The Sports Bettors Edge Over the Sportsbook

 

By Tom Wilkinson

 

There is one significant edge and advantage that a sports bettor has against the sports odds makers, and that is the sheer volume of sports betting games and propositions that the sports odds makers must evaluate and post for the online sportsbooks and casino sportsbooks. A careful and meticulous sports bettor can exploit this volume of games and sports out there that a sports betting odds maker must make a sports betting line on by concentrating on just a few teams or items from a particular sport and becoming a sports betting expert on them to the point that the sports bettor simply has more sports betting micro-knowledge of such teams and sports than the sports betting odds makers do.

The more limited scope of teams, games and sports that a sports bettor focuses on the more time he allows himself to become a true sports betting expert on them and to build himself and advantage of a sports betting line posted on them by the sports betting odds makers. A sports bettor that makes himself an expert on a limited amount of teams, games, and sports can better determine what the true sports betting line should be on a game involving such games, teams, or sports and determine the true value of the sports betting line posted by the sports betting odds makers on the board at online sportsbooks and casino sportsbooks.

The sports betting odds makers are overwhelmed not just with posting a sports betting line on every game on every big time major sport, but also must meet the ever growing and insatiable appetite of sports bettors by posting sports betting odds on sports such as golf, tennis, NASCAR and other sports that a sports bettor wouldn’t automatically assume to be of interest to the sports betting public.

Although the sports betting odds makers to work in committee and compare notes and may even break down different main assignments the fact remains that the volume of sports betting odds that must be posted nowadays invites mistakes by the sports betting odds makers and there is likely to a sports betting line that is “soft” nearly every day on the board of online sportsbooks and casino sportsbooks. The sports bettor that narrows his focus on just a few sports betting items in order to become an expert at them will create for himself an edge of the sports betting odds makers in the long run.