I have always asked, but no one can give me an answer. How do books know which players are out before everyone else?
Say a star player is 50/50 to play. You will not see a market for the game, which is fair enough as the star player will have an influence on the line. No problems.
But what I find disturbing is, a market will come out reflecting if the player is going to play or not, well before anyone knows. You watch coaches interviews before the game and they say star player X is a game time decision, official twitter feeds say game time decisions etc etc. Yet, the bookmaker knows hours before?
I am surprised people here don't pick up on it.
I have always asked, but no one can give me an answer. How do books know which players are out before everyone else?
Say a star player is 50/50 to play. You will not see a market for the game, which is fair enough as the star player will have an influence on the line. No problems.
But what I find disturbing is, a market will come out reflecting if the player is going to play or not, well before anyone knows. You watch coaches interviews before the game and they say star player X is a game time decision, official twitter feeds say game time decisions etc etc. Yet, the bookmaker knows hours before?
I am surprised people here don't pick up on it.
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