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Message: [QUOTE="Tenspro2002, post: 2542349, member: 889"] Too many straight-laced codgers who have never gambled in their lives. UConn -210 Field +160 As other have stated, this means: - if you bet $210 on UConn, and we win the championship, you win $100 - if you bet $100 on the Field, and they win the championship, you win $160 In terms of odds, you can estimate as follows: UConn -210 implies our odds of winning are 210/(210+100) ~ 68% Field +160 implies their odds of winning are 100/(160+100) ~ 38% You'll note that this adds up to more than 100%. The reason is that there is some vig or "juice" built into the lines so that the house, on average, makes money. In a vig-less system, the odds would really be something like UConn -185 Field +185 in which case the odds would be UConn ~65% Field ~35% [/QUOTE]