Reds–Cardinals totals: Hard Rock quotes 2.8% softer than sharp consensus, 4 hours to first pitch
What happened: Final score: 1–2. This one lost. A real edge is a long-run average, not a per-bet promise — we publish every outcome either way. The market agreed with the signal: the price closed +2.9% better than where the edge was flagged (positive closing-line value — the strongest sign the edge was real). For the record: the flagged price stayed live for about 6 hours after detection before the edge closed.
Omenizer detected 4 bookmakers pricing this bet above the no-vig fair near close — this story covers one of them. Members see the full board, live.
The setup — the analysis as published at detection, written 4 hours before start and frozen for the record. The market it describes has since closed; the outcome is above.
At detection—4 hours before Cincinnati Reds vs St. Louis Cardinals (MLB)—a totals mispricing has surfaced. Hard Rock is quoting decimal odds of 2.15, pricing the line 2.8% below where independent sharp operators have settled on consensus. The gap is tradeable as of writing; this represents an active market dislocation, not settled outcome analysis.
Hard Rock's quote sits 2.6 standard deviations away from the cluster where other books have anchored their pricing—a statistical separation that exceeds ordinary market drift.
The consensus reflects judgment from 27 independent sharp sources across this market, making it a distributed professional benchmark rather than a single operator's model.
This signal connects to 1 historically profitable pattern tracked in our Playbook. That pattern's strongest closed sample returned +20.6% ROI on settled bets.
Record across 767 settled baseball totals bets at mid-range odds shows +4.9% cumulative ROI when similar signals have triggered. Comparable mispricings on this board have resolved profitably before.
Dislocations of this magnitude do not typically extend through first pitch. Historical observation suggests comparable edges in this market segment have narrowed toward consensus within roughly 20 hours from detection.
Historical, aggregate data on settled bets — not betting advice and not a guarantee. Markets adapt; edges fade; variance is real.
AN EXAMPLE OF THE MEMBER VIEW
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already-settled matchPRO
Cincinnati Reds vs St. Louis Cardinals
· MLB · Baseball — flagged side Under 8.5
@ 2.15
79Omen Score
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A sample of bookmakers on this betnear close — every price against the same no-vig fair
Bookmaker
Odds
Vs fair
Hard Rock
2.15
+0.9%
espn-bet
2.10
-1.4%
Hard Rock
2.10
-1.4%
1xBet
2.08
-2.3%
Matchbook
2.08
-2.3%
sport888
2.05
-3.8%
betparx
1.96
-7.9%
Bally Bet
1.96
-7.9%
BetRivers
1.96
-7.9%
PMU
1.83
-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 Aug 17, 2026 20:31 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).