Super Flag Calculator

This calculator works out returns on a Super Flag, a five-pick wager built from a Canadian plus ten up-and-down pairs, so you can see how forty-six bets on five American moneylines pay out across NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL slates.

What Is a Super Flag?

A Super Flag is a Canadian bet with ten up-and-down pairs added on top, giving forty-six bets from five moneyline picks. The Canadian portion supplies the full-cover structure: ten doubles, ten trebles, five four-folds, and one five-fold, for twenty-six bets. The ten up-and-down pairs sit on top of that base, each pair made of two conditional bets, adding twenty more lines for a total of forty-six.

Five picks is the point where the pairs stop being a minor add-on and start driving the cost of the ticket. At smaller pick counts the base bet dominates the line count; by five picks, the pairs have grown enough to make up a large share of all forty-six bets. That matters because the pairs settle on a different pattern than the Canadian’s straight lines - each pair needs its first leg to win before the second leg is even placed.

A Super Flag still covers every possible winning combination of two or more of your five picks, the same guarantee any full-cover bet gives you. What sets it apart from a plain Canadian is that stack of ten conditional pairs, changing both the ticket’s cost and how it pays when only some of your five picks land.

How a Super Flag Is Calculated

A Super Flag is built from two pieces: the Canadian portion is 10 doubles + 10 trebles + 5 four-folds + 1 five-fold, totaling 26 bets, and the up-and-down portion is 10 pairs of 2 bets each, totaling 20 bets. Add the two together - 26 plus 20 - for 46 bets. Total outlay is simply 46 times your unit stake.

Before those 46 bets can be priced, each pick’s American odds convert to decimal odds, since decimal odds drive the multiplication. For a favorite like the Rams at -250, take 100, divide by the odds figure with the minus sign dropped, and add 1 for a decimal price of 1.40. For an underdog like the Falcons at +150, divide by 100 and add 1 for a decimal price of 2.50. The same logic applies to the Jaguars at -167, the Colts at -111, and the Titans at +120.

Once all five picks have a decimal price, the calculator multiplies the relevant prices for each of the 46 bets, then sums every winning line into a total return. The Canadian bets settle like ordinary doubles, trebles, four-folds, and a five-fold. The 20 pair bets settle differently: each pair only pays its second leg once the first leg has won, so the calculator tracks that sequence separately from the 26 straight lines before adding everything into one total.

What the Calculator Shows You

Once you enter your five prices, your unit stake, and each pick’s result, the calculator breaks the ticket into pieces you can check. It shows the Canadian portion on its own - the 26 doubles, trebles, four-folds, and five-fold - so you can see what that base bet alone returned. It shows the ten up-and-down pairs separately, since they settle on a different pattern than the straight lines. It then shows your total outlay across all 46 bets, and the total return once every line is added up. Finally, it shows your profit: the return minus what you staked. Seeing the two pieces broken out separately is what makes it possible to understand why a Super Flag pays the way it does on any given result.

Worked Example

Take a Super Flag on five moneyline picks at a $0.25 unit stake: Rams to win at -250 (1.40), Jaguars to win at -167 (1.60), Colts to win at -111 (1.90), Titans to win at +120 (2.20), and Falcons to win at +150 (2.50).

That’s five selections, so the Canadian base is 26 bets (10 doubles, 10 trebles, 5 four-folds, 1 five-fold), plus 10 up-and-down pairs worth 20 more bets, for 46 bets in total. At $0.25 a bet, the total outlay is 46 x $0.25 = $11.50.

If all five picks win, the return across all 46 bets is $62.22. Subtracting the $11.50 outlay leaves a profit of $50.72. That return reflects both pieces of the ticket working together: the 26 Canadian lines paying out as doubles, trebles, four-folds, and a five-fold on the short, heavily favored prices of the Rams, Jaguars, and Colts, and the 20 pair bets adding extra value from the longer prices on the Titans and Falcons.

This example only covers the all-five-winners scenario, but the same 46-bet structure applies no matter how many picks come in. Because 20 of those 46 lines are up-and-down pairs rather than straight bets, a result with only two or three winners does not scale down evenly from the all-win return - the pairs contribute a return pattern of their own on top of whatever the Canadian portion pays. Entering the five prices and the $0.25 stake into the calculator is what lets you see the $62.22 return and $50.72 profit broken down piece by piece.

What the 46 Bets in a Super Flag Are Made Of

Every Super Flag breaks down into the same six-row structure no matter which five picks you choose. The Canadian portion supplies the doubles, trebles, four-folds, and five-fold that make up the twenty-six-bet base, while the ten up-and-down pairs add twenty more conditional lines on top. Here is how the forty-six bets split out:

How the Base Bet and the Pairs Compare as Picks Are Added

Adding a single pick to your ticket does more than add a few more lines - it changes the balance between the base bet and the up-and-down pairs. Moving from four picks to five picks nearly doubles the total bet count, and the pairs grow faster than the base bet as each extra pick is added:

Why a Super Flag Pays Differently on Partial Wins

The number of up-and-down pairs grows quickly with each pick added: three pairs at three picks, six at four, ten at five. Because each pair is two bets, twenty of the forty-six lines in a Super Flag are conditional rather than straight wagers, a far larger share than in a Flag or a plain Canadian.

That shows up most clearly on partial results. A Super Flag with two winners among its five picks returns considerably more than a Canadian would return on the same two winners, because the up-and-down pairs pay out on results where the Canadian’s doubles barely register. That is also why five picks is a meaningful threshold: it is where the pairs stop trailing the base bet and start contributing a return pattern of their own on almost any result short of all five winning.

That same structure also makes the ticket harder to check by hand. With twenty conditional lines each depending on which leg of its pair won, working out a Super Flag’s return without a calculator means tracking forty-six separate settlement outcomes rather than the twenty-six needed for a Canadian alone - more coverage on partial results, at the cost of a settlement that’s far more work to verify manually.

When a Super Flag Makes Sense

A Super Flag suits a bettor who genuinely likes all five of their picks and wants the ticket to keep paying even if only two or three land, rather than needing all five to win. Because the up-and-down pairs cover partial results a plain Canadian pays little or nothing on, a Super Flag buys extra protection against a near-miss outcome - at the cost of a larger stake, since forty-six bets at even a modest unit add up faster than a twenty-six-bet Canadian does.

That trade-off is the whole decision. A Super Flag costs noticeably more than a Canadian on the same five picks, since it is a Canadian plus twenty additional pair bets. Bettors on a tight bankroll, or those confident in only three or four of their five picks, are usually better served by a smaller full-cover bet - a Trixie or a Yankee, or a plain Canadian without the pairs.

A Super Flag makes the most sense when every one of the five picks is a genuine opinion, not added purely to hit the five-selection bet type, and when the bettor is comfortable staking forty-six times their unit rather than the twenty-six a Canadian alone requires. It rewards conviction across a full slate of picks, spread across NFL, NBA, MLB, or NHL games, more than chasing a single long price.

Common Mistakes

A common mistake is assuming the extra lines over a Canadian are ordinary bets, when twenty of them are conditional up-and-down pairs. Another is setting a unit stake without multiplying it by forty-six to see the real total outlay before placing the ticket. Bettors also sometimes back five picks purely to qualify for the Super Flag bet type, rather than because they actually fancy all five selections. And it’s easy to expect the pairs to behave like ordinary singles, when each pair actually needs its first leg to win before the second leg is even placed.

Super Flag vs the Flag Family

A Super Flag sits between the Flag and the Heinz Flag in the same family of full-cover bets, built the same way but differing in how many picks go on the ticket. Adding or dropping a single pick moves you to a neighboring bet in the family: