MLB · Baseball · Jul 18, 2026 20:10 UTC · avg book margin 7.1%
Cleveland Guardians–Pittsburgh Pirates totals market splits bookmakers: 16.3% gap from sharp consensus, 3 hours to first pitch
What happened: Final score: 1–7. This one lost. A real edge is a long-run average, not a per-bet promise — we publish every outcome either way. For the record: the flagged price stayed live for about 3 hours after detection before the edge closed.
The totals market for Cleveland Guardians vs Pittsburgh Pirates (MLB) has fractured across operators with 3 hours remaining before first pitch. One side of the over-under is currently priced 16.3% above where independent sharp sources have settled fair value — a live, exploitable mismatch that exists only while the odds remain quoted.
When bookmakers scatter this widely, consensus emerges among professionals: one of those prices is wrong, and the sharp consensus identifies which side of the market has drifted into vulnerable territory.
Three independent sharp operators have converged on a fair line, so this edge rests on multiple separate models rather than a single book's assessment.
The bet structure aligns with 7 historically profitable patterns in the Playbook archive — the strongest variant carries a +37.3% return on closed positions.
This market segment has a measurable past: baseball totals at these odds levels have settled to +3.0% ROI across 1186 tracked bets, showing that mispricings in this tier do convert into profits at scale.
Edges of this magnitude do not persist until game time: historical data on comparable totals markets shows they typically flatten within roughly 20 hours as sharp capital moves in and corrects the line.
Historical, aggregate data on settled bets — not betting advice and not a guarantee. Markets adapt; edges fade; variance is real.
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@ 2.30
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EV by devig methodthe same price run through every de-margining method
+3.1%
Shin
+3.0%
Power
+3.4%
Additive
-7.9%
Worst case
+3.4%
Multiplicative
Insights
High confidence + meaningful price gap — best risk-adjusted segment.
A sample of bookmakers on this betnear close — every price against the same no-vig fair
Bookmaker
Odds
Vs fair
Betanything
2.30
+13.5%
BetUS
2.25
+11.1%
BetOnline
2.25
+11.1%
SportsBetting.ag
2.25
+11.1%
Betmania
2.18
+7.6%
Betano
2.10
+3.7%
Bracco
2.04
+0.7%
Bet105
2.03
+0.2%
YouWager
2.02
-0.3%
Jazz Sports
2.00
-1.3%
Stake
1.98
-2.2%
Unibet
1.98
-2.2%
Risk & profitability profile
Heavy favoriteFavoriteCoin flipUnderdogLongshot
2.30 odds → 43% implied win probability
49%
Fair win probability
+8.7% 🔒
Expected ROI (model)
+3.3% 🔒
Cohort realized ROI
Proven Playbook matchesconditions are members-only
• closing drift + liquid market 🔒 (Soccer) — +8.0% settled ROI on 40% winners
• early value + short odds 🔒 (Any) — +7.2% settled ROI on 48% winners
• consensus fade + late entry 🔒 (Any) — +7.0% settled ROI on 43% winners
• steam entry + home side 🔒 (Any) — +6.9% settled ROI on 40% winners
Past performance
Based on 108 bets exactly like this one over the last 60 days
+6.9% 🔒
Closing line value
+7.7% 🔒
Average return
+4.0% 🔒
Beat the closing line
83%
Win rate
Likely ROI range: +1.0% to +7.0% 🔒
Statistically reliable winner: even the worst case is profitable
The endingthe part only a settled signal can show
Detected Jul 15, 06:20 UTC at 2.15 (+3.4% edge) → fair price at close 2.03 → closing-line value +2.7%
✅ Settled: WON · +1.15 units
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Record settled · last updated Jul 18, 2026 19:42 UTC · How these numbers are made: methodology · the dataset — fair prices shown are margin-free. Spotted an error? Request a correction (include this page's URL).