Do you always think of conspiracy theories when betting on sports?

[fredericktaylor]

For casinos, it's always the house.
For sports like football, it's always the referee

Unfortunately there is no way to get rid of them, but when they serve us injustice we can still call them out, but the chances of winning is almost zero because a referee that takes a side can only be replaced but the game can't be replayed, it's already over. Mind you, people raise alarms only when they losses money, this is something that has happened so many times, if you are winning abnormally you won't call the casino out and ask them why you are winning too much.

Right brother, people speak only when their own interests are affected most of the time during a football game the referee decision is considered final on the field whether it is wrong or right but if it is a verdict in our favor then we remain calm and if it is a verdict against us then we keep talking loudly about the various wrong decisions of the referee. Nothing is impossible for humans but it is very important for us to always be on the way of justice. When we can gain money through gambling we do not complain but when we do not win as per our expectations then we start talking about various negative things about the casino this is basically a bad nature of human.

[alani123]

There's a bit reason I tend to avoid placing serious amounts in Greek soccer, my country's soccer, because there's serious allegations of match fixing every year. The president of the federation, Marinakis, is a mafia man who was involved in the most serious match fixing scandals maybe in the whole europe. And yet he's allowed to do what he wants with impunity because he's very rich. Now that I think about it this might be more prevalent abroad too since money is too much into football these days.

[sunsilk]

We're all good observers for the games that we follow very often. And it's normal to notice those times where the refs aren't call what they should have made a call for.

They make mistakes and that's why there's a review for some specific sports like basketball but not all of these sports are getting the same treatment for having that review.

The reaction we give to these sports are pretty normal and that's the adrenaline we feel when we watch it live because we've got some bets.

The thing is, a player who's put their money—and often a lot of it—on a bet will believe anything after that, as long as the bet wins. They'll naturally blame the referees for every whistle, even if the referee is absolutely right. We as players need to stay cooler and calmer; controlling our emotions is a skill that professionals have learned to use to their advantage. So, I believe there are absolutely no conspiracies; these are all fabrications of players who want to win every bet at the expense of an adequate assessment of reality.

Sometimes, it's just fair but we can't deny that there were plays that needed to get those calls but the refs didn't do it.

While mostly this happens on contact sports or those sports that have a lot of physicality every game. So we think that there are missed calls.

It's okay and I also think you're right that there's no conspiracies but it's all about how we get emotional either for being a real fan and a gambler who's got bet on those games that doesn't go to our liking.

[Orpichukwu]

Sometimes conspiracy theories seem like the most believable explanation for certain sports results. However, I think that match-fixing is extremely rare at the highest levels of competition, because there is already so much money involved there even without bribes.Very few players and teams are willing to risk their reputation, careers, and credibility for extra money.

Match-fixing is rare, but it still happens. Many players and coaches, down to the referee, earn a significant sum of money, but some of them still get too greedy and do what they are not supposed to do. There have been cases and evidence of such in the past, which this time around is no longer common because they are being more careful, but I strongly believe in some of the small leagues such things happen on a regular basis without it being detected.

[rachael9385]

Only suckers think about conspiracy theories, because they cant handle the loss. Those weak people will always try to find excuse and someone to blame because they have lost. I have never heard how people complain and talked about conspiracy when they won their bets. It is always like: if they won = they are great at making predictions; if the lose = it was bad weather, bad referee, bad team, sun spoiled vision, rigged game, scam.

My point exactly, even though there is a chance that all those things that they talk about match fixing is real it is wrong to assume that whenever losses comes in or a bet doesn't go according to how it was predicted then it's because they sold the game. Football is a game of probability, anything can happen.

[stadus]

but I strongly believe in some of the small leagues such things happen on a regular basis without it being detected.

I think based on the news I have read, there are more rigging cases in small leagues, and some of them are actually detected.

But in major leagues, I have not really read many cases where players or officials were caught and penalized for sports rigging. Most of the time, all we do is speculate.

Maybe that is why nothing gets proven, because there is no serious investigation happening, or at least nothing that reaches the public.
So until someone is actually caught and punished, it will remain as speculation only.

[suzanne5223]

It is normal to feel that something is not right about a certain game when you want to bet on sports or when you watch the full match, and it is something we should expect if we feel like the referee favors one team over another.
Another one is that we need to recognize that referees are human and can make errors, exhibit biases, and have inconsistent decisions during the game. If no evidence of game manipulation or proven corruption, the referee will still be considered innocent.

Referees are also mere mortal who can easily make an mistake in the green field when presiding over a game. Living foul play without concrete evidence in favor of the integrity of match official is unjust.

I don't understand what you're trying to say about living foul play without evidence to be in favor of the official integrity when the official is not the opponent team that's playing the match.

