Blue Jackets bring up York
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12/19/2008 - Columbus, OH (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Columbus Blue Jackets called up center Mike York from Syracuse of the American Hockey League on Friday and assigned defenseman Clay Wilson to Syracuse.
The 29-year-old York has seven goals and 16 assists in 28 games this season with the Crunch. Signed by Columbus as a free agent in the offseason, he is a veteran of 578 NHL games spanning eight seasons and has 127 goals and 195 assists. He has played for the Rangers, Oilers, Islanders, Flyers, and Coyotes.
The 25-year-old Wilson had an assist in five games with the Blue Jackets after being recalled by the club on December 5.
Glasgow, Scotland (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Scottish Premier League reaches its halfway mark for most teams this weekend with things far from decided. Celtic, which currently holds a four-point lead over rivals Rangers through 18 leag
<< Liverpool takes strong away form into Arsenal
London, England (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Liverpool will be trying to extend its lead
atop the Premiership table on Sunday when the Reds travel to the Emirates
Stadium to meet an inconsistent Arsenal side.
Liverpool has been very good away
<< Eskimos sign RB McCarty
Edmonton, AB (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Edmonton Eskimos inked running back Calvin
McCarty to a multi-year contract on Friday.
McCarty racked up 490 rushing yards and four touchdowns on 88 carries, adding
70 catches for 583 yards and a score.
<< Penguins re-sign Talbot
Pittsburgh, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Pittsburgh Penguins signed forward
Maxime Talbot to a two-year contract through the 2010-11 season, the
team announced on Friday.
The 5-foot-11, 185-pound forward has registered four go
<< Struggling Cardinals Head to New England
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Arizona Cardinals are running out of opportunities to
show that they can win in a difficult road environment. The New England
Patriots, who will welcome Ken Whisenhunt's team to Gillette Stadium on
Sunday, hope that their
Detroit, MI (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix has been dropped from the 2009 IndyCar Series schedule due to difficult economic times in the Motor City. Event chairman Bud Denker confirmed the cancellation to the Detr
Real Madrid president cools Ronaldo spat >>
Madrid, Spain (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon has
attempted to calm the latest spat between his club and Manchester United over
the future of Cristiano Ronaldo.
Real came close to prising the Portugal ace away
Stuttgart sticks with Babbel >>
Stuttgart, Germany (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Stuttgart has confirmed Markus Babbel and
Rainer Widmayer will remain in charge of first-team affairs at the Bundesliga
club until the end of the season.
The duo stepped in following the recent sacki
Syracuse's Devendorf suspended >>
Syracuse, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Syracuse University made it official on
Friday, suspending junior guard Eric Devendorf indefinitely for violating the
university's code of conduct.
The Syracuse Post-Standard reported last week tha
Eagles WR Curtis doubtful, WR Baskett out >>
Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Hank
Baskett is out for Sunday's contest against the Washington Redskins with a
knee injury.
Wide receiver Kevin Curtis, who is battling a calf injury, has sat
It's less than a month until the NHL hockey betting season opens at MySportsbook.com and preparations are underway for another battle in the race to hoist Lord Stanley's mug in 2007.
As cup crazy fans prepare to place their bets, one online sportsbook ,MySportsbook.com, is offering hockey betting lines on the 2007/2007 Stanley Cup , who will bring it home this upcoming season.
Despite a poor showing in last season's playoffs and the loss of Steve Yzerman to retirement, the Detroit Red Wings are early favourites at this online sportsbook with wagering odds of 6-1. The Wings will look to offensive powerhouse Pavel Datsyuk and newly appointed captain Nicklas Lidstrom to lead one of the league's most prominent franchises.
Always a threat are the Ottawa Senators, with newly acquired goaltender Martin Gerber from the Stanley Cup champion ,Carolina Hurricanes. The Sens are second best in the rankings at a 7-1 bet, and odds makers at this sportsbook are optimistic that the Ottawa squad will fare better than last season's Eastern Conference semi-final upset to the Buffalo Sabres.
Also worth noting are the defending Stanley Cup champs Carolina Hurricanes, a 10-1 bet to repeat. Behind the Canes are the New Jersey Devils, Calgary Flames, Buffalo Sabres, Philadelphia Flyers, and Anaheim Mighty Ducks all sit at 12-1. In the basement are the Washington Capitals, Chicago Blackhawks, and St. Louis Blues who all have 100-1 odds to win.
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Who Makes the Sportsbook Betting Lines?
