Originally <a href='https://www.sportsbookreview.com/forum/showthread.php?p=31279908'>posted</a> on 02/09/2024:
My take is that you have to take money distribution and ticket %'s with a grain a salt nowadays. There are so many hands in the cookie jar, no one really knows what a book needs unless you're the manager at that book, and even then your intel only goes as far as your inside knowledge, you don't really know what the sum total of all books are.
There are sites that obviously profess to depict what the public is doing, but they're not legally held to any standard and seldom reveal how they arrive at their numbers. It's not like the gaming commission makes the rounds to ensure accurate reports. You have to use a good deal of intuition in conjunction with whatever mickey mouse data you glean from public reports.