It's very much real, you cannot tell the difference between an upset and a fixed game, they will try to make it real because there's a big risk for them if they are caught.
If you're on the expert level of analysis for the sport that you love and are a fan of. You'll be able somehow to spot on which is a true upset and likely a thrown and sold game.But it's true that there's difficulty in finding which of them are actually thrown because when there are fixed matches, they're likely not to do obvious things that will destroy and spot it by their fans.
No wonder fixed game or rumors with fixed games continue to exist, expert or experienced gamblers who monitors the event understand how this kind of activities taking place, they are accepting the possibilities that there is really someone behind who's controlling the league. Though it's just rumors and if there's something that being identified, it's mostly in the small league.
But with big events, it's tough to pinpoint if which games are really part of game fixing. The team or players are very well known enough to
take part in this kind of controversy.
Though we can't conclude that there's none.
