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Prop13 · 05-20-2006, 05:06 PM

The thing to remember about odds makers is that they're there to make sure that the house doesn't pay out any more than they take in. ...So teams with more fans will have better odds regardless of their likelihood of playing. You see this in college sports all the time. USC and Notre Dame, Wisconsin, etc. are always gonna have better odds than some smaller school with fewer fans, just because every SC, Notre Dame and Wisconsin alum is gonna place a bet when they're in Vegas. The same thing goes with horse racing--there's odds making and then there's handicapping. Never confuse the two if you're gonna make a bet.

05-20-2006, 05:06 PM	#15
Prop13 Camp Scrub Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 30	Re: Las Vegas Super Bowl Odds The thing to remember about odds makers is that they're there to make sure that the house doesn't pay out any more than they take in. ...So teams with more fans will have better odds regardless of their likelihood of playing. You see this in college sports all the time. USC and Notre Dame, Wisconsin, etc. are always gonna have better odds than some smaller school with fewer fans, just because every SC, Notre Dame and Wisconsin alum is gonna place a bet when they're in Vegas. The same thing goes with horse racing--there's odds making and then there's handicapping. Never confuse the two if you're gonna make a bet.