Originally Posted by tableplay View Post
The Mcgregor/Mayweather fight was a rare sports betting opportunity IMHO. Give up 5 to 1 for a 50 to 1 favorite (Mayweather=favorite).
Originally Posted by redietz View Post
That seems like a reasonable way to look at it. Occasionally something comes my way, but it's not some ongoing crutch. For example, about 25 years ago, someone I trust told me that the Kentucky hoops team doctor had made a large wager on the team they were playing against early in the season. It was an easy W. But those are once-a-season situations, at best.

It is interesting that looking at things this way, what some people consider an edge, I'd call a crutch.

Agreed. We had long debates about why we should or should not load a truck with money and drive to Las Vegas. The bottom line is that we didn't trust the process of deciphering how certain anomalous outcomes (ear chewing, for one) would affect payouts. I remember a Tyson fight at the MGM that caused a riot because different sports books scored it differently and paid differently. It was the "cocoon of horror" fight, as I recall. I didn't attend, but I was in the MGM after the fight. Anyway, we thought there was a reasonable probability that the fight would have some kind of anomalous outcome.

Instead, it had the clear and obvious outcome. What stunned me was that the odds came down at the end. We thought the fight's opening odds would go up. We were dead wrong.