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New-look Knicks play host to ThunderBasketball Betting Lines02/20/2010 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - New York Knicks team president Donnie Walsh said the team has more 'flexibility' to bring in high-priced players now that the trade deadline has come and gone. The Knicks acquired former scoring champion Tracy McGrady on Thursday in a three-team swap with Houston and Sacramento, and will resume a three-game homestand tonight versus the Oklahoma City Thunder at Madison Square Garden. They're now capable of offering two maximum salary contracts to the 2010 free agent class which includes stars LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, among others. New York, which freed itself of about $32 million in salary cap space, received McGrady's league-high $23 million expiring contract from the Rockets as well as Kings point guard Sergio Rodriguez. Houston gets forwards Jordan Hill and Jared Jeffries from the Knicks, and a protected 2012 first-round pick. The Rockets have the option of exchanging first-round draft picks in 2011. The Kings acquired guard Larry Hughes from New York, and forwards Carl Landry and Joey Dorsey from Houston. McGrady could make his Big Apple debut tonight, but it's still unclear. He has appeared in just six games this season after returning from knee surgery and has career averages of 21.9 points, 6.1 rebounds, 4.7 assists and 34.4 minutes in 790 career games (640 starts) in 13 NBA seasons with Toronto, Orlando and Houston. All the players involved in the three-team trade have to pass a physical and get all the necessary paperwork completed before anyone can play with their new team. "Hopefully we get it done," Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni said on the team's site. "They're all excited to play and they want to play. It's not just up to us, it's the other teams, everybody has to pass their physicals and get all the paperwork. If we can get it all done, they'll be ready to play tomorrow. And I hope that that's the case." The Knicks could use any kind of boost right now and have lost five in a row, including Wednesday's 115-109 setback versus the Chicago Bulls in the opener of the homestand. Al Harrington had 27 points and Wilson Chandler added 26, while David Lee had 23 points and 12 boards. The Knicks will also host Milwaukee and are 12-17 at MSG this season. Oklahoma City will try to extend its season high winning streak to eight games Saturday night. The Thunder made it seven wins in a row with a 99-86 triumph at Dallas on Tuesday, as All-Star Kevin Durant extended his franchise record of scoring at least 25 points in 26 consecutive games with exactly 25 points. His current stretch is the longest run since Allen Iverson reached the magic number in 27 straight games during his MVP 2000-2001 season. Jeff Green, Russell Westbrook and James Harden each had 17 points in the win, as Oklahoma City improved to a season-best 10 games above .500. The seven consecutive victories is the longest since a nine-game run early in the 2004-05 campaign. "It's just how we've been playing defense together," Russell Westbrook said of the recent success. The Thunder are fighting for playoff positioning in the West and will also visit Minnesota on the current road swing. They've won three in a row as the guest and are 15-11 away from home this season. Oklahoma City beat the Knicks by a 106-88 count at home on January 11 thanks to Durant's game-high 30 points. The Thunder have won five of the last six meetings with New York.
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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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