MLB · Baseball · Jul 18, 2026 16:10 EDT · avg book margin 7.1%

Cleveland GuardiansvsPittsburgh 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.
Offered2.58Fair price2.22+16.3% above fair

The setup — the analysis as published at detection, written 2.8 hours before start and frozen for the record. The market it describes has since closed; the outcome is above.

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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Cincinnati Reds vs St. Louis Cardinals · MLB · Baseball — flagged side Under 8.5 @ 2.15
79 Omen Score

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Why this bet
+4.4%
Entry edge
+0.9%
Edge near close
+0.1%
Risk-adjusted edge
2.13
Fair price (no-vig)
2.25
Entry odds
Quality
80/100
Confidence
9
Sharp books
Prime signal
Class
Market state: Recreational consensus (no sharp anchor) · priced from: Market reference
Sizing
1.55%
Recommended stake
0.8%
Full Kelly (theoretical max)
Insights
Rec-book consensus only — no sharp anchor.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
BookmakerOddsVs fair
Hard Rock2.15+0.9%
espn-bet2.10-1.4%
Hard Rock2.10-1.4%
1xBet2.08-2.3%
Matchbook2.08-2.3%
sport8882.05-3.8%
betparx1.96-7.9%
Bally Bet1.96-7.9%
BetRivers1.96-7.9%
PMU1.83-14.3%
Risk & profitability profile
Heavy favoriteFavoriteCoin flipUnderdogLongshot
2.15 odds → 47% implied win probability
47%
Fair win probability
+4.9% 🔒
Expected ROI (model)
+8.0% 🔒
Cohort realized ROI
The endingthe part only a settled signal can show
Detected Aug 17, 18:51 UTC at 2.25 (+4.4% edge) → fair price at close 2.13 → closing-line value +1.1%
✅ Settled: WON · +1.25 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).