mastermixer wrote:pepe1991 wrote:chrisab123 wrote:
You literally now have to look at every game he played and every game Billups coached. Ridiculous
I wrote it on other thread, nba already has history of game rigging via tanking. Basically, every tanking team is already fixing games after all star break by giving shady "injury "reports and resting best players for sake of boosting tank & securing good draft position.
This is how game rigging looks like, even without official gambling involved. This is end of Pelicans season. Should anybody actually believe that every single starter and important role player of same team was hurt at same point, when it was in their best interes?
I'm not trying to point finger on Pelicans, every team that tanks does this.
Concept of rewarding losing in league that is being plagued by gambling is deadly combination. Flood ates are now wide open.
Although I agree with you 100% and not arguing with you, but when a team begins tanking and announcing they are sitting key players for the rest of the season etc
That’s built into the betting odds and thy spread.
I’m not a huge gambler, but I think some places won’t even offer a money line bet on those games, just spreads.
in Europe,where i'm from, and at online casinos you can gamble on margin of players of any nba game, including all those tanking teams. In UK you can bet on exact time when rain will start.
There are places where you can gamble on how many rebounds Jose Alvarado will have in random game 81# ( Heat v Pelicans, 153:104, actual game ).
Matter of fact, now you can send your own baseline offer to gambling house and they will set coefficient for you ( bit different than in USA, let's say coefficient is 2,00. On placed bet of $100, you get some $181-185 depending where you live due tax ).
Coefficients multiply with more bets you place.
So let's say you know 4 key infos about players , their coefficients are 1,80; 1,90; 1,85 & 1,85 ( 1,85 being most common in nba over/under ).
And you place $10K. Your actual profit would be clean $100K.Sure, in game of Heat vs Pelicans, betting on Heat winning isn't rewarding because odd is too low to even bother, but if gambler knows in very same game that Cain will get 35 min and Payton will play near entire game, you can assume Payton will pile up +8 assists & Cane will score more than 12 points. Especially if coach gives up intel that only 8 men will be suited.
I'm not sure all people are actually aware how betting houses make money. They place odds in such fashion where no matter of result of actual game, they win. Even something as stupid as coin toss, bet won't be 2,00 head- 2,00 tail. But rather 1,85 head, 1-85 tail. Even if you place $100 on both, you are not getting $200 back but $185 with each turn. This is most basic structure of betting.
But they "attract" players ( addicts ) with system where they play into their greed. For example, again, Europe, in every betting house you have special board with " improved odds" and they handpick 8-10 mega popular games, mostly football, to bet on them. Those "improved odds" are lure because such games are handpicked because in football there are 3 outcomes : home team wins, home team loses but also game ends in tie. Basically from start, you are betting on outcome that only covers 1/3 scenarios. Now your odds are no longer coin flip-level "good", they are 33% at most.
Most people pick 3-4 games from pot and bet on it, and almost always due sheer number of games they are betting on, they lose. But that losing is still done in fashion where player (addict) feels like he was so damn close of winning that he will do whole process again next day.
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