But on the other side, there are gamblers who think differently, they look for spots where a game could be rigged. Instead of analyzing every stat, they try to read the “angle” of the game. For example: a league wanting a series to go 7 games, or a star player getting a “protected” win. These bettors just follow the possible rigged side, believing it’s the easier and less energy-consuming strategy than drowning in data.
What do you think? Is betting on the “rig side” actually an effective strategy, or just an excuse when people lose using stats?
I do believe that there’s some match fixing on all sports but not on the scale of the whole league like what this speculation that when the league wants game 7 since both team involved is a huge franchise just to gamble their chance on winning a title for the sake of prolonging the game.
Game rigged might be true on some cases like players purposely not playing well and so on that only involves specific player and not the whole team.
Finally, there’s no way you can spot a potential rigged match so it’s better to rely on game analysis.