{"id":38288,"date":"2026-08-06T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/we-re-measured-every-margin-in-august-three-books-got-worse\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T08:00:00","slug":"we-re-measured-every-margin-in-august-three-books-got-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preview.sportpulse.anpsthemes.com\/betting\/we-re-measured-every-margin-in-august-three-books-got-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"We re-measured every margin in August. Three books got worse."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"anps-post-betting__lead wp-block-paragraph\">The August measurement is in: forty markets priced at all fifteen operators inside a thirty-minute window on the first Tuesday of the month. Two operators tightened, three widened, and the biggest move was at the bottom of the table, where Quaystone went from 5.4% to 5.6%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kestrel holds first at 3.4%, unchanged for the fourth month. NovaBet tightened from 4.0% to 3.9%, which is why the margins guide published this week lists it second, and Marlin held at 4.1%. The three that widened are Quaystone, Meridian X \u2014 5.1% to 5.3%, mostly on esports markets that were thinner in the summer break \u2014 and Crestly, whose singles went from 4.8% to 5.0% while its accumulator promotions stayed where they were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pattern across the fifteen is the one we have reported every month: main lines stay within a point of each other and the spread opens up on player props and specials, where nobody compares prices. Shots on target ran at 6.1% across the guide in August, Asian handicaps at 3.8%. The category scores for odds have been updated on every review affected, and the compare table carries the new figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every figure is dated and reproducible: the forty markets are listed on the method page, and a reader with three accounts and a calculator can check any row of the table in ten minutes. 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