-baseball activity across retail and mobile combined. They are not a count of bettors and do not establish which league generated each wager. February's accessible report uses whole-dollar precision, while the other original workbooks retain cents. That difference is preserved in the article. The same source also contains a fiscal-year table; those cumulative rows are excluded from this monthly comparison.

What stakes and payouts were reported in spring and early summer?

The regulator's monthly accounts show activity in the professional-baseball category as the calendar progresses. Payouts are money returned to players, not operator profit. The observations are kept in their original periods and are not divided by the number of scheduled games. Such a normalization would require evidence about which competitions were actually included in the wagers. The report also does not separate unique customers or identify cross-product betting.

What did the latest monthly baseball accounts record?

The September stakes headline appears above. Summer and September payouts complete the comparison using the same professional-baseball category. These combined-channel values should not be compared with an Illinois online-only figure as if the scopes were identical. A difference between states can reflect market size, reporting design and activity, instead of a different preference for the sport. The tables do not isolate those explanations or provide a national market estimate.

How much did Maryland operators retain on professional baseball?

Dollar hold and hold percentage answer different questions. The original report publishes both, so the article retains each measure without turning gross betting income into net business profit.

What hold was reported early in the year?

January's published percentage appears above. The dollar figures below describe the retained betting amount, while the percentage describes the source's reported ratio. A high percentage on a small amount of wagering is not evidence of a large business. February's report rounds its dollar columns, so independently subtracting the displayed stakes and payouts can produce a rounding difference. We use the reported hold instead of replace it with a recalculation.

What hold was reported in spring and early summer?

The series uses the professional-baseball row of each monthly report. Gross hold is before operating expenses and taxes; it is not an operator's net earnings. Percentages are reproduced to the precision displayed in the source table. Changes can reflect betting results as well as the mix and amount of wagers. The aggregate report does not establish whether one bookmaker, competition or customer group caused the change.

What hold was reported in summer and September?

The September percentage is showed above. The remaining values retain their named months and original units. A monthly ratio describes recorded market activity, not the expected outcome of an individual wager. It should not be presented as a personal probability of losing or a guaranteed operator margin. Comparisons over time must also distinguish monthly values from fiscal-year-to-date totals, which overlap the underlying months.

What baseball win did Nevada report across the latest year?

Nevada's accounting series includes negative baseball win in quieter months. Those published values deserve explanation of scope, not deletion because they look unusual.

What did late-year and January accounts show?

The December percentage is showed above. Negative operator win means the reported baseball accounting balance favored payouts over receipts in that period. The extreme negative ratios are published values, not forecasts of bettor returns. The report does not identify the individual settlements behind them. These monthly figures must therefore be read as accounting observations, not estimates of how a typical bet performs.

What did February through May accounts show?

Published signs are retained. Win amounts were reported in thousands of dollars and are converted to dollars without adding precision. The adjacent win percentage is distinct from the year-over-year percentage-change column, excluded here. All observations use statewide nonrestricted locations; the separate high-revenue-location table is excluded. The sport row also must not be confused with the all-sport mobile subtotal.

What did June through September accounts show?

The latest September win headline appears above. These observations complete the latest monthly sequence without treating it as an estimate of all United States baseball betting. Nevada reports combined channels in the sport row, while its mobile subtotal covers all sports together. The source does not provide a baseball-only mobile split here. Comparing that subtotal with baseball win would mix both sport and channel definitions.

What do annual baseball comparisons add?

Annual figures reduce the temptation to treat a single accounting month as the whole market. Different jurisdictions still require separate definitions, currencies and settlement bases.

What did Nevada's calendar-year column record?

The annual column in the December report covers the calendar year. It is different from both the December monthly figure and the rolling-year columns printed in other monthly reports. The annual percentage is the regulator's published value, not an average of monthly percentages. Averaging those percentages would give small and large months the same weight and could distort the result. The win amount is reported in thousands in the original table, with the converted dollar amount shown below. Neither figure is a measure of net operator profit or a count of players. This annual snapshot supplies a longer accounting window while retaining Nevada's combined-channel scope.

What did New Jersey report for completed baseball events?

The annual completed-event handle appears above. The remaining figures use the same settlement basis, so they belong together as a source-defined comparison. New Jersey's footnote says the table is unaudited and subject to adjustment. It also warns that year-to-date category figures may not equal prior monthly statements after later adjustments. Future-event wagers are outside the completed-event handle measure used here. This is why the table should not be silently compared with a broader total-handle series. The published rate is reproduced at its original precision; no extra decimal places are inferred from the dollar amounts.

What did France report about baseball and MLB?

France's licensed online baseball stakes are showed above. The growth figures below distinguish the whole baseball category from MLB. MLB is a subset, so the league's change should not be substituted for the wider sport's change. These percentages compare the regulator's stated annual periods, and the monetary headline uses euros instead of United States dollars. They describe betting recorded in the French licensed online market, not spending by baseball teams or total worldwide wagering on the league. The source does not provide enough detail here to attribute the growth to player popularity, advertising or the scheduling of particular matches. Those explanations would require additional original evidence.

Glossary

Methodology and sources

Every figure on this page comes from the organisation that produced it: regulators, statistics offices, public bodies, research institutes, and companies reporting their own data or surveys. Each one links to the original report or dataset and carries its release date. Survey results keep their population and fieldwork period, and financial figures keep the measure the producer used. Figures from different producers are not added together or ranked against each other. The page is reviewed monthly and updated when a producer releases newer data.