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Mobile betting apps change all of this. The best XFL sportsbooks allow bettors the ability to check lines 24/7 with the click of a few buttons on any smart device. You won’t find a recommended real money betting site on our list that doesn’t offer this option. The discrepancy does give us an opportunity to attempt to exploit the market somewhat. There is simply no value to betting the Guardians to win the inaugural XFL season because if you expect them to make it even to the final four, then simply betting the over on their projected win totals is a safer option.

As the XFL hits the halfway point of its 10-game regular season, viewership may be stumbling. But the bettors are not.

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After television ratings sagged in Week 4, averaging roughly 1.4 million per game compared to more than 3 million in Week 1, the XFL’s allure may be its solidified gambling base.

The league further acknowledged its ties to sports betting in New Jersey by announcing a deal with PointsBet Sportsbook. This added the company that services New Jersey gamblers to the XFL partnership fold along with sportsbook titans:

And although TV viewership slid, Johnny Avello, director of sportsbook operations for DraftKings, told NJ Gambling Sites this week he was happy with the betting volume.

Avello also said he likes the mixture of favorites and underdogs hitting the board. The dogs were 3-1 last week.

The league presents a reasonably good, if inconsistent product, and has smartly emphasized gambling. If the XFL thrives, that will be why. If it does not, the absence of star power and inconsistent quarterback play will be the culprit.

The verdict is up in the air.

Here’s the Week 5 schedule with odds from DraftKings.

Saturday Games

• Seattle +13 at Houston, 2 p.m.
• New York +8 at Dallas, 5 p.m.

Sunday Games

• St. Louis -4 at DC, 3 p.m.
• Tampa Bay +1.5 at Los Angeles 9 p.m.

Week 5 XFL betting lineup

Seattle Dragons vs. Houston Roughnecks

The 1-3 Seattle Dragons open the schedule against the host Houston Roughnecks, the league’s only undefeated team.The Dragons received inspired quarterback play last week in the second half from B.J. Daniels as a running-passing threat to bring some optimism into this game.

Seattle rallied from a 17-3 halftime deficit to cover as a 12-point dog despite losing to St. Louis 23-16 last week.

Betting Eye: If Daniels is used properly this week, Seattle can cover as a 13-point dog.FanDuel pegs the over/under at 45.5.

Houston is 3-1 against the spread and 2-2 on the over/under, always facing the highest league total. It is the best team in the league. Seattle is 2-2 against the spread, 3-1 on the under.

New York Guardians vs. Dallas Renegades

The 5 p.m. affair features the New York Guardians against the host Dallas Renegades in a puzzling battle of 2-2 teams. Dallas is 2-0 on the road and 0-2 at home, shooting itself in the foot in losing 27-20 to the Roughnecks last week.

Quarterback Landry Jones suffered three interceptions, was sacked, fumbled, gave up the final touchdown and he got hurt.

New York, outscored 56-9 in two previous losses, beat Los Angeles last week to even its record.

Betting Eye: Jones is out for at least two weeks. Dallas struggled in its season opener, without him, scoring only nine points.

Are the Renegades eight points better than the Guardians with a backup QB?Both teams are 4-0 on the under, which is 37, according to FanDuel, and 2-2 against the spread.

Sunday features a split schedule, a possible mistake by the league.

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Louis Battle Hawks vs. DC Defenders

The 3 p.m. game features the 3-1 St. Louis Battle Hawks at – 4 facing their suddenly-deflated hosts, the 2-2 DC Defenders. After starting 2-0 at home, the Defenders were dreadful in losing combined games of 64-9 the last two weeks.

Quarterback Cardale Jones is suddenly missing wide-open receivers, and this offense has stalled. He, and this team, need a big game.

Betting Eye: Jones has to get better. DC must stuff the box to deny the run, as St. Louis ran the ball 46 times last week. DC needs to force St. Louis to win through the air.

St. Louis is 2-2 in the over/under, 3-1 versus the spread.Washington is 4-0 on the under, 2-2 versus the spread. FanDuel has the over/under at 39.

Then comes the strange interlude.

Tampa Bay Vipers vs. Los Angeles Wildcats

The next game is not until 9 p.m. when the Tampa Bay Vipers are +1.5 when they visit the Los Angeles Wildcats in a matchup of 1-3 teams.

It seems puzzling for the league to allow a broken chain of events. For four weeks, it has been able to showcase six consecutive hours of its product.

One game led right into the next on a different network. It’s been a smart way to educate the public and keep bettors providing uninterrupted time on a device.

With a three-hour gap between games, will viewers pay attention to what becomes a single, isolated game.? The bettors won’t care, but even they might be distracted by other sports. And the viewers may not show up. If the league wants a 9 p.m. game, it should place a 6 p.m. game leading into it.

