Talk:Point shaving
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In the article, "from covering a published point spread" is hardly a useful explanation. What does it mean? What is point shaving?
OK, if New England Patriots are given a -13.5 point head start against the Giants in Super Bowl XLII(presumably same margin for the Crewe's team back then), for the Patriots to shave points, they would secure a 2-Touchdown lead, then let the Giants in, so the Patriots will never win by more than 2 TD's. Of course, this indirectly affects the total combined scores sometimes.
To disguise points shaving, the combined scores could be quite big.TimHowardII (talk) 19:32, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
Mate, i still dont understand —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.229.34.42 (talk) 11:52, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
