Many of those wagers are graded in the first quarter or first half. After all, grading hundreds and hundreds of propositional bets takes a ton of teamwork. Eight SuperBook staffers were bracing for more than five hours of clicking and scrolling during and following the NFL title game. This is where a sportsbook creates its numbers and manages all the risk.
He unlocked the door and walked me past the ticket writers and counter positions, down a hallway that leads into the heart of the sportsbook - the trading room. I met sportsbook director John Murray near the entrance to the back about 15 minutes prior to the 3:30 p.m.