Betting on underdogs in football and favorites in basketball

[Haute-Savoie]

Hmm.

Maybe books sometimes adjust football lines a tad bit downward and basketball lines a tad bit upward for the reasons I suggested. My theory might only work if you’re measuring football results against a spread a computer program would project.

Basketball is by far the easiest sport to bet, with baseball in 2nd place. Hockey and the NFL is a crap shoot with the NFL maybe being the worst. As for NBA you have to understand how difficult it is to win on the road for whatever reason in the NBA. Most times teams w genuine superstars can consistently win on the road.

[danshan11]

Nfl

3540-3667-207 (0.15, 49.1%)

nba

14121-13789-557 (-0.35, 50.6%)

ncaafb

12353-12535-489 (0.25, 49.6%)

ncaabb

23202-23131-976 (-0.15, 50.1%)

I think this shows there truly is no advantage on dog or fave in anyway. Any way to pull stats that shows there is some sort of edge based soley on HA DF is noise

[oilcountry99]

Basketball is by far the easiest sport to bet, with baseball in 2nd place. Hockey and the NFL is a crap shoot with the NFL maybe being the worst. As for NBA you have to understand how difficult it is to win on the road for whatever reason in the NBA. Most times teams w genuine superstars can consistently win on the road.

Really? I'd be curious to see how many people would agree with this statement. Kudos to you.