Canadian (Super Yankee) Calculator

This calculator works out the payout on a Canadian, also known as a Super Yankee, where five moneyline picks from the NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL combine into twenty-six separate bets, priced in American odds first.

What Is a Canadian Bet?

A Canadian, also called a Super Yankee, is a full cover bet on five selections with no singles included. You back every possible combination of two, three, four and all five picks: ten doubles, ten trebles, five four-folds and one five-fold, twenty-six bets in total. It is the natural step up from a Yankee, which covers four picks across eleven bets; add a fifth selection and the combinations more than double.

Because there are no singles, one winning pick among your five returns nothing on its own. You need at least two selections to win before any money comes back, since the smallest combination is a double. That structure rewards picking winners in twos and threes rather than banking on any one selection, and spreads risk across twenty-six lines instead of five wagers.

The trade-off is cost. Every selection you add multiplies the number of possible combinations, so moving from four picks to five nearly triples the lines, from eleven in a Yankee to twenty-six in a Canadian. Bettors who like the resilience of a full cover bet but want a fifth pick they genuinely fancy are the natural audience for this bet type.

How a Canadian Bet Is Calculated

A Canadian is built by counting every possible combination of your five picks taken two, three, four and five at a time: 10 doubles + 10 trebles + 5 four-folds + 1 five-fold = 26 bets. Your total outlay is simply 26 x your unit stake, and each line settles on its own, so a loss in one selection only knocks out the lines that include it - it does not wipe out the whole bet.

The odds for each leg are quoted as American moneylines, and the calculator converts each to decimal before multiplying legs together. A minus number like -200 is a favorite: divide 100 by the odds figure, then add 1, which turns -200 into 1.50 and -143 into 1.70. A plus number like +150 is an underdog: divide the odds figure by 100 and add 1, which turns +100 into 2.00, +120 into 2.20 and +150 into 2.50. Once every leg has a decimal price, the calculator multiplies the odds of the legs in a given double, treble, four-fold or five-fold together, then multiplies that combined price by the unit stake to get the return for that line.

Summing the returns from all twenty-six lines gives the total return if every pick wins, and subtracting the total outlay gives the profit.

What the Calculator Shows You

Once you enter your five picks, their odds and your unit stake, the calculator lays out the shape of the bet before showing any money. It confirms the number of bets, twenty-six, and breaks that figure into its component parts - doubles, trebles, four-folds and the single five-fold - so you can see what you are staking on. It then totals your outlay across all twenty-six lines.

On the results side, the calculator shows your total return if selections win, and the profit once the outlay is subtracted. Because a Canadian has no singles, it also lets you mark any pick as a loss or a push and see how the surviving combinations - the doubles, trebles and four-folds that do not include that pick - still contribute to a return, rather than treating the bet as a single win-or-lose outcome.

Worked Example

Take a Canadian on five moneyline picks at a $0.50 unit stake: Bills to beat Jets at -200 (1.50), Bucks to beat Pistons at -143 (1.70), Phillies to beat Nationals at +100 (2.00), Rangers to beat Islanders at +120 (2.20), and Golden Knights to beat Sharks at +150 (2.50). With five selections and no singles, that produces the standard breakdown of 10 doubles, 10 trebles, 5 four-folds and 1 five-fold, twenty-six bets in all. At $0.50 a line, the total outlay is $13.00.

If all five picks win, every one of the twenty-six lines pays out. Added together, the total return comes to $107.95, which after subtracting the $13.00 outlay leaves a profit of $94.95. That return is the sum of twenty-six separate line results, from the smallest doubles up through the single five-fold that needs all five teams to win.

Not every outcome requires a clean sweep, though. Suppose the Golden Knights lose while the other four picks - Bills, Bucks, Phillies and Rangers - all win. The five-fold is dead, and so is any combination that included the Golden Knights. But the six doubles, four trebles and one four-fold formed among the other four winning picks still pay. In that scenario the bet returns $28.20, for a profit of $15.20. It is a smaller return than a clean sweep, but it shows why the twenty-six-line structure gives a Canadian some resilience: losing one selection out of five does not zero out the bet, since combinations formed entirely from the four picks that won are unaffected by the one that lost.

What the 26 Bets in a Canadian Actually Are

The twenty-six bets in a Canadian break down into four groups by how many picks each combination includes. Doubles and trebles make up the bulk of the bet at ten lines apiece, four-folds account for five more, and the single five-fold sits at the top, needing every selection to win. Together they add up to the full twenty-six lines that make a Canadian what it is.

Total Outlay for a Canadian at Different Unit Stakes

The number of bets in a Canadian never changes - it is always twenty-six lines, however small or large your stake. What scales is the total outlay, which rises in direct proportion to your unit stake. The table below shows the total cost of a Canadian at four common unit stakes, from a low $0.25 a line up to $2.00 a line.

What Changes When You Add a Fifth Pick

Adding a fifth pick is where the arithmetic starts to bite: a Yankee is eleven lines, a Canadian twenty-six. The same unit stake therefore costs well over twice as much, and because there are still no singles you need two winners before anything returns. The upside is resilience - lose one of five and eleven lines can still pay.

That jump from eleven to twenty-six is not a rounding error; a fifth selection creates far more possible combinations with the other four than the fourth selection did with the first three. Bettors moving up from a Yankee for the first time sometimes expect the cost to rise gently in line with adding one more pick - it does not, because full cover combinations always grow faster than the number of selections itself.

The flip side of that extra cost is the extra cushion it buys. With no singles, a Canadian still demands at least two correct picks before it pays anything, exactly as a Yankee does. But a fifth selection creates more possible doubles, trebles and four-folds among the picks that do win, so one incorrect selection out of five leaves more surviving lines than one incorrect selection out of four would in a Yankee. That is the trade a Canadian asks you to make: a bigger outlay for a bet that tolerates one wrong pick more comfortably.

When a Canadian Bet Makes Sense

A Canadian suits a bettor who has genuine confidence in five separate picks and wants a structure that does not collapse if one of them lets them down. Because the smallest combination is a double, the bet already assumes some picks will miss, and it is built to keep paying through the doubles, trebles and four-folds that survive. That makes it a reasonable choice for a bettor who trusts their five selections roughly equally, rather than one confident in three picks and only lukewarm on the other two.

The size of the outlay is the main thing to weigh before placing one. Twenty-six lines at even a modest unit stake add up quickly, and a bettor who only trusts two or three of their five picks would be better served by a smaller full cover bet, or by betting those selections directly. Stretching a Canadian to reach five selections adds outlay without adding value, since a weak fifth leg drags down every combination it appears in.

Bankroll discipline matters here as much as pick quality. Because the total outlay is fixed at twenty-six times the unit stake, it is worth sizing that unit stake to a figure you are comfortable risking in full, rather than working backward from a total budget. A Canadian rewards bettors who plan the outlay first and choose the unit stake to match.

Common Mistakes

Bettors often underestimate the outlay, forgetting that it comes to twenty-six times the unit stake rather than something closer to five. Some expect singles to be included and are surprised that a single winning pick returns nothing, since a Canadian has no singles at all. Others assume Canadian and Super Yankee refer to different bets, when in fact the two names describe exactly the same twenty-six-line wager. A final common mistake is stretching to a fifth pick just to build the bet, when only three of the selections are genuinely fancied.

Canadian vs the Other No-Singles Full Cover Bets

A Canadian sits in the middle of a family of full cover bets that all skip singles, scaling from a Yankee’s four selections up through a Heinz and a Super Heinz. Each additional selection multiplies the number of lines rather than simply adding to it, which is why the jump from four to seven picks takes the bet from eleven lines all the way to 120.