How do you handle spreads with the status of two star QBs up in the air? David Purdum and Doug Kezirian look at that and more in the sports betting landscape.
2 Related
The betting market for the NFL season is taking shape . in April. Season win totals and division odds hit the boards last week at multiple sportsbooks.
Just five years ago, Las Vegas sportsbooks were in the habit of waiting until after the draft and the schedule release before posting offerings like season win totals. Sometimes they didn t show up until late June, after the NBA Finals concluded. Vegas was the only legal game in town those days, though. Those days are long gone.
Now, the expanding legal betting market in the U.S. is spitting out numbers earlier than ever, as bookmakers fight for their share of the money that s bet on the always popular NFL season win totals. It s just one of many things that have changed since states began launching legal sports betting markets over the last three years.