[chemist]

I'm looking for a source of historical line data for NHL. So far I have identified Covers.com, which has limited data going back only so far as the 06-07 season, and donbest.com which has considerably more detailed data going back to the 05-06 season. The latter I have scraped but I need help in interpreting it.

Take for example 1st April 2007, Detroit at Columbus. "-200", "-175" etc I understand to be the moneyline odds on Detroit (presumably we are supposed to know where each book's line breaks were and infer Columbus's odds). But what do "pk-85" and "-1½+60" mean? And what does the total "5o45" mean? and why is the over specified for some games but the under for others?

I'll share the final CSV with helpful posters.

[cobra_king]

The "pk-85" just means that it's a straight moneyline, so in other words it would read detroit as a -185 favorite. The dog line would be something you would have to work out depending on breakage.

The "-1 1/2 +60" is the puck line. So this would read as follows:

Detroit -1.5 +160

And Columbus would be +1.5 -180 (or -190 depending on the books breakage)

As for the totals.......the "5o45" means the total of the game is 5 and the juice on the OVER (o) is -145.

So you would have as follows

Detroit/Columbus over/under of

5 over -145
5 under +125

And as such, if a game read 5u40 it would just mean that the under would be the favored number, so we'd have

5 over +120
5 under -140

Hope this helps

[chemist]

The "pk-85" just means that it's a straight moneyline, so in other words it would read detroit as a -185 favorite. The dog line would be something you would have to work out depending on breakage.

The "-1 1/2 +60" is the puck line. So this would read as follows:

Detroit -1.5 +160

And Columbus would be +1.5 -180 (or -190 depending on the books breakage)

As for the totals.......the "5o45" means the total of the game is 5 and the juice on the OVER (o) is -145.

So you would have as follows

Detroit/Columbus over/under of

5 over -145
5 under +125

And as such, if a game read 5u40 it would just mean that the under would be the favored number, so we'd have

5 over +120
5 under -140

Hope this helps

Thanks, excellent! Those guys at Don Best obviously don't like typing any more than I do.