The bookies got the line just right on this one, total of 9, and the Yanks so heavily favorited that you couldn't really bet them. 7-2 NY, certainly about the expected score, but I'm not about to lay -370 on a baseball game on opening day, that is a late season sort of line ,and probably in the top ten all time for most lopsided lines regarding baseball. I can't think of any game that was higher than that off of top of my big head.
Does anyone have a record of how betting huge favorites like say -250 or more has worked out over time ? I'd bet it would be a huge net loser.
Does anyone have a record of how betting huge favorites like say -250 or more has worked out over time ? I'd bet it would be a huge net loser.
Interesting Tate. All I'll say for sure is I'd never bet a baseball game and take a -370 line , in particular on day 1, the game is not critical requiring a win. I'm not a fan of laying 2.5 runs in a game totalled at 9, which was dead on.
The prop type bets like team totals, first 5 innings are a good way to go unless you're looking to bet thousands, rarely the case for 99 percent of people.
That line just shocked me, Yankees have a solid team but they ain't gonna win 122 games either.
The prop type bets like team totals, first 5 innings are a good way to go unless you're looking to bet thousands, rarely the case for 99 percent of people.
That line just shocked me, Yankees have a solid team but they ain't gonna win 122 games either.
And they lose yet again 7-5 at somewhere around -300 to the worst team in MLB, when they are supposed to be the best team or at least close to it !
Baseball and chalk goes together about as well as tequila and Pepsi, I had a customer that drank those when I tended bar. Well tequila and whatever kind of cola it was that came out of the gun, yuck !
Baseball and chalk goes together about as well as tequila and Pepsi, I had a customer that drank those when I tended bar. Well tequila and whatever kind of cola it was that came out of the gun, yuck !
