Higher scoring forces betting markets to adjust

Before Super Bowl 58 kicks off from Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on Feb. 11, here are a few historical betting trends bettors can use to make educated wagers on the Big Game. Underdogs have performed well against the spread in recent Super Bowls. This year, the Kansas City Chiefs are+2 underdogs against the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl…

The Super Bowl will be played on Sunday, Feb. 11, at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. The Super Bowl has always been one of the most anticipated days on the sports calendar, but the betting boom has helped grow the game to an even larger audience. As legal wagering expands, betting interest will grow on Super Bowl Sunday. If you're one of the…

Some $20 billion will be bet worldwide on this season's Super Bowl, most of it illegally, with more than half the U.S. adult population having a wager on the big game. Those bets will come in all forms, whether it be American and offshore bookmakers, Internet wagers, office pools, person-to-person bets and Super Bowl parties, making it the single…

LAS VEGAS - The Iowa Limbo Contest has been conducted in recent weekends in the backrooms of every Vegas sportsbook, where power ratings are sometimes triple-checked and the same question keeps getting repeated. How low can you go? For the first time, South Point sportsbook director Chris Andrews mixed his power-rating ingredients last week and…

The Houston Rockets and Cleveland Cavaliers will face off in the 2023 NBA Summer League final Monday, after both teams won their semifinal games Sunday. Both teams remain perfect in Las Vegas and will attempt to cap off the showcase with a championship. Cam Whitmore has become the pivotal player for Houston after Jabari Smith and Tari Eason were…

Bettors should expect a low-scoring affair this afternoon as red-hot netminders Jake Oettinger and Laurent Brossoit duel in Dallas. Photo By - USA TODAY Sports There is a Western Conference tilt in Saturday's NHL matinee on ABC, with the Central Division's Dallas Stars hosting the Pacific Division's Vegas Golden Knights. Historically, the Under is…

LAS VEGAS (AP) - The recent rise in NBA and NHL scoring has caused the betting markets to respond in kind, posting totals that would have been unimaginable not long ago. NBA teams were averaging 113.8 points a game through Thursday. That is the highest figure since the 1969-70 season when the average was 116.7, but does follow a greater…

LAS VEGAS - The recent rise in NBA and NHL scoring has caused the betting markets to respond in kind, posting totals that would have been unimaginable not long ago. NBA teams were averaging 113.8 points a game through Thursday. That is the highest figure since the 1969-70 season when the average was 116.7, but does follow a greater trend. Scoring…

This Chiefs vs. Raiders prediction looks at a Kansas City team battling for the number one seed in the AFC. Vegas is a long time division rival and would like nothing more than to make that a difficult reality for the Chiefs. Jarret Stidham came in and lit up what had been a stout 49ers defense. How will that impact this one? Stidham's performance…

LAS VEGAS - The recent rise in NBA and NHL scoring has caused the betting markets to respond in kind, posting totals that would have been unimaginable not long ago. NBA teams were averaging 113.8 points a game this season through Thursday. That is the highest figure since the 1969-70 season, when the average was 116.7, but it does follow a greater…

According to SportRadar, NBA games this season have gone over Las Vegas betting totals 51.5% of the time. LAS VEGAS - The recent rise in NBA and NHL scoring has caused the betting markets to respond in kind, posting totals that would have been unimaginable not long ago. NBA teams were averaging 113.8 points a game through Thursday. That is the…

For an adult who gambles within their means and keeps it under control, there is just one guaranteed way to thoroughly enjoy the Super Bowl. No, it's not by attending someone's party and probably not hosting one of your own. Both types of Super Bowl social functions might seem like they'll be fun, but neither one will you be spared some inane…

All season long, Iowa games have flirted with setting a record for the lowest total ever in college football. The moment finally happened Saturday, and the number was still too high. The Hawkeyes' game against host Minnesota closed with a total of 31½, the lowest over/under for a Football Bowl Subdivision game since betting totals started to be…

Life's too short to bet the under. Right? I suppose that depends - especially in hockey betting. Betting the total in a hockey game is an exciting way to draw interest in any given matchup. Hockey is volatile and unlike other sports' over/unders, sportsbooks can price the odds for either side at plus-money depending on several key variables. So…

After opening the season with some high-scoring games, NHL teams have started to tighten up defensively. Combined with several netminders starting to find their groove, the totals have trended towards the under on the NHL betting lines. We look at Tuesday's slate, which features (mostly) even matchups. Let's check the latest NHL odds, stats, injury…

Betting on hockey is a bit like stargazing. The sights are breathtaking. The time is well spent. Your patience for something -- really, anything -- to happen is rewarded when you see that sudden streak across the sky. Then another. Then, hopefully, another. Which is to say that hockey is not basketball nor football in frequency of scoring events.…

Identifying something as a trend implies someone's following it. And bookmakers canvassed by USA TODAY Sports+ Thursday said they are not feeling a noticeable effect from the glaring ratio of "under" results in Major League Baseball betting on over/under totals. Through Wednesday's games, Covers.com reported the under hit 102 times out of MLB's…