More wagers on Travis Kelce than the point spread? At one sportsbook, you bet
Player props have become increasingly popular in American sportsbooks as a whole, but one type of prop bet stands out from the rest — the odds of scoring a touchdown.
On Thursday, at online sportsbook PointsBet, more bets were placed on the Kansas City tight end. Travis Kelce The two teams combined to score a touchdown compared to the point spread of the Chargers-Chiefs game. More bets were placed on Kelce to score a touchdown than the over/under total.
It is a wild state but also an outlier. Other sportsbooks saw plenty of interest in Kelce, but nowhere near the point spread. For example, Caesars Sportsbook had about five times more bets on the point spread than the touchdown scorer for all players.
Still, interest in the Chiefs tight end was felt throughout the betting market. Sports media personality Pat McAfee included Kelce on a parlay bet he suggested to his audience, and FanDuel reported that more than 25,000 users bet on the parlay. In DraftKings, Kelce led all players in the bet to score a touchdown.
At sportsbook operator WynnBET, the odds of scoring the game’s first touchdown have emerged as the most popular prop bet, according to trader Andy Morrissey.
“They’ve been very popular in Europe,” Craig Mucklow, vice president of trading for Caesars Sportsbook, said of the touchdown scorer markets.
In Nevada, however, they have been used primarily at Super Bowls until recently.
“Now, we have them for every game,” said Adam Pullen, assistant director of merchandising for Caesars, adding that touchdown scorer markets include both professional and public.
Kelce did not score a touchdown in the Chiefs’ 27-25 win over the Chargers on Thursday.
“With the amount of action, not to mention the amount of single-game parlies in which Kelce had a TD at any given time, his not getting into the end zone was a book,” PointsBet spokesman Wyatt Earout told ESPN. It was a great result.”
Most sportsbooks had strong results through Sunday.
NFL notables
• Action from Sunday’s NFL games was relatively balanced. At Caesars, the point spread bets on seven of the 12 afternoon games were in the 50/50 range.
PointsBet said six games attracted what the book considers two-way action on the spread, with only one game drawing one-way action. Yearout looked at the weekly breakdowns of last NFL season and found that this Sunday’s slate featured more balanced action than any week last season.
“Ticket counts on straight bets were pretty split on a lot of games,” said John Murray, executive director of SuperBook at Westgate Las Vegas, “but those aren’t usually big decisions for us.” Getting favorites to lose straight up is always the biggest key.”
Six underdogs pulled off right upsets on Sunday, making it a big winning day for the sportsbook.
“Not to report too many losing games, although I will say the Jaguars were very popular with both the fast guys and some of the home players,” Murray said. “We did incredibly poorly in that game.”
According to sportsbook director Thomas Gable, Borgata suffered a loss on Sunday. The Atlantic City sportsbook’s fate was decided by mid-afternoon, thanks to heavy action on the Jets and Giants and “some big-ticket items on the slots.”
“There aren’t enough big decisions to make up for what we lost,” Gable wrote in a text message to ESPN on Sunday afternoon. “That was the first ‘JETS’ chant I’ve heard in a book in a long time.”
• BetMGM’s Nevada sportsbook enjoyed “really good” Sundays, according to director Lamar Mitchell, who said a lot of “six-figure paydays went home.”
• “Today was a big day for us,” said WynnBET’s Morrissey. “We saw an increase in handle compared to last week, and we avoided any big parlay losses.”
• A bettor with Caesars has a .01 — yes, a dime — moneyline bet on the Chiefs to beat the Chargers on Thursday at -205 odds. Mucklow said penny bets were “interestingly popular” and added that, to pay out on penny moneyline bets on the Chiefs winning, the book was “rounded up”.
• The 49ers’ odds to win the Super Bowl went from 20-1 to 18-1 on Sunday’s points bet. San Francisco quarterback Trey Lance Walked off the field after the win against the Seahawks.
New NFL RG Commercial
The NFL made its new beginning. Responsible betting commercial During Sunday night’s Bears-Packers game. It centers on a hypothetical “miracle” game ending and reminds bettors to bet responsibly because “the unbelievable happens.”
“As we move into the second season of our comprehensive responsible betting program, we feel very positive about the impact made in the first year and believe this is an initiative that deserves continued attention and resources. need,” said David Highhill, vice president and general manager of sports betting for the NFL. “The goal with our new league-wide responsible betting creative is to continue using the NFL’s platform to educate and encourage fans who choose to bet safely and responsibly.”
The NFL, which limits sports betting ads to six per game, is wary of excessive gambling in its broadcasts. The league’s research shows that a significant segment of its fans are turned off or not interested in betting.
Google is also trying to help users who aren’t interested in sports betting limit ads. Gambling is one of five categories — along with alcohol, dating, pregnancy and weight loss — for which Google allows users to limit ads. Typing “ad settings” in the Chrome browser takes users to a page where they can choose to limit the number of gambling ads.
College football notables
• Notable Week 4 opening lines. [via Circa Sports]:
Clemson -7, 55.5 at Wake Forest
Duke at Kansas -8, 50.5
Tennessee at Florida -10, 65.5
Wisconsin at Ohio State -16, 51.5
Kansas State at Oklahoma -13, 55.5
USC-5, 70.5 at Oregon State
Arkansas at Texas A&M -2, 49.5
• Kansas and Vanderbilt became the first teams to surpass their season win totals on Saturday. The Jayhawks and Commodores each had a win total of 2 or 2.5 at most sports books.
• A bettor placed an $80,000 moneyline bet on Ohio State to beat Toledo in Indiana at -4,000 straight odds with Hard Rock Sportsbook. The Buckeyes won 77-21, and the bettor won a net $2,000.