MegaSB has alt run lines all day every day. On Tulsa's games today the lines are:
{Pirates (-1.5) +169 }
{Dodgers (-1.5) +178}
{Rangers (-1.5) +145 }
{Rockies (-1.5) +178 }
BTW, in the long run this strategy is suicide, unless you are real, real real careful, and if you're real, real real careful you do more work than the money won is worth. I ran this for 2002 and 2003 season on paper and the 04-05 seasons playing for real money, and the games just always even themselves out over the long term.
In the process I did learn some valuable alt runline betting strategies for dogs; had a good one yesterday as a matter of fact with Detroit (-1.5) +213. The +200> alt runline plays are a pretty good set of bets on their own; they're not very common and it's a fairly easy call on whether or not they are worth the risk when one comes up.
One thing that I am still trying to understand is the ML:RL differences. The math is very hard for me to get my brain wrapped around, and the alt runline is often out of whack with the normal lines, sometimes being way cheaper than one would think it is and sometimes being more expensive. It sounds like a strange rule of thumb, but if the dog (-1.5) costs less than the favourite (-1.5) I am usually all over the dog or dog (+1.5) play.
A good example of this is Seattle-San Diego today. Seattle is the dog and the standard line is (+1.5) -230/(-1.5) +197 ... but the alt runline is (-1.5) +162/(+1.5) -187, which makes me really want to take a close look at playing Seattle. I would never in a million years lay -230 on a team, but the ML at -103 is pretty attractive to me just going by the lines (have not yet looked at the matchup so don't take this as a recommendation to play Seattle; just giving it as an example of an "out of whack" alt runline that makes me want to look at the dog as a play.)
Phaedrus
