where did this idea that fading the public is a "sharp" play (that the public is usually wrong or that if a play is very heavily backed by the public, it's usually a bad play) start from???
There's a guy in the NFL forum named Goldengreek who basically does nothing but play big anti public bets and he's hit 50% for the season in the NFL/NCFB over a pretty large sample size. You look at the beat the prick contests and the public hit about 50% on that
So where did this idea that if a play is very heavily backed by the public, it's automatically a bad play start from??
(note: I'm not talking about reverse line movements, I'm talking about all the people on this forum who seem to think that any anti public underdog is automatically a "sharp" play)