How does your local give out lines for baseball?

matt4000 · Mar 12, 2010

Since there is such high juice on certain games, how does this work, so that the local makes money on these games?

Secondly, if the juice isn't at even odds, at what odds would the local begin to use the run line on the high juice games?

I am trying to understand this, can anyone help?

matt4000 · Mar 23, 2010

I am trying to figure out how he looks at the odds and then makes the lines at even odds using the run line?

matt4000 · Mar 28, 2010

Anyone have some input?
Thanks!

billbeater · Mar 29, 2010

moneylines, or uses the lines off of an online site

BORO · Mar 29, 2010

Alot of them use offshore books to get there lines. One of mine uses scores and odds for his.

daboyzinblue · Mar 29, 2010

There is also some old skool locals that make up their own run lines. If your local does that he can be very vulnerable. example: If Boston is -275 ml the local rl might be -2/-2.5 -110

LockedampLoaded · Mar 29, 2010

Mine uses vegasinsider and takes the average or highest of the books from the vegas odds section for mlb and always bumps them up.....~~:<<

matt4000 · Mar 29, 2010

daboyzinblue or anyone,

At what point does he up the line to a run line? Can you give some examples of when the odds becomes a run line?
I understand how the normal odds works without the run line. It's the run lines that he adds on certain game with high juice that I don't get?

billbeater · Mar 29, 2010

probably at -250 ml or more would be my guess. certainly nothing under -200 should make him switch to a runline.

matt4000 · Mar 29, 2010

Where is there some kind of formula or place that shows how they decide when to take high juice games and add 1.5 or 2 etc. on to them?

And how do they take high odds and make them even for both teams?

I've been looking all over the internet and can't find anything, this is why I am asking for help.

BadCo · Mar 29, 2010

Most get confused on the rl moneyline.

The road teams gets juiced up over the home team because the road team gets last at bat.

I am sure oddsmaker have a chart but asking us how the juice is determined and we don't know.