"The year of the pitcher" and all that jazz

"The year of the pitcher" and all that jazz Does anyone know what the record is for betting OVER on any game lined at 6' or lower? How about 6 or lower? Is there a place I can figure this out on my own? I am wondering whether bettors have overreacted and are pounding unders, even at 6, 6', 7 etc.

This is an easy query using the Sports Data Query Language (SDQL). One place to do this is: [url]https://killersports.com/mlb.py/query[/url] just type in: total in the SDQL text query box and then click "query." It will give you the OU record of all MLB games since 2004 for each possible OU line. To rank them by total, simply click on the header of the total column on the far right. For your specific query, use: total

I performed the query and found the following OU records broken down by season for games in which the OU line was LESS than seven: 2010 19-20 OU 2009 3-2 OU 2008 4-7 OU 2007 1-3 OU 2006 NONE 2005 4-4 OU 2004 4-1 OU Perhaps the strongest evidence that this is indeed the year of the pitcher is to look at the NUMBER of games in which the total is less than seven: Look at 2010! So far this season, there are already more games with a total of less than seven than there were in the previous six seasons combined. Yikes. How can we take advantage of this?? Bases

I did something similar when I saw your reply, but I didn't post anything because there wasn't much to say. It seems like the market has corrected itself, but perhaps now that we have a larger sample size (because there are more games lined this low), maybe now we can see certain stadiums, umpires or pitchers that are more likely to deserve such a low total. (We could have done this before, but it is more likely to be statistically significant now.) I didn't draw any conclusions right away from looking. (The market is rather efficient after all for a sport this widely followed.) But that site is a great resource, and hopefully something will jump out at someone. Anyone betting bases that doesn't have that site (or a similar one) bookmarked may be doing himself a disservice.

We can take advantage of this because totals are well understated now. I have already been doing that the last couple weeks.

no pushes.. in 6 years! Wow. [QUOTE=Bases;23540]I performed the query and found the following OU records broken down by season for games in which the OU line was LESS than seven: 2010 19-20 OU 2009 3-2 OU 2008 4-7 OU 2007 1-3 OU 2006 NONE 2005 4-4 OU 2004 4-1 OU Perhaps the strongest evidence that this is indeed the year of the pitcher is to look at the NUMBER of games in which the total is less than seven: Look at 2010! So far this season, there are already more games with a total of less than seven than there were in the previous six seasons combined. Yikes. How can we take advantage of this?? Bases[/QUOTE]

Pushing a total below 7 Actually, it is not surprising that there are no pushes in six years for the OU line of less than seven. There were only three games that had a total of six. All the rest had totals of 6.5, which, of course, can't push. And, without the possible final score of 3-3, it's no surprising at all that there are no pushes. Bases