Thought I’d toss this out in case it’s helpful to anyone deciding where to post up for baseball.
I was looking through my records to see where I’ve mostly been placing my bets this season, and I ended up writing up a list.
I’ve been funded at about twenty books at any given time this season. I’ve placed at least one baseball bet 41 days. I’ve bet sides, run lines, and totals. Rarely if ever props, parlays or anything else. Some substantive bets, some middling/scalping. Usually the day of the game; only occasionally overnights. Only rarely influenced by bonus considerations. I’ll “break a tie” by betting where I need rollover if two or more books have the same line, and I’ll play a break even scalp that I’d otherwise skip, but 1% of the time or less am I for any reason placing a bet at a worse number than is available at another of my funded books.
So if I bet it somewhere, that’s where it was the best, or at least tied.
Anyway, here’s a list of how many of those 41 days I’ve placed at least one bet at each book—an admittedly crude but still hopefully relevant measure of how often one will find the best lines there:
Mansion: 41
Matchbook: 37
SIA: 37
Pinnacle: 35
Sportingbet group: 28
ABC Islands: 20
WSEX: 18
5 Dimes: 16
Canbet: 16
VIP group: 13
Actionbets: 10
Bet Jamaica: 10
Bodog: 10
Intertops: 10*
Olympic: 8
CRIS: 7
Trojan: 6
BetBBB: 4
Skybook: 2**
Hollywood: 1***
*Only funded about half the time, so this number should be roughly doubled to get a better idea of their value for line shopping.
**Only funded the first few days of the season, so this number should be at least a little higher.
***Only funded the first few days of the season, so this number should be at least a little higher. However they’re now presumably going to be using Sportingbet lines, so this data is no longer relevant anyway.
I knew Mansion would be number one, and Matchbook, Pinnacle, and SIA would be in the next three slots in some order or other. If I just kept those and maybe one from the Sportingbet group I’d have rarely had to settle for a worse line than I got, and even then almost never by more than a penny or two. (If I bet more overnights, I’d add 5 Dimes as the other “must.”) So it’s arguable whether the added labor of shopping all those others is worth it.
I was very surprised to see I’d placed so many bets at ABC, and somewhat surprised at how high Canbet and a couple of others scored. It seems like I never find anything at those places, but apparently they’re at least tied for the best line reasonably often.
Again, just thought this might help some people interested in finding decent books for baseball line shopping. Or for that matter, maybe others could help me by pointing out books not listed here that you’ve found to be a “must” for baseball.
I was looking through my records to see where I’ve mostly been placing my bets this season, and I ended up writing up a list.
I’ve been funded at about twenty books at any given time this season. I’ve placed at least one baseball bet 41 days. I’ve bet sides, run lines, and totals. Rarely if ever props, parlays or anything else. Some substantive bets, some middling/scalping. Usually the day of the game; only occasionally overnights. Only rarely influenced by bonus considerations. I’ll “break a tie” by betting where I need rollover if two or more books have the same line, and I’ll play a break even scalp that I’d otherwise skip, but 1% of the time or less am I for any reason placing a bet at a worse number than is available at another of my funded books.
So if I bet it somewhere, that’s where it was the best, or at least tied.
Anyway, here’s a list of how many of those 41 days I’ve placed at least one bet at each book—an admittedly crude but still hopefully relevant measure of how often one will find the best lines there:
Mansion: 41
Matchbook: 37
SIA: 37
Pinnacle: 35
Sportingbet group: 28
ABC Islands: 20
WSEX: 18
5 Dimes: 16
Canbet: 16
VIP group: 13
Actionbets: 10
Bet Jamaica: 10
Bodog: 10
Intertops: 10*
Olympic: 8
CRIS: 7
Trojan: 6
BetBBB: 4
Skybook: 2**
Hollywood: 1***
*Only funded about half the time, so this number should be roughly doubled to get a better idea of their value for line shopping.
**Only funded the first few days of the season, so this number should be at least a little higher.
***Only funded the first few days of the season, so this number should be at least a little higher. However they’re now presumably going to be using Sportingbet lines, so this data is no longer relevant anyway.
I knew Mansion would be number one, and Matchbook, Pinnacle, and SIA would be in the next three slots in some order or other. If I just kept those and maybe one from the Sportingbet group I’d have rarely had to settle for a worse line than I got, and even then almost never by more than a penny or two. (If I bet more overnights, I’d add 5 Dimes as the other “must.”) So it’s arguable whether the added labor of shopping all those others is worth it.
I was very surprised to see I’d placed so many bets at ABC, and somewhat surprised at how high Canbet and a couple of others scored. It seems like I never find anything at those places, but apparently they’re at least tied for the best line reasonably often.
Again, just thought this might help some people interested in finding decent books for baseball line shopping. Or for that matter, maybe others could help me by pointing out books not listed here that you’ve found to be a “must” for baseball.
