American Football Odds API

Access american football betting odds from 25 bookmakers through the SockOdds API. Get american football odds for every game including head to head, lines, totals, player props and more — sportID=FOOTBALL.

American Football Odds API Features

Our american football odds API is fully filterable, so you pull exactly the data you want — games, player props, teams or specific markets. Curate the feed to your needs with the same parameters SportsGameOdds developers already know.

36 distinct markets are priced across 1 league right now:

• Head to head / moneylines (2-way and 3-way markets)
• Lines, spreads and handicaps
• Totals (over/under)
• Alternative lines
• Player props and game props
• Period-specific markets (quarters and halves)

American Football leagues

American Football Player Props

Player props for american football are keyed like every other sport (the playerID in the statEntityID slot); the Australian books price american football mainly at team and match level today. See the player prop odds API.

American Football API Odds with Results

SockOdds delivers american football odds and event data in one configuration:

• Upcoming games with status flags
• Home and away teams with ids
• Players with production ids where the source carries them
• American Football odds including lines, totals, head to head, player props and more
• Results and grading flags where the source has them

Quick start: your first American Football odds API call

https://api.sockodds.com/v2/events?apiKey=YOUR_API_KEY&oddsAvailable=true&sportID=FOOTBALL&limit=10

Or one league at a time, which is faster:

https://api.sockodds.com/v2/events?apiKey=YOUR_API_KEY&oddsAvailable=true&leagueID=NFL&limit=10

Stats priced in american football

American Football Odds API Technical Specifications

API Architecture

• REST API — Simple HTTP endpoints with JSON responses, identical to the SportsGameOdds v2 paths
• Polling, not push — the feed refreshes every ~2 minutes; /v2/stream/events is reserved and answers 501 rather than pretending
• Rate limits — per-key, per-minute meters that bind under concurrency; plans sized to your usage
• Authentication — secure API key access via the x-api-key header or apiKey query parameter

Data Update Speed

• Odds updates — every ~2 minutes across every bookmaker lane
• Event status — status flags and info.stale tell you exactly how current a price is

Developer Resources

• Interactive documentation — live examples, copy-paste snippets and an AI (vibe coding) context
• SDKs & libraries — the SportsGameOdds SDKs for TypeScript, Python, Ruby, Go and Java work unchanged with the base URL pointed here
• Postman collection — pre-built requests ready to run
• Support — email support on every plan, priority on paid plans

American Football market coverage by category

Use Cases for American Football API Data

• Arbitrage & +EV tools — compare american football odds across every Australian bookmaker to uncover arbitrage opportunities and positive expected value angles.
• Odds comparison platforms — display american football odds from every book side by side for comprehensive line shopping.
• Pricing models & trading — use american football market data as inputs for proprietary pricing algorithms and betting strategies.
• Sports analytics & research — examine american football line movements and betting-market patterns, and build predictive models on retained events.
• Betting automation — build systems that monitor american football lines across bookmakers and trigger actions when your target odds appear.
• Sportsbook & fantasy apps — power your american football product with reliable odds, status and bet-slip deeplinks.

American Football Odds API Documentation

Our interactive documentation covers everything you need to integrate American Football odds into your project:

• Full endpoint reference with parameters and response schemas
• Live request and response examples
• Code snippets in Python, JavaScript, Ruby, Go and Java
• Authentication setup and API key management
• Rate limiting and the notice field
• Error handling and troubleshooting

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