Figured this was a good place to post this
most people in here are absolutely clueless on how Vegas operates
books don’t look for 50-50 action on games- it’s a terrible misconception and people around here go ranting and raving believing this nonsense
You've obviously never worked in a Sportsbook. The very first thing they tell you on day one is the most important job you have is to keep the lines as close to 50-50 as you can possibly get. Or as the Race and Sports Director told me. "We're after the vig. Period."
They show you how to log into the system and look at the bar graphs under each team of any game. The bar graph was 0 to 100 with a bright red line that was exactly where the 50% mark was. If it was 60-40 on any game, you adjust the line.
That Race and Sports Director was Tike Karavas. He was the most Intelligent person I've ever met. I'm 100% certain that he knew what he was talking about.
For any who wants to know, He travled the world with the Globetrotters as a gaurd for the Generals. He even brought in Curly Neal and Meadowlark Lemon to introduce me to them because I would always asked him to tell me more of his stories and never ran out. He introduced me to a few famous people and knew hundreds more. For anybody who wants to here some of the stories he used to tell me or are a sports fan in general, I found this interview with him.