Finding value is how professional sports bettors determine which games they are going to bet on. It is a simple concept but one that is hard to execute. In this lesson from our Sharp Academy series, we show you how to calculate the line for the game and total once you have an expected score projected for each team.This method is going to work for low scoring sports like NHL, MLB and soccer. For NFL and NBA we will have different methods to determine value when handicapping.
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