Smelly McUgly
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People betting on the Broncos to cover...ouch.
Smelly McUgly":3kgfj0v5 said:People betting on the Broncos to cover...ouch.
vant":20z8vjgr said:That's not true. At the palace station, they were seeing 80/20 action on broncos.
Vegas was betting on seattle.
etanate":fkbgi8x6 said:Peeps who bet the field won...
HawkWow":32nvf516 said:Smelly McUgly":32nvf516 said:People betting on the Broncos to cover...ouch.
Under nonsense. For the 100th time, Vegas sets a line that will receive equal action on both teams, then takes the juice off the top. Please post responsibly.
The reports I saw were that 60%+ of the action was on the Broncos. Hence, the books potentially cleaning up huge with a Seahawks cover.drrew":36d8kd4d said:HawkWow":36d8kd4d said:Smelly McUgly":36d8kd4d said:People betting on the Broncos to cover...ouch.
Under nonsense. For the 100th time, Vegas sets a line that will receive equal action on both teams, then takes the juice off the top. Please post responsibly.
For the 101st time, that's simply not true. Reports were that as of last night, 60%+ of action had been placed on the Seahawks, this was being reported by multiple writers across multiple sites.
Two alternative hypotheses could explain the failure of the bookmaker to equalise wagers on the two sides of the spread. The first possibility is that the bookmaker would like to balance the bets but is unable to do so because it is difficult to predict accurately what team bettors will prefer. The second hypothesis is that balancing the wagers is not the objective of the bookmaker. Indeed, as demonstrated earlier, if bettors exhibit systematic biases, a profit maximising bookmaker does not want to equalise the money bet on both sides. Rather, the bookmaker intentionally skews the odds such that the preferred team attracts more wagers but wins less than half of the time.