The Perils of Top Down Handicapping

Steve Politi: If all you did was have a pretty good idea for when lines are gonna come out and then you watch the screens, is this like the stock market? Are there people that win that way or are there people that play that way? They don't even know any players or teams. That's called top down handicapping where you can't name a player.Politi: The move in this case was certainly to bet on the Rams catching the points. Wait a minute. Why didn't it go to three? Because other guys knew that the chargers were going to be playing some of their bad starters.

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