Am I alone in my frustration in regards to some sportsbooks insistence in putting up dead lines at halftimes? In the late NBA game, the Raptors led the Warriors by 6 at the half and Olympic deal the secod half as Warriors -6. The second half cant finish on 6 without the game going to OT, so why not deal around it eg 5 or 7 and juice the crap out of those numbers?
Especially on a crappy Raptors/Warriors game. But theyre not going to do themselves any favours by attracting extra volume when theyre dealiong numbers that cant land. I just thought it would make more sense to pick a live number and juice the crap out of it. Why not juice 5 and 7 and bounce back and forth between the two numbers?
At first, GD, I started to reply in disagreement as I didn't understand you... but as I typed, I finally understood what you meant.GreenDoberman said:
Syddiggers, I think GD is trying to say that the books do not want a push at all because it'd be like as if the "bets never came to them in the 1st place". With the Warriors at -6, the books *know* that they *will* settle all 2H wagers without a push thus making that number...
Plus, the books can still juice the -6 line if they wanted to.
* CalvinTy
