Las Vegas Super Bowl Odds

[scowan]

Originally Posted by Prop13

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.

This is the truth behind all of the numbers. Dallas has the best odds, because they have the most fans and the most people who will take this bet. To me it has nothing to do with their chances, only more to do with how to get more people to bet on them.