My initial thought has always been that it's generally a bad idea to pay 10 pts for a half point. But as I look at it fresh, I've noticed an interesting relationship between the spread, buying points and the ML. OK, let's take an example right now: ULLaff -7-110 and +280/-340 at BetJamaica. Now you can buy up to 3 full points for 10 cents each. Let's see, the point difference between the spread and the ML here is 6.5 points (-7 to -0.5) and the juice difference is 270 points. If it were allowed to buy as many points as you wished it would cost 130 juice points to buy to -0.5 i.e. it would be -240. Naturally that is signifcantly better than the -340 and also better than the +280 takeback. Buying down to -4-170 get you almost halfway to the ML in terms of spread and yet costs you only 25% more paying -170 instead of -110 as compared to the -340 ML.
For an even more extreme example, consider Gonzaga -10-110 vs. +425/-550 ML. 9.5 pts to -0.5 would cost 190 pts to -300. Way way better than either ML number. Of course anyone would do that. So shouldn't going to -7-170 also make sense?
What am I missing here? Either point buying is good, fav ML's are bad or dog ML's are good? Just ruminating here. Thoughts?
For an even more extreme example, consider Gonzaga -10-110 vs. +425/-550 ML. 9.5 pts to -0.5 would cost 190 pts to -300. Way way better than either ML number. Of course anyone would do that. So shouldn't going to -7-170 also make sense?
What am I missing here? Either point buying is good, fav ML's are bad or dog ML's are good? Just ruminating here. Thoughts?