mysterious_whispererB

Exactly. If they don’t and 90% of the bets are on the popular team, then the book looses big when the popular team wins.

It would be interesting to see a book be completely transparent about it and open the betting at even odds then move a point in the opposite direction every time the bets get off balance. Of course that would be annoying as a better deciding what to play only to have it constantly change.

I would like to see how making it legal on both sides of the ball would play out.

He didn’t say you are doing a good job executing the game plan /s

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.