{"id":2677,"date":"2017-11-07T09:10:58","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T09:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/?p=2677"},"modified":"2017-11-07T09:14:15","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T09:14:15","slug":"simon-groups-odds-x-factor-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/news-events\/simon-groups-odds-x-factor-crown\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon and his groups odds on for X Factor crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Cowell and his group Rak-Su are the new odds-on favourites to be taking the X Factor crown.<\/p>\n<p>A group has only won the X Factor once with Little Mix taking the honours in 2011 under Tulisa&#8217;s tutelage, but now X Factor supermo Cowell is tipped to take the honours for a third time having won it previously with Ben Haenow and Leona Lewis.<\/p>\n<p>Rak-Su have emerged from the pack after winning the public vote for the second week running and the R&amp;B foursome are now odds-on to win ahead of previous front-runner Grace Davies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The new format means we get to see a weekly winner and from that, unlike previous years, we not only know who the public don&#8217;t like but more importantly who they like,&#8221; said OddsMonkey spokesman Peter Watton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It not surprising that the Bookmakers have cut Rak-Su to such an extent that seems them around 10\/11. If they win again this week that will go even sure as the Punters will be jumping on at that price.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Likewise the winning judge market has Simon odds-on, he is around 5\/6 &#8211; which isn&#8217;t surprising.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>X Factor Outright odds:<\/strong><br \/>\nRak-Su 10\/11<br \/>\nGrace Davies 5\/2<br \/>\nKevin Davy White 10\/1<br \/>\nHolly Tandy 10\/1<br \/>\nSean and Conor Price 14\/1<br \/>\nThe CutKelvins 16\/1<br \/>\nRai-Elle 20\/1<br \/>\nLloyd Macey 20\/1<br \/>\nAlisah Bonaobra 25\/1<br \/>\nMatt Linnen 25\/1<br \/>\nSam Black 50\/1<br \/>\nJack and Joel 100\/1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Cowell and his group Rak-Su are the new odds-on favourites to be taking the X Factor crown. A group has only won the X Factor once with Little Mix taking the honours in 2011 under Tulisa&#8217;s tutelage, but now X Factor supermo Cowell is tipped to take the honours for a third time having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":""},"categories":[74,1640,2703],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[2827,3147,2736,2882,3150,2876,2880,2868,2857,3151,1717,2688,3035,3144,2531,3152,2107,2685,2158,3148],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2677"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2680,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions\/2680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2677"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}