the odds are in favor of (something)

:  inequalities

:  degree of unlikeness

:  an amount by which one thing exceeds or falls short of another

:  friendly regard shown toward another especially by a superior

:  approving consideration or attention :  approbation

:  partiality

:  to regard or treat with favor

:  to do a kindness for :  oblige

:  endow

:  some indeterminate or unspecified thing

:  a person or thing of consequence

:  one having more or less the character, qualities, or nature of something different

:  in some degree :  somewhat

: used as an intensive giving adverbial force to an adjective