
Originally Posted by
maritime
Obviously there is no way to know for sure what moved the line, but as I mentioned above, it seems plausible that a book, a large book, might benefit by moving the line on their own intentionally shortly before gametime in order to get the reaction I'm sure it got today with this game - more action on Tampa Bay because "somebody knows something we don't." Perhaps this is a strategy to help them obtain more balanced action on both sides of a bet, that up until that point had mostly been one-sided. In a way, it's like the chicken or the egg...did the action make the book move the line or did the line movement make the action change?....I don't know. Food for thought.