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Message: [QUOTE="Golden Husky, post: 2661175, member: 8090"] Not worth much. Analytics aren't the same as pointspreads which have a sole purpose of generating an equal or near-equal amount of wagering on each side. The pointspread is [B][I]not [/I][/B]an indication of what bookmakers believe will be the final margin. In fact, having a game "land" on the pointspread usually means a book gets "sided" or, worse, "middled" on the game. Nevada sports books are in business to make money so bookmakers are reticent to post lines on things where their knowledge is suspect...such as women's college basketball. International bookmakers, especially those located in the UK--actually, for tax purposes, most of them have their legal residence in Gibraltar--are far more enterprising and willing to accept wagers not just on sports but on just about anything, including the names given to newborn Royals, what color hat the Queen will wear at a given event, whether there will be recorded snowfall in a number of capital cities on Christmas day, election results, et al. I don't know where JavaMan got his lines but they're probably not from a Nevada bookmaker. That doesn't mean they're invalid but, if you live in the United States, you're prohibited from wagering through that site. [/QUOTE]