Nick Bogdanovich doesn’t have to be close to the Kansas football program to understand this year’s struggles.
Bogdanovich — the director of trading at William Hill Race & Sports Book in Las Vegas — only has to look to his own data to see where the program stands.
“I don’t want to be rude or brutal, but how long have they been down?” Bogdanovich said. “They’re definitely a ‘bet-against’ team.”
In the world of sports betting, that’s not a compliment.
Each week, analytics give sports books a general sense of where to put point-spreads. From there, they make slight adjustments based on injuries and past performance.