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Closing Line Value Calculator

Closing line value measures your price against the market's final price. Enter both to see the gap in probability terms. Consistently positive CLV is the strongest evidence available that you are betting well.
Closing line value+5.45%
Your implied probability40.00%
Closing implied probability45.45%

You beat the close. Do this consistently and profit follows, whatever any individual result says.

How to use it

Change any input and the results update immediately. The values are also written into the address bar, so you can bookmark a calculation or paste the link to someone else and they will see exactly the same numbers.

Everything here computes with the same functions that produce the grades inside WeBall, so a number on this page will never contradict a number on a bet card.

What the term means

Whether the price you got was better than the price the market settled at by game time.

The closing line is the sharpest number a market ever produces. By kickoff it contains every injury report, every weather update and every dollar of informed money. Beating it consistently is the strongest available evidence that your process has an edge.

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Learn the math behind it

A calculator is faster than doing this by hand, but knowing why the formula works is what lets you spot when a number is wrong. Read the full guide →

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