Hongbit

2 recent examples with baseball props: They manipulate the payouts on parlays now. As with every book, they can change odds based on whatever they choose and that’s fine. The payout should be standard and shouldn’t change based on a player or team. A parlay of +400 and +400 should pay a standard +2500. Even if it they tweak it and want to lower it to f you, every parlay of the exact same odds should pay the same. Neither of these are true at FD. They use some unknown method to determine parlay payouts and it changes depending on the player. Have had some very weird situations where a +500/+400 parlay paid less than a +500/+350 They are also the only book that won’t void a no start in baseball. Every other book needs a batter to be in the starting lineup to play. FD does not and will keep the bet live even if a player pinch hits later and only gets one AB. You bet with the expectation of 3 or 4 AB rather than just 1. They stick you with a 1 AB play and with odds that are set like they were starting. If you live bet the 1 AB, your odds would be much better. You don’t get those odds. The most dastardly thing they do thought is they won’t let you cash the bet out and take your money back before the game starts. You have a parlay where all the legs haven’t started, they won’t let you void it once it’s been announced your player isn’t starting. They are the only book that operates this way.

ESPN has $1.5B reasons to make sure you will be hearing all about it for the next 10 years .

I’m not sure you will find many playoff teams with a second pairing with 163 total NHL games.

Penn Gaming is one of the big national companies and since they don’t have clever gambling sounding corporate name they need a brand to partner. They started with Barstool and then pivoted to ESPN. Penn are paying ESPN $150M for 10 years plus company stock options for the right to plaster gambling over their entire platform

As football season begins, a quick reminder that these big online books are shady AF. They do some very sheisty stuff with lines and odds. FanDuel is definitely the worst. DraftKings isn’t much better. Fanatics has a great policy on voiding bets for injury but their odds are some of the worst. MGM has very limited markets and an ancient app.

****ty way to settle the championship as Lando conks out with a few laps to go. That’s a 25 point gain for Oscar instead of 7. That will loom very large and now everyone is out hoping for a Piastri DNF somewhere in the next few races to bring the championship battle back.

I had similar thoughts watching OSU and Texas with great defenses and inexperienced QB’s continue to go for it on 4th and 2 inside their own territory.

This is why pro sports are so open to take all that money from DraftKings and FanDuel.

We don’t know for sure but it’s hard to believe they would be playing hardball coming off a major injury. I couldn’t see them turning down something between the 3/$106 Crosby deal and the 4/160 deal of Myles Garrett if offered earlier this summer before Watt and Garrett.

Parsons is a huge get for GB but nothing has changed in that their season will be determined by how well Jordan Love plays.

This Parsons contract has set a new mark for a Defensive player. I’m not sure what Brad was thinking by not getting the Hutch extension done sooner. His deal just got more expensive.

They got the best out of their situation. Who better would’ve been an option? Any slim chance they had of getting a current marquee driver died when Max stayed with RB. That driver would’ve been George Russell who would probably have chosen an existing midfield team over a brand new one.

Great job by Caddy announcing Sergio and Valteri as their maiden drivers. Solid vets that will be great for a new team. New regs coming in next season so who knows they may have a really good car. Both have proven to know what to do when given a top car.

I personally see Rainer as the 2nd best prospect in the organization. I think ceiling can be higher than Clark. There are only a handful of major leaguers that I’d trade him for and all but Paul Skenes are untouchable by their current teams.

Don’t get that at all. They have the best safety combo in football with Branch and Kerby. Arnold should be much improved in season 2 and they signed DJ Reed on the other side at corner. Thats a great defensive backfield. Jack Campbell could get really good very quickly. Anzalone is still great and Barnes was coming on big time before getting hurt. Hutch sounds like he’s back to full strength and that will be huge. Davenport is legit if he can stay healthy. Reader and Tyliek in the middle with Lopez backing them up. Alim will be back sometime in the 2nd half too.

I am absolutely not getting in a debate over the merits of Nate Sudfeld on an NFL roster.

Hooker waived. My only fear with this move is they pick up Nate Sudfeld again after he was released from SF. Wouldn’t be surprised to see GB or MIN pick up Hooker just to gain intel on the Lions operation.

A deep drive into left field

“Hey Frank. How’s that retirement thing going?”

Amazed that AJ didn’t bunt there.

One is trying to live the American dream. The other is rapidly destroying it.

I will be very surprised if they keep 3 QB’s. I expect Hooker to be out.

The problem is they haven’t signed Hutch yet to his long term deal. That would have to happen before they went out and signed anyone else especially another DE.

I don’t think it has anything to do with UM’s money being a profit center for the NCAA. The cash just means they have the money to sue the NCAA in an actual court of law if they don’t like the ruling or penalties. Tennessee did this exact move and the NCAA folded like a cheap suit at the first sign UT was serious about litigation.

NCAA will rule on punishment for the Stalions case today. I am expecting them to accept the prior self imposed sanctions on the team and only give very minor additional punishments like a few less summer practice days or a recruiting weekend. They will come down hard on Stalions, Harbaugh, and the CMU coaching staff.