Sentences with phrase «betting home favorites»

Exploit that tendency by betting home favorites when two of the nation's best play each other.

Typically, betting home favorites during the regular season is a losing proposition.

If you are going to wager on this early MLB game, bet the home favorite.

Not exact matches

The Rangers opened as betting favorites in this game but are now down to -110 to close out this series at home in Game 6.

In the NHL, the Buffalo Sabres are slight favorites at home, and surprisingly to some of the team at SportsInsights, are receiving just 1/3 of the bets.

Just one week after receiving 35 % of spread bets as home favorites against Washington State, bettors are once again avoiding the Buffs.

As a small contrarian home favorite, UNC Wilmington may be a decent bet to finally cover a game this season.

Despite the sportsbooks adjusting their lines to give road dog Jacksonville an additional half - point, the betting public remains slightly in favor of the home favorite Titans covering by just under double digits.

Cleveland is a 2 - point home betting favorite for Game 6 at sportsbooks monitored by OddsShark.com.

The Cleveland Cavaliers can extend the NBA Finals to seven games with a home win over the Golden State Warriors as small betting favorites.

In that matchup, public betting was evenly split as the Dolphins closed as 3.5 - point home favorites.

They also love betting home teams, favorites and overs, which always creates added value on dogs, visitors and unders.

After opening with the lowly Browns as 1.5 point favorites at home, the sportsbooks have adjusted their lines to present the betting public with a pick - em scenario.

According to our public betting trends, the home favorite has received just 21 % of spread tickets and 39 % of total dollars wagered.

The Titans opened as a 6.5 - point home favorite and are garnering 72 % of spread bets, yet the line has dropped to -5, indicating there are big bets backing the Steelers in this week's early action.

Betting market: After Bookmaker.eu opened Atlanta as 2 - point home favorites, money quickly jumped on New Orleans and moved them up to 2 - point favorites as recently as Wednesday morning.

Knowing that both home teams and favorites are being undervalued during the playoffs, we opted to combine these two filters within Bet Labs.

That's no different this weekend where Notre Dame / USC is receiving the highest ticket count (currently around 5,000 bet slips), and it's also seeing heavy action on the home favorites to cover (66 % on Irish).

In early betting action, the public doesn't mind giving that many points, with both heavy home favorites gathering more than two - thirds of the bets.

Since 2005, home favorites receiving < 30 % of bets have now gone 41 - 30 ATS.

According to our free MLB odds page, the Royals opened as -125 home favorites at CRIS and are currently receiving 69 % of moneyline bets.

College Football Week 4 Betting Recap: - Thursday night's game featured a crucial Top - 25 matchup between public favorite Auburn and home dog Kansas State.

In one of this weekend's most heavily bet games, Tennessee opened as 8 - point home favorites against Florida.

Betting market: Philadelphia opened as 2 - point favorites, but the line has flipped to Dallas -3 with the expectation that the Eagles may rest players after locking up home - field advantage through the playoffs.

-- In tonight's win - or - go - home showdown, the Pittsburgh Penguins are currently receiving 44 % of moneyline bets as -160 favorites against the New York Rangers.

We found that over the past decade, home favorites receiving less than 40 % of spread bets have gone 60 - 37 for +19.8 units and an impressive 20.4 % ROI.

Historically, favorites have had a much larger edge coming off the short week going 96 -66-5 ATS, while home teams have gone 87 -74-5 ATS, and teams getting the minority of bets have gone just 77 -84-3 ATS.

If you are looking for reasons to bet on LSU, there are certainly a few: home contrarian favorite, low total of 44.5, Auburn RB Kamryn Pettway doubtful, sharp line movement on LSU +7, etc..

-- Game 5 of the NBA Finals tips off tonight at 8:10 PM ET and, according to our NBA Betting Trends, the San Antonio Spurs are currently receiving just 44 % of spread bets as a 5.5 - point home favorite.

Betting market: New England opened as 13 - point home favorites and, with the majority of spread tickets and dollars taking Buffalo, the line has ticked down to -11.5.

-- The White Sox opened as -135 favorites at CRIS and the public has steadily backed the home team, with 76 % of moneyline bets currently on Chicago.

They open as 7 - point home favorite to the visiting New York Knicks in NBA betting action Thursday.

The Huskies entered the game as 5 - point favorites over the Owls at home, so payouts will go to those who bet on Temple.

In this contest, Miami received just 43 % of spread bets as a 3 - point home favorite but were able to cover the spread in a 98 - 93 victory.

Early public money hammered the home favorite, with the Blue Devils receiving 80 % of spread bets and 88 % of total dollars wagered.

Prior to news of this injury, the Chiefs were receiving 48 % of spread bets as a 4 - point home favorite over the Chargers.

More specifically, we found that in games where the «opening line» was -3.1 to -8.1 (small home favorites), «betting against the Public» resulted in a 56 % winning percentage and +50 units over the past two seasons.

Oklahoma City opened as a 3.5 - point favorite at Pinnacle, and the Thunder have received the majority of public action with 63 % of spread bets coming in on the home favorite.

With the line remaining static for this inter-conference showdown, nearly three out of four spread bets remain confident in the home favorite Cardinals beating the lowly Browns by at least seven points.

Betting market: The public isn't overwhelmingly backing New Orleans as massive home favorites, with the ticket count at 59 - 41 Saints as of Sunday morning.

According to our NBA Betting Trends, Miami opened as a 7 - point home favorite at CRIS and are currently receiving 57 % of spread bets.

Despite the sportsbooks adjusting their lines to give road dog Miami an additional two points, more than six out of ten spread bets are sticking with home favorite Ohio to secure a double - digit victory.

Navy is receiving three - quarters (74 %) of the bets as home favorites of -7 points as they go for 10 wins in a row in the Army - Navy series.

Levitt's research showed that the Home Dog was the public's least favorite bet.

Mississippi opened as a 4 - point home favorite against Texas A&M but have received just 33 % of early spread bets.

-- Via our Bet Labs software: College football home favorites receiving less than 30 % of spread bets have gone 40 - 29 for +9.1 units and a 13.2 % ROI since 2005 and Illinois almost fit that criteria before closing at 31 % as a 3 - point favorite (Won and covered).

In the most evenly bet game of the weekend, UCLA opened as a 17 - point home favorite and are currently receiving 50 % of spread bets.

In this week's Monday night game, the Cardinals opened as 7 - point home favorites and have received 67 % of early spread bets.

Although San Diego has lost their past two games, they still opened as a 5.5 - point home favorite at CRIS and have received 73 % of spread bets at our contributing sportsbooks.

Typically our betting against the public strategies struggle when home teams and favorites are victorious, and this week was no different.