Sports Betting

[JohnDB]

Everyone has engaged in betting in some fashion. Between fantasy football to fantasy baseball or even Basketball. Either just for fun or actually put real money into it. Maybe just a token bet of some form of $1 more or less.

Some people even get betting apps where you place bets of over or under on suggested performance.

However....

Things haven't been going all that honestly. And it's not the first time. I remember this being an issue in the mid to late 70's where players would get injured by mafia type organizations to make bets not pay and their bets would pay...
Talked with former pro players that told me some very scary stories...they didn't know who to trust and couldn't trust anyone.

 

[JohnDB]

 

[toobfreak]

Everyone has engaged in betting in some fashion.

The only thing that shocks me is that no one in sports betting saw this one coming when they decided to legalize sports betting.

 

[shockedcanadian]

Everyone has engaged in betting in some fashion. Between fantasy football to fantasy baseball or even Basketball. Either just for fun or actually put real money into it. Maybe just a token bet of some form of $1 more or less.

Some people even get betting apps where you place bets of over or under on suggested performance.

However....

Things haven't been going all that honestly. And it's not the first time. I remember this being an issue in the mid to late 70's where players would get injured by mafia type organizations to make bets not pay and their bets would pay...
Talked with former pro players that told me some very scary stories...they didn't know who to trust and couldn't trust anyone.

Boxing had to the worst. It's in a class of its own really.

 

[martybegan]

The only thing that shocks me is that no one in sports betting saw this one coming when they decided to legalize sports betting.

Legalizing it actually makes it easier to catch people rigging games because all the bet data has to be audited and made public.

Also betting companies have a huge interest in making sure there is as little cheating as possible, as they make their money on the margins, and margins get skewed when the fix is in.

 

[Concerned American]

Everyone has engaged in betting in some fashion. Between fantasy football to fantasy baseball or even Basketball. Either just for fun or actually put real money into it. Maybe just a token bet of some form of $1 more or less.

Some people even get betting apps where you place bets of over or under on suggested performance.

However....

Things haven't been going all that honestly. And it's not the first time. I remember this being an issue in the mid to late 70's where players would get injured by mafia type organizations to make bets not pay and their bets would pay...
Talked with former pro players that told me some very scary stories...they didn't know who to trust and couldn't trust anyone.

It kind of ruined the lives of Pete Rose and Eddie DeBartolo. Why should these guy be any different.

 

[JohnDB]

The only thing that shocks me is that no one in sports betting saw this one coming when they decided to legalize sports betting.

Ummmm
Didn't see it coming?
No....that's laughable.

What they said was "not my problem if players shave points" they really didn't care.
IOW they knew that their "product" was going to be defective in short order and did not care so long as they got money out of it. This is a worse business practice than planned obsolescence.

Basically the system they created they knew was going to be rigged to benefit only a select few....and did not care. It's a predatory practice and should be abolished. It makes professional wrestling look more honest than the NBA.

 

[JohnDB]

Locks were created not to keep thieves out but to keep honest men honest.

 

[JohnDB]

Boxing had to the worst. It's in a class of its own really.

There's more coming....gonna make boxing look like the cleanest sport.

 

[cowboy fan]

Anyone betting against the house is a math failure.

 

[Andrew_Jackson_FTW]

Cheating has been going on forever and in all areas of life and will continue. That is why we have and require oversight committees and not just for gambling.

Heck we see way WAY more corruption in the business and equity industry compared to sports betting.

Sports betting ain’t going anywhere.

Crazy though that a NBA player(Terry Rozier) with a $100 million contract would intentionally perform poorly for small gambling payouts …the recent NBA betting scam is a combo of stupidity and “gang culture” perhaps iow these very wealthy NBA superstars perhaps thinks that it is cool or edgy to work with the mafia to fix games???