SharpstieriWeekly timing
When sharps move lines during the week, and when your books still have a good price.
How this works
When sharps move the line during the week, and when your books are most likely to still have an old, better number.
Right now: Monday
Openers go up and sharps hit them hard. College openers are softer than NFL (130+ teams, less attention), so moves are big.
What to do: The biggest edge of the week. Compare your books to Pinnacle as soon as lines post.
The college week
How the betting market usually behaves. This is well-known market rhythm, not something from your data.
- Sunday afternoon – MondayOpeners go up and sharps hit them hard. College openers are softer than NFL (130+ teams, less attention), so moves are big.→ The biggest edge of the week. Compare your books to Pinnacle as soon as lines post.
- Tuesday – WednesdayQuieter: a few weeknight games and small moves.→ Shop calmly, follow Moving now and alerts.
- Thursday – FridayInjury news, weather and weeknight games. Your books start to fall behind Pinnacle more often.→ Good window for stale numbers at your books, especially on smaller-conference games.
- Saturday (game day)The most movement of the week: late news, big money, and small games getting their first real attention.→ Check right before kickoff for books still sitting on an old number. Separate news moves from sharp ones.
From your saved lines: last 6 weeks, 420 games, 1227 Pinnacle spread moves. Enough weeks to start trusting the shape, though one wild week can still tilt it.
When Pinnacle moves the spread
Every change in Pinnacle's spread before kickoff, by day (Eastern time). Pinnacle is where sharps bet, so this is when sharp money lands. Busiest: Saturday.
How far before kickoff
Moves early in the week are usually sharp money on openers. Moves in the last day mix late sharp money with injuries, weather and the public.
When your books have a better number
Share of hours, while games were on the board, that FanDuel, Caesars or BetMGM had a spread worth 1%+ more than Pinnacle's fair price, counting both the number and the juice (the same rule as “Better price at your book”). That gap is the edge: the book hasn't caught up yet. Most often: Sunday.
How far before kickoff
A better number that only lasts minutes won't show up well, because prices are saved every 10–30 minutes.
How long a better number lasts
After Pinnacle moves, how long one of your books kept the old, better number, until it matched Pinnacle or Pinnacle came back.
3725 gaps; the typical one lasted about 3 hours. You usually have some time, but any single gap can close in minutes.
Do Pinnacle's moves stick?
Pinnacle spread moves made 6+ hours before kickoff, compared with its number at kickoff.
933 moves. When most moves stay put, the number you missed usually doesn't come back, which is why “Take it now” means now.
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