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[Parsons] (on missed holding calls) It’s an offensive league!! It would be boring for their viewership if they called 10 holdings!! (twitter.com)

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[–] sindaflkasdnflasdnfl@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That’s why you inflate lines on popular teams, so the money equals out. They never said it was statistically fair.

[–] mysterious_whisperer@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Exactly. If they don’t and 90% of the bets are on the popular team, then the book looses big when the popular team wins.

It would be interesting to see a book be completely transparent about it and open the betting at even odds then move a point in the opposite direction every time the bets get off balance. Of course that would be annoying as a better deciding what to play only to have it constantly change.

[–] teddilicious@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

The goal isn't for the money to equal out on both teams. If they did that, they would have less total bets and make less money, because people like betting on favorites. The goal is to make as much money as possible by having as many people as possible bet on a slightly inflated favorite.