I found the Top 20 games that had the largest Vegas favorite this season as I was curious to see which teams and or pitchers frequented the list. The Astros(9), Cubs(4) and Twins(3) were the teams that showed up the most on the losing side with the Tigers(6), Athletics(3) and Cardinals(3) showing up the most on the favored side. No pitcher on the favored side shows up more than twice (Verlander, Tanaka, Scherzer, Wainwright). A win expectancy of 73.28% was the largest favorite we have seen so far when Jarred Cossart and the Astros lost to Justin Verlander and the Tigers by the score of 2-0. In these 20 games (SSS) the favorites did very well. You'd expect them to win around 13 or 14 of the 20 games but they won 16 of them for an 80% winning percentage. Of course 20 games is a tiny sample so there is nothing out of the ordinary for winning 16 out of these 20 games. Anyways, most of the fun is just in the list... and here it is.
| Date | Away | Home | Away SP | Home SP | Vegas Fave | ML Fave | ML Dog | Vegas Win Exp | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5/5/2014 | HOU | DET | Jarred Cosart | Max Scherzer | DET | -270 | 254 | 72.38 | DET 2-0 |
| 4/21/2014 | HOU | SEA | Dallas Keuchel | Felix Hernandez | SEA | -262 | 247 | 71.79 | HOU 7-2 |
| 4/20/2014 | HOU | OAK | Brad Peacock | Jesse Chavez | OAK | -255 | 235 | 71.01 | OAK 4-1 |
| 4/22/2014 | CHA | DET | Chris Leesman | Justin Verlander | DET | -250 | 230 | 70.59 | DET 8-6 |
| 5/9/2014 | MIN | DET | Phil Hughes | Justin Verlander | DET | -235 | 225 | 69.70 | MIN 2-1 |
| 5/7/2014 | HOU | DET | Brad Peacock | Rick Porcello | DET | -230 | 220 | 69.23 | DET 3-2 |
| 5/10/2014 | MIN | DET | Kyle Gibson | Max Scherzer | DET | -228 | 218 | 69.04 | DET 9-3 |
| 4/11/2014 | HOU | TEX | Scott Feldman | Yu Darvish | TEX | -225 | 215 | 68.75 | TEX 1-0 |
| 5/13/2014 | CHN | STL | Jake Arrieta | Adam Wainwright | STL | -230 | 210 | 68.75 | STL 4-3 |
| 4/10/2014 | MIA | WAS | Tom Koehler | Stephen Strasburg | WAS | -216 | 206 | 67.85 | WAS 7-1 |
| 4/10/2014 | HOU | TOR | Dallas Keuchel | R.A. Dickey | TOR | -215 | 205 | 67.74 | HOU 6-4 |
| 4/13/2014 | CHN | STL | Edwin Jackson | Michael Wacha | STL | -215 | 205 | 67.74 | STL 6-4 |
| 4/12/2014 | CHN | STL | Carlos Villanueva | Adam Wainwright | STL | -213 | 203 | 67.53 | STL 10-4 |
| 4/19/2014 | HOU | OAK | Brad Oberholtzer | Scott Kazmir | OAK | -215 | 195 | 67.21 | OAK 4-3 |
| 4/18/2014 | HOU | OAK | Jarred Cosart | Sonny Gray | OAK | -200 | 190 | 66.10 | OAK 11-3 |
| 4/22/2014 | MIN | TB | Kyle Gibson | David Price | TB | -203 | 187 | 66.10 | TB 7-3 |
| 4/9/2014 | MIA | WAS | Brad Hand | Jordan Zimmermann | WAS | -202 | 185 | 65.93 | WAS 10-7 |
| 4/16/2014 | CHN | NYA | Jason Hammel | Masahiro Tanaka | NYA | -200 | 185 | 65.81 | NYA 3-0 |
| 5/8/2014 | HOU | DET | Dallas Keuchel | Drew Smyly | DET | -197 | 188 | 65.81 | HOU 6-2 |
| 5/3/2014 | TB | NYA | Jake Odorizzi | Masahiro Tanaka | NYA | -195 | 187 | 65.64 | NYA 9-3 |
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