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Message: [QUOTE="Mano22, post: 1148700, member: 3394"] I don't know about baseball, but in football changing the payout is a way of synthetically moving the line. This is sometimes done because lines must move at .5 points at a time, but sometimes the "fair" line might be like 1.2 not 1.5. For example, most books take $110 to pay $100 on a bet. So if Seattle is favored by 7 over Green Bay, the line will likely start out at -110 for each team. But if more people start betting on Seattle, the line might technically stay at 7, but now Seattle could be -125, and Green Bay would be only 100. This sort of moves the line, without actually moving the 7 point line. Would you wanna bet $120 on Seattle to win $100 with a line of 7, or bet $110 to win $100 with a line of 7.5? It is very close. So betters have been enticed to change their bets (i.e. effectively had the line moved for them) without actually moving the line. [/QUOTE]