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Paul stars as Hornets edge CavsBasketball Betting Lines12/12/2006 - Oklahoma City, OK (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Chris Paul scored 30 points and doled out 11 assists to lead the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets to a 95-89 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers. Anderson Varejao's 17 points and eight rebounds led the Cavaliers, who lost for the first time in three games. Zydrunas Ilgauskas scored 15 points and grabbed 12 rebounds for Cleveland, which suffered from a subpar night by LeBron James, who finished with 15 points on a 7-of-18 performance from the field. Daniel Gibson added 14 points for Cleveland. Jannero Pargo scored 15 points for the Hornets, who snapped a two-game skid. Marc Jackson scored 14 points, and Hilton Armstrong added 12 for the Hornets. Desmond Mason also scored 12 points on the night. A pull-up jumper by Paul broke an 89-89 tie, putting the Hornets up two with 1:45 left. After a Donyell Marshall miss, Pargo sank a jumper from the free- throw line to put the Hornets up 93-89 with only 1:02 left. Pargo came back with a strip of Daniel Gibson on Cleveland's ensuing possession, and the Hornets drained the shot clock until Paul drove the lane, drawing a foul with 19.2 seconds remaining. The second-year point guard sank both free throws to put the nail in the coffin, putting the Hornets up by six. The Hornets had led 88-81 after a Pargo jumper with 4:45 left. The Cavs went on an 8-1 run, though, and a Gibson jumper tied the game at 89-89 with 2:36 left in the fourth quarter. The Cavs were unable to score a point the rest of the way. Cleveland had led coming into the final 12 minutes, 73-72. The final clutch shots by Paul and Pargo capped a neck-and-neck affair that saw 13 lead changes and nine ties. Cleveland led 25-21 after the first quarter, and the teams were tied 51-51 at halftime. Game Notes The Hornets bench outscored Cleveland's, 41-24...Tyson Chandler pulled down 10 rebounds to go with his four points for the Hornets...The Hornets won despite shooting 1-for-12 from behind the three-point line, a paltry 8.3 percent with Pargo having the worst night, missing all six shots he took from long range.
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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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