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If you have ever placed a sports bet, your chances of winning are slimmer than you might expect.

The Hearst Television Data Team spoke with a statistics professor about which sports bets are least likely to win and why people should avoid them. Latest Forecast ° F FEELS LIKE No weather data available

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Sportsbooks offer numerous betting options, but the most common are moneyline, spread and totals bets, according to Ron Yurko, a Carnegie Mellon University assistant teaching professor and director of the Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Center.

Yurko is introducing a course next spring to teach students about sports betting and how sportsbook probability works.

"I was motivated by this from my time as an instructor of liter

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