dailypennsylvanian.com - Penn prof: Point shaving possibly a factor in tourney: "Wolfers observed that in games with double-digit favorites, those teams tend to barely miss covering the spread. For example, in games with 14-point spreads, the favorite often tends to win by 12 or 13, winning by 15 or 16 far less often. In addition, while small favorites cover the spread about 50 percent of the time, large favorites only cover in 47 percent of the games."


I read the Wharton piece, and it sounds very plausible that he has detected, on a massive scale

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