Widespread Corruption in Sports Gambling: Fact or Fiction?

14 Pages Posted: 21 Sep 2012

Date Written: February 19, 2007

Abstract

We examine whether point shaving is widespread in NCAA college basketball by comparing bet and game outcomes with those in professional sports. Results suggest that unusual patterns previously suspected to be indicators of point shaving are ubiquitous throughout sports and unlikely to be caused by corruption. We suggest that line shading by sports books may explain the anomalies in game and bet outcome distributions.

Keywords: NCAA Basketball, Point Shaving, Corruption, Line Shading

Suggested Citation

Borghesi, Richard, Widespread Corruption in Sports Gambling: Fact or Fiction? (February 19, 2007). Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 74, No. 4, 2009, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2149720

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