Stew Baker
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Anybody know of a reliable source of current and past bet % and money % data? Thanks
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Stew Baker
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I looked at actionnetwork.com, sportsbettingdime.com, and scoresandodds.com yesterday. They all show the same exact numbers, so they each must be getting the data from the same set of sportsbooks. Two things off the top of the bat caught my eye. One, on our Gm. 2 Dal. at Minn., they showed Minn. minus the points getting 58% of the money (and 55% of the bets). A number only in the high 50's doesn't seem to make sense, seeing how the line shot up as much as it did (Note: you can access historical data at this link: NBA Public Betting Trends – Daily Bet and Money Percentages, just use the date filter). Then, at 12:38 pm EDT today, I looked at the total info on the game (Gm. 3 Minn. at Dal.), and they showed 96% (96!!) of the money (and 96% of the bets) on the over. I'm there, now way, how can I rely on this stuff?
Inspekdah
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I think it’s better to trust true polls than don’t involve books. Like a yahoo pickem. That other data is just made up I feel.
Stew Baker
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Yahoo pickem? I never heard of this, tell me more information. And you said, "like" yahoo pickem. Are there more such entities?
Stew Baker
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I could see some people being influenced by the prior over/under record in the confererence finals. But 87% is some number. That's 7 over bettors for each under bettor. (Besides, the bet and money %s, according to the sites I mentioned, were in the 90s for ALL finals games in both conferences, starting with game 1!). And, even if MGM's number is legitimate, which it may be, it's some leap from 87% at MGM to 96% (tickets AND money) at the sites I mentioned, for today'game. 96% works out to 24 over bettors to every 1 under bettor. Hard to wrap my head around that one.
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Stew Baker
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I'm going to leave the totals numbers be for the moment, and play the devil's advocate, thinking maybe the sites could be right, with the 58% Gm. 2 money split favoring Minny, even though the line move suggested a higher (65 plus?) percentage. Is it plausible the books were trying to draw Dallas action (hehe), and were playing games with the number? Does that scenario seem to make sense?
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