08/24/2008 - Oakland, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - J.J. Arrington and Tim Hightower each ran for a third-quarter touchdown, and the Arizona Cardinals pulled away to beat the Oakland Raiders, 24-0, in preseason play.
Arrington finished with 71 yards on two carries, while Hightower rushed 10 times for 52 yards for the Cardinals (2-1), who gained 215 yards on the ground.
Brian St. Pierre led Arizona's passing attack by completing 7-of-8 passes for 96 yards and a touchdown. Kurt Warner was 2-for-4 passing for 40 yards in limited action, while Matt Leinart threw for 24 yards and three interceptions on 4-of-12 passing.
Oakland quarterback JaMarcus Russell completed exactly half his passes, throwing 14-of-28 for 140 yards with an interception. Javon Walker caught four of those passes for 60 yards for the Raiders (1-2), who only tallied 152 net yards.
Darren McFadden was Oakland's leading rusher with 40 yards on 12 carries.
Neil Rackers' 25-yard field goal, which came with 4:09 to go in the first quarter, provided the only points of the first half. But Arizona broke the game wide open coming out of intermission.
On the opening drive of the second half, Hightower had the majority of the carries, going for rushes of 21 and six yards before breaking away for a 13- yard score up the middle.
After the Raiders went three-and-out, Arrington rushed for four yards before going around the right end for 67 yards to the end zone, putting the Cardinals up 17-0.
St. Pierre and the Cardinals took possession near the end of the third quarter and went all the way to the Oakland 18-yard line before the stanza ended. On the opening play of the fourth quarter, St. Pierre found Leonard Pope for the 18-yard touchdown and a 24-point cushion.
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Edwards recorded hi
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Minneapolis, MN (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Jeff Reed nailed a 47-yard field goal as
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St. Louis, MO (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Marc Bulger threw for 182 yards and two
touchdowns on 18-of-25 passing to lead St. Louis past Baltimore, 24-10, in
preseason action.
Keenan Burton caught three balls for 63 yards and a score for th
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Tampa, FL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - David Garrard completed 10-of-16 passes for 118
yards with two touchdowns and one interception, as the Jacksonville Jaguars
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Fred Taylor rushed for 26 yards on sev
Chivas USA, San Jose play to scoreless draw >>
Carson, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The San Jose Earthquakes extended their unbeaten
run to six games with a 0-0 tie against Chivas USA at The Home Depot Center in
Major League Soccer action on Saturday night.
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Angels edge Twins >>
Anaheim, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Mark Teixeira finished 3-for-3 with a homer and
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Tribe rally from big deficit to clip Rangers >>
Arlington, TX (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Jamey Carroll knocked in the go-ahead run in
the eighth with a pinch-hit single as the Cleveland Indians edged the Texas
Rangers 8-7, in the middle contest of a three-game series.
Ryan Garko had a pair
Eveland pitches Oakland past Seattle >>
Seattle, WA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Dana Eveland hurled seven strong innings and
the Oakland Athletics assured themselves of a series split to end a streak of
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Las Vegas Sports Consultants (LVSC) is the world’s premier oddsmaking company and the most respected authority on making the lines. Mike Seba is a Senior Oddsmaker at LVSC and has been making lines for the last six years. In our extended interview, Seba explained that there are 4-5 oddsmakers assigned to make lines for each of the major sports (pro & college football and basketball; MLB, NHL, boxing, golf). Each of these oddsmakers bring unique opinions, strengths and weaknesses to the process. Oddsmakers at LVSC are professional sports junkies who love what they do and would probably do it for nothing if you asked them, but they do get paid for it. By necessity their approach is very research-oriented and concise, since with millions of dollars at risk there is little margin for error.
“You either have a passion for it or you don’t,” Seba said.
“The #1 thing for us is to make a line for each game that creates good two-way action. We do this by drawing from past experiences and applying them to current situations. People think it’s much more complicated, but it’s not. “Divided action means the sportsbook is guaranteed a profit on the game because of the fee charged to the bettor (called juice or vig – typically $11 bet to win $10).
Power ratings are the oddsmaker’s value of each team and are used as a guide to calculate a "preliminary" pointspread on an upcoming game. The power ratings are adjusted after each game a team plays. Examples of non-game factors that would require an adjustment to a team's power rating are key player injuries and player trades.
Once a game’s power rating based pointspread is determined, the oddsmaker will make adjustments to that line after considering each team's most recent games played and previous games played against that opponent. Also, adjustments are made after reading each team’s local newspapers to get a sense of what the coaches & players are thinking going into the game.Since the oddsmaker’s ultimate goal is equally dividing the sports betting action, public perception and sportsbook betting patterns must be taken into account. For example, the public might have heavy betting interest week after week on a popular college football betting team such as USC. If an oddsmaker comes up with a preliminary line of USC -7, then an adjustment up to -7.5 or -8 would be made in response to the public’s expected USC bias.
The last step in the line-making process for each oddsmaker is taking one final look to determine whether or not the line "feels right." This is where common sense and past experience with how games are bet enters into the picture.A round-table discussion among the 4-5 oddsmakers involved in making the line for each sport is then conducted and a consensus line is decided upon by the Odds Director before it is released to the sportsbooks. Of the 4-5 oddsmakers, generally the 2 most respected opinions are weighed more heavily by the Odds Director before he decides on the final line.
Experts working for the individual books having a strong opinion on the game
Individual books having players who consistently bet with certain tendencies (such as an extreme bias toward favorites or toward a certain popular team like USC)The purpose of these adjustments, like all line adjustments, is to more equally divide the betting action.
Once betting begins, sportsbooks can adjust the line at any time. In doing so they attempt to make more attractive the team that is getting less action. By moving the line, sportsbooks can influence how the public bets on a particular game.For example, if the pointspread on a game is 7 and most of the money is coming in on the underdog (taking the +7), sportsbooks will then move the number down to 6 ½ to try and attract money on the favorite.
Moving the line is the oddsmaker's effort to balance betting action, and often times such moves can have a major impact on a bettor’s decision. Oddsmakers can also change the line depending on various event-related factors such as player injuries or weather. Obviously, if the line comes out a week ahead of the event (which is the case in football), there is much that could happen during the week leading up to the event that could affect the line. Oddsmakers have to determine if any changes are necessary and send out an "adjusted line."“The main objective is that our clients get equal action on both sides,” Seba said. “We’re not trying to pick the team that covers the spread, we’re trying to make it a coin flip, a tough decision (for the bettor). If we’ve done that, we’ve done our job.”
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