MLB · Baseball · Aug 18, 2026 18:40 EDT

Cincinnati RedsvsSt. Louis Cardinals

Reds–Cardinals totals at sport888 trade 4.4% soft to sharp consensus, 28 hours before first pitch

What happened: Final score: 0–3. The edge paid: the flagged side won, returning +1.25 units on a flat 1-unit stake. The market agreed with the signal: the price closed +1.1% 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 28 hours after detection before the edge closed.

How it ended, price by price: Cincinnati Reds vs St. Louis Cardinals — full match recap with closing odds

Offered at sport8882.25Fair price2.15+4.4% above fair

This story covers a single signal — right now the member board has 618 live signals across 259 matches, found the same way.

The setup — the analysis as published at detection, written 27.8 hours before start and frozen for the record. The market it describes has since closed; the outcome is above.

As of 28 hours before Cincinnati Reds vs St. Louis Cardinals (MLB), a totals mispricing has emerged in the market. sport888 is quoting decimal odds of 2.25, which sits 4.4% below the fair line derived from independent sharp operators. The dislocation is tradeable at detection; this represents an active market gap, not historical outcome data.

sport888's quote deviates 5.3 standard deviations from the cluster where other books have anchored pricing—a separation that far exceeds the normal bounds of market variation.

That consensus line draws from 5 independent sharp sources, making it a distributed professional benchmark rather than any single operator's model.

The signal corresponds to 1 historically profitable pattern in our Playbook—its strongest closed sample delivered +20.6% ROI on settled bets.

Record across 767 settled baseball totals bets at comparable odds shows +4.9% cumulative ROI when this type of signal has fired. Comparable mispricings tracked on this board have resolved profitably in the past.

Dislocations of this magnitude do not typically hold through first pitch. Historical observation suggests comparable edges in this market segment have compressed 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 · what members see on a bet like this — shown for a different, already-settled match PRO
Atlanta Braves vs New York Mets · MLB · Baseball — flagged side Atlanta Braves @ 2.50
99 Omen Score

This is the complete breakdown members get for every live signal. The example below is a DIFFERENT match, already settled — its market is closed, so full disclosure costs nothing. Everything is real except values marked 🔒, which are members-only (decoy digits shown).

Why this bet
+3.6%
Entry edge
+11.5%
Edge near close
+1.8%
Risk-adjusted edge
2.24
Fair price (no-vig)
2.50
Entry odds
Quality
95/100
Confidence
4
Sharp books
Prime signal
Class
Market state: Strong sharp consensus (3+ books) · priced from: Exchange
Sizing
9.16%
Recommended stake
7.7%
Full Kelly (theoretical max)
Insights
Price is 5.6σ from market consensus.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
Bodog2.50+11.5%
Bovada2.50+11.5%
theScore2.40+7.0%
Sx.Bet2.24-0.1%
Heritage Sports2.24-0.1%
Novig2.22-1.0%
Marca Apuestas2.22-1.0%
4Cx2.21-1.4%
1xBet2.21-1.4%
Prophet X2.21-1.4%
Espn-Bet2.20-1.9%
Superbet2.20-1.9%
Risk & profitability profile
Heavy favoriteFavoriteCoin flipUnderdogLongshot
2.50 odds → 40% implied win probability
45%
Fair win probability
+4.5% 🔒
Expected ROI (model)
+6.1% 🔒
Cohort realized ROI
The endingthe part only a settled signal can show
Detected Aug 12, 11:42 UTC at 2.50 (+3.6% edge) → fair price at close 2.24 → closing-line value +7.6%
✅ Settled: WON · +1.50 units
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Record settled · last updated Aug 19, 2026 01:11 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).