NFL Challenges Sports Prediction Market Regulations

[Darker45]

I think the sports leagues spent so much energy and money on getting their hands involved in the gambling scene, that they are extremely angry to watch prediction markets step up at the last minute and eat their lunch. I expect more pushback from companies who are getting leapfrogged by prediction markets.

This is also my kind of take. But not just sports leagues; it's mainly the member teams in the leagues. Many of them are probably into some kind of partnership or collaboration with bookmakers.

But then I realized Kalshi, and other prediction markets for this matter, are also paying these sports leagues for using their data or their games in the prediction markets. So why should these sports leagues be "extremely angry" when they're also benefitting from it?

[stadus]

This is also my kind of take. But not just sports leagues; it's mainly the member teams in the leagues. Many of them are probably into some kind of partnership or collaboration with bookmakers.

That's probably what happened and I think they are now feeling the pressure.
So it only shows that the league has connections with bookmakers, and it raises the possibility that match-fixing could be happening, doesn't it?

But then I realized Kalshi, and other prediction markets for this matter, are also paying these sports leagues for using their data or their games in the prediction markets. So why should these sports leagues be "extremely angry" when they're also benefitting from it?

Because sports leagues probably have partnerships with sportsbooks, not just bookmakers.

That's the biggest possible connection, so they might just be protecting their business partners.

[Darker45]

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That's probably what happened and I think they are now feeling the pressure.
So it only shows that the league has connections with bookmakers, and it raises the possibility that match-fixing could be happening, doesn't it?

Official connections with bookmakers aren't necessarily bad. On the contrary, it's even important. Leagues sell real-time data to them to contribute to fairer odds. It doesn't necessarily lead to match fixing. Of the confirmed rigged matches that I know, none had the involvement of the league, nor do they have anything to do with bookmakers.

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Because sports leagues probably have partnerships with sportsbooks, not just bookmakers.

That's the biggest possible connection, so they might just be protecting their business partners.

But aren't they partners with prediction markets, too? Therefore, they should also be protective of them? As I've said, they're also paying them, for their data and all.