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Originally Posted by BigSmoke
Many small market teams do have the best odds if you look at Vegas odds' history.
And I just gave you proof the Leafs are not high in odds and you ignored it and claim they are always high. That is simply not true at all.
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heep223 did not claim that the Maple Leafs are "always high." He said that "[t]here is definitely an argument that the Leafs are always
higher than they should be..." That's a huge difference. In the years you cited in which the odds given the Leafs were very low it is because they were legitimately a terrible team. The argument forwarded here is not that odds are determined solely on the basis of the number of bets cast, but rather that that is a significant contributing factor among several others.
In the case of this year the odds given to Toronto are high because they are legitimately a playoff team
and also fielding a higher number of bets precisely because of the much larger fan base. I would most definitely take the "under" on both Edmonton and Toronto most years because their myopic fanbases have a strong tendency to believe they are better than they actually are, and this confidence feeds the odds.