The possibility of error is part and parcel of sport and should be tolerated by the spectators. It is much more advantageous to concentrate on the analysis of the match, and search the mistakes of referees all the time.

I believe the official who's in charge of the match analysis always checks for any concrete errors of the referee if there are a lot of accusations about the referee's unfairness in the match.

[fullfitlarry]

Only suckers think about conspiracy theories, because they cant handle the loss. Those weak people will always try to find excuse and someone to blame because they have lost. I have never heard how people complain and talked about conspiracy when they won their bets. It is always like: if they won = they are great at making predictions; if the lose = it was bad weather, bad referee, bad team, sun spoiled vision, rigged game, scam.

My point exactly, even though there is a chance that all those things that they talk about match fixing is real it is wrong to assume that whenever losses comes in or a bet doesn't go according to how it was predicted then it's because they sold the game. Football is a game of probability, anything can happen.

Oh well, that makes sports betting interesting because if we lost, we see a lot of angles that we didn't see prior. And if we only have powers to see before it happens then for sure we wouldn't lost that big money.

So that drives sports bettor to outsmart the system again and then have their own theories as why a certain team win or losses. But in the end, it's just the illusion that we are in the control, that in the end, our decisions are correct and we are going to win, but games are also influence by luck.

[Hispo]

There's a bit reason I tend to avoid placing serious amounts in Greek soccer, my country's soccer, because there's serious allegations of match fixing every year. The president of the federation, Marinakis, is a mafia man who was involved in the most serious match fixing scandals maybe in the whole europe. And yet he's allowed to do what he wants with impunity because he's very rich. Now that I think about it this might be more prevalent abroad too since money is too much into football these days.

Is that so?
Since Greece is a country which is a member of the European Union, I would have expected Greece to hold very high standards when comes to fight against corruption at all levels, mafias and crime syndicates included?
Why is Greece different in this case? Because I have never heard about anything similar to what you say within leagues of Germany, France or even Spain.

Greece is then more corrupt than I initially thought, then... I would never bet in local football if there was such a nefarious character like that man messing around with teams and referees, so he can pocket millions of dollars thanks to his influence, such a disgrace to European Football.

Would you care to share some news articles and information about those serious allegations so I can be more informed ? Thanks in advance.

[tread93]

Referees always have the bigger control of the game, they just have to be just to blow the whistle as the game is being played or they do unjust to favour one side over the other. Doing things, they use a very strategic approach in order not to make it look like that, but sometimes it becomes obvious that teams report when they feel they’ve betrayed them and these officials also faces panels. There is conspiracy in sport, some can be seen while some are hidden without clear facts to make it look like that.

Its gotta be risky for these refs. I mean id hate to be a ref going home after a game with all the crazed fans and perhaps they lost a big bet a bet that they would kill for or something..say they lost it because of a bad call from that ref! Oh man could trigger some people to do some bad things!

[LUCKMCFLY]

In La Liga I've had that feeling, I've always had it because I see that the referees are corrupt and that bothers me. It's something I don't like because if you make a bet knowing that the games should be played somewhat similarly to what I imagine, well, I understand that I don't know if the other team deserves it and scores goals, but if that doesn't happen and everything is predetermined and changed by the referees, I get in a bad mood. That happened to me in La Liga.

[Bitcoin.com97]

I grew up to learn that the result of some games are hugely influenced especially by match officials and because of that they're sometimes compromised to favour a particular team. I've watched games that made that belief even stronger. I've seen a team with better football on the pitch and rightly deserves to win but because most of the referees decisions were unjustly against them, they end up losing. So yeah, I think theory is real.

You are correct, many matches are rigged, and I have seen many referees favor their own team , I have watch a match that after it ended, people rushed to beat up the referee because they saw what he did and it was unjust , that particular one was so obvious and it triggered people , he was so lucky that people came for his rescue, so yes I believe the referee act unjust in some matches that may lead to the falling of a good team with better players.

[TedMosby]

Most of the time, yes. I do feel the same. Whenever I watch a football match and feel there is something not right happening, I always check social media to see how the internet reacts to the match. I've never been the only one who noticed it. Most people on the internet have the same finding.

For example, with VAR decisions in football. Refs could call a VAR check for Team A, but in the same situation when Team B got that condition before, the ref didn't call for a VAR check. Double standard.

There are also many videos comparing how Team A can always do the same thing and it is never a foul, but when another team does it, it's a foul.

The other thing I also notice is that a team can have bad results whenever the match is led by a specific ref. Not just 1-2 matches, but across all the matches, based on the data.

[bitbollo]

it's well known that some matches can be rigged but this is a good reason to not bet on them!
In general I would keep gambling "as much as possible... rationale!" anythig related believes, opinions and so on are just a waste of time.
The same applies also there. In any case I am always talking about "real gambling" where you had to play for win and not for "fun".

