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12-01-2006, 01:44 PM
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Where books get their opening lines
A friend told me that basically every sports book gets their lines from one big "service" that puts out the numbers. They obviously then adjust based on the action they get. Is this true, or do individual books derive their own opening lines?
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12-01-2006, 04:49 PM
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Re: Where books get their opening lines
[ QUOTE ]
A friend told me that basically every sports book gets their lines from one big "service" that puts out the numbers. They obviously then adjust based on the action they get. Is this true, or do individual books derive their own opening lines? [/ QUOTE ] My understanding that these guys set most/all opening lines.
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12-01-2006, 05:20 PM
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Re: Where books get their opening lines
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A friend told me that basically every sports book gets their lines from one big "service" that puts out the numbers. They obviously then adjust based on the action they get. Is this true, or do individual books derive their own opening lines? [/ QUOTE ] A little bit of both. Many, perhaps most, books subscribe to the Las Vegas Sports Consultants service which sends out their suggested lines. The books may or may not make adjustments to these. Some of the big offshore books set their own lines. They may or may not subscribe to LVSC. Many of the smaller books copy the lines of these big books. So, LVSC plays a key roll in how lines are set, but they're not the only factor that goes into the early numbers. Their influence at some books is higher than at others.
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12-01-2006, 06:50 PM
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Re: Where books get their opening lines
CRIS and Pinny will often set their own lines.
IIRC, Pinny opened the lines for March Madness, there were HUGE middle opportunities there like Memphis moving from -14 to 17+, that one paid off nicely, UConn moved 6+. I just kept reclicking every 5-10 seconds as all 32 games got posted 1-2 at a time. Some spread moves you could have gotten from open to close sdsu 2.5 AF 2 TxAM 3.5 South 2.5 Winth 3 Buckn 2 Belmont 3.5 Murray 4 Cal 3, etc, these are huge moves for first round games where the spread and games are usually fairly close.
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