Leverkusen tops Wolfsburg to climb to fifth

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11/11/2007 - Wolfsburg, Germany (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Tranquillo Barnetta and Stefan Kiessling scored and Bayer Leverkusen held on despite scoring an own goal for a 2-1 win over Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga on Saturday.

Bayer Leverkusen (6-4-3) jumped four spots from ninth to fifth, closing within seven points of first-place Bayern Munich.

Barnetta converted from just four yards in the 37th minute, taking advantage of a Kiessling shot that was deflected by Wolfsburg goalie Simon Jentzsch.

Kiessling found the back of the net himself in the second half, scoring from just six yards out seven minutes after the break.

Bayer Leverkusen defender Manuel Friedrich gave one goal back in the 70th, but his side held on for its second straight victory.

Wolfsburg (4-5-4) missed a chance to climb into the top half of the standings and sits 11th.

In Sunday's other game, Rudiger Kauf. Artur Wichniarek and Sibusiso Zuma each scored in the second half as Arminia Bielefeld overcame a halftime deficit in a 3-1 win over Nurnberg.

Arminia Bielefeld (4-6-3) is 15th, but just five points out of seventh.

Andreas Wolf scored in the 43rd for Nurnberg (2-8-3), which is 16th and in danger of relegation after finishing sixth last season.

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Las Vegas Sports Consultants (LVSC) is the world’s premier oddsmaking company and the most respected authority on making the lines. Mike Seba is a Senior Oddsmaker at LVSC and has been making lines for the last six years. In our extended interview, Seba explained that there are 4-5 oddsmakers assigned to make lines for each of the major sports (pro & college football and basketball; MLB, NHL, boxing, golf). Each of these oddsmakers bring unique opinions, strengths and weaknesses to the process. Oddsmakers at LVSC are professional sports junkies who love what they do and would probably do it for nothing if you asked them, but they do get paid for it. By necessity their approach is very research-oriented and concise, since with millions of dollars at risk there is little margin for error.

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There is a common misconception that point spreads represent the oddsmakers’ prediction of how many points the favorite will win by. That is not the case at all – their intent is NOT to evenly split the ATS result between the teams; rather, their goal is to attract equal betting action on both sides. Stated another way, they want to create a line that half the people find appealing to bet one way while the other half find it appealing to bet the other way (known as ‘dividing the action’).

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The opening line is the first line created by the oddsmakers, which is then sent out to sportsbooks. Of course there is an entire method to the madness on how the opening line is created. Seba explained that it all starts with each oddsmaker creating a line on each game based upon their own personal approach. This usually includes having up-to-date power ratings on each team.

Power ratings are the oddsmaker’s value of each team and are used as a guide to calculate a "preliminary" pointspread on an upcoming game. The power ratings are adjusted after each game a team plays. Examples of non-game factors that would require an adjustment to a team's power rating are key player injuries and player trades.

Once a game’s power rating based pointspread is determined, the oddsmaker will make adjustments to that line after considering each team's most recent games played and previous games played against that opponent. Also, adjustments are made after reading each team’s local newspapers to get a sense of what the coaches & players are thinking going into the game.

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The purpose of these adjustments, like all line adjustments, is to more equally divide the betting action.

Once betting begins, sportsbooks can adjust the line at any time. In doing so they attempt to make more attractive the team that is getting less action. By moving the line, sportsbooks can influence how the public bets on a particular game.

For example, if the pointspread on a game is 7 and most of the money is coming in on the underdog (taking the +7), sportsbooks will then move the number down to 6 ½ to try and attract money on the favorite.

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