Sentences with phrase «oddsmakers do»

While there is certainly potential in this group, it's easy to see why oddsmakers don't have high expectations for Coach Corbin's team.

Contrary to popular belief, oddsmakers do...

It's true that projecting draft results can often times be a fool's errand, but oddsmakers do something that NBA Draft experts simply don't — put their money where their mouth is.

Contrary to popular belief, oddsmakers do not attempt to balance their book by attracting 50 % of the action on each side.

Although bettors often times place value on these draftees, most oddsmakers don't believe the draft has a significant impact on the title probabilities.

Despite going up against tough secondaries Sunday in the Super Bowl, the oddsmakers don't expect the quarterbacks to falter too much.

The limits for preseason betting are much lower than they are for regular season games, but many oddsmakers do allow sizable bets.

It's interesting to see that oddsmakers don't believe that Portland's win total is higher than Houston's even though the Rockets -LRB--150) have better odds of making the playoffs than the Blazers -LRB--140).

The Jets futures have dropped over 100 points since the draft, and oddsmakers don't anticipate a major improvement from last season's 8 - 8 performance.

Every season there are about 850 college football games with spreads posted, although roughly 50 of those games feature such massive mismatches that oddsmakers don't bother posting moneylines.

In addition to that statement, the early line movement indicates that oddsmakers don't believe that Curry will be active.

Most oddsmakers don't update their win totals during the season, however, earlier this week the offshore BetOnline posted updated win totals for all 30 teams.

Although he places large bets on big games, oddsmakers don't necessarily respect his action.

I can't see either of these teams pitching a shutout and oddsmakers don't either — both have a listed team total of 1.5 goals with heavy juice on the Real Madrid over.

While oddsmakers don't overreact, it is clear that bettors do.

It's really tough for a team that is favored in almost 90 % of their games to be that profitable, but oddsmakers don't expect baseball teams to win nearly 70 % of their games.

Many New York Jets fans are anxiously praying that the team will bring back last year's starter, Ryan Fitzpatrick, but oddsmakers don't believe his addition would have a major impact on the spread.

Golden State added the biggest prize in free agency, Kevin Durant, and while that will likely cause Curry's numbers to fall, oddsmakers don't think voters will glance over the» 15 - ’16 MVP when selecting their All - NBA guards.

Contrary to popular belief, oddsmakers do not attempt to balance their book by attracting 50 percent of the action on each side.

Oddsmakers don't seem to think the Bears battle will be much of a competition with Glennon opening at the -1200 favorite to earn the job for Chicago.

Oddsmakers do not attempt to balance their book by attracting 50 percent of the action on each side but rather shade their opening lines to capitalize on public perception and then allow their sharpest bettors to shape the line.

Oddsmakers don't think so.

The Blue Devils were such large favorites against the 16th seeded Arkansas - Pine Bluff Golden Lions, that oddsmakers did not even set a line.

I personally thought it was crazy that oddsmakers didn't have this more even, or slightly favoring groves.

Oddsmakers didn't even bother posting MVP odds for Brady after it was announced that he would be suspended four games as part of Deflategate.

It's interesting to see that oddsmakers didn't list «Yes» as the favorite until January 8 when the Warriors -LRB--115) were sitting on a 33 - 2 record.

Not exact matches

«But most of the time, home - field advantage doesn't mean a lot to the oddsmakers, and the betting public usually places a greater value on it than it should.»

Oddsmakers account for home - field advantage when setting lines, but many casual bettors don't seem to realize that.

However, they do provide an interesting window into how oddsmakers are sizing up these matchups.

Oddsmakers anticipated that Andrew Luck would greatly help the Colts, but I don't think anybody could have imagined this turnaround.

That's a significant factor when comparing Newton to somebody like Luck, since Scott Tolizen doesn't exactly inspire confidence in oddsmakers.

Over the years, oddsmakers have done a great job at setting the favorite.

Oddsmakers currently have him as the second favorite to take over the job, and Rodgers has done a nice job with Celtic.

The Spurs have also been mentioned as a good potential fit, but oddsmakers clearly don't like his chances of heading to San Antonio.

These lines likely assume the game is being played under the current rules (which don't allow for hand checking), but these lines show just how much oddsmakers respect the Warriors.

The average game had 5 % more points in 2016 - 17 than it did in 2014 - 15, but oddsmakers manged to be within 10 games of a.500 record in both 2015 - 16 and 2016 - 17.

Apparently oddsmakers believe that the addition of Jackson does not outweigh the losses of Singler and Augustin.

Every time there is a game at Wrigley Field, oddsmakers post the total for the Cubs game much later than they do for the rest of the slate.

We at Sports Insights delved into some thorough research a couple of weeks back and although oddsmakers were making an attempt to stop overs from hitting, they weren't doing a good enough job.

By comparing the World Series futures at the Westgate Superbook from Monday morning and Monday evening, I was able to determine which team's oddsmakers believed had done the best to improve their roster.

We've already addressed the discrepancies between the AP voters and oddsmakers, but who do the sportsbooks like to...

This isn't the whole story, though, as we have to see if oddsmakers have been doing their job and keeping up with the trends.

So how much better do oddsmakers think the 49ers will be with Jimmy G starting over Beathard?

Not only do the pundits agree, but so do the oddsmakers, who have New England favored by 15 points according to OddsShark.

NFL — Which fantasy football players do oddsmakers believe are underrated based on their current Yahoo rankings?

-- Which fantasy football players do oddsmakers believe are being undervalued based on their current Yahoo! rankings?

In fact, the WNBA's lack of popularity actually presents a unique opportunity to bettors as oddsmakers are not likely to be well - informed about a sport that doesn't drive much revenue.

-- Your fantasy draft may be coming up soon — which fantasy football players do oddsmakers believe are being undervalued based on their current Yahoo! rankings?

While some fans don't believe the injury will hold the Rams back that much, oddsmakers have their take on how big of an impact he can be.

Did the oddsmakers overvalue last year's leader again?