Do you think bookies knows team to win?

[Cantsay]

You are right mate, this is exactly my thoughts as well. Even if people like that exist, they are not going to let themselves known to anyone that they actually have such abilities because they would be abducted either willingly or forcefully by the government or sports book owners who really needs the ability for their business. When the sports books also have such person, that means many people would lose their bets more than before.

I think this depends on the location of that individual. If they are in a developed country, then they might have to be scared of what you wrote, but if they are in an African country, I doubt they would be that scared because the only thing I see happening to them is them being used as a deity or as someone who represents a certain gods.

They would monetize it and create something like a shrine for the person and make them do all sorts of fortune reading for a fee, but in other countries it might be different though.

[Nwada001]

If there is a possibility for them to have access to more information than the bettor, don't you think they will grab it? But I guess there is no such chance other than the data everyone used to make their prediction; it's just that they have the upper hand to decide the odds more than we players. No matter how good we are, the vast majority can't get it all right, so those losing are still feeding them with the lose.

There can be a bit of manipulation whe you bet on casino games but it will be very hard for casinos to manipulate a sport bet when the result is universal. I am not saying that there has not been stories of rigged games in sport betting but it is minimal to what we gamblers are seeing from playing slot games and other casino games.

Because of the fear of this manipulation, it is the reason why some casino management is seeking to make results for players a thing; if everyone can be able to use their hand to verify game results using the publicly made data, this type of suspicion will reduce, just as we can only suspect some sport games to be fixed, but it's not always common and doesn't happen all the time.

[lodocus]

Bookmakers don’t know the outcome of the game, and they don’t need to. Because the odds are set to give the casino an advantage, what actually makes them profitable isn’t having good predictors, but simply having high liquidity and a steady customer base. As long as enough money is circulating, they win either way, because having more players means guaranteed profit if the odds are in your favor. The reason the odds are carefully adjusted stems from their desire to maximize profits.

[Youngrebel]

Yes they would have to consult sports analyst to know the fixtures of the matches before adding them into their gambling list but that doesn't mean they know who will be winning the match. We have seen in a Match that the team the bookmarker add the biggest odd still loss for the lower odd. That means they don't know and use the past matches they have played to analyze the games and make their odds from there.