Originally posted by Jeepzilla:
Originally posted by genus49:
Originally posted by Jeepzilla:
Originally posted by genus49:
Originally posted by Kolohe:
Originally posted by dj43:
Originally posted by the_dynasty:
Wondering who out of safeties or LBs will be covering McBride. Also wondering how they gonna play Kyler.
Cards being favorites on the road is slightly surprising.
Based on last year, and the number of rookies getting a lot of minutes, I'm not surprised. The line will change, IMO.
lol where are you guys seeing that they're favored? BETMGM has the 9ers at -1.5.
Home team gets the benefit of 3 points when it comes to the spread. 49ers getting -1.5 is basically saying Cardinals are favored.
So Vegas is saying the 49ers are favored by 1.5 but your saying they aren't…
lol ok
Home team gets 3 points in their favor and then the spread is provided to the public.
Vegas spread is -1.5 49ers(home team +3)
If the game was in Arizona Cardinals would be getting -4.5 in comparison.
Lol No, that is not how it works.. Moving on.
That's certainly how it used to be. Vegas would start from a spot of giving the home team 3 points, then adjust up or down from there based on all the factors that oddsmaker choose to go to set the line, then the line adjusts based on betting.
The 3 points were a baseline for home field, fans, travel advantages, etc and was the common standard. Some oddsmakers use a lower baseline advantage for home field now than they used to.