What do you think? Is betting on the “rig side” actually an effective strategy, or just an excuse when people lose using stats?
I think rigged betting may sound tempting but it is risky & often leads to stress when the statistics bettors lose. Yes, match fixing & corruption are common, as you can see from investigations like Operation Veto in football, where they were able to find more than 380 football match fixing cases in 15 countries & sometimes even strange betting patterns involving referees.
But I would say that it is extremely difficult to systematically rig major league games on a continuous basis. Because these leagues have so many players & billions of viewers, rigging these games is very risky & the evidence for most games claimed to be scripted is weak. So I would say that statistics & contextual analysis are still your best bet for sports gambling. Rig side concepts should never be a gamblers main strategy.
As bettors it's quick for us to jump into the conclusion that a game was scripted when it doesnt go according to how we predicted it, sometimes people say the officials work together with bet companies so they can manipulate the market but I don't think that's the case. In sports we must always be ready to accept even the unexpected because anything can happen. Match fixing isn't real, people find it hard to accept unfavorable outcomes