This Week in Sports Betting by the Numbers
by Nicholas Tolomeo - 8/21/2013
NFL teams have made it through two weeks of preseason, and most of their players have survived as well. The English Premier League season has begun with more US interest than ever thanks to NBC Sports Network, and a new challenger to ESPN has risen with the debut of Fox Sports 1. If you have cable and a couch, it is a good time to be a sports fan.
31: Number of NFL teams that rank in the ESPN.com Top 100 most searched teams. The Jacksonville Jaguars are the only team not to be in the Top 100.
8-1: Los Angeles Dodgers odds to win the NL West on June 21, when the Dodgers were 30-42.
1-45: Los Angeles Dodgers odds to win the NL West on Aug. 21 after the team went on a 43-10 run over the span of two months to increase their division lead to 7.5 games.
$1.9 million: Average salary of an NFL player, according to the Wall Street Journal.
$5.4 million: Average salary of an NBA player, according to the Wall Street Journal.
53: Players allowed on an NFL active roster, equating to an average roster cost of $100.7 million.
15: Players allowed on an NBA active roster, equating to an average roster cost of $81 million.
11.8 million: Viewers for last week’s episode of A&E’s “Duck Dynasty,” making the show the highest-rated cable show for the week.
4.6 million: Viewers for ESPN’s showing of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Pure Michigan 400, making it the highest-rated sports telecast on cable last week and sixth-highest rated cable telecast overall.
132: Weight in pounds of the scrotum of 49-year old Wesley Warren before his surgery. Warren had the enlarged scrotum removed, and the surgery was depicted on a TLC reality show, “The man with the 132-pound scrotum.”
165: Weight in pounds of Buffalo Bills rookie defensive back Nickell Robey.
1: Number of draws during the opening weekend of the English Premier League that featured 10 games. The lone tie was a 2-2 decision in the Norwich City/Everton game.
+200: Odds on Bovada for the Baltimore Ravens, Pittsburgh Steelers and Cincinnati Bengals to win the AFC North. It is the only division with three teams pegged as co-favorites. The Cleveland Browns are listed at +600.
0.1: Overnight rating for the Regis Philbin hosted “Crowd Goes Wild” show that made its debut on Fox Sports 1 last week.
81: Age of Regis Philbin.
+450: Odds on 5Dimes for Australia to win the 2015 Cricket World Cup.
+25,000: Odds on 5Dimes for Australia to win the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
5.4: “Sunday Night Baseball” rating in the New York market for a Yankees-Red Sox game.
6.5: “Sunday Night Football” rating in the New York market for the Giants preseason game.
7: Hours it took fans to request one million tickets for the World Cup when tickets went on sale last week. Fans will find out in October if the will receive tickets after a random draw.
7: What the New England Patriots were favored by on 5Dimes in their Week 1 contest at Buffalo before Tom Brady slightly injured his knee at training camp. The line was taken down at most sportsbooks following the injury.
9: What the New England Patriots were favored by on 5Dimes for the Week 1 contest after Brady returned to practice and sportsbooks put the line back up.
+975,000: Opening odds of Crystal Palace winning the 2013-14 English Premier League.
+750,000: Odds of Crystal Palace winning the English Premier League after its opening weekend 1-0 loss to Tottenham. Hull City, a 2-0 loser to Chelsea, joins them as the longshots to win the EPL on 5Dimes.
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