Posted:
#1
I have no bet on this Spurs clippers game but man how much point shaving and weirdness is going on.
1
NBA is such a corrupt sport lol,
...
Search 
Views: 660
Posts: 10
Posted:
#7
It happened to ALL SPORTS YOU IDIOT. Do you have to wait for this long to find out? Ask yourself this simple question to all the idiots on Covers.
Where do they get the money to pay MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO ALL THE PLAYERS ON THEIR TEAM????? IF YOU SAID: FROM ADVERTISEMENT AND FROM THE TICKETS SOLD, THEN YOU ALL ARE REALLY A TRUE IDIOT.
0
Posted:
#8
This nonsense is the classic whiny rant of the bad gambler. Because of course it could never be that they're just not nearly as good at handicapping as they think they are. No, it's always some grand conspiracy about how it's all someone elses fault they lose on their bets.
It's a sign of a simple mind that can't grasp how enourmous of a conspiracy a concerted, league-wide program to regularly fix games would have to be, involving hundreds of people at different levels, without any of them talking, at huge risk to their billion dollar business for very little reward. You ever hear the saying "three can keep a secret if two are dead"? If this was actually going on, eventually some do-gooder or disgruntled conman would come out with it, you couldn't keep it a secret. Plus the players would notice and they certainly wouldn't just sit there and accept it. you'd have Tim Donaghy's happening all the time.
And why would they mess with their golden goose? The NBA is a multi billion dollar business, far bigger than they'd ever be able to make betting, and if word got it out, they could kiss that goodbye, they'd lose fans left and right, nobody wants to watch a rigged game.
As well, bets aren't just made into the ether, they always require an actual, living counterparty to accept the bets. In order for this game-rigging conspiracy to be worth the trouble (and the risk to their legitimate, high profile multi billion dollar business) they'd have to be making tens of millions of dollars in bets every night. considering how closely the action on sports betting is watched, do you think the league could somehow make millions of dollars in bets without anyone noticing it's them doing it? And do you not think that would dramatically affect the market in a way that would be blindingly obvious to all of us? Do you think the refs would risk their sweet job (with salaries as high as $500,000/year) for it, knowing that the last guy who did that (Tim Donaghy) lost everything and served 11 months in federal prison for it? Do you think bookies would take action from them, knowingly taking the wrong end of a rigged bet to the tune of millions of dollars everyday?
You'll never become actually good at this unless you ditch that amateur hour mentality.
1
Posted:
#9
@Dynasty4
Dude, I really don't think you're understanding how much money is in professional sports. Tere's the obvious stuff you'd think of, such as ticket sales, tv deals for the US market, apparel, jerseys etc etc. They're about to ink a new TV deal in the next few months that will be worth around $8 billion/year (with a "b") alone. Do you have any idea how much money that is? That's enough to pay every NBA players salary and STILL have $4 billion left over. And that's just TV, then there's all the ticket sales, apparel, clothing, jerseys, overseas tv deals etc etc. So they're probably raking in at least $10 billion a year from all the public, legit side of the business. Which is why it's so absurd when you dismiss that and say "where's all the money coming from?" as if it's from betting. lol. You think even if the league rigged their games in order to bet on the games, they'd be able to even find anyone to take the kind of action they'd need to wager every night to make the risk to their enormous legitimate business worth it?
You do realize there isn't a magical Betting Monster that exists only to take any bets offered to it, never refuses to accept a bet, has unlimited capital, and will happily take billions in bets from leagues rigging their own games right? There's no bookie in the world capable of that. Pinnacle, on of the worlds largest bookies, is estimated to only handle a few billion in bets every year, a fraction of just the NBA's TV deal. It's just absurd to seriously think this is something that's going on, and exponentially more absurd to act like anybody who doesn't believe this absurd-on-its-face thing is the REAL dummy.
Classic Dunning-Kruger effect on that post.
0
Hot Forum Topics
