How to Read an Over/Under Total on Polymarket (US 2026)

Official Sports FAQs: a Total asks whether the combined score is over or under a threshold. Teaching question: “Will the total score in Patriots vs Chiefs be over 47.5?” Official Events & Markets puts that market on one game next to moneyline, spread, and prop — question “Will the combined score be over/under X?” and teaching example “Total points over 47.5.” Combined means both teams. Those are docs examples, not a live line we reprint.

Official Sports FAQs half-point example: total of 47.5; combined score 47 or fewer, Under settles at $1.00; 48 or more, Over settles at $1.00. That is one threshold with two complementary sides — not two different numbers, and not a sportsbook pair of juice prices. Official Place a Trade is still Yes or No on the printed sentence. Yes on an “over X.5” title is the Over. No is the Under on that same sentence unless a second contract asks the Under as its own Yes. We do not reprint a live Over or Under tile.

Official Total is a combined-score threshold (their points example). Official Player Prop is a different contract type: whether an individual player’s stat reaches a threshold (their teaching overs: “Will LeBron score over 25.5 points vs the Celtics?” and “Mahomes over 2.5 TDs.”). A yards sentence that names a player is that Player Prop how-to — same Over/Under read on a listed number, different printed event. Official US pages we checked do not name a game-level “team yards total.” We will not invent one. If the title names a player and a stat, leave this page. If the title is a combined score or another listed number with no cover margin, stay here.

The printed X.5 (or other listed number) is the event. Official Events & Markets teaching copy is one Total market on the game. Official ties FAQ then names Over and Under as the two $1.00 / $0.00 sides of that same fill. Buying Over is not buying a second, higher number. Buying Under is not a different total. If the live board prints two complementary rows on one threshold — Over and Under — those two prices belong to one listed number. We will not invent a second total the title does not print.

Official Place a Trade: tap Yes if you think the printed event happens, or No if you think it does not. On “Will the total score be over 47.5?” Yes is the Over. No is everything that is not that Over — the Under on that same sentence. Official Market Settlement: a winning contract settles at $1.00 and a losing contract at $0.00. Your maximum loss on the side you bought is what you paid — plus any trading fee on the fill. We do not quote an Over price here.

Official Browse Markets: find active markets on the home screen, then scroll the top categories. Official copy names professional football. It does not reprint a retail tab labelled Over/Under, O/U, or Total. If the live US product chips Total, Over/Under, O/U, or “Total points over X.5,” follow that live label. If it does not, open the game and pick the ticket whose title prints a combined-score or listed-number threshold and no team-cover margin. A −3.5 next to a team is the spread how-to.

Official Sports FAQs: a Spread asks whether a team wins by a certain margin. Teaching copy: “Will the Chiefs win by more than 7?” Official Events & Markets teaching pair puts “Chiefs −3.5” on one row and “Total points over 47.5” on the next. Those are separate markets on the same game. Covering a printed number is a different event from clearing a combined score. How to read a spread or total is the cover-and-total pair. This page is only the Over/Under sit on one number.

Official Total grades the combined official score of both teams against the printed threshold. Combined means both teams. A 24–17 win is still a low combined number on a 47.5 teaching fill. Winning the game is the moneyline how-to. Covering −3.5 is the spread how-to. Clearing the listed total is this page. Do not paste a favorite logo onto the Over tile.

Official Sports FAQs: half-point totals (their example: 47.5) are used to avoid ties. 47 or fewer is Under at $1.00; 48 or more is Over at $1.00. Those FAQs do not publish a universal sportsbook-style push rule for a whole-number total. If a ticket prints a whole number, the Rules block on that ticket is the grade. We will not invent a push.

Sportsbook totals are a house price you take or leave, often written as Over −110 / Under −110 on one listed number. A Polymarket Over is a Yes (or a named Over row) other users posted on a printed sentence. Official How are Polymarket odds determined?: Polymarket US does not set prices or take the other side. Official What is Polymarket US: your order matches another user’s order on a central limit order book. Do not treat the cents on Over as sportsbook juice, and do not treat this page as odds advice. We will not publish a −110 conversion table.

Official Odds Display’s published menu is price (¢) or percent chance (%). That control changes how the same market is shown. It does not add an American-odds column, and it does not turn a Total into a sportsbook slip. How to read implied probability is the percent on those cents. How to read Yes/No prices is the tile and the book. This page is only how Over and Under sit on the listed number.

We do not reprint a live total, invent a week’s number, or tell you to buy Over or Under. Official teaching fills (47.5; “Total points over 47.5”) stay labelled as docs examples. Official Market Resolution: sports markets use results published by the governing league; unlisted sources have no effect. A broadcast “over” graphic is not the grade. Event contracts can settle at zero. Trade only what you can afford to lose.