Considerable risk, making a pair of 1-3 teams carry the league banner in prime time, without the lead-up of another game.

Betting Eye: Tampa led the league in rush attempts last week, 49. Los Angeles is better than a pass-first team.

FanDuel has the over/under at 40. Tampa is 1-3 against the spread and 3-1 on the under. Los Angles is 2-2 in the over/under, 1-3 versus the spread.

Week 5 XFL betting tips

I like Seattle to cover 13 if Daniels plays the whole game. Leaning toward the over for LA-Tampa Bay. The Guardians getting eight could be another play.

Week 4 tales from the betting app

This is a weekly and fun $5 per-bet, in-game journey I take through the XFL on the William Hill betting app.

It’s easy to make numerous in-game betting stabs on any of the NJ mobile betting apps. I keep the total low to maintain objectivity in reviewing the action.

And the fun enjoyed with other bettors is priceless.

Best Move: Standing against the pack.

Tampa Bay opened as a 1-point favorite against DC despite being winless. I felt that was right because the Vipers woke up the week before in nearly beating Houston.

But that line moved to Washington -4 before kickoff.I wasn’t swayed and doubled up on Tampa Bay just before the kickoff. Tampa Bay won 25-0.

Good Move Number 2: Waiting just long enough and clicking just fast enough to get Seattle plus 19.5 against St. Louis when the Dragons trailed 11-3.

Ten seconds after I successfully clicked, the number moved to 16.5. Seattle covered in the 23-16 loss.

Nah Nah Nah: Doubling down on expected production from Washington after it fell behind 13-0. The initial over/under was 44.5.

I took a bet at over 37 and even 30 as the game progressed, but chased it right down to an overall bad selection. Swallowing a blocked and missed field goal didn’t help.

The turning point was Cardale Jones missing an open receiver in the end zone with DC trailing 13-0. The blocked field goal came right after that.

Impatience is good for a writer on deadline, but often not good for bettors.

My betting friends also enjoy playing two and three-leg moneyline parlays, gaining even money or a little better, taking spread and over/under risk out of play. That’s one more option, of many, to keep in mind.

The XFL is embracing sports betting more than any other U.S. professional or collegiate league ever has.

While the NFL and other leagues spent years fighting in court to stop the spread of sports betting, the XFL kicked off its reboot by consulting with bookmakers on new rules and encouraging media partners to infuse gambling into broadcasts. The XFL may be just starting, but it appears it is already ahead of the gambling game. Now, we'll see if it pays off.

For decades, the traditional leagues in the U.S. kept their distance from sports betting, concerned gambling would tarnish the integrity of the games. At the same time, even though commissioners and owners may have been reluctant to admit it, they benefited from fantasy sports and bettors participating in the massive underground and offshore sports betting industries. Former baseball commissioner Bud Selig once testified that sports betting is 'evil, creates doubt and destroys your sport.'

Times have changed. Legal bookmakers now operate in more than a dozen states, and, at least to this point, sports have survived. The NBA, the NHL and MLB each have official betting partners, and the NFL is moving in that direction. None of them, however, are as all-in on betting as the newest league on the block, the XFL, which, instead of shying away from the gambling industry, is determined to 'embrace the spread.'

'This notion of embracing the spread,' XFL president Jeffrey Pollack said, 'means that our mission, our design and our business infrastructure are all geared to the sports betting future that's coming fast.

'We see a lot of pros to leaning into the sports betting world,' he added. 'It's what our fans want. We don't see cons, we see opportunity.'

Keeping the spread in play

When creating its rules and scoring system, the XFL kept the bettor in mind and even bounced ideas off Las Vegas sportsbook operators to see what worked and what didn't.

'I thought it was very interesting,' John Murray, executive director of the SuperBook at Westgate Las Vegas, said of the informal calls with the XFL. 'It was cool just to talk to the guys who were starting a new football league and see what kind of ideas they had.'

The XFL landed on rules aimed at condensing the game. They wanted to increase the pace of play, eliminate virtually automatic plays like kicking extra points and enhance timing rules to improve comeback opportunities and keep the spread in play longer.

• The XFL's play clock is 25 seconds (it's 40 seconds in the NFL), and the game clock stops only briefly, except for the final two minutes of each half, called 'comeback periods.' The goal was to deliver a similar number of plays per game as the NFL but in less than three hours. NFL games during the 2019 regular season averaged 126.8 offensive snaps and 45.6 points per game. The first four XFL games averaged 124 offensive plays and 38.5 points.

