WASHINGTON —

If you have ever placed a sports bet, your chances of winning are slimmer than you might expect.

The Hearst Television Data Team spoke with a statistics professor about which sports bets are least likely to win and why people should avoid them. Latest Forecast

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Sportsbooks offer numerous betting options, but the most common are moneyline, spread and totals bets, according to Ron Yurko, a Carnegie Mellon University assistant teaching professor and director of the Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Center.

Yurko is introducing a course next spring to teach students about sports betting and how sportsbook probability works.

"I was motivated by this from my time as an instructor of literally seeing students on campus talk ab

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