Canadian (Super Yankee) Calculator

Work out the returns on a Canadian, also called a Super Yankee: twenty-six bets across five football selections.

A Canadian calculator works out the returns on a Super Yankee, a full-cover system bet on five selections comprising ten doubles, ten trebles, five four-folds and one five-fold, twenty-six bets in total.

What Is a Canadian?

A Canadian — also known as a Super Yankee — is a full-cover system bet on five selections that contains no singles. Instead it covers every multiple from doubles up to the five-fold: ten doubles, ten trebles, five four-folds and one five-fold, making twenty-six separate bets. It is the Yankee scaled up by one selection, though the arithmetic is not linear; the outlay more than doubles as a result.

The absence of singles is fundamental to the Canadian. Unlike some system bets that begin with single bets before combining selections, a Canadian starts its coverage at doubles. This means you need at least two winning selections before any of your 26 lines pay out. A single winner returns nothing. This is both the Canadian’s weakness and its discipline: you cannot get a return from one pick, no matter how strongly that pick wins, which discourages the temptation to stretch a slip with a weak fifth selection just to have one more line. It forces you to select carefully rather than pad the slip.

The five-selection span gives a Canadian more resilience than a Yankee. Lose one of five and you still have four survivors; eleven of the twenty-six lines (the six doubles, four trebles and one four-fold among those four) can still pay. Lose two selections and you are down to six lines from the remaining three. This makes a Canadian less fragile than single-selection-heavy bets, though still vulnerable if your selections are correlated or topically related.

How a Canadian Is Calculated

A Canadian’s 26 lines are built by combining every pair, triple, quartet and set of all five selections. The ten doubles pair every selection with every other: selections 1–2, 1–3, 1–4, 1–5, 2–3, 2–4, 2–5, 3–4, 3–5, 4–5. The ten trebles group every three: 1–2–3, 1–2–4, and so on through 3–4–5. The five four-folds use every set of four: 1–2–3–4, 1–2–3–5, 1–2–4–5, 1–3–4–5, 2–3–4–5. The final five-fold includes all five.

Each line’s return is calculated by multiplying the decimal odds of the selections that comprise it. Every selection contributes to multiple lines, so a single strong result boosts multiple payouts simultaneously, and conversely, a single loss knocks out several lines at once. This interconnection is both the appeal and the risk of system bets: correlation and overlap mean your fortunes rise and fall together rather than independently.

Your total outlay is simple: 26 times your unit stake. At EUR 0.50 per line, the outlay is EUR 13.00. If any selection is voided or loses, the calculator removes it from the affected lines and recomputes the return from what survives. The beauty of the Canadian structure is that partial wins are common — it is rare to have all five win or all five fail, so most slips produce a return even if incomplete.

What the Calculator Shows You

Enter five decimal odds, a unit stake in euros, and the outcome for each selection, and the calculator returns your total outlay, total return if all five win, and profit. It shows which selections won, lost or were voided, and recomputes the return from only the surviving lines.

Total outlay is always 26 times your unit stake, since a Canadian always has 26 lines regardless of outcome. Return if all win is the sum of all 26 individual line returns. Profit is the return minus the outlay. The calculator updates these figures as you mark selections as Win, Loss or Void, so you can track the slip as the matches play out.

Worked Example

A Canadian on five Belgian and Swiss league selections at a EUR 0.50 unit stake. The five picks are Anderlecht to beat Kortrijk (1.50), Basel to beat Lausanne (1.70), Genk to beat Westerlo (2.00), Young Boys to beat Servette (2.20) and Ferencvaros to beat Puskas (2.50).

Your total outlay is 26 × EUR 0.50 = EUR 13.00. If all five win, the ten doubles return from their pairings using the odds of the two selections involved, the ten trebles from their three-way combinations, the five four-folds from every set of four, and the five-fold from all five combined. The total return if all selections win is EUR 107.95, which gives a profit of EUR 107.95 − EUR 13.00 = EUR 94.95. This example shows how five moderate-priced selections combine into a substantial return when they all land, and also why a EUR 0.50 unit stake across 26 lines is a reasonable bet size for managing risk while chasing decent returns.

What the 26 Bets in a Canadian Actually Are

A Canadian always comprises the same four types of multiples, always in the same quantities, regardless of which selections you choose or how many winners land.

Total Outlay for a Canadian at Different Unit Stakes

The total cost of a Canadian is strictly proportional to the unit stake you choose. Always multiply by 26 to find your outlay.

Adding a Fifth Selection: Outlay and Resilience

Stepping from a four-selection Yankee to a five-selection Canadian is where the arithmetic starts to bite noticeably. A Yankee comprises 11 bets; a Canadian comprises 26. That is more than doubling the line count, and therefore more than doubling the cost at the same unit stake. The jump in outlay is significant and catches many bettors by surprise if they do not calculate it in advance.

The upside of that extra selection and those extra lines is resilience. A Yankee loses if any two selections fail — you need at least three of four to pay. A Canadian loses only if three or more selections fail; two survivors means somewhere between six and eleven of the 26 lines will pay. Lose Ferencvaros but have the other four win, and you still collect EUR 28.20 from the six doubles, four trebles and one four-fold among the survivors — a profit of EUR 15.20 on your EUR 13.00 outlay. That cushion is real, though it comes at a price: you need to stake twice as much up front to get it.

The discipline this demands is honest about the fifth selection. If you have four selections you genuinely fancy, do not stretch to five just to add another line. A weak fifth selection can fail while the four stronger picks win, leaving you with a partial-win scenario that loses money overall. Add the fifth only if you would back that pick as a separate single bet.

When a Canadian Makes Sense

A Canadian makes sense when you have five selections you genuinely back, your unit stake is one you can afford to lose, and you are prepared for the doubled outlay compared to a four-selection Yankee. It makes sense as a way to cover a full spread of market opinion without singles forcing you to bet on outcomes you do not fancy. It makes sense when you think you will get at least two winners and want those winners multiplied together rather than paid out as separate singles.

A Canadian makes least sense when you have only three strong selections and are padding the slip with two weaker picks. The fifth selection needs to be legitimate, not filler. It also makes less sense if your unit stake is tight for your bankroll; EUR 13 or more per bet (or EUR 26 if you go to EUR 1 per line) is substantial. Size accordingly.

The Canadian’s strength is coverage and resilience; its weakness is cost and the minimum two-winner requirement. Use it when you have a cluster of five related selections and the stakes work for you. Skip it when you have only a few genuine picks, or when your bankroll cannot comfortably absorb a 26-line outlay.

Common Mistakes

Bettors often underestimate the outlay, treating a Canadian as if it costs only a handful of units, then are shocked when they realize they have staked 26 times their unit stake. Many also expect the Canadian to include singles, forgetting that there are none, so one winner returns nothing — you need at least two. Some assume Canadian and Super Yankee are different bets when they are identical. Finally, many stretch to five selections when they only genuinely fancy three or four, padding the slip with a weak pick that later loses, turning what should have been a winning partial into a loss.

Canadian Among the No-Singles Full Cover Bets

A Canadian occupies the middle ground in the no-singles family of full covers.