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City kicks off EPL season against SpursSoccer Betting Lines08/13/2010 - London, England (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Manchester City will debut well over $100 million in new talent Saturday morning, when the English club opens pursuit of the Premier League title against last season's nemesis Tottenham. City lost at home to Tottenham in the final week of the season, allowing Spurs to claim fourth place and a Champions League berth. The rivals open the season at White Hart Lane, with Arsenal's visit to Liverpool the other big opener. Manchester City has lost 11 of its last 12 games against Tottenham but went on another spending spree this summer. In addition to finishing in the top four, coach Roberto Mancini hopes Yaya Toure and David Silva will help City contend for the EPL title. Defenders Jerome Boateng and Aleksandar Kolarov were also signed this summer, and together with midfielders Toure and Silva to provide Mancini with enough talent to challenge defending champion Chelsea and Manchester United. First, City has to try and solve Tottenham this weekend. Spurs edged Liverpool in their season opener last year and never looked back. Tottenham got off to its best-ever start, and eventually claimed a spot in Europe's top club event for the first time in five decades. Tottenham is essentially unchanged from one season ago, so Harry Redknapp will have a better grasp on his team entering the opener. With City adding Mario Balotelli on Friday - he will not play this weekend - Spurs would benefit from three points before Manchester finds its groove. Redknapp could be without Jermain Defoe, who had 18 goals in 31 starts a year ago, because of injury, but talented duo Gareth Bale and Aaron Lennon drive the team from the wings, while captain Ledley King anchors the back. King knows how important it is to get off to a good start, as both teams hope to finish in the top four and possibly end 40-plus year title droughts. Spurs last won the EPL in 1960-61, while City last won in 1967-68. "We took a lot of positives out of the Liverpool result on the first day of last season and went from strength to strength after that," King said on the club's website. "We're aware of the threat they possess and we're expecting a very tough game. They've got big aspirations for this season and will want to get off to a good start, as will we." Chelsea has also remained pretty quiet for much of the offseason, as Michael Ballack departed and Yossi Benayoun joined from Liverpool. But the Blues added Brazilian Ramires on Friday, and more signings are still possible. Even without Ramires for the opener, Chelsea should be a handful for promoted West Bromwich on Saturday. Goalie Petr Cech and defender Alex are fit after calf injuries, although Frank Lampard is doubtful. Also Saturday, Aston Villa hosts West Ham, Blackburn hosts Everton, promoted Blackpool hosts Wigan, Wolverhampton hosts Stoke City, Bolton hosts Fulham, and Sunderland hosts Birmingham. Arsenal visits Anfield to battle Liverpool in the lone match Sunday, as Arsene Wenger will try to keep his club in the top four. The Gunners added defender Laurent Koscielny, midfielder Milan Jovanovic, and forward Wellington Silva, but didn't make a big splash in the transfer market. Liverpool signed midfielder Joe Cole from Chelsea and Serbian midfielder Milan Jovanovic on free transfers, and acquired midfielder Christian Poulsen from Juventus, but more importantly kept Fernando Torres and Steven Gerrard. Roy Hodgson replaced Rafa Benitez as coach, and is faced with the challenge of getting Liverpool back into the top four after a seventh-place finish. Manchester United, which had its three-year title run snapped by one point one season ago, opens against Newcastle on Monday. Sir Alex Ferguson made a trio of additions, all 22 or younger. Mexican Javier Hernandez was the most expensive, but he has already showed all the signs of being a great signing. In additions, 20-year-olds Bebe and Chris Smalling were acquired, giving United the talent to challenge for the title in 2010-11 and beyond.
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SPORTS BETTINGNFL Football Betting OnlineIn terms of sports wagering, the NFL is "the most popular game in town." The explanation behind that is easy. In sportsbooks, this is usually done with efficiency by charging the losing bettors 10% extra - in effect, bettors are laying 11/10 on those games. So they are actually betting $110 to win $100. If they lose, they pay the "vig." If they win, they simply collect. Note: Monday night game will be picked Monday. Lines used are from football betting odds .
Sportsbook Betting LinesWho 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 MadeThe 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 ChangeOnce 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.” To visit this internet sportsbook got to MySportsbook.com for all your sports betting needs and World Series odds. |
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