Originally Posted by Sportz

The NSW TAB Sportsbet site used to be good for that sort of thing, but I've just had a look and their current results section only goes back to October.

The Unitab site doesn't have any opening prices but it does have all the line betting results. It's a bit damn time consuming going through them though. Anyway, I looked at last year and here's what happened.

Team giving up the start - 97
Team receiving the start - 95

So over the whole season of 192 games (without finals), it was pretty much 50/50.

And going round by round (favoured team first):
1: 6/2
2: 2/6
3: 3/5
4: 5/3
5: 5/3
6: 3/5
7: 3/3
8: 2/3
9: 2/4
10: 6/2
11: 1/4
12: 5/3
13: 5/3
14: 3/2
15: 3/5
16: 3/5
17: 2/3
18: 2/6
19: 2/6
20: 4/4
21: 6/2
22: 5/3
23: 5/3
24: 6/2
25: 4/4
26: 4/4

Interesting to note that in the final 6 rounds of the comp by which time all the form is well known and there are no more rep games, the favoured team won 62% of the time. Up until that point, the underdogs were in front.