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Originally Posted by hi-rez
Is there a rough figure for what is expected percentage-wise for money on the favorite versus the dog? I guess it would be easy to calculate the mean if you have the data.
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theres a lot of screens. Its based on my thread "Fading the public... MArch madness" in the think tank. People will laugh about how fadin the public's been around forever, its barely 50%, etc,etc. But when you filter it using the right stipulations (i.e National exposure, so call "americas" teams(north car, duke, kentucky, etc, in which public opinion may be higher than say, the same amount of talent at a school such as Davidson.)
So they set "america's" team at a small line, something between a 2 and 5 point line in most cases, in which your average bettor is going to just take the favorite because thats the team thats hot. Thats the team that won by 25+ppg margin in the tourney.
They dont realize that they had a cakewalk through their court to do that, and now they have to play on a real stage. Thats why the line was so low. Books usually have a good ideawhich side of the line is right(thats why they stay afloat) and they know that the folks that are going to hammer the bad line, are going to hammer it HARD, and Joe dumbass says "NC dropped to -3? Thats a lock!) Really? Thats your best bet? it should have been KU -3, but they know what theyre doing.
I would say, using my filter with so called "americas" team, its an easy 75%. With regular faves in national spotlight, its about 65%+. You can find the threads if you dig...
only thing is, these games are not up every night... sometimes only a select few a year, but traps exist, and its not due to fixes. Follow the stats...