Furyk disqualified from Barclays

Golf Betting Lines

08/25/2010 - Paramus, NJ (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - World number six Jim Furyk has been disqualified from The Barclays for missing his 7:30 a.m. (et) pro-am tee time Wednesday morning.

According to The Star-Ledger, Furyk used his cell phone as an alarm clock, but awoke at 7:23 a.m. (et) to discover the device had no power.

PGA Tour rules state that any player who misses a pro-am time except for injury or family emergency is ineligible to play in that week's event.

The Barclays, the first event in the FedEx Cup series, is scheduled to start Thursday at Ridgewood Country Club in New Jersey.

Furyk, currently third on the FedEx Cup points list, tied for 15th last year in this event when it was held at Liberty National Golf Club. He was scheduled to play the first two rounds with Ernie Els and Steve Stricker.

Heath Slocum is the defending champion.

Wwwimustbingo Golf Betting News

<< Texas in search of blood and guts running game
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -Run, run, run. That's all Texas coach Mack Brown wants to talk about.For a program that won 25 games the past two seasons throwing the ball behind one of the most accurate quarterbacks in NCAA history, an iron-fisted commitment t

<< Six new coaches with little time to rebuild
Often coaches get a grace period when they take a new job. Not these guys.Six coaches who will be under heavy scrutiny from the get-go in their new jobs.Jimbo Fisher, Florida State. It's certainly not Fisher's fault that Florida State felt compelled

<< Lions happy to have veteran QB Hill with Stafford
ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) - The Detroit Lions would prefer to see as little as possible of quarterback Shaun Hill on the field this season.However, that doesn't mean he's not wanted.The Lions traded a seventh-round pick to the 49ers to acquire him, and

<< Bowden tells AP he was pushed out by Florida State
NEW YORK (AP) -Bobby Bowden did not want to retire.``Fired might be a little too strong,'' the former Florida State coach said Tuesday in an interview with The Associated Press. ``Pushed out ain't bad. I was pushed out, no doubt about it. I didn't w

<< Davis, Rays stay hot in victory over Angels
Anaheim, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Evan Longoria and Matt Joyce homered off Ervin Santana, and Wade Davis pitched into the sixth inning in his first game off the disabled list, as the Rays topped the Angels, 10-3, for their fourth straigh

Culbreath cleared to play for Princeton again >>
Princeton, NJ (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Princeton tailback Jordan Culbreath, whose well-documented diagnosis of aplastic anemia sidelined him for the majority of the 2009 season, will return to the practice field Wednesday afternoon after being medica

A's resume playoff push in second test with Tribe >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Oakland Athletics will resume their lengthy road trip when they take on the Cleveland Indians tonight in the second portion of a three-game series from Progressive Field. The A's kept their faint playoff hopes alive wi

Mets seeking second straight win over rival Marlins >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - New York Mets outfielder Angel Pagan seems to have broken out of his recent slump and will try to lead his team to victory again tonight in the second portion of a three-game series versus the Florida Marlins. Pagan entere

Dodgers continue series in Milwaukee amid trade talk >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - With rumors swirling that slugger Manny Ramirez will be put on waivers sometime this week, the Los Angeles Dodgers will try to remain focused on making a run at the playoffs in tonight's continuation of a three- game series a

Tigers shoot for home sweep of Royals >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Detroit Tigers take aim at their sixth straight win this afternoon when they try to complete a three-game sweep of the Kansas City Royals at Comerica Park. The Tigers continued to roll on Tuesday, as Will Rhyme

Sportsbook Betting Lines

Who Makes the Sportsbook Betting Lines?

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. “

What are the Football Betting Lines Trying to Accomplish?

There is a common misconception that point spreads represent the oddsmakers’ prediction of how many points the favorite will win by. That is not the case at all – their intent is NOT to evenly split the ATS result between the teams; rather, their goal is to attract equal betting action on both sides. Stated another way, they want to create a line that half the people find appealing to bet one way while the other half find it appealing to bet the other way (known as ‘dividing the action’).

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).

How the Opening Line Is Made

The opening line is the first line created by the oddsmakers, which is then sent out to sportsbooks. Of course there is an entire method to the madness on how the opening line is created. Seba explained that it all starts with each oddsmaker creating a line on each game based upon their own personal approach. This usually includes having up-to-date power ratings on each team.

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.

Why Sports Betting Lines Change

Once the opening line is released by LVSC, the individual sportsbooks decide if they want to make any adjustments before offering it to the public. Reasons for such adjustments include:

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.”

To visit this internet sportsbook got to MySportsbook.com for all your sports betting needs and World Series odds.