[Crypto_Timothy]

It is exactly things like this that make me say gambling is just too unpredictable to even think you can have a winning strategy for it especially sport betting because the smallest amount of action can change the entire result of the game even if you had studied the last 5 games of each club.
I know it's crazy but like I feel like I won't leave this hill of you can't be having a winning strategy when it comes to sport betting, it's always best to bet with the mindset of "I'm just enjoying myself " so regardless of the results everywhere is good. As per the conspiracies, I know for sure " Ball no dey lie".

[salad daging]

In La Liga I've had that feeling, I've always had it because I see that the referees are corrupt and that bothers me. It's something I don't like because if you make a bet knowing that the games should be played somewhat similarly to what I imagine, well, I understand that I don't know if the other team deserves it and scores goals, but if that doesn't happen and everything is predetermined and changed by the referees, I get in a bad mood. That happened to me in La Liga.

I'm not sure if the referee in LaLiga is really corrupt? Maybe it's just your feeling while I myself have experienced where the referee seems to be in favor of the opposing team I don't know if this is set up or not this can't prove it.

If I think now referees in the big league are unlikely to be regulated except for the minor leagues that lack popularity then it could be, it's just that this is the conjecture we imagine, so betting because there is such a conspiracy theory then it's annoying.

[swogerino]

Well you may call them conspiracy theories but to me they are just some sinister forces like the referee who can impact the game and you can do nothing about it. These sinister forces can be "unknown" like that tennis final where the favorite had an 1.01 odd during live as he had won 2 sets and were leading the third set 5-1 yet everything turned around for him, this is definitely something worth a conspiracy theory as normally these things do not happen commonly. There are other stories like this if you have time to search and oddly enough they are all over the year 2000 when gambling become massive.

[Webutxo]

I grew up to learn that the result of some games are hugely influenced especially by match officials and because of that they're sometimes compromised to favour a particular team. I've watched games that made that belief even stronger. I've seen a team with better football on the pitch and rightly deserves to win but because most of the referees decisions were unjustly against them, they end up losing. So yeah, I think theory is real.

Anything that is officiate by human, there can be a mistake and could be force or even a manipulated result. I was watching Arteta interview yesterday and he said he use hours rewatching what happened in the Champions League final and he think that the officiating ws compromised that there are many fouls thy should have been called for Arsenal but instead the referee refused but doesn't take a second to call for PSG when Arsenal make simple foul.

Well, this things are the things that makes gambling to be fun, if the game is too serious trying to make perfection in sports, it's going to boring. Sometimes you just have to let somethings be, this is why some referees don't call a foul when one is done. As for gambling, you just have to follow what you think, sometimes we make the dumbest decisions in our bet but it's those inconsistency in gambling that help us to win.

[TopTort777]

Only suckers think about conspiracy theories, because they cant handle the loss. Those weak people will always try to find excuse and someone to blame because they have lost. I have never heard how people complain and talked about conspiracy when they won their bets. It is always like: if they won = they are great at making predictions; if the lose = it was bad weather, bad referee, bad team, sun spoiled vision, rigged game, scam.

For some reason I remembered the times when Xavi was a coach in Barcelona 
I generally agree with your thesis if we're talking about top competitions, but if we go a little deeper, we'll find that news about match-fixing is very common. For example, scandals in esports, and, if I'm not mistaken, in table tennis and anywhere else where money is tight. But in any case, match-fixing and other conspiracy theories are a factor that must be taken into account and not used as an excuse.

But of course there are match-fixing cases in professional sport, specially when big money are involved. However people complain, try to find connection and build theories only when they lose money. I havent heard a single story when someone won money by randomly betting on a winning team in rigged match, complained about it and returned money. People will always think of conspiracy when they fail. I think it all starts from school, when lazy and stupid students complain that teachers put them bad marks on purpose Because "they dont like them". There are million reason why they failed, while truth - they were not prepared, lazy and skipped classes.

[TheUltraElite]

Its gotta be risky for these refs. I mean id hate to be a ref going home after a game with all the crazed fans and perhaps they lost a big bet a bet that they would kill for or something..say they lost it because of a bad call from that ref! Oh man could trigger some people to do some bad things!

Its their job and the hatred they might face comes with the job. They have to be stern or else the games cannot happen properly and being able to control 22 people at the same time is a tough one indeed.

Gamblers will be making all sorts of assumptions to ease their anxiety and being able to "prove" those points by cherry picking evidence is something that the human mind loves to do. Hence they will create these conspiracy theories which are purely delusional and will continue doing as the game progresses.

If you are getting into these situations, it might be better to consider reducing your gambling screen time.