the over-under is....

[Victor Steinbok]

I am not convinced I agree with the interpretation. IIRC, the story
basically suggested that it's highly unlikely that the winner would come
from outside of the Top 10, not that each of the Top-10 players was an
odds-on favorite. So it's still only one event near certainty, not
multiple events. It's the equivalent of the bets on, say, the NCAA
basketball tournament or the FIFA or Rugby World Cup being reported with
only a handful of favorites getting specific odds and the rest all being
lumped under "the field"--meaning anyone but the listed favorites. I
would read that headline as "The Top 10 is Odds-On Favorite Against the
Field at 2012 Australian Open". In this interpretation, I don't think
it's a shift.

     VS-)

On 4/18/2012 11:49 AM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
> ...
> I have seen it used as a synonym for strong, used to describe multiple
> favorites in a competition:
>
> http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1022579-the-top-ten-odds-on-favorites-to=
> -capture-the-2012-australian-open-crown
>
> The Top 10 Odds-On Favorites to Capture the 2012 Australian Open Crown
>
> DanG

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