Kind of depends whose book we are talking about. I recall 5Dimes putting up a line in boxing on a favorite-500. It was changed the next day to -300. Doubt the other side got that much play but who knows. Sometimes they might be testing the waters, but I'd say they mostly move lines based on action. Was a huge pissing contest going on with boxing posters regarding odds makers/books perusing these forums. Unless you name is Billy Walters, forget it. They don't give a rats ass. Some guys have peculiar imaginations, or big egos.
I don't know if they change the lines based on what people say, but they definitely read the forums, all they need to do is subscribe to this thread :shrug:
The Schaub line is a mistakeat 5dimes. Schuab ITD is -101 and shaub by KO/TKO is -105
i.e the odds they have listed for schaub to win by KO/TKO, sub, or DQ at -101 are actually better than the odds for Schaub to win by KO/TKO only at -105. So, If Schuab ITD is -101, the line for schaub by KO/TKO only should have better odds. (aleast +100)
The mistake was up there when I posted it before. When you mentioned the barboza line moved I checked all the props and they changed it to +105 for Schuab KO/TKO while leaving Schuab ITD at -101.
But then they inexplicably changed it back to -105 after I made that post about them reading the forums.
Now, there are three possible explanations for this.
1. I hallucinated the +105. Because after all I was tripping on acid like Hunter S Thompson in Fear and Loathing at the time.
2. They moved the line back to -105 because someone bet it back up, but they failed to move the Schaub ITD line as well, recreating the same mistake that was there in the first place. But, I doubt they are that stupid.
3. They got called out for lurking the forums and don't want us to know about it, so changed it back to -105 in an attempt to cover it up.
Anyways, the line up there currently is a mistake. I wonder if they will correct it and what line will be if they do...
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