There’s always been speculation that some sports are rigged, not just small leagues but even the big ones like the NBA, NFL, MLB, boxing, even soccer.
Every season you’ll see fans and bettors pointing to “scripted” moments, questionable referee calls, or outcomes that feel too perfect for TV ratings.
Some bettors don’t believe in this at all. For them, stats and analytics are the only way to bet, and if you crunch the numbers right, you’ll find value.
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?
Well, first, speaking about rigged games, in as much as you have given the indications or ways to tell is a game is rigged, I personally will still say that the indications that you gave may or may not be true, events in sports are sometimes unpredictable just as the scores are also not predictable from the start of the time, one or more of this things you say happen in a rigged game may simply happen as a result of coincidence.
So to really and truly believe a game is rigged, concrete evidence is needed and must be presented, this is the only way we can indeed agree that a game is rigged for sure.
And speaking of betting, yeah, If I have every reason to believe a game is rigged for one of the team or player, it's an easy way to make money you know, I will simply go ahead to bet on the rigged side, this saves me the time and mental energy I would have wasted try to predict the team or player that would win the match or fight.