Real World Sports

Sky High NBA Totals Still Soaring Over

There’s obviously a ton of scoring in the NBA this season, most if it in the Western Conference. As a result, very high totals are being posted. In the past eleven days (ending Monday) at least one game has had a total of 210 posted every day. You have to go back to Thursday, November 6th, which saw only three games played, to find a day without at least one total listed at 210 or more.

These high totaled games are still flying over. Even after an 0-2 to the under on Monday night, in games with totals of 210 or more the over is 15-8-1 in that time frame. The bulk of the profit is in extremely high totaled games, as games with over/under lines of 220 or more are 9-3 to the over.

There’s a lot of scoring, and the totals reflect that. But the last week and a half suggest that the linemakers haven’t adjusted the numbers high enough, particularly in the games that the betting markets suggest are most likely to see fireworks.