Here's my overall answer: very good. Better than the season before.
Some standout memories:
Bowmans had some terrific opinionated numbers on halfs and quarters at times. Some Sundays there would be about 5 different numbers so unusual I would have to do triple-takes to believe what I was seeing. Some Sundays I would find basically nothing there but overall, they were a top book for me this NFL season.
I got a lot of use out of 5 Dimes special reduced-juice prop lines which they post for all the big games (meaning any game that isn't in the two main batches on Sunday).
I just got into Mansion a short time ago but what can I say: WOW! I don't know if that business model can sustain - and for that reason I'm not ready to give them a full endorsement - but wow.
It was worth keeping an eye on props at CRIS, DSI, Las Palmas and BetonGames. Those are the ones I found most likely to be pleasantly out-of-whack.
Software/systems that repeatedly annoyed me: BetonGames, Skybook, Legendz, Royal.
Website layouts that repeatedly annoyed me: Intertops, BetonGames.
Books so consistently solid overall for NFL, it doesn't even stand out any more that they're so good. It's just day-to-day excellence: Pinnacle, Olympic.
That's what comes immediately to mind for me.
Some standout memories:
Bowmans had some terrific opinionated numbers on halfs and quarters at times. Some Sundays there would be about 5 different numbers so unusual I would have to do triple-takes to believe what I was seeing. Some Sundays I would find basically nothing there but overall, they were a top book for me this NFL season.
I got a lot of use out of 5 Dimes special reduced-juice prop lines which they post for all the big games (meaning any game that isn't in the two main batches on Sunday).
I just got into Mansion a short time ago but what can I say: WOW! I don't know if that business model can sustain - and for that reason I'm not ready to give them a full endorsement - but wow.
It was worth keeping an eye on props at CRIS, DSI, Las Palmas and BetonGames. Those are the ones I found most likely to be pleasantly out-of-whack.
Software/systems that repeatedly annoyed me: BetonGames, Skybook, Legendz, Royal.
Website layouts that repeatedly annoyed me: Intertops, BetonGames.
Books so consistently solid overall for NFL, it doesn't even stand out any more that they're so good. It's just day-to-day excellence: Pinnacle, Olympic.
That's what comes immediately to mind for me.
Good question and it made me think about betting football 10 years ago. Bettors who lived in Nevada excluded, betting on football (or any other sport) has (to use an anology) gone from shopping at a 7-11 to shopping at a super Wal-mart, everything imanagable is betable, just think about in-game wagering for example. Today bettors wonder what the problem is if a book doens't hang a 1st quarter total on a NFL game by Monday morning. These days you can do it all with a keyboard. Players can fund an account a half hour before a game make any number of different bets and get paid in less than a half an hour after the game ends without leaving the house. I know I am getting off topic but the question got be thinking how far the sports betting business has come in the last 10 years. Hand written tickets on sides and totals that were graded over night were about all you got for a Sunday afternoon NFL game. On Monday night football some stores dealt a halftime line written with pecil and paper by an overworked clerk. I could go on, but I think you get my point. To answer the question - In general I think the sportsbooks did one hell of a job this NFL season.
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