All the things that occurs in sports activities has some further context when seen from a sports activities betting perspective. From season-changing accidents to record-setting moments and a lot extra, the sports activities information cycle will always and considerably have an effect on the sports activities betting trade.
Our betting buzz file, with contributions from David Purdum, Doug Greenberg and others, goals to supply followers with a have a look at the sports activities betting tales which can be driving the dialog.
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Oct. 29: Sports activities Equinox sees bump for cross-sport parlays
Doug Greenberg: Monday marked the thirty first “Sports activities Equinox” in historical past and the one one going down in 2024. With the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL and MLS all in motion, bettors celebrated the event one of the best ways they knew how.
Since Monday morning, sports activities betting monitoring device Pikkit says that it noticed 11,050 parlays positioned at sportsbooks across the nation that used the NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL. For reference, the identical timeframe every week prior noticed solely 345 such parlays, an over 3100% improve (with the plain caveat that not all of these video games would have been performed on the identical day).
Pikkit, which permits bettors to sync up and monitor their sportsbook accounts, says that the New York Yankees moneyline (-150 at ESPN BET) was the preferred leg of those parlays with 1,750 containing it. Pittsburgh Steelers moneyline (-275) and Juan Soto over 0.5 hits (-180) had been the following hottest in 1,410 and 1,150 parlays, respectively.
No matter cross-sport parlays, the NFL reigned supreme in whole bets, per common, with ESPN BET reporting the “Monday Evening Soccer” contest between the New York Giants and Steelers as its hottest occasion of the evening by tickets; Pittsburgh got here in as the general most-bet moneyline out of all of the night’s occasions. World Collection Sport 3 between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Yankees was the second-most-bet occasion, however the Denver Nuggets and Atlanta Hawks moneylines had been each extra in style than both moneyline in that contest.
The Sports activities Equinox proved to be a troublesome evening for New York sports activities groups usually: New York Metropolis turned the primary metro space to lose an NFL, MLB, NBA and MLS sport in the identical evening, per OptaSTATS, with the upstate Buffalo Sabres additionally falling on Monday evening.
Oct. 28: Dodgers stay Sport 3 underdogs after Ohtani odds adjustment
Purdum: Los Angeles Dodgers famous person Shohei Ohtani is predicted to play in Sport 3 of the World Collection on Monday evening in New York, however the Dodgers are nonetheless underdogs.
The New York Yankees are as excessive as -160 favorites at ESPN BET, with the Dodgers listed as +135 underdogs for Sport 3. The Dodgers have been underdogs in solely 15 video games this season, together with the postseason, the fewest of any workforce. They’re 4-11 in these video games.
Ohtani is coping with a partially dislocated shoulder suffered in Sport 2. Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts stated Sunday he expects Ohtani to play Monday.
Caesars Sportsbook vice chairman of buying and selling Craig Mucklow stated they moved the worth on the Yankees up “10 cents” because of Ohtani’s harm, a slight adjustment that mirrored the bookmaker’s perception that Ohtani would play.
“It’s the World Collection, and gamers (hardly ever) get an opportunity to win all of it,” Mucklow informed ESPN on Sunday. “The harm must be important for him to not give it a minimum of a go, which swayed our cautious line transfer. Postseason baseball is about pitching. It might have been extra of a transfer if he had been pitching this yr, however this isn’t the yr.”
John Murray, govt director of the Westgate SuperBook in Las Vegas, stated his store additionally opened the percentages to win Sport 3 with the Yankees just a little larger due to the “must-win issue” and Ohtani’s harm. The Dodgers lead the sequence, 2-0. Murray stated the worth on the Yankees has come down 10-12 cents because it opened.
Ohtani is +320 to hit a house run in Sport 3 at ESPN BET.
Oct. 24: Kennesaw State pulls off second-largest upset of CFB season
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Winless Kennesaw State stuns unbeaten Liberty
Kennesaw State will get their first-ever win towards an FBS opponent by beating beforehand undefeated Liberty 27-24.
Greenberg: The great thing about faculty soccer is one by no means is aware of the place or when a large upset is perhaps lurking.
On Wednesday evening, the Kennesaw State Owls notched their first win of the season with a 27-24 victory over the Liberty Flames after coming into the competition as 27.5-point underdogs, per ESPN BET odds. It is the second-biggest outright upset of the season, simply behind Northern Illinois (+28.5) over Notre Dame and forward of Vanderbilt (+22.5) over Alabama.
That second outright win by an underdog of 27 factors or higher by way of October is tied for essentially the most in such FBS matchups for the reason that 1978 FBS/FCS break up, in keeping with ESPN Analysis. The Owls had been +1300 underdogs on the cash line coming into the competition and had been so long as +2500 on the stay line.
The beginning of the NBA season meant that this contest may not have lived as much as the deal with of earlier midweek faculty soccer video games, with BetMGM saying that each one of Wednesday’s NBA video games took extra bets than Liberty-Kennesaw State. However, the members of the general public who did wager on it largely misplaced, as BetMGM, DraftKings and ESPN BET all reported a majority of bets and deal with on the Flames’ unfold, topping out at 74% of the tickets and 83% of the cash.
There’s nonetheless time this yr for extra enormous outright upsets: Since 2020, there have been a minimum of 4 outright upsets of twenty-two.5 factors or extra each season, with a excessive of six in 2021, per ESPN Analysis.
