It has since come back to a consensus pick»em, a net 1 - point move toward
the contrarian side.
With all of these lines trending toward
the contrarian side, don't be surprised to see a couple show up in tonight's Sharp Action Report.
There is also my hypothesis that more and more people have access to betting percentages and want to be on
the contrarian side, and by doing so they inevitably make that side less contrarian which fits with the data that we found above.
There, the number of times I see the same faces pop up on
the contrarian side (e.g. Anthony Watts - an «expert» by nobody's definition), my impression was that certain people are way over-represented.
[DC: The most egregious breakdowns and examples of corruption of the peer review process are clearly on
the contrarian side.
This means that the reporting of this issue has been biased by the the effectiveness of the media and marketing advisors on the each side of the debate, a debate that
the contrarian side is winning due to the powerful vested interest backing it and because they can afford the media and marketing advisors to properly promote it.