• After touchdowns, teams choose between going for one point from the 2-yard line, two points from the 5-yard line or three points from the 10-yard line. 'This enhances a team's ability to make a comeback,' XFL senior vice president strategy and business development John Scheler said. 'Your bet's in play longer because the team potentially has the ability to come back and cover the spread.'

• Overtime is decided by a pseudo-shootout, with teams alternating single plays from the 5-yard line. Each score is worth two points.

The rule tweaks to timing and scoring were a challenge for oddsmakers. Not knowing how coaches would handle the new options after touchdowns and their success rate on those attempts reduced the value of the traditional key numbers -- most notably three and seven -- that bettors are accustomed to in the NFL and college football. Out of the 19 touchdowns scored in the four games over the weekend, coaches elected for the 1-point option 11 times and the 2-point option eight times. They were successful on four 1-point chances and three 2-point chances.

Creating a point spread, though, was not the toughest task for oddmakers in Week 1. Setting the over/under was.

Circa Sports, a new bookmaking operation in downtown Las Vegas, was the first sportsbook to put up totals on the four Week 1 games. They admitted the process of setting the totals was not sophisticated.

'For me, it was a huge guess,' Circa sportsbook manager Chris Bennett said with a chuckle.

Last Thursday, Circa opened at 40.5 for each game. The first wave of bets came in, all on the over in each game. In less than three hours, the totals on each game climbed into the 50s.

Three of the four Week 1 games went under the total.

Odds-infused broadcasts

For years, play-by-play announcers like Brent Musburger and Al Michaels slyly worked gambling references into broadcasts. 'Some baskets are more meaningful than others,' Musburger might say in regards to a basket that affected the spread. Michaels is known to describe a late score that pushes the game over the total as 'overwhelming.'

There were no veiled references, though, in the weekend's XFL games. Instead, announcers were overt, and the odds were front and center.

Point spreads and over/unders were displayed alongside the scores on the XFL broadcasts on ESPN and Fox, and advertisements for the sponsoring sportsbooks like Caesars and FoxBet popped up from time to time.

In the fourth quarter of the Seattle Dragons-D.C. Defenders game Saturday, ESPN color man Greg McElroy joked about the disappointment fans who bet the over must have felt when the Dragons elected to take points off the board after a running into the kicker penalty, only to squander the ensuing scoring opportunity by fumbling deep inside D.C. territory.

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For many sports betting proponents, the odds-infused broadcasts were what they envisioned when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a federal statute in 2018, allowing states to decide whether to regulate gambling.

Joe Favorito, a longtime sports marketing consultant in New Jersey, was watching the St. Louis-Dallas game Sunday with his 21-year-old son, who asked what the 'O/U 52.5' meant on the scoreboard on the bottom of the screen.

'[He] was casually following XFL and had no idea of the floating betting lines,' Favorito told ESPN. 'He assumed it was another deep dive into stats, not gambling. He figured it was similar to when 'SOG' appeared on a hockey scoreboard for shots on goal or when MLB suddenly added 'MV' for mound visits and 'PC' for pitch count to scoreboards. ... He became more engaged immediately.'

Betting interest

At Caesars Sportsbook in Nevada, less than $10,000 total was bet on the point spread for the opening game between the Dragons and Defenders. It might not sound like a lot -- and compared to the hundreds of thousands of dollars normally bet on NFL games, it's not -- but it was notable and was more than the amount bet on many of Saturday's college basketball games and even some NBA games.

'I think there's an interest, but it's just not something I think people have confidence to bet on yet, on the public side of things,' Caesars senior oddsmaker Alan Berg said.

In New Jersey, sportsbook FanDuel said '20 times' as much money was bet on the first XFL game as was bet on the first game of the now defunct Alliance of American Football League. XFL betting increased from Saturday to Sunday by 55%, according to FanDuel.

The XFL believes it's only the beginning of the league's relationship to the sports betting industry, which unlike its predecessors, it has decided to embrace from the opening kickoff. The XFL has announced multiple betting partners, launched a new free-play gaming app (PlayXFL) and hired sports data company Genius Sports to provide integrity services.

'The XFL should be applauded for its proactive stance in engaging with the sports betting industry,' Chris Dougan, spokesman for Genius Sports, said. 'From its inception, the league has embraced best practices with operators and built strong relationships with the state regulators. By requiring all XFL players, coaches and officials to participate in our online integrity program, the league has made education a key pillar in preventing threats of betting corruption.'

The two XFL games broadcast on ABC and ESPN averaged to 2.9 viewers. There was buzz on social media and at sportsbooks. The XFL is determined to make it last by, in part, being the most betting-friendly league in the U.S.

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'For a lot of our fans,' Pollack, the XFL's president said, 'free-to-play gaming, fantasy and legal sports betting have become [as] essential to the football experience as the helmet, ball and jersey.'