Ticket count and money information

Does anyone know if i can rely on the ticket count and money information from the sports books in the pregame game center? 

Nope. It's hard to find good numbers anywhere. The Action Network claims to have accurate numbers, but they're a newer, subscription-based site.

There is no way any large, corporately owned Sportsbook is just going to open their ledger of action and give out their transactional data to HillBillySports.com.

Never, ever, ever in a million years.

Just listen to some of the podcasts where Sportbook managers talk on the air - these guys won't even tell what some of the big bets are. "I'm not allowed to comment on that".

They'll tell you on the air what their ticket count looks like days before the game or give hints as to what some bettors "they respect" are doing. But does anyone really think that every bet made at even just one of the bigger books like William Hill or the Mirage or Pinnacle or Heritage or the Westgate etc... is being funneled over the internet to one of these websites? Please.

If you're lucky the info you see on these sites might come from a mom and pop NEVADA sportsbook off the beaten path selling that data. They log into the website(s) you mention and manually type in whatever they want. Also some contest sites' data are probably factored in such as this one, like concensus, screen scrapers taking the % and factoring that in.

Go ahead, ask Bell at Pregame which casinos are contributing to the numbers. You won't get an answer and why should you? It's free. It's a gimmick to steer traffic to the site. If I had an agreement with just a couple of super sportsbook such as the Westgate, Mirage and Caesars Palace and had their data on my site I would make sure that I had some sort of an agreement where I could use their names as contributors on my site.

Not one of them mentions a single source.

Lucky or not some of the data is probably close.