Scottemojo
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it makes the fan experience better or worse?
Scottemojo":2nl4oyj4 said:it makes the fan experience better or worse?
Sports Hernia":301rd7f4 said:I generally don't bet the Hawks In individual games even when in Vegas, it's uncanny how accurate Vegas is with the lines. Plus I received some great advice from a random guy at a sports book one time when I was about 21. He said never bet on a game where you either love or hate the teams as those emotions will skew your betting and burn you in the end.
I place a futures bet every year at the start of the season for the Hawks to win the Super Bowl, and it worked once! 8)
Sports Hernia":chs3kk36 said:I generally don't bet the Hawks In individual games even when in Vegas, it's uncanny how accurate Vegas is with the lines. Plus I received some great advice from a random guy at a sports book one time when I was about 21. He said never bet on a game where you either love or hate the teams as those emotions will skew your betting and burn you in the end.
I place a futures bet every year at the start of the season for the Hawks to win the Super Bowl, and it worked once! 8)
I never bet big on the Seahawks if I can help it. Of course I lost my mind right after the Suprbowl and totally ignored my rule. I will very likely be losing a big chunk of money in January or December....Scottemojo":2eb3aj3i said:it makes the fan experience better or worse?
I agree that Vegas wants even money to eliminate risk of losing big and are happy to take their rake. Doesn't change the fact they are damn good at setting the lines most of the time.RiverDog":1f6h6ck7 said:Sports Hernia":1f6h6ck7 said:I generally don't bet the Hawks In individual games even when in Vegas, it's uncanny how accurate Vegas is with the lines. Plus I received some great advice from a random guy at a sports book one time when I was about 21. He said never bet on a game where you either love or hate the teams as those emotions will skew your betting and burn you in the end.
I place a futures bet every year at the start of the season for the Hawks to win the Super Bowl, and it worked once! 8)
I disagree. All Vegas is trying to do is even out the betting so they don't pay out more than they take in no matter who wins. They make their money by taking 5% of the amount bet. It doesn't have anything to do with the relative quality of the teams.
So in the case of a game featuring a very popular team, say like the Cowboys, that have a fan base that will blindly bet on their team no matter what the smart bet is, it will alter the point spread.
I hate fantasy football as well. Everyone thinks I should care about their fantasy team and their players. I know I'm in the minority but IMHO it delutes the football watching experience for everyone around as some FF goober needs Romo to throw for 350 yards so he wins his tough matchup that week.JimmyG":4696i4dw said:No, I don't bet. I used to dabble a little bit, but not anymore.
What I don't like about betting is that it kind of taints the experience of watching the game. I just want to watch a game and not worry about inane details. For example, let's say I were to bet on the 49ers/Seahawks game, and I take the "over" on the combined score. If we're up handedly (like we were on Thursday), I don't want to root for the 49ers to march down field and kick a garbage time field goal to meet the point spread just so I win the game.
Or, if I bet on a certain number of passing yards for Wilson... I don't want to get frustrated at the end of a game because we're up big and just run-run-run to wipe out the clock. It almost becomes a conflict of interest.
I also sort of feel this way about fantasy football. Fantasy has corrupted the experience so much that I simply refuse to watch games with my friends anymore. I have Sunday Ticket, and I used to invite people over to watch games with me. It got extremely annoying, because friends would constantly beg me to jump around to different games so they could watch their players. "Hey, could you switch to [garbage game that's a blowout and not interesting whatsoever]? I need a few more points out of [random player], I want to see if he can pick them up." No! I want to watch a hard-fought game that's coming down to the wire, we're not switching games so we can see if your fantasy player picks up an arbitrary number of yards in a meaningless game!