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<blockquote data-quote="GTRX7" data-source="post: 191676" data-attributes="member: 1045"><p>Again, I get that the goal is to have even money on both sides of the line. I think you are missing <u>my</u> point though. As you say, the point of the line is to predict how the public will bet, with the goal to have even money on both sides. Undeniably, however, things like the better team, injuries, coaching situation, etc. have an incredibly strong influence on how the public will bet, and as such are absolutely taken into account by Vegas. Now, as I acknowledged above, for some games, there will be things that have "nothing to do with football" that may <u>also</u> be expected to influence the public's betting for a particular game. For example, expected over-betting by fans of one team, general misperception of strength or weakness of one or both teams, some feel-good story involving one team, etc. For just a standard game, however, where there is not a lot of betting and not a lot of story lines, the Vegas line should be expected to represent substantially the same thing as what they expect to happen on the field, as that is how the betting public should be assumed to be making their decision. </p><p></p><p>In this case, if there was something that would be expected to influence the line in this particular game, it would most likely be that the betting public is overly pessimistic about Georgia Tech's chances. Thus, if Vegas is going to move the line for this game based on "nothing to do with football," it should be expected to swing the line further <u>TOWARDS</u> Virginia Tech in an attempt to get pessimistic Georgia Tech fans to even out the betting. As such, it is reasonable to assume that Vegas does truly believe Georgia Tech has the best chance to win the game and, if anything, based on your logic, may even think Georgia Tech is a bigger favorite than the line would indicate, but has reduced the line in order to even out the betting. </p><p></p><p>Is there any of that you disagree with?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GTRX7, post: 191676, member: 1045"] Again, I get that the goal is to have even money on both sides of the line. I think you are missing [U]my[/U] point though. As you say, the point of the line is to predict how the public will bet, with the goal to have even money on both sides. Undeniably, however, things like the better team, injuries, coaching situation, etc. have an incredibly strong influence on how the public will bet, and as such are absolutely taken into account by Vegas. Now, as I acknowledged above, for some games, there will be things that have "nothing to do with football" that may [U]also[/U] be expected to influence the public's betting for a particular game. For example, expected over-betting by fans of one team, general misperception of strength or weakness of one or both teams, some feel-good story involving one team, etc. For just a standard game, however, where there is not a lot of betting and not a lot of story lines, the Vegas line should be expected to represent substantially the same thing as what they expect to happen on the field, as that is how the betting public should be assumed to be making their decision. In this case, if there was something that would be expected to influence the line in this particular game, it would most likely be that the betting public is overly pessimistic about Georgia Tech's chances. Thus, if Vegas is going to move the line for this game based on "nothing to do with football," it should be expected to swing the line further [U]TOWARDS[/U] Virginia Tech in an attempt to get pessimistic Georgia Tech fans to even out the betting. As such, it is reasonable to assume that Vegas does truly believe Georgia Tech has the best chance to win the game and, if anything, based on your logic, may even think Georgia Tech is a bigger favorite than the line would indicate, but has reduced the line in order to even out the betting. Is there any of that you disagree with? [/QUOTE]
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