Its also boring when shit offensive play gets bailed out late with some grab ass PI call that was allowed throughout the entire game
This penalty that suspiciously hurts the public money, brought to you by Fanduel
Doesn’t Fanduel make the same money either way because they set the lines so that there is approximately equal money on either side? I really don’t know anything about the industry except for how my father explained bookies to me 40 years ago.
While I am no bookie either, I believe that when a line shifts, that’s the purpose of it, to encourage more money on the other side. If I had to guess, they make a lot of money off of people betting the over on player props and point totals because it just feels bad to root for an under.
No. Sportsbooks inflate the line and odds for favorites and popular teams, then rely on those teams not covering the inflated line and losing more than the odds would suggest.
We have benefitted from 5 dpi in 2023. The average team is 5.75.
https://www.nflpenalties.com/penalty/defensive-pass-interference?year=2023
Offensive holding is the worst.
It can be called on every snap…so the refs can use it to control the flow of a game. Sometimes they swallow their whistles.
Worst is when “Team A” is expected to win by a decent margin but it feels like the league wants a nail-biter. They’ll start calling holding on every big play Team A gets so that they stay in 3rd & long situations. Team B hangs in the game long enough to make it interesting. Refs will throw some random penalties at Team B later in the game to even up the flags.
Team B gets a bunch of ticky tack calls and thinks the league conspired against them late in the game. Team A feels like they got a bunch of momentum killing calls early…and would have blown out Team B otherwise.
