I like to play golf but only get out two or three times a year and am not very good. My brother, Mike, is a great golfer, plays more rounds in a week than I do in a year, and when we play at his club he will offer me a friendly handicap.
If Mike offers me a stroke a hole, he is still going to most often beat me. The real number for our handicaps would be if he offered me 1.2 strokes a hole, but who wants to mess with that math while involved in a friendly game of beer drinking and golf?
But, if Mike was to offer me an easier to calculate two strokes a hole, almost every time I would beat him with that equation.
Tonight, the Philadelphia Eagles are offering the Houston Texans a point spread akin to two strokes a hole.
The Eagles are the lone undefeated team in the NFL and have only lost one point spread decision en route to their 7-0 straight-up mark. That loss, a Week Five encounter against the Arizona Cardinals on the road, was when the Eagles had a point spread price, according to Qoxhi charts, of 91. That 91 represented their highest price of the season in a year in which the Eagles have averaged 87.
Tonight, their point spread price is 105.