Basic baseball question involving sbr default that show opening percent. ex,....
Wash 45.1% avg odds (-108) . Final score: Wash 5
Philly's . 54.9% . " " (+102) Phillies 3
This was sbr's feed...what information can i find useful in this. The percent of "something" that determines that percent. (is that the percent of people who think Philly will win, or the amount of bets being made on a team. BUT, the the team that is the fav is the one with lowest odds. AND, Wash won 5 to 3
55% of bets in on Phi at +102
45% of bets in on Was at -108
We dont know what sites contribute to this tracking, Vegas Insider had a wider margin (95/5 on Was -120)
The vig would change if the % of bets changed, i.e. if 60% of bets came in on Phi it'd move to +ev; Wash would move to -105 to attract more money and balance the exposure.
It has no reflection on the oddsmaker true prediction of the outcome, rather a tracking of where players are putting their money.