Las Vegas Sports Consultants (LVSC) is the world’s premier oddsmaking company and the most respected authority on making the lines. Mike Seba is a Senior Oddsmaker at LVSC and has been making lines for the last six years. In our extended interview, Seba explained that there are 4-5 oddsmakers assigned to make lines for each of the major sports (pro & college football and basketball; MLB, NHL, boxing, golf). Each of these oddsmakers bring unique opinions, strengths and weaknesses to the process. Oddsmakers at LVSC are professional sports junkies who love what they do and would probably do it for nothing if you asked them, but they do get paid for it. By necessity their approach is very research-oriented and concise, since with millions of dollars at risk there is little margin for error.
“You either have a passion for it or you don’t,” Seba said.
“The #1 thing for us is to make a line for each game that creates good two-way action. We do this by drawing from past experiences and applying them to current situations. People think it’s much more complicated, but it’s not. “What are the Football Betting Lines Trying to Accomplish?
There is a common misconception that point spreads represent the oddsmakers’ prediction of how many points the favorite will win by. That is not the case at all – their intent is NOT to evenly split the ATS result between the teams; rather, their goal is to attract equal betting action on both sides. Stated another way, they want to create a line that half the people find appealing to bet one way while the other half find it appealing to bet the other way (known as ‘dividing the action’).Divided action means the sportsbook is guaranteed a profit on the game because of the fee charged to the bettor (called juice or vig – typically $11 bet to win $10).
How the Opening Line Is Made
The opening line is the first line created by the oddsmakers, which is then sent out to sportsbooks. Of course there is an entire method to the madness on how the opening line is created. Seba explained that it all starts with each oddsmaker creating a line on each game based upon their own personal approach. This usually includes having up-to-date power ratings on each team.Power ratings are the oddsmaker’s value of each team and are used as a guide to calculate a "preliminary" pointspread on an upcoming game. The power ratings are adjusted after each game a team plays. Examples of non-game factors that would require an adjustment to a team's power rating are key player injuries and player trades.
Once a game’s power rating based pointspread is determined, the oddsmaker will make adjustments to that line after considering each team's most recent games played and previous games played against that opponent. Also, adjustments are made after reading each team’s local newspapers to get a sense of what the coaches & players are thinking going into the game.Since the oddsmaker’s ultimate goal is equally dividing the sports betting action, public perception and sportsbook betting patterns must be taken into account. For example, the public might have heavy betting interest week after week on a popular college football betting team such as USC. If an oddsmaker comes up with a preliminary line of USC -7, then an adjustment up to -7.5 or -8 would be made in response to the public’s expected USC bias.
The last step in the line-making process for each oddsmaker is taking one final look to determine whether or not the line "feels right." This is where common sense and past experience with how games are bet enters into the picture.A round-table discussion among the 4-5 oddsmakers involved in making the line for each sport is then conducted and a consensus line is decided upon by the Odds Director before it is released to the sportsbooks. Of the 4-5 oddsmakers, generally the 2 most respected opinions are weighed more heavily by the Odds Director before he decides on the final line.
Why Sports Betting Lines Change
Once the opening line is released by LVSC, the individual sportsbooks decide if they want to make any adjustments before offering it to the public. Reasons for such adjustments include:Experts working for the individual books having a strong opinion on the game
Individual books having players who consistently bet with certain tendencies (such as an extreme bias toward favorites or toward a certain popular team like USC)The purpose of these adjustments, like all line adjustments, is to more equally divide the betting action.
Once betting begins, sportsbooks can adjust the line at any time. In doing so they attempt to make more attractive the team that is getting less action. By moving the line, sportsbooks can influence how the public bets on a particular game.For example, if the pointspread on a game is 7 and most of the money is coming in on the underdog (taking the +7), sportsbooks will then move the number down to 6 ½ to try and attract money on the favorite.
Moving the line is the oddsmaker's effort to balance betting action, and often times such moves can have a major impact on a bettor’s decision. Oddsmakers can also change the line depending on various event-related factors such as player injuries or weather. Obviously, if the line comes out a week ahead of the event (which is the case in football), there is much that could happen during the week leading up to the event that could affect the line. Oddsmakers have to determine if any changes are necessary and send out an "adjusted line."“The main objective is that our clients get equal action on both sides,” Seba said. “We’re not trying to pick the team that covers the spread, we’re trying to make it a coin flip, a tough decision (for the bettor). If we’ve done that, we’ve done our job.”
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