The NBA’s global popularity, driven by international stars, combined with legal online sports betting in many U.S. states, has led to a lot of money being wagered on the sport. Our NBA public betting page tracks the same two key measures as NFL for major sportsbooks: the percentage of bets, and the percentage of money.
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| Scheduled | Open | Best Odds | % of Bets | % of Money | Diff | Bets | |||
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+9.5 -9.5 | +9.5-104 +20.5+100 | +5% | 78,982 | ||||||
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+1.5 -1.5 | +3.5-111 -3.5+113 | +10% | 72,211 | ||||||
1:15 AM  Bills BUF 477  Vikings MIN 478 | -3 +3 | -3.5+108 +3.5-106 | |||||||
+4.5 -4.5 | -8.5-102 +9.5-102 | ||||||||
-4.5 +4.5 | -3.5+106 +14.5+100 | ||||||||
+5.5 -5.5 | -2.5-111 +2.5+111 | ||||||||
-3 +3 | -3.5+120 +2.5+117 | ||||||||
-6.5 +6.5 | +20.5+100 +6.5+100 | ||||||||
Final - OT  Browns CLE 453  Saints NO 454 | +3.5 -3.5 | +5.5+100 -4.5-106 | |||||||
-5.5 +5.5 | +20.5+100 +4.5-108 | ||||||||
-1.5 +1.5 | +20.5-102 +10.5-108 | ||||||||
+2.5 -2.5 | +20.5-102 +5-105 | ||||||||
+8.5 -8.5 | +8.5+100 +16.5+100 | ||||||||
+13.5 -13.5 | +9.5+100 +16.5+100 | ||||||||
+3.5 -3.5 | +6.5-105 -6.5+100 |
Public Betting 101
Public betting refers to the collective wagering behavior of the general betting population on a given sporting event, usually measured as the percentage of bets or money landing on each side of a market. Sportsbooks and data sites aggregate that activity into “betting splits” so you can see where the majority of bettors are leaning. Betting trends can also be identified by reviewing Prediction markets, like Polymarket & Kalshi who also provide information about volume of bets and volume of money per market. If you havent traded on a prediction market yet, we strongly advise you to check out our Kalshi promo code and Polymarket promo code, before you sign up!
Two ways of measuring how the general public is betting
- Tickets (% of bets): the share of individual wagers on each side. If 70% of tickets are on Team A, seven out of ten bettors picked them, regardless of how much each person staked.
- Money (% of money): the share of total dollars wagered on each side. Because a few large bets can outweigh many small ones, money and ticket percentages often differ. This is particularly useful information when looking on prediction markets, where sometimes just a few people own a large portion of the contracts available.
Who “the public” is
The term mostly describes recreational bettors: casual fans who bet for fun, often on favorites, popular teams, overs, and games with heavy media attention. It is usually contrasted with “sharps,” professional or highly informed bettors who wager larger amounts and tend to focus on pricing and value rather than team popularity. On prediction markets, a number of market makers and institutions trade the same contracts as everyone else, so its worth identifying differences between Sportsbook odds and Prediction market odds frequently with that disparity in mind.
Why anyone tracks it
- Gauging sentiment: splits show which outcomes are popular and which are being ignored.
- Understanding line movement: books adjust odds based on the size and source of wagers, so splits help explain why a number moved.
- Fading or tailing: some bettors “fade the public” by betting the unpopular side, on the theory that popular picks are often overpriced. Others tail it when the crowd has been right.
Important caveats
Public sentiment alone isn’t a reliable edge. Fading the public isn’t automatically profitable, and the public wins plenty of the time.
Splits vary by source, since each sportsbook has its own customer base, and aggregated data is only an approximation of the whole market.
Books price lines to manage their own risk and expected profit, not just to balance the action, so a lopsided split doesn’t always mean the book is exposed.
NFL Public Betting
NFL public betting trends for the 2026-27 season reveal how bettors are wagering across spreads, totals, and moneylines. The tables above display the latest NFL public betting splits for every game of the 2026-27 NFL season (filtered by week). You can see the breakdown in '% of bets' and '% of money' for the moneyline, spread, and total for all matchups.
NFL public betting splits are updated in realtime; the data presented in the public betting chart is an average of the NFL public bets and NFL public money from multiple North American and global sportsbooks that are approved.
NBA Public Betting
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