Originally Posted by
gasto
Upscope, why are you intent on calling people names just because you disagree with them. Emotions cannot substitute for sound reasoning. If sports gambling is a business, which it is, why would the big betting houses not have an interest in at least some of the outcomes especially when the overwhelming majority of the public is on one side. The team can still win, but not cover the spread or still win but control the tempo to influence game totals. Someone just talked about half time totals at 122 yet final total still coming in at 206 which was at the set total. And your intelligent self sees no anomaly in this. Truly astounding that you would call yourself smart and still not see something wrong with this. Hidden in all of this is the fact that there is in game betting/live betting on game totals. What do you think, smart people like you would bet on a game at half time totals at 122 and maybe full game total is reset to 230. Makes it easy that only 108 needed for second half. The smart people think they have won ( still manage to lose), the ones on under 207, put in bets to say over 230 to get what they assume is a lost bet ( lose that bet- advantage betting house). Greedy ones put in more bets for over 230 excited at the halftime totals and lost original and new bets. Its pretty simple to see how some of the games are choreographed. Not obvious but if you are watching the original total, sometimes you can win just betting against what seems logical ( or the fix).