Jai-Alai Handicapping

       Some poor soul on the IG staff actually did this. He watched about 2,000 jai-alai games at Dania and Miami at various times in 2009 and 2010. He didn't watch anywhere near all the performances, so we don't claim this study to be totally accurate. But 2,000 is a pretty big sample. So here is the win-loss record of serving teams/players in a whole bunch of doubles and singles games at Dania and Miami in 2009 and 2010.

The table is pretty easy to interpret. Receiving teams in doubles games had the advantage, winning 52.5% of the points. In singles play, the opposite is true, with the server winning 54.9% of the points. More to come ... this is a work in progress.