This garbage is friggin fixed

Total bullshitt. Never lost so many games because of a point or less.Fuck you Vegas.

Canada, your post gave me an idea. Has anyone closely examined over the years how easy it is to predict prime time games versus all non prime time games? I have no idea, but my hunch is that they might be either harder rto predict, or favoring the dogs to create media excitement? Anyone out there with this data?

Great idea footballsmart I would be really interested in seeing this data as well

My sense is that if there is an effect, it's probably only in recent 10 to 20 years as the officials or whomever might bias...it...probably only recently realized the benefits of close games on prime time. It makes sense for someone to simply analyze those 3 games over 20 years ... of SNF...and TNF...has been around 20 years. That would equate to about 50 games a year times 20 = 1000 games. If the dog wins on average 51% on average overall all games and 53% for example over those 1000 games ... then we have a huge effect. It may or may not exist. And if you compare prime time games alone (1000 games) against non prime time games over 20 years (about 4000 games give or take) the effect should be even greater (in previous example it might be 55% for dogs on prime time) ... somebody must have compiled this data. If so please share. The data has to speak. Maybe favortite does better in prime time or maybe favorite or dog home or away. You get the idea and with my system of multiple variables that will remain confidential .. I might be able to further capture a significant effect.

Great idea! I wonder if anyone has been OCD...enough to compile that data. In this day and age someone out there might have it but I've never seen "first downs by penalty" listed in a box score or database. That is the one murky area that zebras could indeed use to manipulate games. While I'm not a conspiracy theorist, that factors demands proper analysis.