Exactly!
It dosent matter if its high profile / low profile games.
Sure one could really try to follow the breadcrumbs of info on not so well known teams and beat the book as well.
But the high profile ones are where its at. Its much easier to cap. infact, u dont even have to look at stats, know a single players name , injuries etc. the line and popularity of the team + the major "story line" will tell u everything.
If a road team is 1-9 and the home team is 9-1 W/L , which ATS would an avg. gambler take ?
one should blindly take the 1-9 team ATS.
For example , through 17 weeks of NFL... there are about ~100 prime time games..
These games take WAY more action $ wise compared to ALL the afternoon ones combined on that day.
Now, are the books really trying to go like 40w-60L on these games? HELL NO.
Books are not computers, and the games we're betting on are not robots either.
otherwise any1 could pull a calculator out and win all the time.
They are human beings just like us. and All human beings are selfish by nature.
Sure they could plug all the info, stats, etc.
((btw which is way more/accurate than all of us on this forum could ever acquire -
and all of it , is already factored into the line))
+ each teams market value, spit out the closest projection no.
Take the ~10% juice (~4.5 % profit long term) and call it a day.
But WHY do that?, when they already know the probable outcomes of most of these games.
(esp. from the ledger/profiles of sharp players $ coming in )
So shade the line even more and trap the avg. bettor = gain even more profit.
There is a reason why the true % consensus of no. of tickets & total $ amount on each side from any major book is not public information.
Sure, Nothing is a 100% . maybe a key player gets injured, maybe he found out his wife cheated on him last night, maybe he didnt sleep well, or is too hungover.. who tf knows. But I truly believe for a good 2/3rds + of the games. ESP. the high profile games.. the books already know the Most PROBABLE (80%+ certainty) outcome/ comfortable ATS win by tip off.
Quite simply depends on if ur siding with the book or the hook(bait)
Thoughts?