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47 minutes ago, ForJimmy said:

Does it not just use the line that makes them the most money? If your average betting person is hyped by a team or player it probably does feed into the equation. 

Vegas isn't "easily fooled" by media hype, they're probably the least susceptible to that of anyone.  Sports books manipulate lines leading up to kickoff to get people to place dumb bets all the time.

Like Pittsburgh is a 3 point favorite over Houston today, Houston covered the spread last week when they blew out the Jaguars, so John Q. Public thinks it's a no brainer to take Houston to cover.  Vegas, figuring the Steelers are going to cover, sets a low point spread to get the public taking Houston.

To quote Mark Knopfler, them guys ain't dumb.  They know what they're doing.

 

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7 minutes ago, The NFL Shield At Midfield said:

Vegas isn't "easily fooled" by media hype, they're probably the least susceptible to that of anyone.  Sports books manipulate lines leading up to kickoff to get people to place dumb bets all the time.

Like Pittsburgh is a 3 point favorite over Houston today, Houston covered the spread last week when they blew out the Jaguars, so John Q. Public thinks it's a no brainer to take Houston to cover.  Vegas, figuring the Steelers are going to cover, sets a low point spread to get the public taking Houston.

To quote Mark Knopfler, them guys ain't dumb.  They know what they're doing.

 

I’m definitely no expert, but I’m under the impression the line changes based on how people are betting. So in theory if fans are high on a team or it’s an overhyped team they can move the needle pretty easily. At the end of the day Vegas is just hedging bets against other gamblers. Vegas just wants to make money.

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1 hour ago, ForJimmy said:

I’m definitely no expert, but I’m under the impression the line changes based on how people are betting. So in theory if fans are high on a team or it’s an overhyped team they can move the needle pretty easily. At the end of the day Vegas is just hedging bets against other gamblers. Vegas just wants to make money.

I'm no expert either, but that post you were responding to was lol worthy.  I think we're both saying roughly the same thing, which is that Vegas takes what the media and fans are saying in conjunction with other factors and uses it to set point spreads with maximum profit in mind.  They're rarely "fooled".

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9 minutes ago, The NFL Shield At Midfield said:

I'm no expert either, but that post you were responding to was lol worthy.  I think we're both saying roughly the same thing, which is that Vegas takes what the media and fans are saying in conjunction with other factors and uses it to set point spreads with maximum profit in mind.  They're rarely "fooled".

Oh yeah they are never “fooled” or I guess very rarely does that happen. They just want to entice as many people as possible to spend their money so they will make it which they almost always do.

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